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Alper Memis
H. Alper Memis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Picus Security, the company that pioneered Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology. A mathematician-turned-financial-analyst-turned-cybersecurity-CEO, Memis co-founded Picus in 2013 in Ankara, Turkey alongside two university friends — combining a rare background in sovereign debt management, financial risk, and a CFA designation with the mission to replace assumption-based security with continuous, evidence-based defense validation. Under his leadership, Picus has raised $80M in total funding (including a $45M Series C in 2024), serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard, Visa, and Vodafone, and has simulated over one billion cyberattacks.
Picus Security
Picus Security is the cybersecurity company behind the Picus Security Validation Platform - an Adversarial Exposure Validation system that continuously simulates real-world attacks against an organization's defenses to expose which ones actually work. Founded in 2013 by three Turkish mathematicians and now headquartered in San Francisco, Picus serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard and is the official Exposure Validation Partner of Juventus.