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Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: October 17, 2025

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Aura, Bitsight, Blumira, Cayosoft, Corelight, Netcraft, and Picus Security. Picus …

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Picus Security uses AI to turn threat intelligence into attack simulations

Picus Security launched new AI-powered breach and attack simulation (BAS) capabilities within the Picus Security Validation Platform. This introduces a new level of speed and …

investment
Security validation: The key to maximizing ROI from security investments

Every sizable organization invests heavily in firewalls, SIEMs, EDRs, and countless other technologies that form the backbone of a modern enterprise’s cyber defenses. …

Picus webinar BAS Summit 2025
Webinar: The BAS Summit 2025: Redefining Attack Simulation through AI

Join Picus Security, SANS, Hacker Valley, and leading CISOs at The BAS Summit 2025 to learn how AI is redefining Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and why it’s becoming the …

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Fixing silent failures in security controls with adversarial exposure validation

Organizations often operate as if their security controls are fully effective simply because they’re deployed, configured, and monitored. Firewalls are in place, …

human defenders
Weak alerting and slipping prevention raise risk levels for CISOs

Prevention effectiveness is falling, detection gaps remain wide, and attackers are exploiting weaknesses in data protection and credentials. Data theft prevention has dropped …

Black Hat USA 2025
Photos: Black Hat USA 2025

Here’s a look inside Black Hat USA 2025. The featured vendors are: Stellar Cyber, Vonahi Security, Gurucul, Check Point, HackerOne, EasyDMARC, Elastic, Google, Tines, …

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Picus provides automated pentesting testing to help uncover critical risks

Picus Security announced new innovations to its Attack Path Validation (APV) product. The new Picus APV now offers security teams accurate, risk-free, and continuous automated …

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Picus Security raises $45 million to help organizations reduce cyber risk

Picus Security announced it has closed a $45 million growth investment round led by Riverwood Capital with the participation of existing investor Earlybird Digital East Fund, …

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Organizations fail to log 44% of cyber attacks, major exposure gaps remain

40% of tested environments allowed attack paths that lead to domain admin access, according to Picus Security. Achieving domain admin access is particularly concerning because …

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Picus Security introduces security validation for Kubernetes

Picus Security announced security validation for Kubernetes. This new capability allows Security and DevOps teams to realize the benefits of containers securely by proactively …

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Picus Security helps organizations reduce their threat exposure with AI-driven insights

Picus Security announced Picus Numi AI. As the latest innovation of the Picus Security Validation Platform, this generative AI security analyst empowers any member of a …

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