Full-Time
Senior Solutions Architect
Pre-Sales
Picus
201-500 employees
Performs continuous breach and attack simulations
No salary listed
Remote in USA
Remote
Eastern region residency required; travel within the US for customer-facing activities.
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- BS degree or combination of education and pre-sales experience in Security, Cloud, and Network Systems
- At least five years of experience working within a Cybersecurity Sales Engineering role
- Demonstrated success working with technical decision makers and Executives
- Knowledge of emerging cyber technologies as well as Public Cloud provider solutions and services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Broad technology experience including risk visibility and prioritization, cloud architecture, networking, security, and IT transformation
- Experience architecting/designing solutions built on-prem and cloud
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
- Assist to refine and scale the core sales engineering processes such as discovery, technical qualification, and proof-of-concept
- Work with the Technical Director and our Enterprise Customers to design, create and present business solutions to increase revenue growth
- Develop healthy and trusted relationships with strategic Partners
- Respond and support requests for proposals (RFPs)
- Represent Picus through business solutions and Thought Leadership at events, panels, and webinars
- Collaborate with a variety of internal functional areas to ensure solutions are implemented and supported in-line with client expectations
- Provide input on product development or enhancements to existing solutions to product management function
- Willing to travel within the US for customers facing activities, as well as marketing, channel, and key partner initiatives
Picus Security provides continuous breach and attack simulation (BAS) to help organizations uncover security gaps as threats emerge. Its BAS platform automates realistic attacker simulations and continuously tests security controls, guided by the MITRE ATT&CK framework, to surface gaps and deliver actionable mitigation steps. The company uses an Agile SecOps approach to address threats in a structured, iterative way, combining subscription-based services with consulting support to keep security programs running smoothly. Unlike generic security testing firms, Picus emphasizes real-time, ongoing validation of defenses and rapid deployment of fixes, aiming to maximize security investments and shorten the time needed to mitigate new threats. Overall, the goal is to help CIOs, CISOs, and security teams continuously strengthen their security posture and operational efficiency.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$103.2M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2013
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AI-driven attacks since February 2026 boost demand for Picus' autonomous validation.
- 2026 Autonomous Validation Summit with Atlassian CISO drives enterprise adoption.
- Juventus partnership enhances Picus' brand in global cybersecurity markets.
What critics are saying
- Cisco embeds BAS into SIEM stacks, cannibalizing Picus subscriptions by 2027.
- Gartner's AEV framework lets Rapid7 replicate Picus bundle in 12 months.
- Presidio dependency squeezes margins through bundling by mid-2027.
What makes Picus unique
- Picus simulates full kill-chain attacks using MITRE ATT&CK mappings without disrupting production.
- Picus delivers vendor-aligned mitigation actions from BAS results instantly.
- Picus offers Adversarial Exposure Validation combining BAS and automated pentesting seamlessly.
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↓ -1%Picus Security hosts 2026 Autonomous Validation Summit. GlobeNewswire | Picus Security Today at 6:03am PDT SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Picus Security, the leading exposure validation company, today announced the 2026 Autonomous Validation Summit, a virtual event that will bring together cybersecurity leaders, practitioners and industry experts to explore how organizations can keep pace with AI-driven threats by shifting from periodic testing to continuous, autonomous validation. Attackers now operate at machine speed, compressing breakout times to seconds and accelerating time-to-impact, making it clear that traditional security testing cannot keep up. The summit will explore how security teams are adapting their strategies to validate defenses in real time and focus on exposures that can actually be exploited. "Attackers are no longer operating on human timelines, and security teams can't rely on periodic testing to understand their risk," said Volkan Ertürk, co-founder and CTO of Picus Security. "This summit brings together leaders who use autonomous validation to understand how threats behave in their own environments. Attendees will walk away with practical strategies to direct their efforts where they will have the greatest impact." The 2026 Autonomous Validation Summit will feature a lineup of security leaders, researchers and practitioners who are redefining validation and applying real-time, context-driven approaches to continuously test their defenses and identify what truly matters. Featured speakers include David B. Cross, CISO at Atlassian; Ying Ting Neoh, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan; Johnny Xmas, global head of offensive security at Kraft Heinz; and Marius Poskus, global VP of cybersecurity and CISO at Glow Financial Services. These industry experts will offer perspectives on how AI is reshaping both offensive and defensive strategies, and they will discuss what it takes to implement continuous, autonomous validation. Key topics will include: * The impact of AI-driven adversaries on enterprise security programs. * Signal-driven, context-rich approaches to identifying exploitable exposure. * Practical lessons for operationalizing autonomous exposure validation. * Strategies for cutting through CVE noise and focusing on real risk. With sessions on May 12 and May 14, the summit is designed for CISOs, security leaders, vulnerability managers and practitioners who want to improve how they assess and reduce risk in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. The summit is free to attend. Attendees will receive access to exclusive research content following the event. Visit the Picus Security website to view the full agenda and register now. About Picus Security Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort. Offering Adversarial Exposure Validation with Breach and Attack Simulation and Automated Penetration Testing, working together for greater outcomes, Picus delivers award-winning, threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing. Follow Picus Security on X and LinkedIn. This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact GlobeNewswire directly.
Picus Security wins Gold in BAS and CTEM categories in 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Recognition highlights Picus' leadership in security validation, helping organizations worldwide align security operations with real-world risk and continuously improve their security posture. April 07, 2026 09:03 ET | Source: Picus Security SAN FRANCISCO, April 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Picus Security, the leading security validation company, has been named a Gold Award winner in both the breach and attack simulation (BAS) and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) categories of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. For the second consecutive year, Picus' has been honored for its continued innovation in security validation and its ability to deliver measurable outcomes for enterprise security teams. Picus' AI-powered approach to security validation combines breach and attack simulation, automated penetration testing and adversarial exposure validation to enable organizations to continuously validate how their defenses perform against real-world attack techniques and identify the exposures that materially increase breach risk. "Security teams are under pressure to move faster and make better decisions with limited resources," said Alper Memis, co-founder and CEO at Picus Security. "These awards reflect our focus on delivering clear, evidence-based validation so organizations can prioritize the exposures that matter most and strengthen their defenses with confidence." Picus' platform provides continuous validation across network, cloud and endpoint environments, measuring security control effectiveness and mapping results to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Its architecture enables organizations to simulate complex attack scenarios, validate detection and prevention capabilities, and prioritize remediation based on validated exploitability and business context. Organizations using Picus have reduced patch backlogs, accelerated remediation timelines and improved the efficiency of security operations by focusing efforts on the exposures that drive real risk. The platform also provides actionable, vendor-specific guidance to help teams strengthen controls and close security gaps more effectively. The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards are judged by an independent panel of cybersecurity practitioners, analysts and CISOs from the Cybersecurity Insiders community. This recognition highlights the role of innovative security solutions in strengthening cybersecurity across organizations worldwide. About Picus Security Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort. Offering Adversarial Exposure Validation with Breach and Attack Simulation and Automated Penetration Testing, working together for greater outcomes, Picus delivers award-winning, threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing. Follow Picus Security on X and LinkedIn.
Picus Security wins 2026 ChannelVision AI Award for ai-powered threat detection and prevention. By GlobeNewswire March 10, 2026 Award recognizes Picus for pioneering agentic AI-powered exposure validation that transforms threat intelligence into autonomous, real-time validation Picus wins CVAI Award Picus was recognized for the advancements it made in AI-powered product capabilities and for leading the industry's transition from traditional security validation to agentic exposure validation. SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Picus Security, the leading security validation company, today announced that it has been named a 2026 ChannelVision AI Award winner in the Cybersecurity category, recognizing its innovation in AI-powered breach and attack simulation (BAS) and agentic exposure validation. In its first year, the award honors vendors delivering impactful AI technologies that drive measurable outcomes for customers and enable partners to differentiate in a rapidly evolving market. Picus was recognized for the advancements it made in AI-powered product capabilities and for leading the industry's transition from traditional security validation to agentic exposure validation. This shift from manual scenario building to agentic AI-driven simulation is foundational, empowering organizations to continuously emulate adversaries, validate detection logic and measure security control effectiveness in real time. The impact is measurable, with customers patching backlogs by 86%, cutting MTTR from 74 days to 14 days and reclaiming thousands of analyst hours by deprioritizing theoretical vulnerabilities. Partners can now deliver continuous evidence-based validation services through a unified platform that integrates every critical layer of security validation, spanning security controls, the detection stack, attack paths, exposures, identity, and cloud and Kubernetes environments. This comprehensive approach also extends to AI security, enabling partners to validate the guardrails of internal LLMs against prompt injection and adversarial attacks while proving which threats can actually breach a customer's defenses. "AI is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape at unprecedented speed," said Volkan Ertürk, co-founder and CTO of Picus Security. "With AI-powered BAS and agentic exposure validation, we equip our channel partners to turn static threat intelligence into dynamic proof. Partners can now move from awareness to verified remediation in hours, delivering measurable risk reduction and leading the next wave of AI-driven security innovation." The ChannelVision AI Award underscores a broader market shift toward AI-driven, continuous validation as a core pillar of modern CTEM strategies. By combining AI-powered BAS with exposure validation and automated penetration testing in a unified platform, Picus is helping partners lead customers into the next phase of autonomous cyber defense. Visit the website to learn more about how Picus empowers partners and customers through agentic exposure validation. About Picus Security Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort. Offering Adversarial Exposure Validation with Breach and Attack Simulation and Automated Penetration Testing, working together for greater outcomes, Picus delivers award-winning, threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing. Follow Picus Security on X and LinkedIn. Media Contact Jennifer Tanner Look Left Marketing
Picus Security wins 2026 ChannelVision AI Award for ai-powered threat detection and prevention. Award recognizes Picus for pioneering agentic AI-powered exposure validation that transforms threat intelligence into autonomous, real-time validation. March 10, 2026 09:03 ET | Source: Picus Security SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Picus Security, the leading security validation company, today announced that it has been named a 2026 ChannelVision AI Award winner in the Cybersecurity category, recognizing its innovation in AI-powered breach and attack simulation (BAS) and agentic exposure validation. In its first year, the award honors vendors delivering impactful AI technologies that drive measurable outcomes for customers and enable partners to differentiate in a rapidly evolving market. Picus was recognized for the advancements it made in AI-powered product capabilities and for leading the industry's transition from traditional security validation to agentic exposure validation. This shift from manual scenario building to agentic AI-driven simulation is foundational, empowering organizations to continuously emulate adversaries, validate detection logic and measure security control effectiveness in real time. The impact is measurable, with customers patching backlogs by 86%, cutting MTTR from 74 days to 14 days and reclaiming thousands of analyst hours by deprioritizing theoretical vulnerabilities. Partners can now deliver continuous evidence-based validation services through a unified platform that integrates every critical layer of security validation, spanning security controls, the detection stack, attack paths, exposures, identity, and cloud and Kubernetes environments. This comprehensive approach also extends to AI security, enabling partners to validate the guardrails of internal LLMs against prompt injection and adversarial attacks while proving which threats can actually breach a customer's defenses. "AI is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape at unprecedented speed," said Volkan Ertürk, co-founder and CTO of Picus Security. "With AI-powered BAS and agentic exposure validation, we equip our channel partners to turn static threat intelligence into dynamic proof. Partners can now move from awareness to verified remediation in hours, delivering measurable risk reduction and leading the next wave of AI-driven security innovation." The ChannelVision AI Award underscores a broader market shift toward AI-driven, continuous validation as a core pillar of modern CTEM strategies. By combining AI-powered BAS with exposure validation and automated penetration testing in a unified platform, Picus is helping partners lead customers into the next phase of autonomous cyber defense. Visit the website to learn more about how Picus empowers partners and customers through agentic exposure validation. About Picus Security Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort. Offering Adversarial Exposure Validation with Breach and Attack Simulation and Automated Penetration Testing, working together for greater outcomes, Picus delivers award-winning, threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing. Follow Picus Security on X and LinkedIn.
Juventus Football Club joins forces with Picus as Official Exposure Validation Partner.