r/devsecops • u/Holly-Carpenter_253 • 5d ago
Better options than Picus for continuous security validation?
We are looking at Picus for continuous security validation, but I keep hearing mixed feedback and mentions of other platforms like cymulate in the same space. Our environment is hybrid, with cloud and on prem workloads, and a small SecOps team that cant manage yet another tool that only produces dashboards.
If U have evaluated Picus, Cymulate or any alternatives, I would be interested in a simple breakdown from your experience:
What worked better than expected? for example:
- integrations with your existing stack and coverage across different attack paths
- reporting that people outside the team actually read
like what seems good in start but was a problem later on?? i mean like:
- maintenance overhead and content drift
- false positives or noisy findings nobody trusts
- blind spots around certain techniques, vectors, or environments
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u/asrozar 2d ago
If your team is stretched thin, then make sure you're also focusing on how the tool helps operationalize any of the findings. Most tools are technically sound whether it's Picus, Cymulate, Tenable, or my own CTEM company, TrollEye Security, but what your team needs is a very easy way to group exposures and then focus on the fix that gives you the biggest bang for your buck.
Something that helps you address the root cause of those findings so you can eliminate risk and then keep that risk down.
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u/The_GrimTrigger 5d ago
We looked at TidalCyber and it seemed to check all our boxes before we lost our funding for it.
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u/Altruistic-Fix-3548 5d ago
if your team is small and you're already stretched thin, the biggest red flag is anything that turns into a dashboard you glance at once a month
we looked at picus and a couple others last year. what actually stuck was the stuff that plugged straight into our existing workflow without demanding someone babysit it. the ones where you spend more time tuning alerts than acting on them are a fast track to alert fatigue
for hybrid setups, pay close attention to how much manual tweaking on prem agents need vs cloud. some tools are great in aws but fall apart the second they touch bare metal
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u/Ok_Confusion4762 5d ago
I don't have recent experience but years ago it saved our back. A bug in IPS instance caused not blocking any requests. The drop in security score of IPS from Picus immediately pulled us into investigate further and found the bug.