Every category where a model named Picus Security Validation Platform for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	17%	2 of 74	6%	49	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Picus Security Validation Platform yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Picus Security Validation Platform across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	1	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	1	1	5
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	5	0	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	1	0	3
Kimi K2	0	3	0	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	3	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	3	0	4

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct34 labels5

Paraphrase18 labels9

Comparative37 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels8

Scale-constrained13 labels2

Negative22 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative150 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 28 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“opt for "automated security validation" or highly-automated BAS vendors (e.g., Cymulate, Pentera, Picus, or Horizon3)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · BAS · scale prompt · first choice

“is NodeZero or Picus Security, which offer cost-effective validation and automated testing with clear reporting” Llama 4 Maverick · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“the most cost-effective breach and attack simulation (BAS) platforms are NodeZero and Picus Security” Mistral Small · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

“If you need a single pick, Picus Security is the safer budget-oriented recommendation” Perplexity Sonar · BAS · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“don't publish pricing and typically start at $30,000-$50,000+ annually, which may be prohibitive for smaller organizations” Kimi K2 · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative

“Picus (~$30K+/year) are more polished but exceed "limited budget"” Grok 4.1 Fast · BAS · budget prompt · soft negative

“Caution level: Moderate (UI and reporting friction).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · BAS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Picus Security Validation Platform, over the 150 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Picus Security Validation Platform was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cymulate123 of 15037Compare →

SafeBreach110 of 15013Not among the top eight

AttackIQ99 of 15015Compare →

Pentera70 of 1503Compare →

XM Cyber34 of 1501Not among the top eight

Horizon3.ai NodeZero32 of 1509Compare →

NodeZero30 of 1508Compare →

Mandiant Security Validation24 of 1500Not among the top eight

AttackIQ Flex17 of 15012Compare →

Infection Monkey15 of 1508Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Picus Security Validation Platform. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 148 of the 150 answers that named Picus Security Validation Platform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startupstash.com102

picussecurity.comYour site101

guideflow.com94

g2.com64

csoonline.com57

adaptivesecurity.com53

peerspot.com52

cymulate.com51

us.fitgap.com46

techtarget.com45

564 of the 665 domain citations in answers naming Picus Security Validation Platform came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startupstash.com/best-breach-and-attack-simulation-tools102

guideflow.com/blog/breach-and-attack-simulation-software90

csoonline.com/article/2132289/breach-and-attack-simulation-tools.html56

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/top-bas-platforms-to-strengthen-security-in-202552

peerspot.com/categories/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas40

perkinssecurity.com/index-289.html38

esecurityplanet.com/products/breach-and-attack-simulation-bas-vendors38

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-breach-attack-simulation-tools-202637

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

picussecurity.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Picus Security Validation Platform takes 17% of first choices and Cymulate takes 24%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “breach and attack simulation platform”

Position for “breach and attack simulation platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 20 a month (“picus security validation platform”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 81,880 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 4,264 · 235 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,337
Paid Google search: 5 searches its ads show for, about 34 clicks and $1,031 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

80 ads · 53 image, 23 text, 4 video · 25 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2023, as Picus Bilişim Güvenlik Ticaret A.Ş., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 36 in the year, 44 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

17%

rank 2 of 74 in BAS

Segment leader

24%

Cymulate

First choices: 24 across its categories
Named in: 150 answers
Its own site cited: in 148 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on picussecurity.com

1,208

subdomains included

Content

959

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

38 · 5

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	700	51	2026-09-25	SIEM, WAF
Glossary or explainer	76	0	2026-06-19	ASM, CSPM
Report or ebook	58	3	2026-09-08	SIEM
Webinar or virtual event	43	2	2026-09-24
Comparison	32	6	2026-08-04
News or press	27	4	2026-08-11
Case study	11	3	2026-08-04
Conference or event	6	1	2026-09-24
Template or tool	6	0	2026-04-08

Most recent

2026-09-25Ai enabled cyber attacks what they are and how to defend against them blog
2026-09-24Cve 2026 94127 explained f5 big ip apm heap overflow attack blog
2026-09-24Prove youre ready for mythos class ai attacks webinar or virtual event
2026-09-24The validation summit 2026 mikko hypponen ai security conference or event
2026-09-21Glba safeguards rule compliance blog
2026-09-21How click2shell exploits wordpress theme installation for rce blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page picussecurity.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Picus Security Validation Platform

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Picus Security Validation Platform; a claim can dispute any of them.

Picus Security 38Picus 8Picus Security (Picus Validation Platform) 1

Follow Picus Security Validation Platform

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Picus Security Validation Platform is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform
picussecurity.com
For: Organizations
picussecurity.com
Price stated: Contact for pricing picussecurity.com
Free plan or trial: Free Trial picussecurity.com
Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2013
Customers named: INGMaireMigrosQNBGarantiGSKMastercardCity National Bank
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What Picus Security Validation Platform's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: picussecurity.com, picussecurity.com/security, picussecurity.com/product/threat-emulation, picussecurity.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Picus Security Validation Platform's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Picus Security Validation Platform, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Picus Security Validation Platform by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Picus Security Validation Platform is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Picus Security Validation Platform, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Picus Security Validation Platform is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Picus Security Validation Platform is among the products AI models recommend first in Breach and attack simulation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/breach-and-attack-simulation/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/picus-security-validation-platform--breach-and-attack-simulation-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Breach and attack simulation, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Breach and attack simulation standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Breach and attack simulation standing, where the claim can be checked.

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/breach-and-attack-simulation/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/picus-security-validation-platform--breach-and-attack-simulation-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Breach and attack simulation, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Breach and attack simulation standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.