Picus Security Partners with KHIPU Networks

KHIPU Networks are pleased to announce a partnership with Picus Security, the award-winning pioneers of breach and attack simulation. This partnership enables KHIPU to offer an automated approach to security control validation, so organisations can continuously monitor, assess and improve the posture and performance of their security systems.

‘As KHIPU continues to strive to offer the best in Cyber Security products and services to its clients, this was a logical next step’, says Andrew Brimson, CEO, KHIPU Networks. ‘We have a stellar list of customers who depend on us, to bring them not only the best in Cyber Security Technology, but products and services that can seamlessly work together to effectively protect them from attack. Picus, are known for their excellent integration capability, especially with our close partner, Palo Alto Networks. To reduce cyber risk, we work with our customers to continuously assess and improve the performance of their security tools. By working with Picus Security, we can offer even more visibility as part of our service.’

Picus Security evaluates security controls against the entire cyber kill chain with thousands of virtual cyber threats, allowing organisations to stay proactive. It shows organisations exactly where gaps exist and how to mitigate them on prevention and detection layers, while offering actionable insights. It’s a complete security control validation platform, empowered by the largest technology alliance ecosystem in the industry.

We had to work together, says Bruce Hockin, Picus Security, Channel Sales Director NEUR. ‘After working with KHIPU Networks in my previous roles, I knew they would be the perfect partner to help introduce Picus Security to the market.  KHIPU have strong partnerships with our key manufacturers, which in turn would help them add value to the likes of their Palo Alto Networks customers. Picus and Palo Alto Networks have promoted strong integrations, to really help advance its user’s experience.  KHIPU are renowned for their first-class managed service offering which they can use to deliver breach and attack simulation offering to their customers.  They have found this is being adopted by their public sector verticals such as education, which are a key focus area for us. They have a brilliant reputation and a high-quality engineering team. We look forward to working very closely with KHIPU moving forward’.

With the Picus Complete Security Control Validation Platform from KHIPU organisations can:

• Simulate over 10k attacks and techniques, including phishing & ransomware
• Evaluate the performance of prevention and detection technologies
• Quickly identify and mitigate threat coverage and visibility gaps
• Obtain easy-to-apply prevention signatures and SIEM & EDR detection rules
• Measure assessment results and see them mapped to MITRE ATT&CK