Security firm Picus secures 2025 Visionary Spotlight Awards in recognition of innovative channel strategies and cybersecurity guidance.
Picus Security, a leading security validation company, has been honoured with two Visionary Spotlight Awards from ChannelVision Magazine for 2025 in the categories of Cybersecurity Business Technology and Channel Program of the Year.
The awards celebrate excellence in innovation, growth, and customer value creation across the communications and IT industries. Picus Security's recognition includes products, services, deployments, and channel-related achievements across multiple categories.
Picus Security's flagship product, the Exposure Validation platform, is revolutionising the way organisations manage cyber risk. By moving beyond static risk scores, the platform helps organisations pinpoint the threats that truly matter by continuously simulating real-world attack techniques against live defences to determine exploitability within each organisation's unique environment.
Jason Kirkland, director of channels and alliances at Picus Security, stated that exposure validation is transforming how enterprises and service providers manage cyber risk, replacing assumptions with evidence.
Proactive Cybersecurity Risk Management
The innovation behind Picus Security’s Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) lies in its ability to proactively identify, validate, and reduce cybersecurity risks by simulating real adversary behaviours continuously and effectively. This approach transforms traditional cybersecurity risk management by converting threat exposure into a measurable business metric that organisations can manage actively and quantitatively.
Key aspects of Picus Security's innovation include:
- Continuous Simulation of Attacks: Picus Security employs ongoing adversary emulation across the organisation's environment to validate the effectiveness of security controls in real time.
- Actionable Risk Metrics: It enables security teams to measure how exposed their environment is to actual attack techniques, prioritising remediation based on validated risk exposure.
- Integration with Security Operations: By providing detailed insights into gaps, it enhances SOC (Security Operations Center) efficiency and helps align cybersecurity efforts with business outcomes.
This approach represents a shift from static vulnerability assessments to dynamic, adversary-focused validation, allowing companies—particularly in high-stakes sectors like financial services—to enhance their cybersecurity posture with data-driven precision and timely remediation actions.
Empowering Partners for Success
Picus Security has expanded and enhanced its global channel program to offer partners end-to-end enablement resources. This includes flexible licensing models for MSSPs, which eliminate patch backlogs and significantly reduce mean time to remediation, allowing partners and their customers to act earlier, fix less, and be confident in their cybersecurity program.
In 2024, Picus launched a partner portal with value-added resources, and created persona-specific toolkits and training certifications to help partners unlock recurring revenue and stronger customer engagement.
ChannelVision Magazine's annual competition is designed to highlight contributions to businesses, service providers, and the channel market overall. The recognition of Picus Security underscores its commitment to supporting its partner ecosystem so they are best positioned to drive stronger security outcomes for their customers and scale their businesses faster.
Each year, entries are evaluated based on key categories such as overall innovation, future industry impact, creativity, feature set differentiation, ease of use, and interoperability. Picus Security was determined to exemplify aggressive innovation, demonstrating a myriad of opportunities for channel partners to enhance their own roles as trusted partners for business success.
With its innovative approach to cybersecurity risk management, Picus Security is transforming the industry and empowering its partners to do the same.
- Picus Security's Exposure Validation platform, a leading product, is revolutionizing the management of cyber risk by moving beyond static risk scores, continuously simulating real-world attack techniques against live defences to determine exploitability.
- The Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) from Picus Security proactively identifies, validates, and reduces cybersecurity risks by simulating real adversary behaviors continuously and effectively.
- The innovation behind Picus Security’s AEV converts threat exposure into a measurable business metric, allowing organizations to manage cybersecurity risks actively and quantitatively.
- Picus Security's continuous simulation of attacks validates the effectiveness of security controls in real time, providing actionable risk metrics for security teams to prioritize remediation.
- The integration of Picus Security's AEV with security operations enhances the efficiency of SOC, aligning cybersecurity efforts with business outcomes.
- Picus Security's global channel program offers end-to-end enablement resources, including flexible licensing models for MSSPs that reduce mean time to remediation.
- In 2024, Picus Security launched a partner portal with value-added resources, and created persona-specific toolkits and training certifications to help partners unlock recurring revenue and stronger customer engagement.
- The recognition of Picus Security from ChannelVision Magazine highlights its aggressive innovation and commitment to supporting its partner ecosystem, positioning them to drive stronger security outcomes for customers and scale their businesses faster.
