Mandiant Advantage Security Validation vs. Picus Security

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mandiant Advantage Security Validation
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Since 2004, Mandiant has been a partner to security-conscious organizations. Mandiant’s approach helps organizations develop more effective and efficient cyber security programs and instills confidence in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.N/A
Picus Security
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Picus Security, headquartered in San Francisco, offers Continuous Security Validation and Mitigation as the most proactive approach to ensure cyber-resilience. The Picus Platform measures the effectiveness of defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments, providing the insight required to build the right security strategy to better manage complex operations.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Mandiant Advantage Security ValidationPicus Security
Considered Both Products
Mandiant Advantage Security Validation
Chose Mandiant Advantage Security Validation
There are many parameters which are the differentiator between mandiant and cymulate but some of the key differentitors are listed below:
1) Manpower costs are less and justified as compared to cymulate
2) Better technologies innovation
Chose Mandiant Advantage Security Validation
Mandiant is focused on a clear view of the environment, vulnerabilities, and threats. Palo Alto is a great tool for some of this, but was not mature enough at the time of our initial eval. The new version of Palo Alto looks much more robust and capable and we will definitely …
Chose Mandiant Advantage Security Validation
Haven't done a direct comparison for Verodin and other similar products. But I compared Verodin port scanning with NMAP. Verodin provides an intuitive result.
Picus Security
Chose Picus Security
We use other vendors Verodin, AttackIQ, SafeBreach, Cymulate etc. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Please take a look at TrustRadius reviews of each product. I don’t want to go head to head for each product in this review. I select Picus because it's local …
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User Ratings
Mandiant Advantage Security ValidationPicus Security
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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Usability
8.2
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Ease of integration
9.1
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User Testimonials
Mandiant Advantage Security ValidationPicus Security
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well-suited to larger enterprise environments and less well-suited to small businesses. You need some level of maturity to be able to fully utilize this tool, but overall it is fairly easy to get fully up and running within the environment, which is really nice. Well-suited if you have the budget for it and it saves on staff time to perform these functions. Not well-suited if you don't have a good budget in-place for your environment size.
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If you want to analyze the full path focusing on the signatures it’s the best product in the market. If you want to test phishing, data exfiltration/DLP, DNS I don’t recommend Picus. Scenario based attacks also lacking. However Picus support is awesome and I like the development team. When we open a case, they’ll always return with the right answer
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Pros
  • Testing of security controls
  • Mitigation of Risk
  • Return of investment
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  • It has thousands of signatures and up-to-date attack vectors (It's the largest set in the market)
  • Attack vectors are mapped with existing vendors like Checkpoint and Mcafee, where you don't spend time finding out which cve mapped to which protection
  • Ability to focus/highlght solely new threats, it's superb for 0days and up-to-date protections. As there are always timing issue between updates and apply the updates on the products.
  • Blocked vs not blocked ratios on the dashboard with drill down menu specifiying the set of protections or signatures on the defensive measures
  • Already mapped mitre att&ck framework on the dasboard. SOC and analyst team using the Mitre framework.
  • Detection analytics enhance the analytics capabilities with pinpoint accuracy where to focus and how to prevent
  • Timeline and scheduled reports from the dashboard in flexible format
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Cons
  • Portal / Dashboard
  • Integration across tools
  • System resources efficiency
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  • Visualization of network and the products
  • Complex/Scenario based attacks
  • Phishing tests
  • DNS and Data exfiltration attacks
  • Automatic action through the apis for the products on the path
  • Strategical and tactical reports for Cisos
  • Automatic SOAR entegration with already builtin playbooks
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Usability
The product is easy to use, it is a useful tool, and has good support.
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Alternatives Considered
There are many parameters which are the differentiator between mandiant and Cymulate but some of the key differentitors are listed below: 1) Manpower costs are less and justified as compared to Cymulate 2) Better technologies innovation 3) Good reputation in market 4) Good cummulative man hour experience Also, they are in the market from last 20 years and they have a huge client base.
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We use other vendors Verodin, AttackIQ, SafeBreach, Cymulate etc. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Please take a look at TrustRadius reviews of each product. I don’t want to go head to head for each product in this
review. I select Picus because it's local startup company in our region. I like their support and engineering team. Support is marvelous. Product is giving what we expected from the product. Price is adequate. Reporting and dashboard is superb.
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Return on Investment
  • Help data-driven and informed decision making.
  • Improve company security postures.
  • Visualization
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  • With Picus we have the tangible KPIs for the security
  • Detetcion and Prevention rates for the latest attacks are significantly increased
  • We work with many security vendors. We use picus scores and share specific outputs with the company in case of decreasing score rates where the development and product team analyzes their updates or product engines to increase the rates.
  • It helps our strategic plans where to focus and invest for the following years and planning/prioritizing the security budgets to specific highlighted areas
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ScreenShots

Mandiant Advantage Security Validation Screenshots

Screenshot of SECURITY VALIDATION PLATFORM - Visualize and generate performance data on how security controls across  people, process and technologies respond to active adversary attacksScreenshot of Threat Actor Assurance Dashboard- Visualize how your security controls perform against real threat actor TTPs by operationalizing threat intelligence source.