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24 alternatives to Picus Security

Breach and attack simulation for ongoing security validation

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Picus Security launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Attack simulations that prove your defenses work

    Apr 2026 · persistent-security.net · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN community! Looking forward to hearing your feedback on ACE (assured confidential execution), technology that implements VM-based trusted execution environment (TEE) for embedded RISC-V systems with focus on a formally verified and auditable firmware. We target high-assurance systems that can benefit from compartmentalization and hardware-backed isolation. The key ingredient called security monitor (firmware) is implemented in Rust. The formal specification is defined as annotations directly in code and gets translated to Coq using RefinedRust automation. ACE design is now part of the…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI-powered AppSec platform that identifies vulnerabilities with comprehensive penetration tests and provides actionable remediation insights.

    2024 · beaglesecurity.com · its alternatives →

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    SOOS▲68

    Developer security, license, compliance and testing platform

    2021 · soos.io · its alternatives →

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    A rest application to update firewalld rules on a linux server - GitHub - prashantgupta24/firewalld-rest: A rest application to update firewalld rules on a linux server

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Security for modern teams running software

    2017 · templarbit.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, My name is Jack Naglieri. I’m the founder of Panther Labs - an SF-based cybersecurity startup. Prior to Panther, I was an engineering manager at Airbnb. Before that a security engineer/analyst/forensic analyst. Today, I’m excited to announce Panther v1.0, an open source, cloud-native SIEM: http://github.com/panther-labs/panther Teams can use Panther as an alternative to traditional SIEMs like Splunk. Panther is the culmination of our team’s experience building security tools at scale, including StreamAlert at Airbnb and critical internal monitoring…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities. AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access. Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals. For this project we've post-trained a…

    Jun 2026 · argusred.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn boring cert exams into a MMORPG with boss fights

    Apr 2026 · secuspark.com · its alternatives →

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    Per-executable network bandwidth monitoring for Linux

    2022 · elesiuta.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Bi-weekly newsletter for all good about threat modeling

    2021 · hapyyr.com · its alternatives →

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    Test your organisation's resiliency towards phishing attacks

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Discover secure AI from Bastio AI Security. Govern Shadow AI and ensure EU AI Act compliance with our enterprise platform. Start your AI security audit today.

    2013 · bastio.com · its alternatives →

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    Breach▲10

    Non-Invasive Front-End Security Desktop Application

    2021 · breachapplication.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Democratising Cybersecurity

    2025 · thefirewall.org · its alternatives →

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    Al-powered offensive security validation platform

    2025 · ridgesecurity.ai · its alternatives →

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    I started using Claude Code (claude --dangerously-skip-permissions) and Codex (codex --yolo) and realized I had no reliable way to know what they actually did. The agent's own output tells you a story, but it's the agent's story. logira records exec, file, and network events at the OS level via eBPF, scoped per run. Events are saved locally in JSONL and SQLite. It ships with default detection rules for credential access, persistence changes, suspicious exec patterns, and more. Observe-only – it never blocks. https://github.com/melonattacker/logira

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    picosnitch helps you protect your security and privacy by "snitching" on anything that connects to the internet, letting you know when, how much data was transferred, and to where. It uses BPF to monitor network traffic per application, and per parent to cover those that just call others. It also hashes every executable, and will complain if some mischievous program is giving it trouble.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Detect the Undetected

    2025 · cybersilo.tech · its alternatives →

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    Master cybersecurity through real challenges.

    2025 · epicdetect.io · its alternatives →

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