Mandiant Advantage (discontinued) vs. Picus Security

Many companies that have an presence can benefit from using Mandiant ASM to identify and manage their internet facing assets, like web servers, email servers and DNS servers. This helps reduce the risk of cyberattacks targeting these assets.However smaller organizations with exposure might not always need the extensive attack surface monitoring provided by Mandiant ASM. For example a small company with one website may not require much monitoring, as a larger corporation.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• The product's simulated attack tests helped identify security gaps in company networks.
• Helped finding drifts in security controls and IT environment.
• Provided actual data to support decision making.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Manpower Cost
• More emphasis on automated testing comparison to manual testing
• Need more emphasis on simulation of real world attacks

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

Being able to get a lot of detailed information about different attacks and different tactics for specific attack types and threat actors is very helpful. Mandiant Support was a bit of a struggle - they need to increase support staffing and capabilities without having to wait for escalations. Overall a good tool, but could be better.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• High ROI
• Great visibility
• Resource Intensive

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized