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Picus Security

51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Corporate Round on 2022-05

Cybersecurity

Picus Security is a company that specializes in security validation and exposure management solutions. Their platform conducts breach and attack simulations, automated penetration testing, and adversarial exposure validation to optimize and measure the effectiveness of security controls for detection and prevention. Picus helps organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture by providing a comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities through continuous threat exposure management. They also offer educational resources on security operations and advanced threat intelligence to help teams stay ahead of evolving threats.

📋 Description

• Continuously research emerging threats, malware, threat actors, and vulnerability exploitation campaigns, translating your findings into timely, authoritative content, • Produce high-impact technical content, including research papers, offensive and defensive security reports, whitepapers, blogs, solution and integration briefs, battlecards, webinars, demos, and conference presentations, that demonstrate Picus’ technical depth and competitive differentiation, • Partner with Picus Labs, Product, and Engineering to translate new product capabilities into clear, compelling technical narratives that explain how they work, the problems they solve, and what sets Picus apart, • Stay ahead of market developments by monitoring analyst perspectives, category leaders, emerging product categories, and the competitive landscape. Turn these insights into differentiated content that strengthens Picus’ positioning, supports competitive conversations, and influences buyer decisions, • Drive discoverability across search and AI answer engines through SEO and AEO, optimizing technical content to generate organic inbound traffic and build long-term topical authority in the exposure validation market, • Map content across the full buyer journey, from top-of-funnel awareness to bottom-of-funnel decision-making, ensuring it not only educates but also engages prospects, supports evaluation, and drives conversion, • Collaborate closely with Growth, Threat Research, Red and Blue Teams, and Alliances to transform research, technical findings, and integrations into launch, campaign, and public-facing content that reaches and resonates with the market.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in offensive and/or defensive cybersecurity utilizing knowledge of the security/threat landscape, • A portfolio of published technical content or projects (blogs, papers, talks, or research) , • Ability to translate complex technical concepts for different audiences, from practitioners to executives, • Strong proficiency in written and verbal English, • Technical expertise in penetration testing and pentest automation tooling, vulnerability management, and exposure or security control validation, and hands-on familiarity with blue-team tooling (SIEM, EDR/XDR, and similar detection and response platforms), • Autonomous/agentic security validation: interest or early hands-on research (emerging area; exploration counts as much as production experience), • Hands-on experience in adversarial techniques, • Scripting and agentic automation skills (Python, n8n, or comparable agent/workflow tooling), • Strong knowledge of modern security problems, • Community contribution to cybersecurity knowledge, • Presentations at industry events, • Cybersecurity related certifications (OSCP, CISSP, CCSP, GPEN, GSEC, BTL1 & BTL2, or similar.), • Understanding of SEO/AEO principles and full-funnel content strategy.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth. • Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.

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