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Fleuret AI vs Picus Security

Fleuret AI sells pentesting that combines artificial intelligence and offensive expertise. Picus Security sells a platform that proves what attackers can exploit and what defenses stop. CISO Tribune files both under Breach simulation and automated pen-testing. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Fleuret AI vs Picus Security: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Fleuret AIFleuret AI sells pentesting that combines artificial intelligence and offensive expertise.fleuret.aiPicus SecurityPicus Security sells a platform that proves what attackers can exploit and what defenses stop.picussecurity.com
What it sells
  • Émile[4][6]Runs pentests on applications, APIs and infrastructure and ships a replayable exploit with every finding.
  • Hortense[4][5][6]Tells customers what to test next, and when.
  • Picus Platform[3][5][12][13]One platform that proves what attackers can exploit and what defenses stop.
  • Autonomous Penetration Testing[3][5]Runs autonomous agents that chain real attacks across the full environment.
  • Exposure Validation[3][5][11]Proves exploitability without firing an exploit.
  • Breach and Attack Simulation[1][3][5][11]Tests what security controls block and detect against attacker techniques.
  • Picus URL Filtering Testing Module[15]Simulates access to malicious and inappropriate sites to test URL filtering.
  • Picus Cloud Security Validation[16]Runs a continuous loop across the customer's cloud.
  • Picus Detection Analytics[14]Identifies which attacks trigger alerts and which are missed.
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Headquarters
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Founded
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Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
  • October 5, 2026Fleuret AI closed a €4M pre-seed round led by RAISE Ventures, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures, Wind Capital and Better Angle.[2]
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  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[19]
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Who it fits
Its published guides address CISOs at credit institutions and at SaaS companies. Fleuret describes its service as adding to the people already in place, such as a customer's team, MSSP or PASSI-certified firm. Its reports are signed and mapped to DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001. Hosting and inference run on Scaleway in Paris.The pages describe oil and gas operators with connected IT and OT environments as users of the platform. A football club with stadium, training, hospitality, and medical operations is a named kind of customer. The pages describe the Picus Platform as enabling organizations of all sizes to become threat-centric.
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October 21, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Breach simulation and automated pen-testing is the primary category of both Fleuret AI and Picus Security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Fleuret AI is also filed under Penetration testing and red team services, Static application security testing and Dynamic application security testing.
  • Fleuret AI lists Émile and Hortense. Picus Security lists Picus Platform, Autonomous Penetration Testing, Exposure Validation, Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus URL Filtering Testing Module and 2 more.
  • Picus Security was founded in 2013.
  • Fleuret AI is privately held.

How they differ

Fleuret AI sells Émile, which runs pentests on applications, APIs and infrastructure and ships a replayable exploit with every finding, and Hortense, which tells customers what to test next, and when. Picus Security sells the Picus Platform, which it says proves what attackers can exploit and what defenses stop. Autonomous Penetration Testing is one part of that platform, alongside Exposure Validation, Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus Cloud Security Validation and Picus Detection Analytics.

The overlap is in automated pentesting: Picus runs autonomous agents that chain real attacks across the full environment, while Fleuret AI uses agentic AI to simulate attacks on its customers' systems. Fleuret AI states that its service is built and hosted in Europe, with hosting and inference on Scaleway in Paris. Fleuret AI is privately held and closed a €4M pre-seed round on October 5, 2026, led by RAISE Ventures. Picus Security was founded in 2013.

Fleuret AI's published guides address CISOs at credit institutions and at SaaS companies, and its signed reports are mapped to DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001. Picus Security names Juventus Football Club as a user of Picus Exposure Validation, and says oil and gas operators use Picus across connected IT and OT environments. Picus Security holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report and ISO/IEC 27001 certification.

What it sells: Fleuret AI

What Émile does[4][6]
A separate validator confirms every finding with a non-destructive exploit. Every finding ships with a working, replayable exploit. Each finding lands as a ticket with its exploit, an owner and a remediation, pushed to Jira, Linear or Slack.
What Hortense does[4][5][6]
Hortense maps a customer's estate from domain to database. Hortense crosses what changed in the code with what is exposed on the internet and what past pentests found. Hortense prepares the scope, and a person with launch rights starts the pentest, which Émile runs. Hortense comes with every yearly plan.

What it sells: Picus Security

What Picus Platform does[3][5][12][13]
Picus Security sells one platform that proves what attackers can exploit and what defenses stop. Autonomous Penetration Testing is one part of the Picus Platform. The capabilities of the Picus Platform converge into one continuous validation loop, from attack surface to controls to exploitable exposures.
What Autonomous Penetration Testing does[3][5]
Picus runs autonomous agents that chain real attacks across the full environment to show which exposures are genuinely exploitable. AI agents run real attacks against the production environment, with guardrails the user controls. Autonomous Penetration Testing prioritizes exposures by validated risk and blast radius, then verifies the fix.
What Exposure Validation does[3][5][11]
Exposure Validation proves exploitability without firing an exploit, covering restricted assets that no live test can touch and CVEs with no public or safe exploit. Picus Exposure Validation prioritizes exposures based on exploitability, security control performance, and asset criticality.
What Breach and Attack Simulation does[1][3][5][11]
Breach and Attack Simulation continuously tests what EDR, SIEM, firewall, WAF, and other security controls block and detect against the newest attacker techniques. Picus Breach and Attack Simulation evaluates whether defenses block or detect attacks, including attempted data exfiltration.
What Picus Cloud Security Validation does[16]
Picus Cloud Security Validation runs a continuous loop across the customer's cloud. It scans core AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud services, then safely simulates real attacks against what it finds. Picus validates with read-only access and feeds validated exposures into existing CSPM, CNAPP, and security data tooling.

Questions about Fleuret AI and Picus Security

What do Fleuret AI and Picus Security sell?
Fleuret AI sells Émile and Hortense. Picus Security sells Picus Platform, Autonomous Penetration Testing, Exposure Validation, Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus URL Filtering Testing Module and 2 more.
Are Fleuret AI and Picus Security in the same category?
Yes. Breach simulation and automated pen-testing is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
When were Fleuret AI and Picus Security founded?
Picus Security was founded in 2013.
Who owns Fleuret AI and Picus Security?
Fleuret AI is privately held.
Who are Fleuret AI and Picus Security sold to?
Its published guides address CISOs at credit institutions and at SaaS companies. The pages describe oil and gas operators with connected IT and OT environments as users of the platform.
What have Fleuret AI and Picus Security announced recently?
October 5, 2026: Fleuret AI closed a €4M pre-seed round led by RAISE Ventures, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures, Wind Capital and Better Angle.

About Fleuret AI

Fleuret AI sells pentesting that combines artificial intelligence and offensive expertise. Fleuret uses agentic AI to simulate real attacks on its customers' systems. Émile runs pentests on customer applications, APIs and infrastructure and ships a replayable exploit with every finding. Hortense tells customers what to test next, and when. Fleuret states that its service is built and hosted in Europe.[1][3][4]

A separate validator confirms every finding with a non-destructive exploit. Several agents test the surface at once and reproduce every finding before it is reported. Every finding ships with a working, replayable exploit, and a finding that cannot be reproduced is left out of the report. Fleuret states that proofs of concept are read-only and non-destructive. Fleuret states that its orchestration is deterministic code, not a free-running model, and that it ends in a signed report.[4][5]

Each finding becomes a ticket with its exploit, an owner and a remediation, pushed to Jira, Linear or Slack. Customers can launch a full pentest the day an application changes and can re-test a fix whenever they want. Fleuret reports contain a replayable exploit for every finding, logged re-tests, the coverage of what was tested and held, and a signed report mapped to DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001.[4]

Hortense maps a customer's estate from domain to database and crosses what changed in the code with what is exposed on the internet and what past pentests found. Hortense connects what a customer already has into a view of risk: what to test, what to fix first, what can wait, and why. For each application, Hortense weighs the last pentest, what changed since, and how close it sits to a crown jewel. Hortense then recommends a pentest with its reasons and prepares it, and the customer approves it. Hortense prepares the scope, and a person with launch rights starts the pentest, which Émile runs. Hortense comes with every yearly plan.[1][4][6]

Fleuret sells pentests from 4,000 euros per test. Each extra credit costs €4,000, whatever the plan. Credits are valid for the subscription year and do not carry over to the next one. A first pentest is credited in full against a yearly plan taken within 60 days.[5][7]

Hosting and inference run on Scaleway in Paris, which Fleuret describes as a European provider. Fleuret runs open-weight models (gpt-oss, Kimi K2.5) on H100 GPUs at Scaleway in Paris. Engagement data does not leave that environment to reach a third-party model API. Engagement data, namely vulnerabilities, exploitation evidence and reports, is retained for 18 months in a per-client segmented European environment, then deleted. Fleuret AI states that stored data is encrypted with AES-256 and that communications use TLS 1.2 or higher. Fleuret AI states that its production data is hosted in data centers within the European Union. Fleuret AI states that it is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation. Fleuret AI gives its address as 60 Rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France.[4][8]

Fleuret AI publishes practical guides for CISOs scoping penetration testing under DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS. One guide covers how SaaS CISOs decide scope and evidence pentest against Article 21(2)(e) and 21(2)(f).[1][4][5][9]

Fleuret AI on the record

Sources

Fleuret AI full record

  1. [1]fleuret.aiFleuret AI · fleuret.ai · undated page, accessed October 21, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Fleuret raises €4M pre-seed for agentic pentestingFleuret AI · published October 5, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]About Fleuret | Agentic AI pentestingFleuret AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Fleuret | AI-powered automated pentestingFleuret AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Pricing | Pentest credits, platform included | FleuretFleuret AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Hortense, your offsec brain | Know what to test next, and when | FleuretFleuret AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]SOC 2 and ISO 27001 cost calculator | FleuretFleuret AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Security Policy | FleuretFleuret AI · published March 11, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Compliance Pentest Guides | DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 | FleuretFleuret AI · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

Picus Security full record

  1. [1]About usPicus Security · picussecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Series b fundingPicus Security · picussecurity.com · undated page, accessed October 1, 2021 · Tier A
  3. [3]Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation PlatformPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Achieve NIST Cybersecurity Framework Compliance | Picus SecurityPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Autonomous Penetration Testing | PicusPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Exposure ValidationPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Email Gateway SecurityPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Picus | Threat LibraryPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Beyond Cloud Security Posture Management: Validating Cloud Effectiveness with Attack SimulationPicus Security · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Trust CenterPicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]DPDPA CompliancePicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Why Security Control Validation is a must for every organizationPicus Security · published July 4, 2022 · Tier A
  13. [13]Security Control Validation for Detection ControlsPicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Cybersecurity Code of Practice (CCoP) 2.0 CompliancePicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]URL Filtering AttacksPicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Cloud Security ValidationPicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Oil and Gas Cybersecurity | Picus SecurityPicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Hong Kong Code of Practice (CoP) CompliancePicus Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Picus Security Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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