Case Study: Sutter Health achieves continuous security validation and faster remediation with Picus Security

Sutter Health’s Continuous Security Validation With Picus

Sutter Health, a large healthcare organization with 50,000–75,000 employees, needed a faster and more consistent way to validate its security defenses. Before working with Picus Security and its Security Control Validation (SCV) platform, the team relied on manual testing that took days or weeks, limited visibility into control effectiveness, and made it difficult to prioritize remediation and demonstrate progress to leadership.

With Picus Security, Sutter Health automated security validation using real-world attack simulations and integrations with SIEM, EDR, and threat intelligence tools. This cut validation cycles from weeks to under an hour, improved collaboration between the red team and Detection Engineering, gave real-time visibility into what controls were working or failing, and supported faster remediation, executive reporting, and ongoing HIPAA compliance efforts.

Sutter Health

Jaime Rodriguez

Manager of the Red Team