Basic vulnerability scans tell you where you’re vulnerable, but Cymulate tells you if you will be compromised. Vulnerability scanning just gives a report, Cymulate gives us intelligence.
– Shaun Curtis, Head of Cybersecurity, GUD Holdings
The Path to Exposure Management
Today, cyber programs require separate tools to find vulnerabilities, assess attack surface exposures, gather threat intelligence and test security controls. Aggregating this data is often manual and too focused on technical or operational metrics without reference to business impact. Gartner® introduced the continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) program to bridge this gap by recommending a business-focused methodology for managing cyber risk.
CTEM creates a common language for business and technical teams to manage risk and resilience. By aligning with this program, organizations gain a framework to scope, discover, prioritize, validate and mobilize their cybersecurity initiatives. However, without the means to aggregate and correlate data from multiple sources and align the data with business context, CTEM programs can’t operationalize exposure management.
Know the True State of Cyber Resilience
Cymulate Exposure Analytics is a data aggregation and exposure intelligence solution that collects data across enterprise IT, clouds and the security stack to support exposure management programs. By correlating exposure potential with business information and control effectiveness, Cymulate Exposure Analytics prioritizes truly exploitable exposures while measuring resilience so security teams can make informed, data-based decisions and provide better insights to strategic leadership.
With this data, Cymulate Exposure Analytics provides:
Exposure prioritization that considers the effectiveness of security controls to prevent or detect a threat targeting the vulnerability or exposure
Actionable remediation plans with guidance for control updates, patching or other configuration changes
Diagnostic analytics on the current state of threat exposure relevant to business processes, operating units and the organization as a whole
Discover and Aggregate Exposures and Assets
As an open platform, Cymulate Exposure Analytics aggregates data on exposures and effected assets by integrating with security controls, vulnerability scanners, clouds and the IT infrastructure. With this consolidated view of your attack surface and gaps, Cymulate Exposure Analytics provides a unified and comprehensive overview of your organization’s security posture.
To enrich the technical data, you can assign assets to one or more pre-defined “business contexts,” groups of assets that share similar impacts on the organization’s risk. These contexts include business units, product lines, subsidiaries, regions or other relevant groupings to evaluate risk more granularly.
Analyze Exposure by Correlating Validated Prevention and Detection
With the aggregated exposure data, Cymulate Exposure Analytics provides the analytics to validate and prove true exploitability of an exposure by correlating the validated control effectiveness from Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation and Continuous Automated Red Teaming.
Rather than simply prioritizing based on CVSS scores, Cymulate Exposure Analytics provides contextualized exposure prioritization that scores and stack ranks each vulnerability and exposure based on:
Validated prevention or detection of threats targeting the exposure
Business context and impact of effected assets
Known exploits against the vulnerability
Threat intel for active campaigns, targeted industries and effected geographies.
Streamline and Prioritize Mitigation Tasks with a Remediation Plan
Cymulate Exposure Analytics correlates threat exposures with security control effectiveness, threat intel and business context to prioritize true exposures and produce detailed remediation plans that include:
Explanation and evidence of the exposure
Effected assets and their business context
Guidance for remediation, such as configuration updates for infrastructure, clouds, applications and controls
Custom mitigation rules to add threat detection in endpoint and SIEM
Integration with ticketing systems to mobilize action.
Measure Your Security with Quantifiable Metrics and Baselining
Cymulate Exposure Analytics quantifies true threat exposure so you can measure security resilience and business risk. Risk scoring considers the attack surface, business context, control efficacy, breach feasibility and external data such as CVSS scores and threat intel.
With dynamic reporting and dashboards for baselines and visualizations, you can measure and communicate cyber resilience to executives, boards and their peers while prioritizing new investments and measuring improvement. Cymulate Exposure Analytics presents an organization-wide risk posture view with an option for a hierarchy of business units, mission-critical systems and business operations.
Why Choose Cymulate?
Open Platform
The assessment contains a comprehensive suite of over 7,000 malicious payloads to fully validate the effectiveness of your web application firewalls.
Validated Exposures
The full suite of test cases is completely production-safe with no malicious payload or code execution that could impact your production environment.
Board-Ready Metrics
The assessment is fully automated, enabling continuous validation and performance optimization of your web application firewall effectiveness every week.
