Cymulate is an exposure management and security validation platform that enables organizations to proactively test, validate, and optimize their cybersecurity defenses. It provides continuous threat validation, breach and attack simulation (BAS), automated red teaming, exposure prioritization, and actionable analytics to help organizations reduce risk and improve their security posture. Learn more.
What are the main features of Cymulate's platform?
Cymulate's platform offers continuous threat validation, breach and attack simulation (BAS), continuous automated red teaming (CART), exposure analytics, attack path discovery, automated mitigation, AI-powered optimization, and an extensive threat library with over 100,000 attack actions updated daily. See full feature list.
How does Cymulate help with security control validation?
Cymulate enables security teams to continuously validate security controls across the organization, ensuring policies are enforced and there are no exploitable gaps. The platform provides easy-to-digest mitigation guidance after each assessment, allowing teams to focus remediation efforts efficiently. Case study.
What is breach and attack simulation (BAS) in Cymulate?
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) in Cymulate allows organizations to simulate real-world cyberattacks in a safe environment. This helps identify vulnerabilities, test security controls, and validate the effectiveness of defenses against the latest threats. Learn more.
How does Cymulate support IT security policy enforcement?
Cymulate enables teams to customize and run complex scenarios using BAS Advanced Scenarios, validating network segmentation and access management policies. This ensures security policies are consistently enforced across all offices and remote workers. Case study.
How does Cymulate provide immediate threat intelligence?
The Cymulate Threat Research Group updates the platform daily with new prepackaged threat assessments, allowing security teams to test their defenses against the latest threats without added effort. Case study.
What is vulnerability prioritization in Cymulate?
Cymulate provides a comprehensive overview of the IT environment, correlating vulnerabilities with asset value and criticality. This enables automated vulnerability management and quick prioritization of remediation activities. Case study.
How does Cymulate help with red team automation?
Cymulate BAS Advanced Scenarios allow red teams to automate assessments, scale adversarial activities, and proactively hunt for threats. Gaps found are automatically documented for immediate remediation. Case study.
What is attack path discovery in Cymulate?
Attack path discovery in Cymulate identifies potential lateral movement and privilege escalation risks within the network, helping organizations understand and mitigate attack paths before they can be exploited. Learn more.
How does Cymulate monitor for security drift?
Cymulate automatically monitors for security drift and notifies the team if an increase in risk score is detected, enabling immediate remediation and fine-tuning of controls. Case study.
What is the Cymulate Threat Research Group?
The Cymulate Threat Research Group is responsible for updating the platform daily with new threat assessments, ensuring customers can test their defenses against the latest cyber threats. Case study.
How does Cymulate help with data-based analytics and decision-making?
Cymulate reduces the time required to analyze security data from 1.5 days to just 1-3 hours, enabling teams to make efficient, data-driven decisions using actionable dashboards. Case study.
How does Cymulate improve communication with executive leadership?
Cymulate provides quantifiable data and clear risk metrics, allowing CISOs to demonstrate the impact of security investments and risk reduction to executive boards. Case study.
What integrations does Cymulate support?
Cymulate integrates with a wide range of security technologies, including Akamai Guardicore, AWS GuardDuty, BlackBerry Cylance OPTICS, Carbon Black EDR, Check Point CloudGuard, Cisco Secure Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, SentinelOne, and more. For a complete list, visit the Partnerships and Integrations page.
What technical documentation is available for Cymulate?
Cymulate provides guides, whitepapers, solution briefs, and data sheets covering topics like CTEM, detection engineering, exposure validation, automated mitigation, and more. Access the full library at the Resource Hub.
What security and compliance certifications does Cymulate have?
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating adherence to industry-leading security and privacy standards. Learn more.
How does Cymulate ensure data security and privacy?
Cymulate uses encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), hosts data in secure AWS data centers, and follows a strict Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with regular vulnerability scanning and third-party penetration testing. Details here.
Is Cymulate GDPR compliant?
Yes, Cymulate incorporates data protection by design and has a dedicated privacy and security team, including a Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), ensuring GDPR compliance. Learn more.
Use Cases & Benefits
What business impact can organizations expect from using Cymulate?
Organizations using Cymulate have achieved up to a 70% reduction in critical vulnerabilities detected in pen tests, reduced analysis time from 1.5 days to 1-3 hours, and improved communication with executive leadership through quantifiable risk metrics. Case study.
How does Cymulate help organizations with continuous security validation?
Cymulate enables continuous security validation by automating attack simulations and assessments, ensuring organizations can proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities as they emerge. Case study.
How does Cymulate support organizations with global operations?
Cymulate helps organizations with multiple offices and remote workers enforce consistent security policies and validate controls across all locations, reducing the risk of misconfigurations and security drift. Case study.
What types of organizations benefit most from Cymulate?
Cymulate is used by organizations of all sizes, including large enterprises (e.g., 22,000+ employees), across industries such as IT services, finance, healthcare, retail, and more. It is especially valuable for companies needing to comply with global regulations and those with complex, distributed environments. See customer stories.
How does Cymulate help with regulatory compliance?
Cymulate assists organizations in meeting regulatory requirements by providing continuous validation, audit-ready reports, and alignment with standards such as ISO and SOC2. Learn more.
How does Cymulate help reduce the cost of vulnerability assessments?
By reducing the number of critical vulnerabilities found in third-party assessments (up to 70% fewer), organizations can negotiate lower costs for future assessments, as pricing can be based on the number of critical findings rather than total vulnerabilities. Case study.
How does Cymulate help with communication barriers between security teams and leadership?
Cymulate provides clear, quantifiable metrics and dashboards that help CISOs and security leaders communicate risk and justify investments to executive boards. Case study.
How does Cymulate address resource constraints in security teams?
Cymulate automates security validation processes, reducing manual effort and enabling teams to focus on high-impact remediation and strategic initiatives. Case study.
How does Cymulate help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats?
Cymulate's daily threat intelligence updates and automated assessments ensure organizations can test and adapt their defenses against the latest threats before an attack occurs. Case study.
How does Cymulate support collaboration across security teams?
Cymulate enables collaboration between SecOps, red teams, and vulnerability management teams by providing a unified platform for exposure validation, threat simulation, and remediation tracking. Learn more.
What feedback have customers given about Cymulate's ease of use?
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive interface, ease of implementation, and actionable insights. For example, Raphael Ferreira, Cybersecurity Manager, said, "Cymulate is easy to implement and use—all you need to do is click a few buttons, and you receive a lot of practical insights into how you can improve your security posture." Read more testimonials.
Implementation & Support
How long does it take to implement Cymulate?
Cymulate is designed for quick, agentless deployment. Customers can start running simulations almost immediately after deployment, with minimal setup and no need for additional hardware or complex configurations. Book a demo.
What support options are available for Cymulate customers?
Cymulate offers email support, real-time chat support, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for instant answers and guidance. Contact support.
What technical prerequisites are required to use Cymulate?
Cymulate operates in agentless mode and requires minimal resources. Customers are responsible for providing necessary infrastructure and third-party software as per Cymulate’s prerequisites. See technical documentation.
Pricing & Plans
What is Cymulate's pricing model?
Cymulate uses a subscription-based pricing model tailored to each organization's requirements. Pricing depends on the chosen package, number of assets, and scenarios selected. For a personalized quote, schedule a demo.
Competition & Comparison
How does Cymulate compare to AttackIQ?
Cymulate offers broader innovation, a larger threat scenario library, and AI-powered capabilities for streamlined workflows compared to AttackIQ. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Mandiant Security Validation?
Mandiant Security Validation is an original BAS platform but has seen less innovation in recent years. Cymulate continually innovates with AI and automation, expanding into exposure management as a grid leader. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Pentera?
Pentera focuses on attack path validation, while Cymulate provides deeper exposure validation, defense optimization, and scalable offensive testing. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Picus Security?
Picus Security offers on-premise BAS but lacks Cymulate's comprehensive exposure validation platform, which covers the full kill chain and includes cloud control validation. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to SafeBreach?
Cymulate outpaces SafeBreach with unmatched innovation, the industry’s largest attack library, and a full CTEM solution for comprehensive exposure validation. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Scythe?
Scythe is suitable for advanced red teams building custom attack campaigns, while Cymulate provides a more comprehensive exposure validation platform with actionable remediation and automated mitigation. Read more.
Cymulate named a Customers' Choice in 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™
70% reduction in critical vulnerabilities detected in a pen test
Reduced from 1.5 days to 1-3 hours to analyze data
With Cymulate, we can present quantifiable data to the board and show a direct correlation between investments and the reduction in risk.
- CISO
Challenge
The security team at this IT services and consulting organization is responsible for protecting the company’s and its end-customers’ data. As an ISO-certified company, it conducts quarterly vulnerability assessments and penetration tests via third-party organizations to stay up to date on audits and comply with various global industry regulations.
The security team faced the following security challenges:
Continuously validating its security performance Despite quarterly penetration tests, the security team did not have a complete picture of its security posture. These penetration tests were point-in-time assessments and evaluated security posture solely based on penetration paths and vulnerabilities without considering security controls.
Enforcing global IT security policies The company has over 50 offices in 18 countries, and many employees work from home, making security policy validation a daunting task. The security team created multiple access management and network segmentation policies to keep the company safe. However, without continuous validation, misconfigurations or security drift can cause gaps that can be exploited if not found in time.
Staying up to date on emerging threats With new threats being introduced daily, the security team was responsible for reporting to management if the company would be protected from the latest threat — before an attack took place — and planning accordingly. However, the team had limited access to threat intelligence in real time, which left them vulnerable.
Understanding these shortcomings, the team researched platforms for continuous validation, focusing specifically on automated tools that reduce human effort and consistently provide high-impact assessments for accurate evaluation.
The Cymulate Solution
The organization’s CISO explained that when assessing different security validation tools, the organization considered three top use cases and selected Cymulate over the other platforms because it covered them all extensively. Those use cases were: security control validation, IT security policy enforcement and immediate threat intelligence.
The CISO elaborated how his team uses Cymulate for the top three use cases:
Security control validation and threat exposure assessment
“With Cymulate, the SecOps team ensures that our security policies are consistent throughout the organization and that there are no gaps for attackers to breach our network and gain an initial foothold. The team also continuously validates our security controls. Easy-to-digest mitigation guidance following each assessment allows the SecOps team to focus on its remediation efforts.”
IT security policy enforcement
"With Cymulate BAS Advanced Scenarios, the team customizes complex scenarios from pre-built resources and custom binaries and executions without limits or restrictions. The team runs continuous assessments to validate network segmentation and explore if an attacker can move laterally within the network after gaining an initial foothold."
Immediate threat intelligence
"The Cymulate Threat Research Group updates the platform daily with new prepackaged threat assessments so our security team can immediately test their security controls against the latest threats, with no added effort.”
In addition to these use cases, the CISO explained that his team also uses Cymulate for:
Vulnerability prioritization
"Cymulate provides a comprehensive overview of our IT environment, adding context to vulnerabilities and correlating their criticality with the value of assets. We’ve been able to automate our vulnerability management process and quickly prioritize remediation activities with minimal effort."
Red team automation and customization
"The red team uses Cymulate BAS Advanced Scenarios to automate its assessments and scale its adversarial activities with proactive threat hunting and health checks. Any gaps found during these assessments are automatically documented in a mitigation report so they can be remediated immediately before an attacker can exploit them."
Benefits
Monitored security drift Cymulate enables the team to keep its risk low and automatically monitors for security drift. If an increase in the risk score is detected, the team is notified immediately so it can remediate and fine-tune its controls.
Hardened security posture The team’s most recent third-party penetration test and vulnerability assessment found 70% fewer critical vulnerabilities than usual. Consequently, the organization plans to reduce the cost of future vulnerability assessments by pricing them according to the number of critical vulnerabilities found rather than the number of vulnerabilities they scan for.
Data-based analytics Before implementing Cymulate, it took about a day and a half to manually collect data and analyze the results before making meaningful decisions. Now, the team only needs to invest about 1-3 hours to evaluate the data from Cymulate’s dashboards to make data-based decisions efficiently.
Improved communication With Cymulate, the CISO can easily communicate with the executive board about where he needs to focus his manpower and budget. He consistently shows a direct correlation between the investment in his security program and overall risk reduction.
Solution
Breach and attack simulation (BAS)
BAS advanced scenarios
Continuous automated red teaming
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