Even the best security teams struggle to keep pace with the speed and sophistication of cyber attacks. While continuous exposure validation helps reveal where defenses fall short, translating those findings into action remains a challenge.
Cymulate automated mitigation helps close that gap by turning validation insights into practical, actionable defense. Built into the Cymulate Platform, this capability transforms exposure validation into immediate, proactive prevention, automating control updates based on validated threat data to help teams maintain resilience against evolving threats.
Automated mitigation is the process of directly updating security controls based on the results of exposure validation. Instead of waiting for manual review or coordination across teams, controls can be automatically tuned to prevent the very threats that have been proven to bypass them.
This approach enhances cyber resilience by enabling faster, validated responses. It helps organizations move beyond traditional patch cycles and manual coordination, reducing exposure windows and minimizing risk.
Why automated mitigation is needed now
Security teams face growing challenges that automated mitigation solves:
Threat intelligence without context
hreat intelligence is abundant, but not always actionable. Most teams lack an efficient method for determining whether a given threat is relevant to their specific environment. Without that context, you’re guessing what should be fixed. That’s too risky for your organization.
Limited resources, endless findings
Identifying security gaps is just the beginning. Acting on those findings requires resources, time and coordination. With gaps in talent and skills throughout the cybersecurity landscape, these realities often exceed what most teams can actually handle. This results in delays between detection and resolution and can cause a bevy of problems.
Cross-team complexity
Turning exposure findings into actionable control updates often involves multiple teams. Testing teams may not have access to modify controls, and those who manage the controls may not fully understand the urgency behind the test results. The result? Gaps remain open longer than they should.
How Cymulate automated mitigation works
Cymulate streamlines the mitigation process with flexible options catering to workflow and levels of automation readiness. Whether teams prefer direct control or full automation, the platform’s mitigation methods ensure faster, safer and more efficient response to validated exposures. Once IOCs are pushed to the relevant controls, Cymulate can automatically retest those defenses to confirm that the mitigation is effective, providing immediate validation and proof of improved resilience.
Here are the different ways you can utilize automated mitigation depending on the specific needs of your team or organization:
Fix with a click
For targeted action, users can review individual findings and select specific mitigations to push directly to security controls. This option provides hands-on precision, enabling security teams to address critical exposures immediately while maintaining full oversight.
Send individual IOCs to all enabled integrations with one click.
Bulk fix with a click
Aggregate mitigations from an assessment or multiple assessments to group recommended IOCs into a single bulk update. This approach is ideal for quickly updating defenses after broad validation tests or widespread threat simulations.
Bulk fix allows you to select multiple IOCs into a single grouped update. All IOCs from those findings will be pushed to the relevant, enabled integrations.
Auto-fix
If your organization is seeking full automation, auto-fix allows predefined rules and parameters, such as time-based triggers, control types or mitigation categories, to govern automatic updates. You’ll ensure continuous alignment between validation results and active defenses, keeping controls up to date with minimal manual effort and verifying each update through automated retesting.
Auto-fix enables you to schedule IOC mitigation to run automatically at a set interval, eliminating the need for manual intervention. IOCs discovered in findings are pushed to your enabled integrations according to the schedule.
The benefits of Cymulate automated mitigation
Automated mitigation bridges the gap between exposure validation and control updates. When automated properly, it brings these benefits:
Mitigate faster: Reduce manual tasks with automation that converts exposure validation to immediate threat resilience
Optimize prevention: Push threat updates directly to security controls to block threats that have been proven to bypass your security controls
Operationalize CTEM: Drive continuous threat exposure management with automation to mitigate validated threat exposure
Reduce dwell time: Develop self-improving defenses that evolve in response to changing threat landscapes
The Cymulate advantage: Integrated automated mitigation
The Cymulate Exposure Management Platform offers an array of capabilities, including:
Over 100,000 attack simulation resources from real-world attack scenarios for comprehensive testing of your security defenses.
A full suite of production-safe attack simulations and test scenarios that will not cause harm to your production systems.
Actionable and automated findings to maximize threat prevention and optimize detection for the most effective threat coverage.
Notably, our platform also includes a growing list of integrations to ensure your environment is properly covered. The Cymulate option for automated mitigation includes control integrations for the following solutions:
CrowdStrike Falcon
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Palo Alto Cortex XDR
TrendMicro Vision One
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
More control integrations will be added for Cymulate automated mitigation in 2026.
By combining exposure validation and automated control updates, Cymulate automated mitigation empowers teams to act decisively without relying on cumbersome, manual processes.
Here’s what one Cymulate customer had to say:
We use the Cymulate automated mitigation capability to enhance and strengthen our security. The platform’s threat data strengthens other security products that may not yet have identified those IOCs or hashes
– Information Security Manager, Law Enforcement Agency
Stay ahead of attackers and close your exposure gap. With Cymulate automated mitigation, guesswork is removed from your threat defense and security control weaknesses can become strengths.
