Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) is a technology that automates real-world attack scenarios to evaluate an organization's security posture. It verifies defenses against the latest emergent threats and threat actors. Learn more about Cymulate's BAS capabilities at Cymulate BAS.
Cymulate's simulation engine is an AI-powered attack simulation engine that adapts to real-world threat behaviors. Competing BAS platforms use scripted, static attack simulations with limited scope. This enables Cymulate to provide more dynamic and realistic threat validation. (Source: Cymulate Platform Comparison)
Vulnerability scans list vulnerabilities and prioritize them based on CVSS scores, not exploitability in your specific environment. Cymulate BAS continuously provides visibility on how well security controls prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited, allowing organizations to create risk-reduction action plans based on prioritization and exploitability. (Source: Original Webpage)
Cymulate Exposure Validation applies industry-leading BAS to provide comprehensive security control validation. Security professionals leverage insights to prioritize and reduce cyber risk, justify investments, and provide proof of security resilience for compliance and regulatory programs. (Source: Original Webpage)
Cymulate Exposure Validation launches attack scenarios to discover security gaps and assess the layers of an organization’s security stack. It is cloud-based, providing continuous updates and quick deployment, with some assessments requiring a lightweight agent as a proxy. (Source: Original Webpage)
Cymulate BAS covers Secure Email Gateways (SEG), Secure Web Gateways (SWG), Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Endpoint Security (AV/EDR), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security (CWPP, Cloud IDS), Container/Kubernetes Security (K8S), Network Security (IPS/IDS), and SIEM/SOAR Detections. The Attack Scenario Workbench allows custom attack simulations. (Source: Original Webpage)
Traditional penetration testing is a one-time assessment. Cymulate BAS provides ongoing, continuous assessments that simulate real-world attack scenarios on specific security controls, enabling real-time identification and remediation of vulnerabilities. (Source: Original Webpage)
Every organization, regardless of size or industry, can benefit from a BAS solution. It helps identify and address weaknesses in security controls and exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers do. A consolidated platform that covers many use cases and scales with cyber maturity is recommended. (Source: Original Webpage)
Yes, Cymulate BAS and BAS Advanced Scenarios can be used for automated security validation of cloud runtime environments, including applications, containers/Kubernetes, cloud workloads, and cloud infrastructure. (Source: Original Webpage)
Cymulate offers continuous testing, daily threat feed, production-safe simulations, full kill-chain coverage, and metrics/reporting. It automates attack simulations using pre-built templates and custom scenarios, powered by real-time intelligence and updated within 24 hours of emerging threats. (Source: Original Webpage)
The Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform uses BAS to validate security controls and harden defenses with real-world testing. It identifies control weaknesses, provides policy tuning guidance, automated control updates, and custom mitigation rules that can be directly applied to security controls. (Source: Original Webpage)
Yes, Cymulate provides dynamic reporting and visual dashboards to measure and improve cyber resilience, track improvement over time, and communicate results to stakeholders. (Source: Original Webpage)
Yes, Cymulate executes advanced attacks with full coverage of MITRE ATT&CK, simulating threat exposure to ransomware, malware, APT groups, CVE exploits, and more. (Source: Original Webpage)
Yes, Cymulate runs non-disruptive attack simulations in live environments for advanced offensive testing that will not impact business systems. (Source: Original Webpage)
Customers can expect up to a 52% reduction in critical exposures, a 20-point improvement in threat prevention, a 60% increase in team efficiency, and an 81% reduction in cyber risk within four months. These metrics are based on real customer outcomes. (Source: Optimize Threat Resilience)
Hertz Israel reduced cyber risk by 81% in four months. A sustainable energy company scaled penetration testing cost-effectively. Nemours Children's Health improved detection in hybrid and cloud environments. Saffron Building Society proved compliance with regulators. See more at Cymulate Case Studies.
Cymulate's BAS solution is designed for CISOs, Security Leaders, SecOps teams, Red Teams, and Vulnerability Management teams. It serves organizations of all sizes and industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, media, transportation, and manufacturing. (Source: CISO/CIO, SecOps, Red Teams, Vulnerability Management)
Cymulate addresses fragmented security tools, resource constraints, unclear risk prioritization, cloud complexity, communication barriers, inadequate threat simulation, operational inefficiencies in vulnerability management, and post-breach recovery challenges. (Source: Knowledge Base)
Yes. CISOs face communication barriers and unclear risk prioritization; SecOps teams face resource constraints and operational inefficiencies; Red Teams need advanced threat simulation; Vulnerability Management teams require efficient validation and prioritization. Cymulate tailors solutions for each role. (Source: Knowledge Base)
Cymulate operates on 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 detailed quote, schedule a demo at Cymulate Demo. (Source: Knowledge Base)
Cymulate delivers adaptive, AI-powered simulation with continuous validation and automated remediation. Traditional BAS platforms rely on scripted scenarios and manual updates. Cymulate offers dynamic dashboards, vendor-specific remediation, AI-driven detection optimization, and requires no dedicated servers. (Source: Cymulate Platform Comparisons)
The insurer chose Cymulate BAS to replace its previous tool due to Cymulate's comprehensive assessments, integrations, and simplified automation, overcoming limitations of its prior solution. (Source: Case Study)
The firm selected Cymulate BAS and BAS Advanced Scenarios for their extensive customization and detailed assessments. Cymulate connects the dots across endpoint, web, and application layers, unlike other vendors. (Source: Case Study)
Cymulate integrates with Akamai Guardicore, AWS GuardDuty, BlackBerry Cylance OPTICS, Carbon Black EDR, Check Point CloudGuard, Cisco Secure Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight, Wiz, SentinelOne, and more. See the full list at Partnerships and Integrations.
Cymulate is designed for quick, agentless deployment with no need for additional hardware or complex configurations. Customers can start running simulations almost immediately after deployment. Support is available via email and chat, and educational resources are provided. (Source: Knowledge Base)
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating robust security and compliance standards. (Source: Security at Cymulate)
Cymulate ensures data security through encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), secure AWS-hosted data centers, and a tested disaster recovery plan. (Source: Knowledge Base)
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). (Source: Knowledge Base)
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive, user-friendly dashboard and ease of implementation. Testimonials highlight immediate value, actionable insights, and accessible support. (Source: Customer Quotes)
Cymulate offers email support, real-time chat support, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for querying the knowledge base and creating AI templates. (Source: Knowledge Base)
Cymulate's mission is to transform cybersecurity practices by enabling organizations to proactively validate their defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize their security posture. The vision is to create a collaborative environment for lasting improvements in cybersecurity strategies. (Source: About Us)
Cymulate serves organizations of all sizes, from small enterprises to large corporations with over 10,000 employees. It is recognized as a market leader in automated security validation by Frost & Sullivan and holds industry-leading certifications. (Source: About Us)
Test and optimize your cyber security defenses using real-world attack simulations.
Cymulate Exposure Validation applies industry-leading breach and attack simulation (BAS) to challenge your defenses with the latest real-world threats. AI-powered automated control updates help you close gaps and strengthen resilience before an attack occurs.
Cymulate includes AI-powered breach and attack simulation to tailor testing to your environment and automate real-world attack scenarios. Cymulate breach and attack simulation validates security controls against active threats and runs live-data exercises to test your security operations response. Mitigation Hub turns validated exposures into prioritized, actionable mitigation tasks that security teams can execute and track.
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Powered by breach and attack simulation (BAS), Cymulate Exposure Validation tests your security controls with real-world attack simulations to validate and improve threat resilience. Cymulate uncovers weaknesses and provides actionable and automated remediation that includes custom detection rules, automated control updates and policy tuning guidance.
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Breach and Attack Simulation, or BAS, is a cybersecurity approach that safely simulates real-world attack techniques to test how well security controls prevent, detect and respond to threats.
BAS helps organizations move from assumptions to evidence. By continuously validating defenses against attacker behavior, security teams can identify gaps, prioritize improvements and strengthen resilience before incidents occur.
Vulnerability scanners identify known vulnerabilities and typically prioritize them using severity scores such as CVSS. While useful, those scores do not always show whether a vulnerability is exploitable in a specific environment or whether existing security controls can prevent or detect exploitation.
Cymulate Exposure Validation uses BAS to validate how real-world attack techniques perform against an organization’s actual security controls. This helps teams understand which exposures create real risk, which controls are working and which gaps should be remediated first.
Cymulate Exposure Validation helps security teams continuously prove how well their defenses work against real-world threats. It provides objective evidence of security control effectiveness and helps teams move from findings to prioritized action.
By validating threats, identifying control gaps and guiding remediation, Cymulate helps organizations reduce risk faster, optimize the security tools they already own and create a repeatable process for improving cyber resilience.
Cymulate Exposure Validation safely launches attack scenarios that emulate real-world attacker behavior. These scenarios test prevention, detection and response across the security stack without disrupting production environments.
The platform is cloud-based and continuously updated, helping organizations validate against emerging threats. Some assessments can be launched directly from the cloud, while others use a lightweight agent to act as a test point inside the environment.
Cymulate Exposure Validation goes beyond traditional BAS by combining safe, continuous attack simulation with AI-tailored testing, actionable remediation and automated mitigation workflows. Instead of only showing whether a control passed or failed a test, Cymulate helps security teams understand which gaps matter most, how to improve defenses and how to validate that fixes worked.
Cymulate uses AI to help tailor offensive testing to the organization’s environment, exposures, threats and security controls, making validation more relevant and efficient. It also supports closed-loop cyber defense engineering by turning validated findings into prioritized, deployable improvements, including detection rules, IoCs and recommended control updates.
Key differentiators include broad coverage across attack vectors, fast deployment, continuous updates against emerging threats, environment-aware validation, AI-powered workflows and automated mitigation that helps teams move from validation to measurable risk reduction faster.
Any organization that wants to understand whether its security controls are working as intended can benefit from BAS. This includes organizations of all sizes and industries, especially those with complex environments, evolving threats, or pressure to prove security readiness.
BAS is particularly valuable for security teams that need to validate prevention and detection effectiveness, improve SOC performance, optimize existing security investments, or support exposure management and compliance programs.
Yes. Cymulate Exposure Validation can be used to validate security controls across cloud and hybrid environments, including applications, cloud workloads, containers, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
Organizations can use Cymulate to safely test cloud runtime controls, validate detections, assess application-layer defenses such as WAFs and confirm whether malicious behaviors are detected by tools such as cloud security platforms, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, IDS and IPS.
Cymulate Exposure Validation has specific automated security validation assessments for the following attack vectors:
Cymulate also supports custom attack scenarios, allowing teams to validate both individual techniques and multi-stage attack paths.
Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) helps organizations continuously validate their security posture by safely simulating real-world attack techniques across their environment. Instead of relying solely on point-in-time assessments, BAS provides ongoing visibility into how security controls perform against evolving threats.
Key benefits include:
By continuously testing defenses against real-world attack scenarios, organizations can reduce uncertainty, improve security effectiveness and strengthen their overall cyber resilience. BAS enables security teams to move from assuming they are protected to continuously proving it.
