What is Cymulate and how does it help organizations like civil engineering firms?
Cymulate is an AI-powered cyber defense engineering platform that enables organizations to prove, prioritize, and improve their cybersecurity defenses against real-world threats and exposures. For civil engineering organizations, Cymulate provides continuous security control validation, automated red teaming, and breach and attack simulation. This helps teams proactively identify exposures, prioritize vulnerabilities, and validate remediation efforts, ensuring ongoing cyber resilience. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
What challenges did the civil engineering organization face before using Cymulate?
The organization managed complex security needs across 160 offices on five continents, with a SecOps team of seven internal members and an external MSSP for 24/7 monitoring. They relied on annual third-party penetration tests, which were point-in-time, limited in scope, and did not provide complete visibility. There was no way to confirm if remediation efforts successfully reduced risk. Note: Cymulate addresses these challenges but may require integration with existing vulnerability management tools for full benefit.
How did the civil engineering organization's SOC manager optimize Cymulate usage?
The SOC manager collaborated with Cymulate's customer success representative to expand platform usage beyond automated security control validation. The team began using Cymulate for testing against emergent threats, automating IOC mitigation, proving cyber resilience, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and validating remediation efforts. This resulted in increased team efficiency, improved visibility of cyber resilience, and the ability to prove the value of cyber investments. Note: Optimization may require ongoing collaboration with Cymulate support for best results.
What is security control validation and why is it important?
Security control validation is the process of ensuring that an organization’s cybersecurity controls are effective and functional. It validates that implemented measures can detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats, maintaining the desired security posture. For more information, see our security control validation glossary entry. Note: Validation scope may depend on integration with other security tools.
Features & Capabilities
What key capabilities does Cymulate offer for security teams?
Cymulate provides continuous threat validation, exposure validation, automated mitigation, AI-powered context mapping, a comprehensive threat library, and a cyber defense engineering control plane. For the civil engineering organization, this included breach and attack simulation, continuous automated red teaming, automated IOC mitigation, and prioritized vulnerability management. Note: Some advanced features may require integration with third-party tools or additional configuration.
How does Cymulate automate IOC mitigation?
Cymulate's IOC (Indicators of Compromise) mitigation capability automatically uploads critical IOC data to web gateways and EDR solutions. This automation replaces manual weekly tasks, ensuring that controls are updated to detect and prevent emergent threats more efficiently. Note: Effectiveness depends on integration with supported security tools.
What integrations does Cymulate support?
Cymulate supports over 50 integrations across SIEM (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale), EDR and anti-malware (e.g., Carbon Black EDR, CrowdStrike Falcon), cloud security (e.g., AWS GuardDuty), web gateways (e.g., Cisco Umbrella), network security (e.g., Akamai Guardicore), vulnerability management (e.g., Rapid7 InsightVM), SOAR, and Active Directory. For a full list, visit our technology alliances and integrations page. Note: Integration availability may vary by package and environment.
Implementation & Support
How easy is it to implement Cymulate and get started?
Cymulate is designed for rapid deployment, often requiring only basic infrastructure and internet connectivity. Its agentless mode eliminates the need for additional hardware or complex configurations, allowing users to start running simulations almost immediately. Customers report that the platform is user-friendly and easy to navigate, with comprehensive support available during onboarding. Note: Customers are responsible for providing required equipment, infrastructure, and third-party software as per Cymulate's prerequisites.
What support is available for Cymulate customers?
Cymulate provides support through email, chat, webinars, and e-books. Customers also benefit from dedicated customer success representatives who assist with onboarding, optimization, and ongoing usage. For technical documentation and best practices, visit Cymulate's Resource Hub. Note: Support levels may vary by subscription tier.
Security & Compliance
What security and compliance certifications does Cymulate hold?
Cymulate holds several industry-recognized certifications, including SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1. These certifications demonstrate compliance with security, privacy, and cloud service standards. For more details, visit our security overview page. Note: Certification scope may not cover all deployment scenarios; verify with Cymulate for your environment.
How does Cymulate support GDPR compliance?
Cymulate adheres to GDPR requirements through secure development life cycle procedures, data protection by design, and continuous oversight by a Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The platform provides end-to-end visibility of security posture and generates reports suitable for compliance purposes. Note: Customers remain responsible for their own GDPR compliance obligations.
Business Impact & Outcomes
What measurable outcomes did the civil engineering organization achieve with Cymulate?
The organization achieved increased team efficiency, improved visibility of cyber resilience, and the ability to prove the value of cyber investments. The platform enabled continuous security validation, proactive exposure management, and enhanced threat resilience. For a detailed account, download the civil engineering case study PDF. Note: Specific quantitative metrics for this organization are not publicly disclosed.
How does Cymulate help prove the value of cyber investments?
Cymulate provides executive-grade reporting that demonstrates how security controls block and prevent attacks based on simulated assessments. This allows organizations to show stakeholders a direct connection between potential attack scenarios and successful prevention efforts, supporting the justification of security investments. Note: Effectiveness depends on the organization's ability to act on Cymulate's recommendations.
Pricing & Plans
How is Cymulate priced?
Cymulate uses a subscription-based pricing model that is customized to fit the unique needs of each organization. Pricing depends on the package selected, the number of assets covered, and the scenarios and features chosen. For a tailored quote, you can schedule a demo with the Cymulate team. Note: Detailed pricing is not publicly disclosed; contact Cymulate for specifics.
Competitor Comparison
How does Cymulate compare to AttackIQ?
Cymulate offers an expansive adversary simulation library with daily updates, AI-driven remediation guidance, and faster deployment compared to AttackIQ. AttackIQ has a more limited library with infrequent updates. Cymulate's AI Copilot converts threat intelligence into automated tests, streamlining workflows. Choose Cymulate for rapid, automated, and comprehensive validation; choose AttackIQ if you require a specific feature not listed in Cymulate's integration catalog. Note: Cymulate may require integration with existing tools for full feature parity. Read more
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- SOC Manager
Moving Past Point-in-Time Security Assessments
This engineering, architecture, and construction services company has 160 offices on five continents, close to 15,000 employees, and clients in multiple industries, making it a complex organization to keep secure. The SecOps team includes seven internal team members responsible for incident response, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence, and it employs an external MSSP for 24/7 monitoring.
The team conducted third-party annual penetration tests for compliance reasons, but these assessments were point-in-time, limited in scope, and did not provide complete visibility. Additionally, the team would remediate following a penetration test, but there was no way for the team to know if the efforts successfully reduced risk.
The team had been using Cymulate to continuously validate its security controls and assess their effectiveness, especially following remediation. However, when a new SOC manager joined the organization, he noticed his team could use the platform in more cases. He reflected, “I immediately identified opportunities for Cymulate to be used to do more and was surprised that the team was only using it for automated security control validation. There was so much more value to be realized from the platform’s comprehensive capabilities.”
The Cymulate Solution
The SOC manager worked with his Cymulate customer success representative to optimize the use of the platform. The SOC manager explained that today, in addition to continuous security validation, his team uses Cymulate to test against emergent threats, automate IOC mitigation, prove cyber resilience, prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities and validate remediation following manual penetration testing.
Test against emergent threats
"We automate the Cymulate threat feed assessments to validate our controls for any new threat found in the wild. Because the Cymulate Research Labs adds new assessments as the threats emerge and the platform runs them automatically, it significantly reduces my team's manual efforts."
Automate IoC mitigation
"Before Cymulate, adding IoCs to our controls would have been a manual task for an analyst to do weekly. With Cymulate Auto Mitigation, the platform automatically uploads critical IoC data to our web gateway and EDR. We have seen a direct connection between the newly added IoCs and our controls successfully detecting and preventing emergent threat assessments."
Prove cyber resilience
"We use Cymulate reporting to capture and report how our controls are blocking and preventing attacks based on the simulated assessments. We use data from Cymulate to support our cyber strategy."
Prioritize vulnerabilities
"Before Cymulate, managing our complex vulnerabilities was challenging, especially communicating the urgency of remediating a specific vulnerability. We integrated our vulnerability management tool with Cymulate CTEM to highlight to the team which vulnerabilities need prioritization because they are exploitable in our environment.”
Validate remediation
“A few months ago, we conducted a third-party penetration test, which resulted in findings we needed to remediate. Following remediation, we ran a few Cymulate assessments and were able to validate that our efforts were successful immediately. Before Cymulate, we would have had to assume that our controls were tuned correctly - now we can independently validate with minimal effort and resources.”
Benefits
Valuable customer support The Cymulate customer success representative enables the security team to utilize the platform for more than continuous security validation, providing support at every step.
Proof of investment It isn't easy to measure the value of something that hasn't occurred, like a cyberattack. However, Cymulate shows the organization's stakeholders a direct connection between how a potential attack could have happened and the security team's successful prevention efforts.
Increased efficiency The platform's automation enables the team to improve its testing and remediation efforts. Because of the threat intelligence that Cymulate provides, the team can perform more tasks with better precision.
Use Case
SOC Optimization
Threat Validation
Exposure Prioritization and Mitigation
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