What is Cymulate and how does it help organizations like Globeleq?
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 example, Globeleq, an independent power company, uses Cymulate for continuous, independent security validation, immediate assessments against emergent threats, and standardized security metrics across all locations. Note: Cymulate is best suited for organizations seeking automated, continuous validation; teams requiring highly customized, manual pen-testing may need to supplement with additional services.
What challenges did Globeleq face before using Cymulate?
Globeleq's small cybersecurity team struggled with time-consuming, manual penetration testing, inconsistent and point-in-time assessments, difficulty evaluating emergent threats, and a lack of standardized security metrics across locations. These challenges made it hard to maintain visibility and respond quickly to new risks. Note: Organizations with large, dedicated red teams may have different requirements for validation and reporting.
How did Cymulate address Globeleq's cybersecurity needs?
Cymulate provided Globeleq with continuous, independent security validation, automation for immediate assessments against new threats, risk-based prioritization of remediation, lateral movement assessments (Hopper capability), and standardized analytics and reporting for management and the board. This allowed Globeleq to optimize its small team’s resources and gain near real-time visibility into its security posture. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
Features & Capabilities
What are the key features of Cymulate?
Cymulate offers continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), automated security validation, a broad and deep threat library, AI-powered context mapping, lateral movement assessments (Hopper), comprehensive reporting, and integrations with over 50 security tools. It supports breach and attack simulation, immediate threat intelligence, and automated red teaming. Note: Some advanced features may require specific modules or integrations; confirm with Cymulate for your environment.
How does Cymulate help with immediate assessments against emergent threats?
Cymulate enables organizations to quickly assess their environments against new and emerging threats using automation. For example, Globeleq’s team can almost immediately test each environment for exposure to the latest threats, reducing the time and effort required for manual research and assessment creation. Note: Effectiveness depends on timely updates and integration with threat intelligence feeds.
What is the Hopper capability in Cymulate?
The Hopper capability in Cymulate allows organizations to assess lateral movement risks within their environments. It helps identify gaps that could enable attackers to move laterally and increase the potential impact of a breach (the 'blast radius'). Globeleq uses Hopper to understand and mitigate internal attack vectors. Note: Hopper’s effectiveness may depend on the organization’s network architecture and integration scope.
Implementation & Ease of Use
How easy is it to implement Cymulate and start running assessments?
Cymulate is designed for rapid deployment and ease of use. Organizations can start running simulations almost immediately after setup, with an agentless mode that eliminates the need for additional hardware or complex configurations. Globeleq’s small team was able to independently operate the platform and optimize resources with minimal training. Note: Some environments may require additional integration steps; consult Cymulate for details.
What feedback have customers like Globeleq provided about Cymulate’s usability?
Customers consistently highlight Cymulate’s intuitive dashboard, ease of deployment, and ability to quickly generate actionable insights. For example, Renaldo Jack, Group Cybersecurity Head at Globeleq, stated that Cymulate provides the visibility and standardization the team was missing, making executive reporting easier. Note: Usability may vary depending on the complexity of your environment and team experience.
Business Impact & Outcomes
What measurable benefits did Globeleq achieve with Cymulate?
Globeleq achieved independence over its security validation, increased productivity through automation, and gained board-ready, standardized metrics for cyber resilience. The team can now run assessments as needed and provide a holistic view of security posture to management. Note: Specific quantitative improvements (e.g., percentage reduction in risk) are not publicly documented for Globeleq; see other case studies for such metrics.
How does Cymulate help organizations communicate cybersecurity posture to leadership?
Cymulate’s analytics and reporting features provide standardized, board-ready metrics that make it easier for security teams to present a holistic view of cyber resilience and baseline security posture to management and the board. This was a key benefit for Globeleq’s team. Note: Effectiveness depends on the organization’s reporting requirements and integration with existing tools.
Security & Compliance
What security and compliance certifications does Cymulate hold?
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications. These cover security, privacy, and cloud service standards, and demonstrate compliance with industry requirements. Note: For organizations with unique compliance needs, verify with Cymulate regarding additional certifications or attestations.
Pricing & Plans
How is Cymulate priced?
Cymulate operates on a subscription-based pricing model, customized to each organization’s needs. Pricing depends on the selected features, number of assets, and types of scenarios required. For a tailored quote, organizations should schedule a demo with Cymulate’s team. Note: Exact pricing is not publicly listed; contact Cymulate for details.
Support & Resources
What support and resources are available for Cymulate customers?
Cymulate provides support via email and real-time chat, as well as access to webinars, e-books, technical guides, and a resource hub with case studies and whitepapers. Customers can also access detailed technical documentation and onboarding assistance. Note: Support response times and resource availability may vary by region and subscription level.
Customer Stories & Proof
Where can I find the full case study about how Cymulate empowered Globeleq?
The complete case study detailing how Cymulate empowered Globeleq to enhance its cybersecurity posture is available at Cymulate Empowers Globeleq. Note: For additional case studies, visit Cymulate’s customer stories page.
Introducing Cymulate Vero AI for Agentic Cyber Defense Engineering
Globeleq is an independent power company which owns, operates, constructs and develops power projects in Africa. The organization has a small cybersecurity team working out of its South African offices, with an IT team in each of its operational locations. To optimize manpower, the team utilizes service providers for penetration testing and security validation. With outsourced manual security assessments, Globeleq faced common challenges related to security control validation.
Manual penetration testing was time-consuming and labor-intensive. Penetration testing had to be done separately for each location and often required the security team’s physical presence to perform tests and review controls manually.
Assessments provided a point-in-time picture. The security team did not have the tools or resources to continuously test and validate that its security was protecting the business. Globeleq’s board wanted ongoing independent security validation to give the organization more visibility of its security posture.
Emergent threats were difficult to evaluate immediately. The small security team could not keep up with the pace of new threats. The team would rely on general threat intelligence sources to provide information on the latest threats, making it time-consuming to research the threat, manually create an assessment to test against it and remediate if the threat got through its defenses.
The team lacked standardized security metrics across the entire organization. The security team wanted a standardized view of its security posture in all locations. The team had to manually keep track of the metrics it would get from each of its disparate security tools and its penetration tests. In addition, each penetration test was dependent on the skill of the professional conducting the assessment, making the test results inconsistent across the organization.
The Cymulate Solution
Globeleq required an automated way to assess its security posture across all its locations continuously. The solution had to be a tool the small team could independently use that provided near real-time metrics about the organization’s security posture. After evaluating the automated security validation tools in the market, Globeleq chose to implement Cymulate because it provided the best reporting and dashboards.
Renaldo Jack, Group Cybersecurity Head, explained that Cymulate provides his team with:
Continuous independent security validation
“We no longer have to wait for a periodic pen test every six months. With the same small security team, Cymulate allows us to optimize our resources and use automation to run more assessments continuously.”
A risk-based approach to cybersecurity
“Cymulate gives us visibility regarding what misconfigurations are exploitable so we can prioritize remediation. It allows us to take a risk-based approach.”
Immediate assessments against emergent threats
“With Cymulate, we can almost immediately assess each of our environments against new threats.”
Lateral movement assessments
“The Hopper capability helps us understand where our gaps are and what we need to do to prevent a real attacker from moving laterally within our environment and reduce the ‘blast radius.’”
A standardized view of Globeleq’s security posture
“Cymulate provides us with the visibility and standardization we were missing. The platform’s analytics and reporting make providing a holistic view of our cyber security posture to management and the board easier.”
Benefits
The security team has embedded Cymulate into many of its security processes:
Independence Even without an in-house red team, Globeleq has independence over its security and threat validation and can run assessments whenever it needs.
Increased productivity The platform’s automation enables the small team to optimize its resources and test all its environments with the click of a button.
Board-ready metrics Cymulate integrates with the team’s security tools to collect standardized metrics that analyze cyber resilience and baseline security posture over time.
Cymulate allows us to assess our security posture in near real-time.
- Renaldo Jack, Group Cybersecurity Head
Solution
Breach and attack simulation
Immediate threat intelligence
Automated red teaming
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