What is Cymulate and how does it help organizations like RBI?
Cymulate is a unified exposure management and security validation platform that enables organizations to proactively test, validate, and optimize their cybersecurity defenses. For Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), Cymulate was used to validate SIEM detection, operationalize the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and improve communication with stakeholders, resulting in increased efficiency and improved security posture. Read the case study.
How does Cymulate support SIEM detection validation?
Cymulate enables security teams to validate SIEM detection rules by generating relevant events and assessing whether the rules successfully detect them. This immediate feedback helps teams fine-tune SIEM configurations and practice detection engineering efficiently. RBI used Cymulate assessments to validate new detection rules that could not be tested with historical logs. Source.
What types of assessments can be run with Cymulate?
Cymulate offers both out-of-the-box and customizable assessments, including immediate threat assessments, endpoint security assessments, APT-focused advanced scenarios, and highly customizable chained assessments. This flexibility allows organizations to tailor testing to their specific needs. Source.
How does Cymulate help operationalize the MITRE ATT&CK framework?
Cymulate provides a MITRE ATT&CK Heatmap that visualizes detection gaps and coverage across the MITRE framework. This helps organizations quickly identify which techniques or sub-techniques are not being detected, enabling targeted resource allocation for improved protection. Source.
Can Cymulate be used for incident response exercises?
Yes, Cymulate allows organizations to customize incident response exercises by creating chained attack scenarios that require investigation and validation of internal processes. RBI uses Cymulate to simulate attacks and ensure their team follows proper procedures during incident response. Source.
How does Cymulate help with emergent threat validation?
Cymulate provides curated lists of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for emergent threats, which can be distributed to EDR and web gateway solutions to ensure protection against new threats in the wild. This streamlines the process compared to manual validation. Source.
What are the main benefits RBI experienced with Cymulate?
RBI reported increased efficiency in validating new detection rules, improved security through benchmarking and continuous risk reduction, and ongoing customer support with a quick onboarding process. Source.
How does Cymulate improve communication with stakeholders?
Cymulate presents validation results in a digestible format, making it easier for security teams to communicate the importance of cybersecurity and justify investments to internal stakeholders, even those without technical backgrounds. Source.
What future plans does RBI have for Cymulate?
RBI plans to expand Cymulate usage for cloud workload validation, continuous detection engineering, network segmentation validation (on-prem and cloud), and purple team automation. They also intend to roll out Cymulate to all internal customers across central and eastern Europe. Source.
What Cymulate solutions did RBI implement?
RBI implemented breach and attack simulation (BAS), BAS advanced scenarios, and automated network penetration testing (Hopper) as part of their security validation strategy. Source.
How does Cymulate integrate with existing security tools?
Cymulate integrates with a wide range of security technologies, including SIEM, EDR, cloud security, and vulnerability management tools. Examples include integrations with Akamai Guardicore, AWS GuardDuty, BlackBerry Cylance OPTICS, Carbon Black EDR, Check Point CloudGuard, CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, and SentinelOne. For a full list, visit the Partnerships and Integrations page.
What technical documentation is available for Cymulate?
Cymulate provides a range of technical resources, including guides, whitepapers, solution briefs, and data sheets. Key documents cover topics such as vulnerability management, detection engineering, exposure validation, automated mitigation, and CTEM. Access the full library at the Resource Hub.
What security and compliance certifications does Cymulate hold?
Cymulate holds several industry-leading certifications, including SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1. These certifications demonstrate Cymulate's commitment to robust security, privacy, and compliance practices. Learn more.
How does Cymulate ensure data security and privacy?
Cymulate ensures data security through encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), secure AWS-hosted data centers, a tested disaster recovery plan, and a strict Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The platform is also GDPR-compliant and includes mandatory 2FA, RBAC, and IP address restrictions. Learn more.
Who can benefit from using Cymulate?
Cymulate is designed for CISOs, security leaders, SecOps teams, red teams, and vulnerability management teams in organizations of all sizes and industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, media, transportation, and manufacturing. Learn more.
What are the key features of Cymulate's platform?
Key features include continuous threat validation, unified platform for BAS and CART, attack path discovery, automated mitigation, AI-powered optimization, complete kill chain coverage, ease of use, and an extensive threat library with over 100,000 attack actions updated daily. Learn more.
How does Cymulate differ from other security validation platforms?
Cymulate stands out with its unified platform, continuous threat validation, AI-powered optimization, complete kill chain coverage, ease of use, proven results, continuous innovation, and the most advanced attack simulation library. It is tailored for different user segments and delivers measurable improvements in threat resilience and operational efficiency. See comparisons.
How does Cymulate compare to AttackIQ?
Cymulate surpasses AttackIQ in innovation, threat coverage, and ease of use, offering the industry-leading threat scenario library and AI-powered capabilities to streamline workflows and accelerate security posture improvement. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Mandiant Security Validation?
Mandiant Security Validation is an original BAS platform but has seen little innovation in recent years. Cymulate continually innovates with AI and automation, expanding into exposure management and maintaining a leadership position. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Pentera?
Pentera focuses on attack path validation but lacks the depth Cymulate provides to fully assess and strengthen defenses. Cymulate optimizes defense, scales offensive testing, and increases exposure awareness. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Picus Security?
Picus Security offers an on-premise BAS option but lacks the comprehensive exposure validation platform Cymulate provides, 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, precision, and automation, offering the industry’s largest attack library, a full CTEM solution, and comprehensive exposure validation. Read more.
How does Cymulate compare to Scythe?
Scythe is suitable for advanced red teams building custom attack campaigns, but Cymulate provides a more comprehensive exposure validation platform with actionable remediation and automated mitigation. Read more.
Pain Points & Solutions
What common challenges does Cymulate address for security teams?
Cymulate addresses challenges such as fragmented security tools, resource constraints, unclear risk prioritization, cloud complexity, communication barriers, inadequate threat simulation, operational inefficiencies in vulnerability management, and post-breach recovery. See case studies.
How does Cymulate help with fragmented security tools?
Cymulate integrates exposure data and automates validation to provide a unified view of the security posture, reducing gaps in visibility and control caused by disconnected tools. See Hertz Israel case study.
How does Cymulate address resource constraints in security teams?
Cymulate automates processes, improving efficiency and operational effectiveness, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual tasks. See case study.
How does Cymulate help prioritize risk?
Cymulate validates exploitability and ranks exposures based on prevention and detection capabilities, business context, and threat intelligence, helping organizations focus on the most critical vulnerabilities. See credit union case study.
How does Cymulate support cloud security validation?
Cymulate secures hybrid and cloud infrastructures through automated compliance and regulatory testing, increasing visibility and improving detection and response capabilities. See Nemours Children's Health case study.
How does Cymulate help with communication barriers for CISOs?
Cymulate delivers quantifiable metrics and insights tailored to different roles, enabling CISOs to justify investments and communicate risks effectively to stakeholders. See Saffron Building Society case study.
How does Cymulate improve vulnerability management?
Cymulate automates in-house validation between pen tests and prioritizes vulnerabilities effectively, improving operational efficiency for vulnerability management teams. See Globeleq case study.
How does Cymulate help with post-breach recovery?
Cymulate enhances visibility and detection capabilities after a breach, ensuring faster recovery and improved protection. See Nedbank case study.
Implementation & Support
How easy is it to implement Cymulate?
Cymulate is designed for quick and easy implementation, operating in agentless mode with no need for additional hardware or complex configurations. Customers can start running simulations almost immediately after deployment. Book a demo.
What support options are available for Cymulate customers?
Cymulate offers comprehensive support, including email support, real-time chat, a knowledge base, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for quick answers and guidance. Contact support.
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 detailed quote, schedule a demo.
Customer Proof & Feedback
What feedback have customers given about Cymulate's ease of use?
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive, user-friendly interface and actionable insights. Testimonials highlight easy implementation, practical dashboards, and accessible support. See testimonials.
What measurable business impact can Cymulate deliver?
Cymulate customers have reported up to a 52% reduction in critical exposures, a 60% increase in team efficiency, and an 81% reduction in cyber risk within four months. See more.
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Cymulate is one of the only tools I know that can show internal stakeholders who have no knowledge of cybersecurity why cybersecurity is important and something worth investing in.
- Markus Flatscher, Senior Security Manager
Challenge
Over the past five years, Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has invested heavily in cybersecurity, increasing security staff, tooling, and infrastructure at its head office in Vienna, including the creation of its own Raiffeisen Cyber Defense Center (RCDC). With the cybersecurity department growing in size and maturity, the RCDC team understood that manual testing and internal response exercises alone were not enough to validate the organization’s detection and response capabilities continuously. The team began to experience the following challenges:
High effort to continually test and validate its SIEM The RCDC team relied heavily on industry standards and best practices to write detection rules but could only validate their efficacy based on historical logs or manual testing. However, when writing new detection rules to target highly specific malicious behavior, the team could not validate whether the detection rules would detect what the team intended.
Complexity of keeping up with emerging threats With new daily threats, the team could not keep up with manually testing its defenses and ensuring its controls were protecting the organization.
Difficult to conduct internal incident response exercises Besides regular penetration tests and red teaming activities, the RCDC team was looking for a more streamlined way to challenge its internal response mechanisms, especially on an ad-hoc basis, to evaluate if everyone would follow the appropriate procedures and protocols in the face of an attack.
The Cymulate Solution
RBI searched for a security detection validation tool, and after evaluating the different vendors in the market, RBI decided to implement Cymulate. The team appreciated that Cymulate provided integrations with tools already in its security stack, and the simple agent deployment. Additionally, Cymulate offers many capabilities to support SIEM validation and detection engineering.
Markus Flatscher, Senior Security Manager, elaborated on the different ways his team utilizes the Cymulate platform:
Validate SIEM detection
“When we create a new detection rule in our SIEM that we can’t validate with historical logs, we use Cymulate assessments to generate the appropriate events and see if the rule was successful in its detection. The immediate feedback is useful when fine-tuning our SIEM and practicing detection engineering.”
Ensure protection against emergent threats
“If we wanted to test against emergent threats before, it was all manual. Cymulate provides us with one curated list of IoCs, which we distribute to our EDR and web gateway to ensure we are protected against these new threats in the wild.”
Execute incident response exercises
“We are starting to use Cymulate for our incident response exercises, and we appreciate that we can customize the assessments directly to our needs. For example, we are creating attacks with chained activities that are suspicious enough that they will require investigation and validate that the team knows how to act and follow internal processes.”
Run both out-of-the-box and customizable assessments
“With Cymulate, we have many tests that we can run out of the box, like immediate threats assessments, endpoint security assessments, and APT-focused advanced scenarios. But we also can highly customize chained assessments. We decide what we want to run, how we want to run it and where we want to run it.”
Operationalize the MITRE ATT&CK framework
“The Cymulate MITRE ATT&CK Heatmap helps us easily visualize our gaps and coverage of the MITRE framework. We quickly understand if there are specific MITRE techniques or sub-techniques that we haven’t been able to detect, so we know exactly where we need to allocate our resources for better protection.”
Improve communication with stakeholders
“On the one hand, Cymulate enables you to validate your security controls easily, but it also provides you the results in a digestible manner to use when communicating with internal stakeholders.”
Benefits
Increased efficiency RBI quickly validates new detection rules with a few clicks.
Improved security The security team can create a benchmark of its cyber security performance and understand what needs to be done to reduce risk continuously.
Ongoing customer support The onboarding process was quick and easy, and the RBI team appreciates the continued support from the Cymulate customer success team.
Plans for the Future
The RCDC team has plans to expand its use of the Cymulate platform for security validation of cloud-based workloads and continuous detection engineering and refinement, network segmentation validation both on-prem and in the cloud, and purple team automation.
Additionally, the RCDC team will roll out Cymulate to all of its internal customers, which are various legal entities spread across central and eastern Europe to replicate the success of its implementation at the bank’s headquarters.
Solution
Breach and attack simulation (BAS)
BAS advanced scenarios
Automated network pen testing (Hopper)
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