Cymulate is a cybersecurity exposure management and validation platform that enables organizations to proactively test, validate, and optimize their security controls. It simulates real-world threats, prioritizes exposures, and provides actionable remediation guidance to improve overall cyber resilience. Learn more.
The primary purpose of Cymulate's platform is to help organizations continuously validate their cybersecurity defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize their security posture. It empowers security teams to stay ahead of emerging threats and improve resilience through automated, real-world attack simulations and actionable insights. Source
Cymulate addresses cybersecurity challenges by providing continuous threat validation, exposure prioritization, and automated remediation. It enables organizations to focus on exploitable vulnerabilities, improve operational efficiency, and foster collaboration across security teams. Source
Cymulate is used by organizations of all sizes, from small enterprises to large corporations with over 10,000 employees, across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, media, transportation, and manufacturing. Source
Cymulate offers continuous threat validation, a unified platform combining Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART), and Exposure Analytics, attack path discovery, automated mitigation, AI-powered optimization, complete kill chain coverage, and an extensive threat library with over 100,000 attack actions updated daily. Source
Yes, Cymulate provides pre- and post-exploitation simulations to test and validate cloud security controls at all architecture layers. Source
Cymulate automates threat validation by running 24/7 attack simulations, leveraging AI to convert threat intelligence into tailored tests, and providing out-of-the-box templates for threats, controls, and environments. Source
Cymulate integrates with a wide range of security technologies, including Akamai Guardicore, AWS GuardDuty, BlackBerry Cylance OPTICS, Carbon Black EDR, Check Point CloudGuard, Cisco Secure Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, SentinelOne, and more. For a complete list, visit the Partnerships and Integrations page.
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. Source
The Cymulate AI Copilot is an AI-driven feature that converts threat intelligence into tailored, automated tests in seconds, streamlining workflows and accelerating response. Source
Cymulate empowers security teams to elevate threat detection by mapping threats and existing SIEM rules to new attack simulations, providing guidance for deploying new detection rules effectively. Source
While AttackIQ provides automated security validation through attack simulation, Cymulate stands out with its industry-leading threat scenario library, advanced AI-powered capabilities, daily updates, and user-friendly interface. Cymulate also offers deeper integrations, easier deployments, and more actionable remediation guidance. For a detailed comparison, visit the AttackIQ comparison page.
Cymulate offers a more expansive adversary simulation library with daily updates, AI-driven scenario creation, easier deployments, and deeper integrations. AttackIQ has a more limited library, less frequent updates, and requires more technical expertise for deployment. Source
You can find a competitive comparison on the Why Cymulate page, which outlines key differentiators and strengths against other platforms.
Organizations choose Cymulate for its immediate value with AI-guided workflows, ease of use, rapid deployment, clear remediation guidance, and the breadth and depth of its attack simulations. Customers also cite its user-friendly dashboards and actionable insights. Source
Cymulate maintains the industry's leading adversary scenario library with daily updates, allowing comprehensive testing and validation of security controls. AttackIQ's library is more limited and updated less frequently. Source
Customers highlight Cymulate's ease of use, actionable insights, rapid deployment, and the ability to quickly validate controls against emerging threats as key advantages. Source
Cymulate provides AI-driven automation for scenario creation, remediation guidance, and integration with security controls, making workflows more efficient. AttackIQ's automation is less advanced and requires more manual effort. Source
Cymulate benefits CISOs, security leaders, SecOps teams, red teams, and vulnerability management teams by providing quantifiable metrics, automating processes, and enabling advanced offensive testing. Learn more
Customers can expect up to a 52% reduction in critical exposures, a 60% increase in team efficiency, 40X faster threat validation, and an 81% reduction in cyber risk within four months. Source
Yes, for example, Hertz Israel reduced cyber risk by 81% in four months using Cymulate. Other case studies include Nemours Children's Health increasing visibility and a sustainable energy company scaling penetration testing cost-effectively. See more case studies
Cymulate integrates exposure data and automates validation, providing a unified view of the security posture and addressing gaps caused by disconnected tools. Source
Cymulate automates manual processes, improves efficiency, and enables teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine tasks. Source
Cymulate is designed for rapid, agentless deployment with no need for additional hardware or complex configurations. Customers can start running simulations almost immediately after deployment. Source
Cymulate provides email and chat support, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for real-time assistance. Source
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive interface, user-friendly dashboards, and actionable insights. Testimonials highlight its simplicity, quick deployment, and effective support. See testimonials
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating adherence to industry-leading security and privacy standards. Source
Cymulate ensures data security through encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), secure AWS-hosted data centers, and a tested disaster recovery plan. Source
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), ensuring GDPR compliance. Source
Cymulate follows a strict Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC), conducts continuous vulnerability scanning, annual third-party penetration tests, and provides secure code training for developers. Source
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 quote, schedule a demo.
You can get a personalized Cymulate pricing quote by scheduling a demo with the Cymulate team. Book a demo
Go beyond simple validation with AI-driven, actionable remediation guidance.
Don’t Just Test – Prioritize and Mitigate Real Risk
Security teams need more than just control testing – they need a path to optimize security for the latest threats. While AttackIQ executes automated security control assessments, Cymulate takes threat exposure validation to the next level by allowing security teams to focus on their critical cybersecurity gaps based on the latest threat intelligence through prioritized, data-driven remediations.
Industry-Leading Attack Scenario Library
Cymulate delivers unmatched automated security control and exposure validation with the industry's most expansive adversary simulation library. Run pre- and post-exploitation simulations across your entire architecture – even the cloud. With the innovative Cymulate AI Copilot, threat intelligence can be easily converted into tailored, automated tests in seconds, streamlining workflows and accelerating response.
Rated #1 in Exposure Management by G2
Cymulate Named Exposure Management Leader with 18 G2 Badges
Cymulate Named a Customer’s Choice
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Adversarial Exposure Validation
Use Case | Capabilities |  | AttackIQ |
Defensive Posture Optimization | Security controls integrations |  | Deep control integrations to validate detection and prevention with out-of-the-box connectors that just work. |  | Deployments and integrations are difficult with limited technical documentation, often requiring advanced technical expertise. |
Threat-informed defenses | | Automates IoC updates to controls. Custom detection rules for EDR, SIEM and XDR Control tuning guidance. | | Missed detection rules are auto-generated, but sorting through remediations is time-consuming for users. | |
Scale Offensive Testing | Attack Scenario creation workbench | | Build custom attack chains from a library of >100,000 attack actions. Create custom scenarios/ attack actions. AI attack planner converts threat advisories and plain language prompts into custom attack chains. |  | Attack sequence scenario workflows are cumbersome and lack AI automation to convert threat intel to attack scenarios. |
Automation, extensible testing | | Out-of-the box templates for threats, controls, cloud, Kubernetes and more. Modify templates and best practices for your specific environment (OS, cloud, databases, SaaS, etc.) | | Adversary testing is limited in scope and lacks testing of cloud security controls. | |
Attack paths | | Automated red teaming provides white box testing to validate attack paths. | | Recently added ASM capability to map attack paths, but lacks validation and asset correlation. | |
Exposure Awareness | Automated & continuous testing | | Easy and automated testing for continuous validation of threats, security controls, threats and response capabilities. | | Provides automated and continuous testing, but limited flexibility in scheduling and setting no-testing blackout periods. |
Always current attack scenario knowledge | | Daily updates of the latest threats and continuously adding new assessments. | | New attack tests are infrequent, and updating on-premise solutions to gain the latest threat intel is very difficult. |
Validate Controls
Find and fix your gaps
Validate Threats
Know your risk
Validate Response
Battle test your SOC
Organizations across all industries choose Cymulate for exposure validation, proactively confirming that defenses are robust and reliable-before an attack occurs.
Upgrading from AttackIQ to Cymulate is easy.
We’ve helped numerous clients upgrade from AttackIQ to Cymulate. We’ll help you build and customize production-safe assessments for all your environments (adding to the ones that AttackIQ covered), optimize your controls and reduce exposure risk.
Cymulate assesses emerging threats, streamlines response and justifies investments.
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