Cymulate vs AttackIQ

Go beyond simple validation with AI-driven, actionable remediation guidance.

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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.

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Cymulate vs AttackIQ Comparison Chart

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.
Defensive Posture Optimization	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.
Exposure Awareness	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.

Exposure validation that filters out the noise, so you can focus on the exploitable.

Validate Controls

Find and fix your gaps

Validate Threats

Know your risk

Validate Response

Battle test your SOC

Cymulate Hardens Defenses and Optimizes Controls

Cymulate Hardens Defenses and Optimizes Controls

AttackIQ has a limited library of attack tests with infrequent updates.
Cymulate maintains the industry-leading adversary scenario library, allowing your organization to comprehensively test and validate your security controls with daily updates that apply the latest threat intelligence.

AttackIQ users say they are often overwhelmed with raw data and struggle to understand what requires remediation action.
Cymulate leverages advanced analytics to surface and prioritize missed threats - empowering you to focus on preventing and detecting what matters most.

AttackIQ generates rules for missed detections but fails to guide security teams on where to deploy new detection rules effectively.
Cymulate empowers security teams to elevate threat detection in minutes with the power of AI to map threats and existing SIEM rules to new attack simulations.

AttackIQ lacks the functionality to test and validate cloud security controls.
Cymulate provides both pre- and post-exploitation simulations to test and validate cloud security controls – at all architecture layers.

Why Companies Choose Cymulate Over AttackIQ

Immediate value with AI-guided workflows

AI-driven workflows enable quick, user-friendly setup and execution of adversary tests tailored to each organization’s unique environment.

Scale advanced custom testing

Seamlessly converts threat intelligence into automatically generated adversary scenario tests, accelerating testing workflows and allowing for customization.

Ease of use

Easy and rapid deployments, security control integrations and assessment scenario scoping – maximizing efficiency from day one.

Clear, focused remediation

Intuitive, cutting-edge dashboards enabling users to quickly and easily pinpoint missed threats and prioritize efforts with clear guidance.

What our customers say about us

Organizations across all industries choose Cymulate for exposure validation, proactively confirming that defenses are robust and reliable-before an attack occurs.

Global Hedge Fund

“With Cymulate, I can validate controls against emerging threats faster than I could before.”

– CSO

Singapore Bank

"The Cymulate risk score helps us create a baseline for our controls so we can immediately understand If our remediation activities impact control efficacy."

– CISO, IT Services & Consulting Organizations

Utility Organization

“Cymulate is the best-in-class for automated security validation. It offers the most breadth and depth of attack simulations, provides assessments against emerging threats, and enables us to manage our attack surface.”

– SOC Manager

"I would recommend Cymulate because of its ease of use, it can quickly provide you a window into how vulnerable or how protected your organization is against external threats."

– Jorge Ruao, Head of Security Operations

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.

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