Cymulate is a unified exposure management and security validation platform that enables organizations to proactively validate their cybersecurity defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize their security posture. It combines Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART), and Exposure Analytics to deliver continuous threat validation, exposure prioritization, and actionable remediation. Learn more.
What are the key features of Cymulate?
Cymulate offers continuous threat validation, automated attack simulations, 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. It also provides intuitive dashboards, actionable remediation, and seamless integrations with leading security controls. See all features.
How does Cymulate help organizations validate their security controls?
Cymulate simulates real-world threats to test and validate cyber defenses across all IT environments. It provides automated, continuous testing, integrates with SIEM, EDR, XDR, firewalls, and web gateways, and delivers actionable dashboards for both executive and technical teams. Learn more.
Does Cymulate provide attack path discovery and lateral movement validation?
Yes, Cymulate delivers automated attack path discovery to identify all potential routes attackers could use for lateral movement. This helps organizations validate network segmentation and identify where attackers can move laterally, which is critical for preventing full-scale breaches. More on attack path discovery.
How does Cymulate prioritize exposures and vulnerabilities?
Cymulate integrates with vulnerability scanners and exposure discovery tools to prioritize exposures based on asset criticality, threat intelligence, and validated prevention and detection data. This ensures organizations focus on the most critical vulnerabilities. Learn more.
How often is Cymulate's attack library updated?
Cymulate maintains the industry's largest adversary scenario library, which is updated daily with the latest threat intelligence to ensure tests are always relevant and comprehensive. See details.
What integrations does Cymulate support?
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 our Partnerships and Integrations page.
Does Cymulate offer automated remediation guidance?
Yes, Cymulate streamlines remediation by delivering custom detection rules, automated threat updates, and actionable dashboards that help users quickly pinpoint missed detections and prioritize remediation efforts. Learn more.
How does Cymulate support both executive and technical users?
Cymulate provides dashboards tailored for both security leaders and technical teams, enabling analysis of current state, baseline performance, and clear communication of risk and remediation priorities. See platform overview.
What is Cymulate's approach to automation and extensibility?
Cymulate offers extensive templates to test endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and more across the entire kill chain. Its attack tests are relevant with daily updates and are designed to comprehensively validate security controls. Learn more.
Competition & Comparison
How does Cymulate compare to Mandiant Security Validation?
Cymulate stands out with its daily updated attack library, ease of use, extensive integrations, automated remediation, and actionable dashboards. Mandiant Security Validation is noted for limited and outdated attack tests, complex integrations, and less actionable remediation. For a detailed comparison, visit our comparison page.
What are the main differences between Cymulate and Mandiant Security Validation in terms of integrations?
Cymulate offers extensive and easy integrations out-of-the-box for SIEM, EDR, XDR, firewalls, and web gateways, while Mandiant Security Validation has limited and complex integrations that require advanced technical expertise. See comparison.
How does Cymulate's attack scenario creation compare to Mandiant Security Validation?
Cymulate enables users to easily design attack chains from a library of over 100,000 actions, with AI-driven prompts and advisory URLs. Mandiant Security Validation requires technical expertise and is limited to single-step actions. Read more.
What makes Cymulate's remediation guidance more actionable than Mandiant Security Validation's?
Cymulate delivers custom detection rules and automated threat updates for quick deployment, while Mandiant Security Validation provides only generalized MITRE ATT&CK mitigation guidance, requiring organizations to design and deploy fixes themselves. See details.
Where can I find a full comparison of Cymulate versus its competitors?
You can find a comprehensive comparison of Cymulate against key security platforms and alternatives, including Mandiant Security Validation, on our Why Cymulate page.
How does Cymulate's attack library size and update frequency compare to Mandiant Security Validation?
Cymulate maintains the industry's largest attack library with daily updates, while Mandiant Security Validation rarely expands its library and relies on outdated threat intelligence. See comparison.
What are the advantages of Cymulate's dashboards over Mandiant Security Validation?
Cymulate provides intuitive dashboards for both executives and technical teams, with actionable filters, data correlation, and prioritization. Mandiant Security Validation requires manual configuration and lacks actionable filters and data correlation. Learn more.
How does Cymulate's exposure scoring and prioritization differ from Mandiant Security Validation?
Cymulate integrates with vulnerability scanners and exposure discovery to prioritize exposures based on asset criticality, threat intelligence, and validated data. Mandiant Security Validation does not integrate with these tools. See details.
What is the process for upgrading from Mandiant Security Validation to Cymulate?
Upgrading is straightforward. Cymulate helps clients build and customize production-safe assessments for all environments, optimize controls, and reduce exposure risk, including adding coverage beyond what Mandiant Security Validation provided. Book a demo.
Use Cases & Benefits
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 measurable outcomes have customers achieved with Cymulate?
Customers have reported up to an 81% reduction in cyber risk within four months, a 52% reduction in critical exposures, a 60% increase in team efficiency, and a 20-point improvement in threat prevention. See case studies.
What are some real-world use cases for Cymulate?
Use cases include validating controls against emerging threats, creating baselines for remediation, scaling penetration testing, improving visibility in hybrid and cloud environments, and proving compliance for audits. Explore case studies.
How does Cymulate help with fragmented security tools?
Cymulate integrates exposure data and automates validation, providing a unified view of the security posture and addressing gaps caused by disconnected tools. Learn more.
How does Cymulate address resource constraints in security teams?
Cymulate automates processes, improves operational efficiency, and enables teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual tasks, saving up to 60 hours per month in testing new threats. See details.
How does Cymulate help with risk prioritization?
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. Learn more.
How does Cymulate support communication for CISOs and security leaders?
Cymulate provides quantifiable metrics and insights to justify investments and align security strategies with business objectives, helping CISOs communicate risk and value effectively. Learn more.
How does Cymulate help organizations recover after a breach?
Cymulate enhances visibility and detection capabilities, ensuring faster recovery and improved protection by replacing manual processes with automated validation. See case study.
Implementation & Ease of Use
How easy is it to implement Cymulate?
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. Book a demo.
What do customers say about Cymulate's ease of use?
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive interface, ease of implementation, and actionable insights. For example, a Security Consultant said, "It is easy to use and the platform is very easy to understand for making the team understand about the potential threats." Read more testimonials.
What support resources are available for Cymulate users?
Cymulate offers email and chat support, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for real-time assistance. Access resources.
How does Cymulate ensure a smooth transition from other platforms?
Cymulate provides hands-on assistance to help clients migrate from platforms like Mandiant Security Validation, including building and customizing assessments, optimizing controls, and reducing exposure risk. Book a demo.
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, demonstrating adherence to industry-leading security and privacy standards. See certifications.
How does Cymulate ensure data security?
Cymulate uses encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), hosts data in secure AWS data centers, and has a tested disaster recovery plan. Learn more.
Is Cymulate GDPR compliant?
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. See details.
What application security measures does Cymulate use?
Cymulate follows a secure development lifecycle (SDLC), conducts continuous vulnerability scanning, annual third-party penetration tests, and provides mandatory 2FA, RBAC, IP address restrictions, and TLS encryption for its Help Center. Learn more.
Pricing & Plans
What is Cymulate's pricing model?
Cymulate uses a subscription-based pricing model tailored to each organization's requirements, including the chosen package, number of assets, and scenarios. For a detailed quote, schedule a demo.
How can I get a Cymulate pricing quote?
You can request a customized pricing quote by scheduling a demo with the Cymulate team. Book a demo.
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Why Customers Choose Cymulate Over Mandiant Security Validation
Customers choose Cymulate for tailored, agentic exposure validation that continuously evolves with their environment. By integrating exposure validation into existing security workflows and across teams, Cymulate turns continuous validation into an operational cyber defense capability, not a standalone exercise.
Scale with agentic exposure validation
Orchestrate continuous validation with agentic AI that tailors assessments to threats, prioritizes risk and automates remediation.
Need a solution with easy, out-of-the-box integrations, leverages agentic AI and allows our teams to auto-remediate our identified exposures.
FINANCE COMPANY
Embed validation into cyber program
Embed continuous validation into every security workflow to consistently reduce risk and improve threat resilience.
Our various security teams found operational value in one centralized platform with extensive use cases across security operations.
HEALTHCARE COMPANY
Innovation that keeps you ahead
Stay ahead of evolving threats with an AI-powered platform that delivers the most comprehensive validation with continuous innovation.
“With the continuous innovation, our security teams have significantly matured.”
HEALTHCARE COMPANY
Real Cymulate Customer Outcomes
↓ 81%
Reduction in security risk score in 4 months
↓ 25%
Reduction in manual security operations tasks
↓ 70%
Reduction of vulnerabilities from previous pen test
Why Customers Switch to Cymulate from Mandiant Security Validation
Tailor validation
Agentic workflows tailor testing to your threats, environment and business objectives.
Integrate workflows for secops and more
Build validation into security program with workflows that connect red teams, detection engineering and exposure management.
Transform validation with agentic AI
Leverage AI agents to orchestrate validation, prioritize risk, automate workflows, and continuously optimize cyber defenses.
Best-in-class exposure validation
Recognized as a leader by Gartner and G2, Cymulate combines proven adversarial exposure validation with continuous innovation in agentic cyber defense engineering.
What Cymulate Customers Say
“Cymulate helps us evaluate whether a vulnerability is exploitable in our environment and enables us to prioritize remediation efforts. If there are compensating controls in place, we can prioritize remediating other high-risk vulnerabilities that are more likely to be exploited.”
– Adam Champion, Head of Information Security
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