Cymulate vs Mandiant Security Validation
Simplify exposure validation with AI and automation to maintain threat resilience.
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You Can't Outpace Cyber Threats with Outdated Intelligence
Security teams need confidence that their controls stop the latest threats with updated attack tests, not stale tests. Unlike Mandiant Security Validation (MSV), Cymulate adds new attack tests daily to test the latest threats and with actionable remediation to accelerate response.
Spend Less Time Configuring Tests and Intergrating Controls
Cymulate removes the technical complexity that Mandiant Security Validation demands – no tedious installs, updates or configurations for integrations, assessments or dashboards. With built-in AI and automation, Cymulate streamlines scoping assessments, attack testing and exposure prioritization.
Cymulate vs Mandiant Security Validation
Use Case | Capabilities |  | Mandiant Security Validation |
Defensive Posture Optimization | Security controls integrations |  | Extensive and easy integrations right out-of-the box to quickly validate prevention and detection for SIEM, EDR, XDR, firewalls and web gateways. |  | Limited and complex integrations, lacks documentation and requires advanced technical expertise. |
Threat-informed defenses | | Streamlined remediation with AI, actionable dashboards, new custom detection rules and automated pushes. |  | Very limited remediation guidance and no actionable and automated mitigation – detection rules, threat updates, etc. | |
Scale Offensive Testing | Attack Scenario creation workbench | | Easily design attack chains from a library of 100,000+ actions, quickly tailor scenarios and rapidly generate tests with AI-driven plain-language prompts and advisory URLs. | | Not user-intuitive – requires technical expertise with command lines to create new attacks. Attacks are limited to single-step actions. |
Automation, extensible testing | | Extensive templates to test endpoint, network, cloud and more across the entire kill-chain. Attack tests are relevant with daily updates and fully baked to comprehensively validate security. |  | Attack tests are limited, outdated, repetitive and half-baked. Cloud testing is complex and validating privilege escalation and lateral movement is limited. | |
Attack paths | | Automated attack path discovery capability generates all potential routes attackers can take to act maliciously and move laterally and identifies gaps. |  | No attack path discovery capability to map attack routes and identify security gaps. | |
Exposure Awareness | Automated & continuous testing | | Delivers automated and continuous testing and integrates with ticketing systems. Effectively correlates and prioritizes vulnerabilities with threat validation, asset criticality and threat intelligence data. | | Has automated and continuous testing. Lacks automation with ticketing systems and no correlations with vulnerability, threat intelligence and asset criticality data. |
Always current attack scenario knowledge | | Largest attack library with daily updates to test and validate the latest threats and identify gaps. | | Very rarely expands attack scenario library to stay updated with latest threat intelligence since Google acquisition. |
Exposure validation that proves the threat, so you can improve resilience.
Threat Validation
Know your risk
Validate Controls
IDENTIFY GAPS
Optimize Defenses
THREAT-INFORMED SECURITY
Why Companies Choose Cymulate Over Mandiant Security Validation
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.
Upgrading from Mandiant Security Validation to Cymulate is easy.
We’ve helped numerous clients upgrade from Mandiant Security Validation to Cymulate. We’ll help you build and customize production-safe assessments for all your environments (adding to the ones that Mandiant Security Validation covered), optimize your controls and reduce exposure risk.
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