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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can find a comprehensive comparison of Cymulate against key security platforms and alternatives, including Mandiant Security Validation, on our Why Cymulate page.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cymulate integrates exposure data and automates validation, providing a unified view of the security posture and addressing gaps caused by disconnected tools. Learn more.
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.
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.
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.
Cymulate enhances visibility and detection capabilities, ensuring faster recovery and improved protection by replacing manual processes with automated validation. See case study.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can request a customized pricing quote by scheduling a demo with the Cymulate team. Book a demo.
Simplify exposure validation with AI and automation to maintain threat resilience.
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Cymulate Named Exposure Management Leader with 18 G2 Badges
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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.
Use Case | Capabilities |  | Mandiant |
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. |
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THREAT-INFORMED SECURITY
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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