Cymulate provides a unified platform combining Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART), and Exposure Analytics. It enables automated, continuous testing of security controls, attack path discovery, exposure prioritization, and mitigation guidance. The platform includes an extensive library of over 100,000 attack actions aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, updated daily. Learn more.
Cymulate integrates with top security vendors to extensively evaluate detection and prevention controls. It automates IoC updates, provides custom detection rules for EDR, SIEM, and XDR, and offers control tuning guidance. This ensures your defenses are tested against the latest threats and optimized for resilience. Read more.
Yes, Cymulate offers an advanced attack scenario workbench that allows users to build custom attack chains from its library of over 100,000 actions. You can modify templates and best practices for your specific environment, including OS, cloud, databases, and SaaS. Learn more.
Cymulate updates its threat scenario library daily, continuously adding new assessments to ensure customers are protected against the latest emergent threats. Learn more.
Yes, Cymulate integrates with security controls to push updates for immediate threat prevention. It provides mitigation guidance and rule recommendations to fine-tune security configurations and strengthen defenses. Learn more.
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.
Cymulate enables organizations to battle-test their SOC by validating detection and response capabilities against real-world threats. It provides actionable insights to improve mean time to detect and respond. Learn more.
Cymulate validates exploitability and ranks exposures based on prevention and detection capabilities, business context, and threat intelligence. This helps organizations focus on the most critical vulnerabilities. Learn more.
Cymulate runs 24/7 automated attack simulations to validate security defenses in real-time, ensuring organizations stay ahead of emerging threats. Learn more.
By consolidating multiple tools into one platform, Cymulate reduces complexity, improves operational efficiency, and minimizes the risk of costly breaches. Customers report up to a 52% reduction in critical exposures and a 60% increase in team efficiency. Read more.
While Pentera is useful for identifying security gaps with attack path validation, it lacks the depth that Cymulate provides to fully assess and strengthen defenses. Cymulate offers deep control integrations, customizable attack scenarios, daily threat updates, and comprehensive exposure validation. For a detailed comparison, visit our Pentera comparison page.
Cymulate stands out with deep security control integrations, automated IoC updates, customizable attack chains, daily threat intelligence updates, and mitigation guidance. Pentera offers automated pen testing but lacks these advanced features. Read more.
You can find a competitive comparison on our 'Why Cymulate' page, which outlines key differentiators and strengths across major platforms.
Cymulate offers a more comprehensive exposure validation platform, including deep integrations, customizable scenarios, and continuous threat updates. It enables organizations to optimize controls, reduce exposure risk, and validate against the latest threats. Read more.
Cymulate is recognized for its innovation, threat coverage, and ease of use. It offers the industry's leading threat scenario library, AI-powered capabilities, and continuous platform updates. For detailed comparisons, visit our competitor comparison page.
Cymulate is rated #1 in Exposure Management by G2, named a Customers' Choice in 2025 Gartner Peer Insights, and recognized as a market leader by Frost & Sullivan. See awards.
Cymulate is consistently rated highly for ease of use, breadth of attack simulations, and actionable insights. Customers report measurable improvements in security posture and operational efficiency. Read reviews.
Cymulate is designed for CISOs, security leaders, SecOps teams, Red Teams, and vulnerability management professionals. It serves organizations of all sizes across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, media, transportation, and manufacturing. Learn more.
Customers report up to a 52% reduction in critical exposures, a 60% increase in team efficiency, and an 81% reduction in cyber risk within four months. Cymulate enables faster threat validation, cost savings, and improved decision-making. Read more.
Yes, case studies include Hertz Israel reducing cyber risk by 81%, Globeleq automating in-house validation, and banks increasing security testing without a red team. See more at our Case Studies page.
Cymulate integrates exposure data and automates validation to provide a unified view of the security posture, addressing gaps caused by disconnected tools. Learn more.
Cymulate automates processes, improving efficiency and operational effectiveness. Customers save up to 60 hours per month in testing new threats. Read more.
Cymulate validates exposures by exploitability and provides actionable insights, helping teams focus on the most urgent vulnerabilities. Learn more.
Cymulate secures hybrid and cloud infrastructures through automated compliance and regulatory testing, increasing visibility and improving detection and response capabilities. Learn more.
Cymulate operates on 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 detailed quote, schedule a demo.
Cymulate is designed for quick, agentless deployment with no need for additional hardware or complex configurations. Customers can start running simulations almost immediately after deployment. Book a demo.
Cymulate offers email and chat support, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for querying the knowledge base and creating templates. Explore resources.
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating robust security and compliance standards. See details.
Cymulate uses encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), hosts data in secure AWS data centers, and maintains 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). Read more.
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive interface, user-friendly dashboard, and actionable insights. Testimonials highlight immediate value, ease of implementation, and accessible support. Read testimonials.
Cymulate assists clients in building and customizing production-safe assessments for all environments, optimizing controls, and reducing exposure risk. The transition is designed to be easy and supported by Cymulate's team. See integrations.
Cymulate's mission is to transform cybersecurity practices by enabling organizations to proactively validate defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize their security posture. The vision is to create a collaborative environment for lasting improvements in cybersecurity. Learn more.
You don’t need another pen test. Proactively validate your controls and optimize security.
Why Automated Pen Testing Is Not Enough
Threat exposure validation requires optimizing defenses, scaling offensive testing and increasing exposure awareness. While Pentera is useful for identifying security gaps with automated penetration testing, it lacks the depth needed to fully assess and strengthen defenses.
Validate Controls to Focus on True Exposures
Cymulate offers a more comprehensive approach to identifying and fixing security gaps through breach simulation and automated red teaming. By testing the overall effectiveness of security controls, it reveals unmitigated exposures and provides actionable guidance to strengthen defenses before the next attack.
“Automated and regular penetration testing can identify vulnerabilities that might be exploited to achieve a certain objective. However, it can be too narrow in scope and infrequent to be leveraged as an alternative.”
– Gartner, A Guidance Framework for Developing and Implementing Vulnerability Management, Jan. 2025
Use Case | Capabilities |  | Pentera |
Defensive Posture Optimization | Security controls integrations |  | Deep control integrations to validate detection and prevention. |  | No control integrations. |
Threat-informed defenses | | Automates IoC updates to controls. Custom detection rules for EDR, SIEM and XDR Control tuning guidance. | | No IoCs updates. No detection rules. No control optimization. | |
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. | | Built for easy point and test but operates as a “black box” to users with no ability to build custom scenarios or attack chains. |
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.) |  | Users are limited to Pentera templates.
Very limited customization to adapt tests for specific environments (OS, cloud, databases, SaaS, etc.) | |
Attack paths |  | Automated red teaming provides white box and grey box testing to validate attack paths. | | Automated pen testing provides white box and black box testing to validate attack paths. | |
Exposure Awareness | Automated & continuous testing | | Easy and automated testing for continuous validation of threats, security controls, threats and response capabilities. | | Testing that identifies vulnerabilities and executes attacks but cannot identify control gaps. |
Always current attack scenario knowledge | | Daily updates of the latest threats and continuously adding new assessments. | | Recently added this capability, but so far only published minimal updates of the latest threats. |
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 Pentera
to Cymulate is easy.
We’ve helped numerous clients upgrade from Pentera to Cymulate. We’ll help you build and customize production-safe assessments for all your environments (adding to the ones that Pentera covered), optimize your controls and reduce exposure risk.
Discover how RBI increased their efficiency and improved their security with Cymulate.
Power company's team adds Cymulate for ongoing security validation between pen tests.
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