Cymulate's Exposure Management Platform enables organizations to proactively validate their cybersecurity defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize their security posture. It combines breach and attack simulation, automated red teaming, and exposure analytics to deliver continuous threat validation and actionable insights. Learn more.
Cymulate provides out-of-the-box assessments to validate best practices for security controls such as endpoint protection, web application firewall, email gateway, network, data loss prevention, cloud workload protection, SIEM, and more. This helps organizations find and fix security gaps before an attack occurs. Read more.
Yes, Cymulate offers simple no-code workflows to build attack chains from a library of more than 100,000 attack actions. Users can upload and create custom threat scenarios, enabling tailored offensive testing for their environment. Explore Red Teaming.
Cymulate provides remediation guidance, automated IoC updates, and recommended detection rules to configure and fine-tune security controls. This ensures organizations can strengthen their defenses and reduce exposure risk. Automated Mitigation.
Yes, Cymulate delivers daily updates of the latest threats identified across the threat intelligence community, with a 24-hour SLA for new CISA alerts and advisories. This ensures organizations are always testing against current threats. Read the Blog.
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 integrates with security controls to push updates for immediate threat prevention, provides custom detection rules, and offers actionable guidance to optimize prevention and detection capabilities. Learn more.
Cymulate offers the most advanced library of attack simulations, with over 100,000 attack actions aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and daily updates. This enables organizations to test against a wide range of real-world threats. MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
Cymulate validates cloud security controls, including cloud workload protection and Kubernetes security, through automated testing and integrations with leading cloud security vendors. Cloud Security Validation.
Cymulate offers a more complete exposure validation solution than Scythe, with unified breach and attack simulation, automated red teaming, daily threat updates, and comprehensive control validation. Scythe excels at custom attack campaigns for advanced red teams but lacks remediation guidance and comprehensive control scoring. See the comparison.
Cymulate differentiates itself with daily threat updates, production-safe testing, unified exposure validation, and automated remediation guidance. Scythe provides technical tools for red teams but requires manual conversion of detection rules and offers less frequent threat updates. View details.
Organizations choose Cymulate for its comprehensive exposure validation platform, ease of use, daily threat updates, and proven production-safe testing. Cymulate enables scalable testing and actionable remediation, while Scythe is more suited for advanced red teamers requiring custom attack campaigns. Learn more.
You can find a competitive comparison on our 'Why Cymulate' page, which outlines key differentiators and strengths against platforms like Scythe, AttackIQ, Mandiant Security Validation, Pentera, Picus, and SafeBreach.
While AttackIQ provides automated security validation through attack simulation, Cymulate stands out with the industry's leading threat scenario library, advanced AI-powered capabilities, and a user-friendly interface. For a detailed breakdown, see our AttackIQ comparison page.
Cymulate's top competitors include Scythe, AttackIQ, Mandiant Security Validation, Pentera, Picus, and SafeBreach. Each platform offers different strengths; Cymulate is recognized for its innovation, threat coverage, and ease of use. See competitor comparisons.
Yes, Cymulate has helped clients upgrade from Scythe by building and customizing production-safe assessments, optimizing controls, and reducing exposure risk. The transition is supported by Cymulate's team to ensure seamless adoption. 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.
Cymulate delivers improved security posture, operational efficiency, faster threat validation, cost savings, enhanced threat resilience, and better decision-making. Customers report up to a 52% reduction in critical exposures, 60% increase in team efficiency, and 81% reduction in cyber risk within four months. Optimize Threat Resilience.
Cymulate validates exploitability and ranks exposures based on prevention and detection capabilities, business context, and threat intelligence, enabling organizations to focus on the most critical vulnerabilities. Exposure Prioritization & Remediation.
Hertz Israel reduced cyber risk by 81% in four months using Cymulate. RBI increased efficiency and improved SIEM detection. Globeleq automated in-house validation between pen tests. These case studies highlight measurable improvements in security and operational efficiency. Read case studies.
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 for security teams that are stretched thin. This allows teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual tasks. Optimize Threat Resilience.
Cymulate enhances visibility and detection capabilities after a breach, ensuring faster recovery and improved protection by replacing manual processes with automated validation. Read Nedbank case study.
Cymulate operates on a subscription-based pricing model tailored to each organization's requirements. Pricing is determined by the chosen package, number of assets, and scenarios selected for testing and validation. For a detailed quote, schedule a demo.
Cymulate is designed for quick and easy implementation, operating in agentless mode 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 AI templates. Contact support or view webinars.
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating robust security and compliance standards. Security at Cymulate.
Cymulate ensures data security through encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), secure AWS-hosted data centers, and 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. Read more.
Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive interface and ease of use. Testimonials highlight quick implementation, user-friendly dashboards, and accessible support. For example, Raphael Ferreira, Cybersecurity Manager, said, "Cymulate is easy to implement and use—all you need to do is click a few buttons, and you receive a lot of practical insights." Read more testimonials.
Cymulate is rated #1 in Exposure Management by G2 and named a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Adversarial Exposure Validation. Read more.
Organizations use Cymulate for security control validation, automated pen testing, scaling red team activities, and visualizing MITRE ATT&CK coverage. Case studies include RBI optimizing SIEM detection and Globeleq automating in-house validation. View case studies.
Cymulate's MITRE ATT&CK Heatmap helps organizations easily visualize gaps and coverage of the MITRE framework, enabling targeted resource allocation for better protection. Learn more.
See the difference between proven exposure validation and a complex red team tool.
Rated #1 in Exposure Management by G2
Cymulate Named Exposure Management Leader with 18 G2 Badges
Cymulate Named a
Customer’s Choice
2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for
Adversarial Exposure Validation
Exposure Validation Demands More than Just Another Pen Testing Tool
Effective threat exposure validation requires optimizing defense, scaling offensive testing, and increasing exposure awareness. While Scythe excels at custom attack campaigns for advanced red teams, it falls short in remediation. Cymulate offers a more complete solution for identifying, prioritizing, and eliminating security gaps.
Validate Controls to Focus on True Exposures
Cymulate offers a comprehensive approach to identifying and fixing security gaps through breach and attack simulation and automated red teaming. By testing security controls, it reveals unmitigated exposures and provides actionable guidance to strengthen defenses before the next attack.
Use Case | Capabilities |  | Scythe |
Defensive Posture Optimization | Security controls integrations |  | Deep control integrations to validate detection and prevention. |  | Cannot evaluate and score the effectiveness of an individual control – such as EDR, WAF, email gateway, web gateway, SIEM, cloud workload protection, DLP, etc. Offers integrations with a limited set of EDR and SIEM vendors and requires custom API queries for each scenario and control. |
Threat-informed defenses | | Automates IoC updates to controls. Custom detection rules for EDR, SIEM and XDR Control tuning guidance. |  | Provides generic Sigma rules for identified detection gaps. The rules must be manually converted to rules for your specific EDR and SIEM. | |
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. | | Provides a technical tool for red teams and internal open testers to build custom attack chains and create their own executions. |
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.) | | Cannot test cloud security controls, such as cloud workload protection, Kubernetes security and more. | |
Attack paths | | Automated red teaming provides white box and grey box testing to validate attack paths. |  | Cannot run automated pen testing to identify and map attack paths to critical assets and crown jewels. | |
Exposure Awareness | Automated & continuous testing | | Easy and automated testing for continuous validation of threats, security controls, threats and response capabilities. | | Most blue teamers struggle to build campaigns, so Scythe relies on professional services bundled with its tool. Built for one-table top exercises. |
Always current attack scenario knowledge | | Daily updates of the latest threats and continuously adding new assessments. | | Updates its platform monthly with new threats and charges extra for a service that updates IoCs 2-3 days after new threat intel is available. |
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 Scythe
to Cymulate is easy.
We’ve helped clients upgrade from Scythe to Cymulate. We’ll help you build and customize production-safe assessments for all your environments (adding to the ones that Scyther 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.
Read how this bank uses Cymulate for automated pen testing and security control validation.
