Cymulate vs Scythe

See the difference between proven exposure validation and a complex red team tool.

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Cymulate Named
a G2 Leader

Cymulate Recognized as Leader for Security and Exposure Validation

Cymulate Named a
Customer’s Choice

2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for BAS Tools Report

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.

Cymulate vs Scythe Comparison Chart

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.
Defensive Posture Optimization	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.
Exposure Awareness	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.

Exposure validation that filters out the noise, so you can focus on the exploitable.

Validate Controls

Find and fix your gaps

Validate Threats

Know your risk

Validate Response

Battle test your SOC

Cymulate Hardens Defenses and Optimizes Controls

Cymulate Hardens Defenses and Optimizes Controls

Scythe cannot evaluate the comprehensive effectiveness of a security control.
Cymulate provides out-of-the-box assessments to validated best practices for security controls like endpoint protection, web application firewall, email gateway, network, data loss prevention, cloud workload protection, SIEM and more.

Scythe assumes every user has 5 years of red teaming experience.
Cymulate provides simple no-code workflows to build attack chains from a library of more than 100,000 attack actions with options to upload and create custom threat scenarios.

Scythe doesn’t offer guidance to optimize your controls.
Cymulate provides mitigation guidance and rule recommendations to fine-tune security configurations and strengthen your defenses.

Scythe only provides monthly updates to campaigns and charges extra for updates 2-3 days after attacks make their first impact.
Cymulate provides a 24-hour SLA for new CISA alerts and advisories plus a daily update of the latest threats identified across the threat intelligence community.

Why Companies Choose Cymulate Over Scythe

Optimize security controls

Configure and fine-tune your security controls with remediation guidance, automated IoC updates and recommended detection rules.

Daily threat updates

Test controls against the latest threats with a daily update based in the latest threat intel and active campaigns with a 24-hour SLA for CISA alerts and advisories.

Proven, production-safe testing

More than 1,000 customers rely on Cymulate for the advanced offensive testing that won’t disrupt production systems.

Unified exposure validation

The most complete exposure validation platform with breach and attack simulation and automated red teaming to deliver better security, exposure awareness and scalable testing.

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.

Financial Services

“With Cymulate, I can quickly see top MITRE techniques not prevented or not detected, so I can give my detection engineering team more specific data on what needs to be improved.”

– Lead Red Team Engineer

Singapore Bank

“Cymulate is a great solution for organizations interested in both security control validation and automated pen testing.”

- Senior Security Manager

Financial Services

"Cymulate allows us to extensively scale our red team activities with only one red teamer."

– Assistant Information Security Manager

“The Cymulate MITRE ATT&CK Heatmap helps us easily visualize our gaps and coverage of the MITRE framework. We quickly understand if there are specific MITRE techniques or sub-techniques that we haven’t been able to detect, so we know exactly where we need to allocate our resources for better protection.”

- Markus Flatscher, Senior Security Manager

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.

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