Cymulate vs NetSPI

Recognize the value of a proven SaaS platform vs. a pen testing company that wants to sell you their tools.

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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

For Exposure Validation, Stick to the Market Leader

NetSPI is an excellent choice if you are looking for a penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) vendor. But if you want to independently assess and strengthen your organization’s defenses, NetSPI’s approach to automated exposure validation will limit you.

Cymulate is recognized by both Gartner and G2 as a leader in exposure validation, with a track record of continuous innovation. With Cymulate, our customers independently optimize their cyber defenses while proving the state of cyber resilience by validating controls, threats and response so they can focus on the exploitable.

Cymulate vs NetSPI Comparison Chart

Use Case

Capabilities

NetSPI

Defensive Posture Optimization	Security controls integrations	Endless control integrations to validate detection and prevention.	Limited and unpublished control integrations.
Defensive Posture Optimization	Threat-informed defenses	Automates IoC updates and provides custom detection rules and policy tuning to fine-tune security configurations.	Limited control tuning guidance.
Scale Offensive Testing	Attack Scenario creation workbench	Provides both out-of-the-box assessments and AI-assisted custom attack scenarios. Visualizes each step of an assessment to improve remediation efforts.	No custom attack scenarios.
	Automation, extensible testing	Automates security validation using real-world attack scenarios, including cloud controls.	No testing of cloud controls. Delivered as part of service-led engagements.
	Attack paths	Tests lateral movement and validates security across the full kill-chain.	No testing for lateral movement or complex attacks across an environment.
Exposure Awareness	Automated & continuous testing	Easy and automated testing for continuous validation of threats, security controls, threats and response capabilities.	Basic breach and attack simulation for controls testing.
Exposure Awareness	Always current attack scenario knowledge	Daily updates of the latest threats and continuously adding new assessments.	No daily update for the latest threats. Infrequent updates of attack techniques.

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

NetSPI doesn’t update its assessments with the latest threats or attack techniques. Cymulate provides automatic validation of your security controls against the latest emergent threats and continuously updates its assessments with new techniques.

NetSPI has limited control integrations. Cymulate integrates with top security vendors to extensively evaluate the controls you already have in place.

NetSPI offers limited control tuning guidance.
Cymulate provides mitigation guidance and rule recommendations to fine-tune security configurations and fortify your defenses.

NetSPI does not allow for complex attacks or custom scenarios. Cymulate offers no-code workflows to build attack chains from a library of over 100,000 attack actions, with options for custom threats. AI converts threat advisories into complex attack chains.

Why Companies Choose Cymulate Over NetSPI

Automated security validation

Automated continuous testing of security controls and policies against the latest immediate threats.

Identify gaps and weaknesses

Find gaps and weaknesses in your security defenses that could expose you to a cyber breach.

Optimize security controls

Configure and fine-tune your security controls with mitigation guidance and rule recommendations.

Reduce exposure risk

Continuously measure and improve your security controls to reduce the risk of exposure to cyber threats.

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.

"We chose Cymulate because we saw right away that it would require much less effort and time on our part to get immediate and effective insight into a security program and the solution could easily be leveraged globally."

– Itzik Menashe, VP Global IT & Information Security

Singapore Bank

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

- Senior Security Manager

Utility Organization

“Cymulate is the best-in-class for automated security validation. It offers the most breadth and depth of attack simulations, provides assessments against emerging threats, and enables us to manage our attack surface.”

– SOC Manager

“We no longer have to wait for a periodic pen test every six months. With the same small security team, Cymulate allows us to optimize our resources and use automation to run more assessments continuously.”

- Renaldo Jack, Group Cybersecurity Head

Upgrading from NetSPI to Cymulate is easy.

We’ve helped numerous clients upgrade from NetSPI to Cymulate. We’ll help you build and customize production-safe assessments for all your environments, so you can independently optimize your controls and reduce exposure risk.

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