Cymulate Attack Path Discovery 

Using the Cymulate Attack Path Discovery capability, we discovered that our passwords could be stolen from Windows LAPS. With the help of the Cymulate team, we hardened our LAPS Policy and improved our security posture.

–  Manager, IMD Software

Map Attack Paths to Validate Lateral Movement 

Cyberattacks rarely end at initial access — they pivot, escalate privileges and move laterally to reach high-value assets, maintain persistence and exfiltrate data. Preventing this is critical to threat resilience and the ability to stop breaches from becoming costly, full-scale incidents. Attackers exploit access control misconfigurations, weak segmentation and trusted credentials to advance silently, often blending in with legitimate activity to avoid detection.

Cymulate Exposure Validation includes an option for Attack Path Discovery to safely test for lateral movement, uncover hidden attack paths and identify real-world exposures. It delivers actionable visibility into security gaps — prioritizing remediation based on actual risk, not assumptions. Attack Path Discovery validates whether or not attackers can successfully move across your network, compromise user credentials and access sensitive data. 

Offensive Testing Made Easy with Automation 

Cymulate Attack Path Discovery applies an assumed-breach approach to test and validate how effective security policies are limiting and/or preventing privilege escalation and lateral movement. Illustrated attack paths visually show the chain of exploitable steps an adversary could take to reach critical assets and act maliciously.

With Attack Path Discovery, the Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform delivers: 

• Attack Path Mapping – Automatically generates attack path maps starting from initial agent to every asset successfully reached 
• Lateral Movement Insights – Shows how adversaries can use compromised credentials to move deeper in the network without being detected or impacting operations 
• Security Control Exposure Analysis – Validates the effectiveness of your security policies across segmentation, firewall rules, endpoint protection and access controls  

Continuously Test Your Segmentation Policies

Cymulate empowers security teams to quickly map attack paths and identify where attackers can successfully move laterally in their network — with minimal setup, expertise or technical overhead. The platform equips security teams with out-of-the-box assessment templates to run attack tests for common lateral movement techniques like SMB Pass-the-Hash and LLMNR Poisoning. Cymulate makes it easy to get started and continuously validate. 

Assessments are fully customizable, allowing teams to target critical assets with relevant threats. Users can schedule recurring, automated assessments with just a few clicks to continuously validate segmentation, access control policies and lateral movement defenses. As attackers evolve and business environments shift, ongoing, realistic validation is essential to stay ahead and ensure internal controls are truly working as intended. 

Visualize and Discover Your Attack Path Exposures

With a single deployed agent in the target environment, Cymulate safely executes offensive attack techniques to exploit Active Directory misconfigurations and bypass access controls to move laterally, advance across the network and reach crown jewels, such as domain controllers. Each successful lateral movement triggers further exploration from the compromised host continuing until no further progress is possible. This dynamic mapping reveals how far an attacker could go from a single compromised machine, giving you the critical visibility needed to understand and mitigate your exposure and risk of a catastrophic security incident. 

Know Your Attack Paths to Eliminate Risk

Cymulate Attack Path Discovery delivers results and findings through intuitive dashboards. Our interactive attack path maps allow users to drill into each compromised machine to uncover:   

• Exposed crown jewels with prioritization based on real impact 
• The number and types of endpoints reached, including workstations, servers and domain controllers 
• Sensitive data accessed, such as user credentials, file shares, hashes and tokens
• Specific machines compromised, enabling targeted remediation
• How to remediate to improve your security posture and limit lateral movement

Why Choose Cymulate?

Easy and Quick Setup 

Simple and user-intuitive workflows to conduct advanced lateral movement testing to validate security policies with automated offensive testing. 

Production Safe

The full suite of attack simulations and test scenarios are completely production-safe and will not cause harm to your production systems. 

Continuous
Validation

Easily configure recurring automated assessments to validate your security controls are preventing major impact from initial access.