Frequently Asked Questions
Product Information: Cymulate Custom Attacks
What is Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Cymulate Custom Attacks is a feature within Cymulate Exposure Validation that enables security teams to build, customize, and validate advanced attack simulations. It allows users to create individual or chained attack scenarios tailored to their organization's unique threat landscape, supporting continuous security validation against specific threats. [Source]
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks help organizations stay ahead of sophisticated threats?
Cymulate Custom Attacks automates the creation and execution of real-world attack techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs), enabling organizations to continuously validate their cyber defenses. This approach replaces manual, infrequent testing with scalable, automated simulations that adapt to evolving threats and complex environments. [Source]
What are the main benefits of using Cymulate Custom Attacks?
The main benefits include scaling offensive testing, streamlining customized assessments, validating relevant threats, and accelerating threat detection. The platform's user-friendly workbench and extensive attack resource library enable rapid creation, customization, and reuse of advanced attack simulations. [Source]
How does the attack resource library in Cymulate Custom Attacks work?
The attack resource library provides prebuilt files, execution methods, and URLs for rapid customization of attack simulations. Users can expand the library by adding new resources, including custom files, URLs, execution methods, payloads, and phrases, and tailor them to specific operating systems and risk levels. [Source]
Can I map custom attacks to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques?
Yes, Cymulate Custom Attacks allows users to map each new resource or attack scenario to relevant MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, supporting granular threat emulation and alignment with industry frameworks. [Source]
How easy is it to create and customize attack chains in Cymulate?
Cymulate provides a user-friendly interface that guides users through each stage of attack chain creation. You can start from scratch or modify existing scenarios, fine-tune configurations for timing, file downloads, URLs, and email content, and add or remove actions from the extensive action library. [Source]
Are Cymulate Custom Attacks production safe?
Yes, all attack simulations and test scenarios within Cymulate Custom Attacks are designed to be production safe and will not cause harm to your production systems. [Source]
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks support continuous validation?
The platform enables fully automated attack simulations, allowing for continuous validation of security controls and resilience against emerging threats. This ensures organizations can rapidly detect and respond to new risks. [Source]
Can you provide an example of a chained attack scenario created with Cymulate?
Yes. For example, a chained attack scenario might include: (1) Mimikatz Execution to extract credentials, (2) Remote Execution with PsExec to launch applications using stolen credentials, and (3) Malicious File Download to deliver and execute a harmful payload. This sequence tests resilience across identity management and endpoint policies. [Source]
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks help accelerate threat detection?
Cymulate Custom Attacks provides tailored SIEM, EDR, and XDR detection rules for missed detections, enabling fast and easy integration into your security technologies and accelerating the detection of advanced threats. [Source]
What do customers say about the ease of use of Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Customers praise Cymulate for making advanced security testing fast and easy. For example, Mike Humbert, Cybersecurity Engineer at Darling Ingredients Inc., said, "When it comes to building custom attack chains, it’s all right in front of you in one place. You can access the full Cymulate library or build your own attack actions." [Source]
Is there a data sheet available for Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Yes, the Cymulate Custom Attacks data sheet explains how users can easily build, customize, and validate advanced attack simulations. You can access it at Cymulate Custom Attacks Data Sheet.
What are a customer's responsibilities when creating Custom Attacks on the Cymulate platform?
When creating custom scenarios, payloads, or commands ("Custom Attacks"), customers are fully responsible for obtaining all necessary consents, adhering to applicable laws, ensuring no infringement of third-party rights, and bearing all risk and liability for their use and outcome. [Source]
Does Cymulate review or take responsibility for Custom Attacks created by customers?
No, Cymulate does not review, scan, or take responsibility for Custom Attacks created by customers. The customer bears all risk and liability, even if Cymulate, at its discretion, screens or edits a Custom Attack. [Source]
What technical details are available for creating custom attack simulations?
Technical details for building, customizing, and validating advanced attack simulations are available in the Cymulate Custom Attacks data sheet, which you can read at Cymulate Custom Attacks Data Sheet.
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks integrate with other Cymulate platform features?
Cymulate Custom Attacks is part of the Exposure Validation solution, allowing users to combine custom attack scenarios with automated validation, attack path discovery, and exposure management for comprehensive security testing. [Source]
What types of attack actions can be used in Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Users can choose from over 100,000 attack actions, including credential extraction, remote execution, malicious file downloads, and more, to build highly relevant and sophisticated attack chains. [Source]
Can I reuse and modify existing attack scenarios in Cymulate?
Yes, Cymulate allows you to refine existing attack scenarios by modifying configuration variables, ensuring relevance to your specific environment and validation goals. [Source]
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks help visualize complex attack chains?
The platform provides an intuitive interface that makes it easy to visualize and understand complex, multi-step attack chains, supporting rapid creation and deployment of tailored attack sequences. [Source]
Features & Capabilities
What features does Cymulate offer for custom attack simulation?
Cymulate offers a user-friendly workbench for building and customizing chained attack simulations, an extensive attack resource library, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK, production-safe testing, and automated validation. [Source]
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks support rapid customization?
The platform allows users to quickly add and configure new resources, such as files, URLs, execution methods, and payloads, and assign custom risk levels and operating system targets for highly granular threat emulation. [Source]
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks help with missed detections?
For missed detections, Cymulate provides tailored SIEM, EDR, and XDR detection rules, enabling fast integration into your security stack and improving detection capabilities. [Source]
How many attack simulation resources does Cymulate provide?
Cymulate provides over 100,000 attack simulation resources derived from real-world attack scenarios, supporting comprehensive testing of your security defenses. [Source]
Security, Compliance & Trust
What security and compliance certifications does Cymulate hold?
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating adherence to industry-leading security and privacy standards. [Source]
How does Cymulate ensure data security and privacy?
Cymulate ensures data security through encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), secure AWS-hosted data centers, a tested disaster recovery plan, and compliance with GDPR and other global standards. [Source]
What application security measures does Cymulate use?
Cymulate follows a strict Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including secure code training, continuous vulnerability scanning, annual third-party penetration tests, and mandatory 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC). [Source]
Is Cymulate GDPR compliant?
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. [Source]
Integrations & Ecosystem
What integrations does Cymulate support?
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 the Partnerships and Integrations page.
Implementation & Support
How easy is it to implement Cymulate Custom Attacks?
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. [Source]
What support options are available for Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Cymulate offers comprehensive support, including email support, real-time chat, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for quick answers and guidance. [Source]
Pricing & Plans
What is Cymulate's pricing model for Custom Attacks?
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. For a detailed quote, you can schedule a demo with the Cymulate team.
Use Cases & Benefits
Who can benefit from Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Cymulate Custom Attacks is ideal for CISOs, security leaders, SecOps teams, red teams, and vulnerability management teams in organizations of all sizes and industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and more. [Source]
What problems does Cymulate Custom Attacks solve?
Cymulate Custom Attacks addresses challenges such as fragmented security tools, resource constraints, unclear risk prioritization, cloud complexity, communication barriers, inadequate threat simulation, operational inefficiencies, and post-breach recovery. [Source]
Are there any case studies demonstrating the value of Cymulate Custom Attacks?
Yes, Cymulate has published multiple case studies showing measurable outcomes, such as an 81% reduction in cyber risk for Hertz Israel and improved detection and response for Nemours Children's Health. See more at the Cymulate Case Studies page.
How does Cymulate Custom Attacks compare to traditional manual penetration testing?
Cymulate Custom Attacks automates offensive testing, enabling continuous validation and rapid scenario creation, whereas manual penetration tests are resource-intensive, infrequent, and less scalable. [Source]
What makes Cymulate Custom Attacks unique compared to other solutions?
Cymulate Custom Attacks stands out with its unified platform, extensive attack library, production-safe simulations, automated validation, and ease of use, as well as its ability to map to MITRE ATT&CK and integrate with a wide range of security tools. [Source]
