Frequently Asked Questions

Product Information

What is Cymulate and what does it do?

Cymulate is an Exposure Management Platform that enables organizations to proactively improve their resilience against cyber threats. It provides end-to-end visibility into security posture, simulates real-world threats, automates remediation, and quantifies risk reduction. The platform leverages AI and automation to validate and remediate threat exposure, optimize security controls, and support continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). For more details, visit Cymulate's Platform page.

What is the Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform?

The Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform is an AI-powered solution that allows security teams to validate their controls against potential threats, prioritize exposures, and automate remediation. It features an AI agent for guided validation, streamlined attack simulations across the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain, a comprehensive library of cloud and Kubernetes attack scenarios, and a scenario workbench with over one million attack actions. The platform automates the process of pushing optimization rules to security controls, making advanced security testing fast and accessible. Source

What are the key capabilities and benefits of Cymulate's platform?

Cymulate's platform offers continuous threat validation, exposure validation, threat resilience optimization, cloud security validation, vulnerability management, automated remediation, and a MITRE ATT&CK heatmap. Key benefits include a 30% improvement in threat prevention, 52% reduction in critical exposures, 60% increase in operational efficiency, quantifiable risk reduction, proven compliance, and faster recovery post-attack. Learn more

How does Cymulate's AI-powered agent assist security teams?

The AI-powered agent guides blue and red teamers to create impactful validation assessments, from best practices to industry-specific threats and detailed attack chains. It streamlines the process of building, scheduling, and analyzing security assessments, making advanced testing accessible to all skill levels. Source

Features & Capabilities

What are the standout features of Cymulate's Exposure Validation Platform?

Standout features include continuous threat validation, automated remediation, exposure prioritization, real-time threat simulations (including an Immediate Threats Module), cloud security validation, scalable offensive testing, quantifiable risk metrics, and a unified platform that integrates exposure management, threat validation, and remediation. More details

Does Cymulate support integrations with other security tools?

Yes, Cymulate integrates with a wide range of security tools, including SIEM platforms (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Google Chronicle), SOAR solutions (e.g., Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, IBM Resilient SOAR), EDR solutions (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne), vulnerability management tools (e.g., Tenable, Qualys), cloud security solutions (e.g., Wiz, Check Point CloudGuard), IAM systems (e.g., Microsoft Active Directory), and ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow). For a full list, visit Cymulate's Partnerships and Integrations page.

Does Cymulate offer an API?

Yes, Cymulate provides an API with a rate limit of 10 requests per second per IP address. The API documentation is available at Cymulate API Documentation.

What technical documentation and resources are available?

Cymulate offers solution briefs, data sheets, e-books, and guides covering detection engineering, threat resilience, exposure prioritization, automated mitigation, and exposure management best practices. These resources are available at Cymulate's Resources Page.

Use Cases & Benefits

Who can benefit from Cymulate's platform?

Cymulate is designed for blue teams (SOC analysts/managers), red teams (offensive security professionals), CISOs/CIOs, executives, and stakeholders across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, technology, manufacturing, utilities, and more. It is suitable for organizations seeking to improve cybersecurity posture, validate threats, and optimize resilience, including those with cloud environments. Learn more

What business impact can customers expect from using Cymulate?

Customers can expect a 30% improvement in threat prevention, 52% reduction in critical exposures, 60% increase in operational efficiency, quantifiable risk reduction, proven compliance, and faster recovery post-attack. These outcomes help align security with business goals and reduce costs associated with breaches. See more

What problems does Cymulate solve for security teams?

Cymulate addresses challenges such as quantifying cybersecurity efforts, prioritizing remediation, reducing manual security operations, gaining visibility into security posture, validating cloud security, simulating real-world threats, managing vulnerabilities efficiently, and improving post-breach recovery. Platform details

Are there specific industries where Cymulate has proven success?

Yes, Cymulate's case studies span critical infrastructure, education, engineering, finance, healthcare, insurance, IT services, law enforcement, manufacturing, non-profit, retail, technology, transportation, and utilities. See customer stories

Can you share specific case studies or customer success stories?

Notable examples include Hertz Israel (81% cyber risk reduction in 4 months), Saffron Building Society (improved audit readiness), and a Retail Organization (12x faster security assessments). More stories at Cymulate's customer stories page.

Product Performance

What measurable performance improvements does Cymulate deliver?

Cymulate customers report a 30% improvement in threat prevention, 52% reduction in critical exposures, 60% increase in operational efficiency, and faster recovery post-attack (addressing the industry average of 6+ days to restore operations). These metrics are based on customer-reported outcomes. See more

Security & Compliance

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, covering security, availability, confidentiality, privacy, and cloud security controls. The platform is also GDPR-compliant. Security at Cymulate

How does Cymulate ensure product security and compliance?

Cymulate employs role-based access controls, two-factor authentication, robust encryption, a secure development lifecycle, and employee security awareness programs to maintain a strong security culture. Learn more

Implementation & Support

How easy is it to implement Cymulate and get started?

Cymulate is designed for easy implementation and rapid onboarding. Customers report that the platform is intuitive, user-friendly, and requires minimal configuration—"all you need to do is click a few buttons" (Raphael Ferreira, Cybersecurity Manager). See testimonials

What training and technical support does Cymulate provide?

Cymulate offers first-class customer support via email ([email protected]) and chat, as well as educational resources such as webinars, solution briefs, and e-books. Customers consistently praise the support team for being exceptional and helpful. Support details

How does Cymulate handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Cymulate ensures continuous accessibility and functionality, with scheduled maintenance periods as outlined in the Service Level Agreement. The support team assists with troubleshooting, upgrades, and maintenance, and is available via email and chat.

Competition & Comparison

How does Cymulate compare to competitors like Pentera, Picus Security, Scythe, AttackIQ, and NetSPI?

Cymulate differentiates itself by offering continuous threat validation, actionable remediation, unified exposure management, and quantifiable risk metrics. For example, compared to Pentera (focused on penetration testing), Cymulate provides continuous validation and automated remediation. Against Picus Security, Cymulate offers a unified platform with real-time simulations and automated remediation. For more details and a full comparison, visit Cymulate vs Competitors.

What are Cymulate's unique advantages for different user segments?

For blue teams: end-to-end visibility, automated remediation, and operational efficiency. For red teams: real-time threat simulations, scalable offensive testing, and up-to-date attack scenarios. For executives: quantifiable risk metrics and compliance proof. See more

Customer Experience

What feedback have customers given about Cymulate's ease of use?

Customers consistently praise Cymulate for its intuitive design and ease of use. Testimonials include: "It’s easy to use, intuitive, and the customer support is unparalleled" (Ariel Kashir, CISO) and "all you need to do is click a few buttons, and you receive a lot of practical insights" (Raphael Ferreira, Cybersecurity Manager). See more testimonials

Who are some of Cymulate's customers?

Cymulate serves over 1,000 customers in 50 countries, including Hertz Israel, Saffron Building Society, a major bank, a sustainable energy company, a retail organization, and a gaming innovator. For more, visit Cymulate's customer stories page.

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Cymulate Reveals Next-level AI Automation for Threat Exposure Validation  

February 18, 2025

The company introduces first-of-a-kind automated remediation to eliminate threat exposure, optimize controls and mitigate validated security gaps 

cymulate Exposure Validation

NEW YORK and TEL AVIV – February 18, 2025Cymulate, the leader in threat exposure validation, today announced the next evolution of the company’s flagship security validation platform. As a pioneer and market leader for breach and attack simulation (BAS) and automated red teaming, Cymulate continues to innovate with automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver the most advanced and easiest-to-use threat exposure validation on the market. At a time when attackers are deploying more advanced tactics than ever, the Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform leverages the power of AI to give every blue and red teamer the automation and accessibility to validate and remediate threat exposure and optimize security.  

Exposure validation helps organizations go further than traditional solutions like BAS and automated penetration testing. By embracing the CTEM strategy, security teams can validate their exposure according to their defined threat scope, prioritize contextually according to their specific security strategy, and mobilize while continuously and automatically remediating gaps.  

“Security leaders recognize that they need to rapidly address the most exploitable threats in a continuous fashion. Cymulate is bringing first-to-market innovation and automation in our Exposure Validation Platform so security teams can fix their biggest gaps and improve defensive posture before it’s too late,” said Avihai Ben-Yossef, Co-founder and CTO, Cymulate. “We’ve made technologies like attack simulation and automated red teaming easy to implement with actionable findings. Customers are seeing results that reduce noise, clarify decision making and increase the ROI of cyber defense investments.” 

The Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform allows security teams to validate their controls alongside potential threats and response tactics, determining which threats are most risky and generating a remediation strategy that prioritizes those exposures first and automates control optimization. Innovative new features, include: 

  • An AI-powered agent that guides blue teamers and red teamers to create the most impactful validation for their focus – from best practices to industry-specific threats to detailed attack chains from the latest threat intel 
  • Streamlined attack simulations that create easier assessments across the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain for all environments, including the most comprehensive library of cloud and Kubernetes attack scenarios 
  • A new attack scenario workbench designed to create comprehensive validation assessments from a library of more than one-million attack actions or custom scenarios 
  • Modular and dynamic assessments that help test for new threats 

A key aspect of the Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform is an elevation in the outcome that allows actionable and vendor-specific remediation. Security teams can use their existing stack to manually add optimization rules. Cymulate then automatically pushes these rules to the security controls and automates the entire remediation process.   

“The Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform makes advanced security testing fast and easy. 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,” said Cymulate customer, Mike Humbert, Cybersecurity Engineer at Darling Ingredients Inc. “As you start to click and filter, you have the ability to refine what you’re testing, schedule the assessment and drill down to results.” 

About Cymulate      

Cymulate, the leader in security and exposure validation, provides the single source of truth for threat exposure and the actions required to close security gaps before attackers can exploit them. More than 1,000 customers worldwide rely on the Cymulate platform to baseline their security posture and strengthen cyber resilience with continuous discovery, validation, prioritization, and guided remediation of security weaknesses. Cymulate automates advanced offensive security testing to validate controls, threats, and attack paths. As an open platform, Cymulate integrates with existing security and IT infrastructure and drives the workflows of the exposure management process. For more information, visit www.cymulate.com.