What is Cymulate and what does it help organizations achieve?
Cymulate is a unified exposure management and security validation platform that enables organizations to proactively validate their cybersecurity defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and optimize their security posture. It empowers security teams to stay ahead of emerging threats, prove compliance, and improve overall resilience. Learn more.
How did Saffron Building Society use Cymulate to strengthen its cyber resilience?
Saffron Building Society implemented Cymulate to gain end-to-end visibility of its security posture, prove compliance with financial regulators, continuously validate security controls, and increase team efficiency. The platform enabled the team to provide assurance during audits, test against emergent threats, and prioritize vulnerabilities. Read the case study.
Who can benefit from using Cymulate?
Cymulate is designed for CISOs, security leaders, SecOps teams, red teams, and vulnerability management teams in organizations of all sizes and industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, media, transportation, and manufacturing. See more about roles.
What are some real-world use cases for Cymulate?
Organizations use Cymulate to prove compliance for audits, continuously validate security controls, test against emergent threats, prioritize vulnerabilities, and increase cyber awareness among employees. For example, Saffron Building Society used Cymulate to streamline audit processes and improve operational resilience. Explore more case studies.
How does Cymulate help with internal and external audits?
Cymulate provides data-based metrics and dashboards that make it easy to demonstrate continuous control validation, threat assessments, and remediation efforts to both internal and external auditors. This helps organizations like Saffron Building Society prove compliance and present themselves as mature, cyber-resilient organizations. Read more.
How does Cymulate support operational resilience?
Cymulate enables organizations to continuously assess and validate their security controls, quickly react to emergent threats, and ensure business continuity by providing actionable insights and remediation guidance. This supports operational resilience, as demonstrated by Saffron Building Society's experience. See the case study.
What types of organizations use Cymulate?
Cymulate is used by organizations of all sizes, from small enterprises to large corporations, across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, media, transportation, and manufacturing. Saffron Building Society, a UK-based financial institution, is one example. See more customers.
How does Cymulate help prioritize vulnerabilities?
Cymulate evaluates whether vulnerabilities are exploitable in your specific environment and enables you to prioritize remediation efforts. If compensating controls are in place, you can focus on remediating other high-risk vulnerabilities that are more likely to be exploited. See the case study.
How does Cymulate increase cyber awareness among employees?
Cymulate's Continuous Automated Red Teaming phishing assessments help organizations identify employees who may be susceptible to phishing attacks, enabling targeted training and reinforcement of good cyber habits. Learn more.
What feedback has Saffron Building Society provided about Cymulate?
Adam Champion, Head of Information Security at Saffron Building Society, stated: "Cymulate gives us end-to-end visibility of our security posture, helps prove compliance, and saves my team a lot of time and effort." Read the full testimonial.
What are the main benefits Saffron Building Society experienced with Cymulate?
Saffron Building Society reported proof of cyber resilience, increased efficiency, depth and breadth of testing, and excellent customer and product support as the main benefits of using Cymulate. See the case study.
How does Cymulate help test against emergent threats?
Cymulate's Threat Research Group develops immediate threat assessments for new threats, allowing organizations to quickly test their security controls and determine if they are at risk. This enables rapid response to emerging threats. Read more.
How does Cymulate support continuous validation of security controls?
Cymulate's Breach and Attack Simulation continuously validates security controls, helping organizations detect performance drift and focus remediation efforts. After following remediation guidance, teams can immediately retest to confirm effectiveness. Learn more.
What Cymulate solutions did Saffron Building Society implement?
Saffron Building Society implemented Breach and Attack Simulation and Continuous Automated Red Teaming as part of its Cymulate deployment. See the case study.
How does Cymulate help organizations prove compliance with financial regulators?
Cymulate enables organizations to easily present proof of continuous control validation, threat assessments, remediation efforts, and overall cyber risk management to external auditors and regulators. Read more.
What kind of support does Cymulate provide to its customers?
Cymulate offers excellent customer and product support, with a dedicated customer success team available to assist and ensure organizations optimize their use of the platform. See the case study.
How does Cymulate's threat intelligence-led risk assessment work?
Cymulate provides an extensive library of threat intelligence-led risk assessments, enabling organizations to test different layers of each control and ensure comprehensive protection against current threats. Learn more.
Features & Capabilities
What are the key features of Cymulate's platform?
Cymulate offers continuous threat validation, breach and attack simulation, continuous automated red teaming, exposure prioritization, attack path discovery, automated mitigation, AI-powered optimization, and an extensive threat library with over 100,000 attack actions updated daily. See all features.
Does Cymulate integrate with other security tools?
Yes, 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. See all integrations.
What technical documentation is available for Cymulate?
Cymulate provides guides, whitepapers, solution briefs, and data sheets covering topics like vulnerability management, exposure validation, detection engineering, and automated mitigation. Access the Resource Hub.
How easy is it to implement Cymulate?
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. Book a demo.
What kind of support and resources does Cymulate offer for onboarding?
Cymulate provides email and chat support, a knowledge base with technical articles and videos, webinars, e-books, and an AI chatbot for quick answers and best practices. Explore resources.
What security and compliance certifications does Cymulate have?
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications, demonstrating compliance with industry-leading security and privacy standards. See details.
How does Cymulate ensure data security and privacy?
Cymulate uses encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), secure AWS-hosted data centers, a tested disaster recovery plan, and a strict Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The platform also supports GDPR compliance and has a dedicated privacy and security team. Learn more.
What are the main benefits of using Cymulate?
Key benefits include improved security posture (up to 52% reduction in critical exposures), increased team efficiency (up to 60%), faster threat validation (40X faster), cost savings, enhanced threat resilience (81% reduction in cyber risk within four months), and better decision-making with actionable insights. See more.
How does Cymulate differ from traditional penetration testing?
Unlike periodic penetration tests that provide point-in-time snapshots, Cymulate offers continuous, automated validation of security controls, immediate retesting after remediation, and actionable metrics for ongoing improvement. See the case study.
Pain Points & Solutions
What common pain points does Cymulate address for security teams?
Cymulate addresses fragmented security tools, resource constraints, unclear risk prioritization, cloud complexity, communication barriers, inadequate threat simulation, operational inefficiencies in vulnerability management, and post-breach recovery challenges. See case studies.
How does Cymulate help organizations with resource constraints?
Cymulate automates security validation and remediation processes, enabling small teams to efficiently manage cyber risk, prioritize vulnerabilities, and respond quickly to threats without increasing headcount. See customer stories.
How does Cymulate improve communication with stakeholders?
Cymulate provides quantifiable metrics and dashboards that help security teams clearly communicate cyber risk, compliance status, and remediation progress to executives, auditors, and regulators. See the case study.
How does Cymulate help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats?
Cymulate's Threat Research Group delivers daily updates and immediate threat assessments, allowing organizations to test and validate their defenses against the latest threats as soon as they emerge. Learn more.
How does Cymulate address cloud security challenges?
Cymulate secures hybrid and cloud infrastructures through automated compliance and regulatory testing, integration with cloud security tools, and continuous validation of cloud controls. See cloud security validation.
Competition & Comparison
How does Cymulate compare to AttackIQ?
Cymulate surpasses AttackIQ in innovation, threat coverage, and ease of use, offering the industry's leading threat scenario library and AI-powered capabilities for streamlined workflows. Read the comparison.
How does Cymulate compare to Mandiant Security Validation?
Mandiant Security Validation is an original BAS platform but has seen little innovation in recent years. Cymulate continually innovates with AI and automation, expanding into exposure management as a grid leader. Read the comparison.
How does Cymulate compare to Pentera?
Pentera focuses on attack path validation but lacks the depth Cymulate provides for fully assessing and strengthening defenses. Cymulate optimizes defense, scales offensive testing, and increases exposure awareness. Read the comparison.
How does Cymulate compare to Picus Security?
Picus Security offers an on-premise BAS option but lacks the comprehensive exposure validation platform Cymulate provides, which covers the full kill-chain and includes cloud control validation. Read the comparison.
How does Cymulate compare to SafeBreach?
Cymulate outpaces SafeBreach with unmatched innovation, precision, and automation, offering the industry’s largest attack library, a full CTEM solution, and comprehensive exposure validation. Read the comparison.
How does Cymulate compare to Scythe?
Scythe is suitable for advanced red teams building custom attack campaigns, but Cymulate provides a more comprehensive exposure validation platform with actionable remediation and automated mitigation. Read the comparison.
Pricing & Plans
What is Cymulate's pricing model?
Cymulate uses a subscription-based pricing model tailored to each organization's requirements. Pricing depends on the chosen package, number of assets, and scenarios selected. For a detailed quote, schedule a demo.
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Cymulate gives us end-to-end visibility of our security posture, helps prove compliance, and saves my team a lot of time and effort.
- Adam Champion, Head of Information Security
Challenge
Saffron Building Society prides itself on delivering exceptional services, so maintaining a robust cyber security posture and ensuring business continuity is vital to the organization. The information security team, comprised of three in-house employees and two external contractors, is also responsible for Operational Resilience, which includes disaster recovery, business continuity management, crisis management, and cybersecurity incident response.
As a dual-regulated financial services organization, Saffron Building Society is subject to regular internal and external audits. Additionally, its Executive Team has established internal governance processes to monitor the security team’s cyber risk and provide monthly metrics alongside monthly and quarterly meetings with the broader security and risk teams.
To keep up with these audits and procedures, the small in-house security team needed a simple and accurate way to:
Prove cyber resilience During its various audits, Saffron Building Society needs to provide assurance that it is assessing its cyber posture, managing its threats and vulnerabilities, and measuring its cyber risk. Each audit has different requirements.
Test against emergent threats The team would receive information on new threats via threat feeds, but this did not provide immediate intel on whether the threat could be exploited in the organization’s specific environment.
Continuously assess its security controls Periodic penetration tests provided the team with a point-in-time snapshot of its security but were not an accurate and continuous evaluation of its security controls. Additionally, if the penetration test indicated that something needed to be remediated, a re-test would be required to determine whether its efforts to resolve the issue were successful, thus incurring additional time and cost.
The security team identified a need for a security control and threat validation platform that would allow it to gain automated validation and data-based metrics on its daily performance.
The Cymulate Solution
Saffron Building Society decided to implement the Cymulate platform because of its ease of use, immediate threat assessments, data-based metrics, and excellent customer support.
Adam Champion, Head of Information Security, explains that the team uses Cymulate to:
Prove compliance with financial regulators
“Cymulate allows us to easily present proof to external auditors of continuous control validation, threat assessments, remediation efforts and general assurance that we effectively manage our cyber risk. Because each audit is different, we use different functions of the Cymulate platform to fulfill the various requirements. We can present ourselves as a very mature organization with an effective cyber strategy.”
Assess against immediate threats
“Cymulate is an effective way to provide assurance to stakeholders about new and emerging threats being exploited in the wild. When a new threat emerges, the Cymulate Threat Research Group develops an immediate threats assessment so we can immediately test the threat against our security controls and quickly determine whether we are safe. Usually, by the time an executive asks us if a particular new threat poses a risk to the society, we have already run the Cymulate assessment and can provide the results.”
Continuously validate security controls
“With Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation, we continuously validate our controls to ensure they are working as expected. If we see any drift in a controls performance, we know where to focus our efforts. After following the platform’s remediation guidance, we can immediately retest to validate that our efforts were effective.”
Prioritize vulnerabilities
“Cymulate helps us evaluate whether a vulnerability is exploitable in our environment and enables us to prioritize remediation efforts. If there are compensating controls in place, we can prioritize remediating other high-risk vulnerabilities that are more likely to be exploited.”
Increase cyber awareness among employees
“We use the Cymulate Continuous Automated Red Teaming phishing assessments to understand which of our employees might put us at risk of falling for a real phishing attack. It's important to have security controls in place, but it's also vital to reinforce good cyber habits with our staff.”
Benefits
Proof of cyber resilience With metrics and dashboards from Cymulate, the security team can easily demonstrate that it is proactively validating its controls and prioritizing high-risk security gaps.
Increased efficiency Cymulate helps the security team increase its efficiency, especially when validating against emergent threats. The team can react faster when an issue is identified and quickly provide assurance to the organization.
Depth and breadth of testing Cymulate’s extensive library of threat intelligence-led risk assessments enable the security team to effortlessly test the different layers of each control, ensuring that the organization is not at risk.
Excellent customer and product support Saffron Building Society views its relationship with Cymulate as a partnership. Since implementation, the Cymulate customer success team has been available to assist and ensure the security team is optimizing its use of the platform.
Solution
Breach and attack simulation
Continuous automated red teaming
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