Validate and Optimize SecOps Detection and Response
Challenges
SecOps teams are responsible for continuously monitoring security events, identifying and mitigating threats, and managing incident response to protect an organization’s digital assets. While these tasks may seem straightforward, there are additional factors that leave SecOps teams feeling overworked and burned out:
- Security teams are often understaffed and struggle to keep up with the volume of alerts and incidents, especially when done manually.
- New threats that emerge daily can overwhelm security teams and make it difficult to determine which are the most dangerous threats to their organizations.
- Digital transformation projects and migrating applications to the cloud continuously expand an organization’s attack surface.
Optimize Continuous Defense Validation
Whether you have an internal SOC (security operation center) or outsource to an MSSP (managed security service provider), Cymulate automates attack simulations to assess SOC tools and processes, validate and optimize detection and response and benchmark performance over time.
Solution Results
Use Cases
Security Control Optimization for SOC
SecOps teams can integrate their security information and event management (SIEM) systems and other security controls with Cymulate to run simulated attacks and validate whether they are accurately and fully detecting the relevant threats and properly alerting SOC analysts.
Test and assess
Cymulate attack simulations enable SecOps teams to assess whether their SIEM (security information and event management) is accurately detecting the relevant threats and properly alerting SOC analysts. API-based integrations help correlate attacks with SIEM findings, allowing analysts to quickly determine if the system is working as intended.
Fine-tune and optimize
Following each simulation, Cymulate provides indicators of compromise (IoC), indicators of behavior, sigma rules, and translation of the sigma rules to vendor-specific systems. This helps SecOps teams build new rules and fine-tune existing ones, enabling accurate detection and reducing false positives and negatives. Additionally, Cymulate automatically uploads critical IOC data directly to an organization’s relevant security controls to ensure that potential threats are identified and addressed quickly.
Confirm and measure
Following remediation and fine-tuning, SecOps teams can easily retest and confirm that their activities improved detection and alerting. Additionally, Cymulate metrics and reporting enable security teams
to benchmark and evolve their SecOps performance over time.
Security Control Validation for MSSP
Smaller security teams that outsource security operations or rely on managed service providers can run Cymulate attack simulations to assess whether their outsourced services perform as well as they guarantee.
Test and assess
Organizations can continuously assess MSSP detection and response capabilities by running Cymulate attack simulations against their security controls. Additionally, the Cymulate Threat Research Group creates simulations of new threats daily, making them immediately available for customers to independently validate whether they have full MSSP coverage against the newest emergent threats.
Fine-tune and optimize
With Cymulate, security teams can conduct live-data exercises alongside their outsourced service providers to practice cross-team coordination and run incident response drills. Following these exercises, Cymulate provides remediation guidance to the outsourced services for optimizing detection and response.
Confirm and measure
Cymulate enables security teams to quickly retest and confirm that their MSSPs have improved their detection and alerting. The platform’s metrics and reporting also help security teams benchmark MSSP performance against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure contractual obligations.
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