Threat actors often move across IT networks and cloud environments, evolving tactics to gain access and avoid detection. Without intelligent detection, these threats can escalate into significant cyber breaches.
To mitigate this risk and build resilience, SecOps must continuously create, fine-tune and validate that their SIEM (security information and event management), EDR (endpoint detection and response) and XDR (extended detection and response) systems to accurately detect malicious activity while minimizing false positives. However, this process is both resource-intensive and slow, leaving gaps as threats evolve.
SecOps are turning to AI and automation to rapidly create, validate and fine-tune detection rules, accelerating the path to threat resilience by detecting attacks before they cause disruption
Stronger Threat Resilience for SecOps
Cymulate Exposure Validation accelerates detection engineering by automating the most critical and resource-heavy tasks in modern SecOps. By combining robust attack simulations with AI-driven analysis, Cymulate empowers teams to build, test and fine-tune threat detection using live-data attack simulations and custom rules that streamline detection workflows. .
With Cymulate, SecOps can:
Reduce detection gaps faster by shortening the time from rule creation to validated coverage
Pinpoint gaps with actionable insights when detection rules fail to trigger on expected behavior
Expand detection visibility by aligning rules to real attack techniques mapped across the MITRE ATT&CK framework
Cymulate’s AI SIEM Rule Validation streamlines our detection engineering validation processes with automated rule matching, saving us hundreds of hours at scale.
– Markus Flatscher, Senior Security Manager, RBI Bank
Detection Engineering Solution Features
Cymulate is an open platform that integrates with top SIEM, EDR and XDR vendors to build, validate and optimize high-fidelity detections and minimize false positives. Operationalize detection engineering with AI-powered offensive testing that validates detection and essential log collection to support advanced correlation.
Build and validate new detections for emergent threats
Upload a threat advisory or news article into the Cymulate AI template creator to instantly generate a custom assessment and validate controls against new real-world threat behaviors. If detection gaps are found, Cymulate provides recommended SIEM, EDR or XDR rules formatted to the specific control for easy implementation. SecOps teams can then re-run the assessment to validate that new rules trigger the correct alerts, ensuring fast, effective protection against evolving threats.
Validate, tune and maintain SIEM detection rules
Cymulate integrates with the SIEM to validate existing detection rules by applying AI to match relevant attack scenarios for each detection rule. With the push of a button, SecOps teams can validate whether rules trigger as intended, uncover detection gaps and receive targeted recommendations to improve rule logic. Once updates are made, teams can instantly re-run assessments to confirm rule performance and visualize coverage using the MITRE ATT&CK heatmap. With built-in automation, Cymulate makes it easy to continuously test and tune rules, ensuring lasting protection against evolving threats across the full kill-chain.
Baseline and optimize MITRE ATT&CK coverage
Cymulate provides a visual MITRE ATT&CK heatmap that highlights detection gaps based on real-world threats and current rule coverage. With clear visibility into which behaviors are detected, missing, or underperforming, teams can prioritize where to build new rules or improve existing ones, streamlining efforts to strengthen detection across the kill-chain.
Test SecOps processes, policies and playbooks
Cymulate simulates real-world attack scenarios to help SecOps teams rehearse detection and response workflows in a safe, controlled environment. These exercises surface gaps in visibility, tooling, or process execution, allowing teams to fine-tune detections, improve collaboration across stakeholders and validate that playbooks and alerts function as intended. By proactively identifying weaknesses before an actual incident, Cymulate helps reduce mean time to detect and respond while strengthening overall operational readiness.
Using the Cymulate integrations, we launch assessments to see if our tools detect them. If they don’t, Cymulate provides mitigation guidance and Sigma rules, and we easily rerun the assessments to validate remediation.
– Karl Ward, Head of Cybersecurity, LV=
Why Choose Cymulate?
Build new detections in minutes
Create or improve rules with targeted guidance, indicators of behavior, pre-built Sigma and EDR rules.
Optimize threat coverage
Visualize threat detection gaps and create detection logic for full MITRE ATT&CK coverage.
Collaborate to mitigate exposure
Partner with your SOC or MDR provider to adapt and enhance detection to new threats.
