Early Detection is Critical to Stopping Cyber Attacks
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, SecOps teams 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 can accurately detect malicious activity while minimizing false positives. Building precise detection rules is already a lengthy process, while manually validating those rules is time-consuming and too slow to keep up with evolving threats.
SecOps are turning to automated testing to create, validate and fine-tune detection rules, detecting attacks before they cause disruption.
Automate Detection Engineering to Reduce Exposure Risk
The Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform accelerates detection engineering by automating the most critical and resource-heavy tasks in modern SecOps. Cymulate provides the most robust attack simulation with AI-powered analysis, so SecOps teams can build, test and fine-tune threat detection using live-data attack simulations and custom rules that streamline detection workflows.
By simplifying and accelerating detection engineering with Cymulate, SecOps teams can:
Shorten the cycle from rule creation to validated threat coverage
Get actionable insights when detection rules fail to trigger
Maximize visibility and coverage across the MITRE ATT&CK® framework
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?
Streamlined rule creation
Create or improve detection with targeted guidance, indicators of behavior and detection rules for specific SIEM and EDR platforms.
Effortless validation
Automatically map SIEM rules to attack scenarios for custom testing that continuously validates and optimizes detection logic.
Control integrations
Out-of-the-box integrations with leading SIEM, EDR and XDR platforms to validate detection, log collection and visibility to threats.
