During a Web Gateway assessment we discovered that we do not monitor or log any traffic that does not originate from a web browser. We would never have been able to discover this without Cymulate.
– SecOps Team Member, Healthcare Industry
Malicious Websites and Links Present a Constant Threat to Users
Filtering web traffic is a constant challenge given the prevalence of malicious websites. Threat actors pervasively use obfuscation techniques to hide malicious payloads within secure web traffic and bypass many standard detection methods.
Today, 1 out of every 100 URLs leads to phishing sites, malicious advertisements, drive-by downloads, and exploit kits, all of which are often concealed within legitimate-looking web pages and links.
(Source: Cloudflare: State of Application Security 2024)
Web Gateways Require Continuous Validation to Block Malicious Content
Cybersecurity leaders need to constantly test and optimize the effectiveness of their secure web gateway controls and policies to detect and prevent the delivery of malicious web content and protect their end users from inadvertently succumbing to a malicious payload.
Cymulate enables your security team to conduct comprehensive assessments of your web gateway, to test and validate against thousands of known malicious payloads and links in a production-safe mode.
The best practice assessment simulates different types of web-based threats for both inbound validation of malicious payloads and outbound validation of malicious links. The simulated attack types include:
Inbound Validation
Malicious payloads (Files)
Files policies
Outbound Validation
Malicious links
URL category policies
The results of these assessments highlight the gaps and weaknesses in your web security controls that could be used to exploit your users and lead to a cyber breach.
Web Gateway Validation Solution Brief
Learn how Cymulate enables your security team to conduct comprehensive assessments of your web gateway, to test and validate against thousands of known malicious payloads and links in a production-safe mode.
Automated Security Validation for your Secure Web Gateway
Cymulate breach and attack simulation delivers production-safe security testing of your web gateway using a wide range of malicious links and payload variants to simulate the latest web-based threats. The solution lets you identify the gaps and weaknesses in your web security controls that could enable a malicious payload to reach your systems and initiate a cyber attack on your environment. The assessment enables you to optimize the investment you have made in your secure web gateway by configuring and tuning your web defenses with mitigation guidance from Cymulate.
Detailed Report and Findings
Gain deep insight into the effectiveness of your web gateway controls and policies with detailed reports and findings that include:
Risk score to measure the overall performance of your secure web gateway
Exposure level to measure your security posture
Penetration ratio highlighting the number of malicious links and payloads not blocked by the web gateway
Ratio by attack type to focus efforts on least protected areas of the web gateway controls
High risk files to prioritize risk and focus mitigation efforts
Least Protected File Types to prevent malicious payloads
Mitigation Guidance to help optimize controls and enhance policies
Web Gateway Report Summary
Why Choose Cymulate?
Depth of attack simulations
The assessment contains a comprehensive suite of over 20,000 malicious payloads and inks to fully validate the effectiveness of your web gateway.
Production safe
The full suite of test cases is completely production-safe with no malicious payload or code execution that could impact your production environment.
Automated validation
The assessment is fully automated enabling continuous validation and performance optimization of your web gateway control effectiveness every week.
