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Cymulate Exposure Management Platform

byCymulate
in
4.8
2025
Market Presence: Adversarial Exposure Validation, Exposure Assessment Platforms

Overview

Product Information on Cymulate Exposure Management Platform

Updated 9th December 2025

What is Cymulate Exposure Management Platform?

Cymulate is an exposure management platform designed to validate threats, prioritize validated exposures, and optimize threat resilience. It continuously tests how well your security controls prevent and detect real-world attacks using an extensive, production-safe attack library mapped to the full kill chain and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. By combining these validation insights with vulnerability and asset data, Cymulate reveals what is truly exploitable and prioritizes exposures based on proven control performance, threat intel, and business context. The platform provides actionable guidance—IoCs, control updates, and new detection rules—and integrates with SIEM, XDR, EDR, and VM tools. Cymulate helps organizations ensure security controls perform as expected and focus resources on the risks that matter most.

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Overall experience with Cymulate Exposure Management Platform

Network Security Engineer
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Cymulate’s Intuitive Interface Simplifies Continuous Security Validation and Reporting”

5.0
Aug 18, 2025
My overall experience with Cymulate is outstanding - the dashboard is user friendly with a clean interface that users can navigate easily. The platform offers a comprehensive and intuitive approach to continuous security validation. The ability to tailor attack scenarios to our unique environment ensures that our testing is relevant and effective the report is detailed yet easy to understand. Overall Cymulate has become an invaluable tool in our cyber security strategy, giving us confidence in our defenses and helping us maintain a strong, proactive security stance.
Network Security Engineer
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Cymulate Platform Simplifies Real-Time Threat Simulation and Risk Assessment Processes”

3.0
Aug 12, 2025
Cymulate provides an intuitive, user-friendly platform for continuous security validation, offering comprehensive simulations and actionable insights to quickly identify remediate cyber risks.

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Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2025
For Market:
Adversarial Exposure Validation

About Company

Company Description

Updated 8th October 2024

Cymulate’s cybersecurity risk validation and exposure management solution provides security professionals with the tools to continuously challenge, validate, and optimize their on-premises and cloud security postures. The platform offers end-to-end visualization across the MITRE ATT&CK framework, enabling a clear view of potential threats and vulnerabilities. With automated, expert, and threat intelligence-driven risk assessments, Cymulate is simple to deploy and accessible to organizations at any level of cybersecurity maturity. In addition, it features an open framework that supports the automation of red and purple teaming exercises, allowing security teams to generate tailored penetration scenarios and advanced attack campaigns that align with their unique environments and security policies. By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can proactively identify and address security gaps, ensuring a stronger, more resilient cybersecurity posture.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Year Founded
2016
Head office location
Holon, Israel
Number of employees
201 - 500
Annual Revenue
<50M USD
Website
https://cymulate.com

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Cymulate Exposure Management Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

What I like most about Cymulate is its ability to provide realistic continuous and comprehensive security validation across multiple attack vectors The platform delivers actionable insights in a clear and structured way enabling is to vulnerabilities quickly and prioritize remediation effectively Its intuitive interface, customizable attack scenarios and detailed yet easy to understand reports make it valuable for both technical teams and management The automation saves significant time while the accuracy dept of simulation gives us confidence in our security posture.

Like

I like most about Cymulate is its intuitive, user-friendly dashboard that makes real-time threats simulation and risk assessment easy.

Like

Cymulate stands out for its continuous, automated security validation that simulates breach attacks/real-world threats, enabling proactive risk identification. The platform's broad coverage of attack vectors, actionable remediation guidance, and strong visual reporting empowers security teams to make informed decisions and drive measurable improvements in original resilience. The game changer about Cymulate is how it enables continuous, intelligence-driven exposure validation across a wide range of attack surfaces while delivering actionable insights. It brings capabilities that used to be limited to elite red teams into the hands of everyday defenders.

Dislike

While Cymulate is an Excellent platform overall the only area I would like to see improved is the some complex simulation as they can take a bit longer to complete in larger environments additionally more built in industry-specific templates could make it even faster to set up targeted assessments that said these are minor points compared to the overall value and effectiveness the platform delivers.

Dislike

About cymulate is the dashboard customization and reporting system, which can be improved as the overall scoring averages all past assessments, limiting granular insights.

Dislike

While there is no doubt that Cymulate delivers strong value and exposure validation capabilities, its unnecessary in depth of certain test scenarios is time consuming and impacting performance.

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Cymulate Exposure Management Platform Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 398 ratings and reviews for Adversarial Exposure Validation market. View all 404 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.8

(398 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
78%
4 Star
20%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.8

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • Network Security Engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Cymulate’s Intuitive Interface Simplifies Continuous Security Validation and Reporting

    5.0
    Aug 18, 2025
    My overall experience with Cymulate is outstanding - the dashboard is user friendly with a clean interface that users can navigate easily. The platform offers a comprehensive and intuitive approach to continuous security validation. The ability to tailor attack scenarios to our unique environment ensures that our testing is relevant and effective the report is detailed yet easy to understand. Overall Cymulate has become an invaluable tool in our cyber security strategy, giving us confidence in our defenses and helping us maintain a strong, proactive security stance.
  • Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Cymulate empowers security with real-world exposure validation, a must-have product.

    5.0
    Jul 30, 2025
    Cymulate EV platform offers a robust, user-friendly solution for continuous security testing across key threat vectors such as Email, Web Gateway, Endpoints, Lateral Movement, ASM and Data Exfiltration. Its intuitive interface, strong reporting capabilities and integration flexibility make it well-suited for both technical teams and executive stakeholders. The EV platform enables proactive, threat-informed defense by aligning with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and supporting automated exposure assessment along with validation. One of the strongest aspects of Cymulate is its exposure validation logic. It provides empirical data about how security controls are performing and highlights gaps in the detection and response layers. The reports with C-level summaries for SOC teams in compliance to NIST, ISO, MITRE ATT&CK is valuable addition.
  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Realistic Simulations and MITRE Mapping Enhance Exposure Assessment on Cymulate

    5.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    My overall experience with Cymulate has been excellent. The platform is incredibly intuitive, visually clear, and makes it easy to understand our security posture instantly. It genuinely adds value and has become one of the tools I trust most for accurate exposure insights.
  • Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
    50M-1B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Solid Performance Across Attack Scenarios Marred by Some Quality Control Issues

    4.0
    Dec 9, 2025
    Useful and insightful, though occassional bugs and slow feature delivery held it back a bit.
  • IT Specialist - Security Operation Center
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Agent-Based Tools and AI Features Simplify Integration and Knowledge Discovery Experience

    5.0
    Aug 12, 2025
    Excellent Customer Support consistently provides service and support to users regarding any minor issues they encounter. Easy to implement tools with an agent-based system and detailed documentation guides simplify the installation process, pre-requisite assessments, and provide additional information regarding integration configuration.
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