Cymulate and Fortra's Cobalt Strike compete in the cybersecurity testing space. Cymulate seems more favorable due to its pricing and support, while Fortra's Cobalt Strike offers comprehensive features appealing to advanced security professionals.
Features: Cymulate provides automated continuous security validation, risk assessment capabilities, and rapid deployment. Fortra's Cobalt Strike offers adversary simulation, red teaming, and penetration testing with extensive customization.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cymulate delivers straightforward deployment with a cloud-based approach and efficient service. Fortra's Cobalt Strike, though robust, necessitates a more involved setup due to its comprehensive nature. Cymulate's customer service is responsive, whereas Fortra's support is detailed and reflects its technical complexity.
Pricing and ROI: Cymulate offers a cost-effective solution with immediate ROI through simplified deployment and automation. Fortra's Cobalt Strike requires a higher initial investment but provides substantial ROI for deep penetration testing.
For companies that want to manage their security posture against the evolving threat landscape: Cymulate SaaS-based Extended Security Posture Management (XSPM) deploys within an hour, enabling security professionals to continuously challenge, validate and optimize their cyber-security posture end-to-end across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The platform provides out-of-the-box, expert and threat intelligence-led risk assessments that are simple to deploy and use for all maturity levels, and constantly updated. It also provides an open framework to create and automate red and purple teaming by generating penetration scenarious and advanced attack campaigns tailored to their unique environments and security politices. Cymulate allowes professionals to manage, know and control their dynamic environment.
Cobalt Strike is red teaming software that emulates long-term attack techniques. Your red team can use real-world attack methods with covert security tools and after the red team exercise is complete, detailed reports help strengthen your blue team security.
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