Case Study: a Hong Kong financial regulatory authority achieves continuous security visibility with Cymulate

Financial Regulatory Authority uncovers less than 70% threat blocking with Cymulate

The Financial Regulatory Authority, a financial regulator in Hong Kong, faced a challenge with limited visibility into its security posture. Despite a complex, multi-layered defense system, the organization relied on infrequent penetration tests and lacked an efficient way to continuously validate its security controls against real-world threats. This left potential blind spots undetected. To address this, they adopted the Cymulate security validation platform.

By implementing Cymulate, the team gained continuous security validation through real-world attack simulations. The solution provided immediate impact, revealing that default security settings were blocking less than 70% of known threats. This data-driven insight allowed them to make targeted improvements, optimize controls, and objectively evaluate new security vendors. Cymulate enabled the Financial Regulatory Authority to move from periodic to continuous testing, resulting in greater visibility, faster identification of gaps, and stronger readiness against emerging threats.

Financial Regulatory Authority