Case Study: Financial Services Organization achieves automated security validation and risk visibility across 10+ entities with Cymulate

Financial Services Organization Automates Testing to Measure Security Risk Across Over 10 Entities

Financial Services Organization, a regulated financial services provider with more than ten European entities and global branches, struggled to get a consolidated view of security because each entity maintained separate IT environments, tools, and processes. The company relied on about 25 manual, point-in-time ethical hacking exercises per year that didn’t comprehensively test controls, so it sought a cost‑efficient, automated continuous security validation solution with out‑of‑the‑box assessments, ongoing control validation, and benchmarking metrics—and selected Cymulate.

Cymulate implemented its Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and BAS Advanced Scenarios to automate testing across on‑prem and cloud environments, mapping assessments to NIST and MITRE and enabling custom chained tests shared across entities. Cymulate’s platform delivered risk metrics across 10+ entities, data‑driven reporting to prioritize vulnerabilities and tune defenses, increased coverage of known threats, and measurable visibility and quantification of security risk.