Case Study: IT Services & Consulting Organization achieves 70% reduction in critical vulnerabilities and faster security validation with Cymulate

IT Services & Consulting Organization Hardens Security Posture with Cymulate Automated Security Validation

The IT Services and Consulting Organization, an ISO‑certified company with over 22K employees and more than 50 offices in 18 countries, needed continuous, organization‑wide security validation beyond quarterly third‑party penetration tests. The security team lacked visibility into control effectiveness, struggled to enforce global IT policies across distributed offices and remote workers, and had limited real‑time threat intelligence — gaps they sought to address by evaluating continuous automated validation platforms such as Cymulate.

Cymulate was implemented using Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), BAS Advanced Scenarios, Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) and daily updates from the Cymulate Research Lab to automate control validation, policy enforcement, vulnerability prioritization and red‑team exercises. Cymulate enabled continuous monitoring for security drift, produced data‑driven remediation guidance, and delivered measurable impact: a 70% reduction in critical vulnerabilities found in a follow‑up penetration test and a drop in analysis time from roughly 1.5 days to 1–3 hours, while improving reporting to the executive board.