Deepinfo vs. Cymulate.

Cymulate is Breach and Attack Simulation, the category that validates whether your existing defenses catch known attack patterns. Deepinfo is external exposure, the surface attackers actually see. Different categories. Buyers sometimes evaluate both because the workflows touch each other, but the two run alongside, not against.

THE SHORT VERSION

External exposure vs. internal validation.

Cymulate runs simulated attacks against your existing defenses to test whether they catch known patterns. The output is a measure of your detection-and-response posture against a defined library of attack scenarios. The model assumes the surface to defend is already known.

Deepinfo runs continuously to discover the external surface, monitor the threat landscape around it, and surface exposures before adversaries find them. The output is a picture of what attackers see when they look at your organization. The two run alongside each other; many security teams evaluate both for different operational questions.

WHERE DEEPINFO EXTENDS FURTHER

Four places Deepinfo solves a different problem.

External-surface discovery, not internal-detection validation.

Cymulate validates whether your existing detections fire on simulated attacks. Deepinfo discovers the external surface where real attacks land, subdomains, forgotten infrastructure, brand-impersonation domains, third-party exposures. The two answer different questions: "would we catch it if it happened" vs. "what's out there waiting to happen."

Threat correlation tied to your specific assets.

Cymulate runs against simulated patterns. Deepinfo monitors real threat actors operating against real adversary infrastructure tied to your specific assets, brand, and vendor portfolio. CTI signal correlated with your external surface, not abstracted simulation against your internal defenses.

Continuous monitoring, not point-in-time validation.

Cymulate engagements typically run as scheduled validation cycles. Deepinfo runs continuously: discovery, scanning, threat correlation, brand monitoring, and vendor exposure all updated on a continuous cadence. The external surface changes every day; the monitoring follows.

Integrated platform across EASM, CTI, BRP, TPRM.

Cymulate is BAS-focused. Deepinfo is the integrated external-exposure platform: External Attack Surface Management, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Brand Risk Protection, and Third-Party Risk Management in one product on one dataset. Different category, different operational role.

WHERE THEY HAVE A PLACE

Cymulate is BAS done well.

For security organizations validating their existing defensive stack, SIEM detection rules, EDR coverage, email security, web gateway controls, against a defined library of attack patterns, Cymulate's BAS coverage is genuine and valuable. The validation cycle answers a real question that external monitoring can't answer.

Deepinfo answers a different question: what's out there in the external landscape that your defenses might not even know to detect. Most mature security teams want both views; the conversation is rarely "which one" but "for which job," with most landing on both.

EVALUATE DEEPINFO

See the external picture that BAS doesn't cover.

The free threat exposure report runs Deepinfo against your domain and emails the result within 24 hours. The external surface, threat-actor correlation, and brand-impersonation signal, the picture that internal-validation tooling assumes as input.

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