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Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
Emma Zaballos is an avid threat researcher who is passionate about understanding and combatting cybercrime threats. Emma enjoys monitoring dark web marketplaces, profiling ransomware gangs, and using intelligence for understanding cybercrime.
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Defensive Playbook: Understanding New Trends in External Risk with CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 23, 2024
CyCognito just published our 2024 State of External Exposure Management Report. In this report, we looked at where serious issues hide on the average attack surface, how basic protections can help (or fail to) protect critical assets, and the ways that deprioritizing issues can help security teams spend their time on the right vulnerabilities.
Research
Emerging Security Issue: SonicWall SSLVPN (CVE-2024-40766)
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 10, 2024
CVE-2024-40766 is a critical (CVSS v3 score: 9.3) access control flaw affecting SonicWall firewall devices that attackers are actively exploiting to deliver ransomware. CyCognito discovery and testing engines detect all assets running SonicWall SonicOS products and leverage multiple tests to services of the vulnerable product and versions. All customers have access to an in-platform emerging security issue announcement as of September 10th, 2024.
Featured, Research
The Biggest Security Nightmares from 2023 and How They Could Ruin Your 2024
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
May 15, 2024
CyCognito shares insights showing how security teams can learn from previous incidents and leverage exposure management techniques to stay ahead of attackers.
Research
Emerging Security Issue: Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect PAN-OS Software CVE-2024-3400
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
April 16, 2024
Palo Alto Networks announced the discovery of CVE-2024-3400. CyCognito has informed affected customers of potentially affected assets.
Strategy
The Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Leveraging Exposure Management to Mitigate Risk from Current or Former Vendors
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
February 20, 2024
Networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks recently exposed current and former customer information due to a Salesforce misconfiguration. While incidents like these can give attackers valuable data and footholds into your network, leveraging exposure management best practices and processes can help organizations mitigate these risks.
Research
Emerging Security Issue: Ivanti Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
January 24, 2024
Two security issues affecting the popular Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure remote access SSL VPN systems can be chained together to give unauthenticated attackers remote access to critical systems. CyCognito’s active testing protects our current customers and delivers key insights about these vulnerabilities in the CyCognito platform.
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This Holiday Shopping Season, Your Attack Surface is Open for Business
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 21, 2023
Cyber Monday is right around the corner and millions of consumers will flock to ecommerce websites in search of the best deals. But can shoppers be assured that the sites they do business with are secure and compliant? Before and during the holiday shopping season, retailers need to ensure that ecommerce websites with missing WAFs, cryptographic vulnerabilities, or easily exploited critical issues.
Perspectives
No Room for Error: Experiments with Generative AI in EASM
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 13, 2023
Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence that generates new content –including text, images, and video – in response to user prompts. These AI models are trained on huge volumes of data and use algorithms to create content that has a similar structure to their training data
Research
It’s 10pm – Do You Know Where Your PII Is?
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
September 6, 2023
Have you ever wondered just how much the average external attack surface changes every month?
Perspectives
How to Supercharge your Vulnerability Remediation Process
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
August 9, 2023
Vulnerability remediation is the process of identifying and neutralizing security issues affecting cyber assets. Because these issues can cause millions of dollars in lost revenue, remediation costs, or fines if they result in a data breach or damage to cyber-infrastructure, vulnerability remediation is one of the most important parts of cybersecurity.
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Six Signs that Exposure Management is Right for Your Organization
By Jason Pappalexis
October 14, 2024
Defensive Playbook: Understanding New Trends in External Risk with CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report
By Emma Zaballos
September 23, 2024
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State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition
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Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management
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