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Enable your security and operations teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate exposures to stay ahead of attackers.

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The expansion of an organization's attack surface continues to present a critical business challenge. Download the GigaOm Radar for Attack Surface Management to get an overview of the available ASM solutions, identify leading offerings, and evaluate the best solution for you.  

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The CyCognito platform helps you identify all of the attacker-exposed assets in your IT ecosystem for a complete view of your attack surface.

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Download CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report to learn key recommendations that your Security teams can implement to improve their exposure management strategy and minimize risk. 

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The knowledge you need to manage and protect your attack surface.

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No Room for Doubt – Why Security Testing is Essential for your External Attack Surface

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
January 9, 2024

Security testing externally exposed assets is essential to building a risk profile but is difficult using legacy approaches.



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Discovery: Don’t Let the Wrong Definition Impact Your Risk Exposure

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
November 27, 2023

An accurate external asset inventory forms the foundation for reduced exposure and risk. CyCognito’s unique approach to organizational reconnaissance, asset discovery, and contextualization provides IT Security teams with meaningful information that reduces time to remediation.



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Navigating Compliance Challenges Across Your External Attack Surface

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
October 27, 2023

Achieving compliance for any sized organization is often time-consuming and stressful, forcing many security teams to divert their attention away from the tasks at hand. The value (and necessity) of achieving a successful audit efficiently cannot be understated, but the challenges are real. Using CyCognito to discover and test externally exposed assets and dynamically map issues to compliance frameworks provides the continuous visibility needed to streamline their work.



Perspectives

Continuous Threat Exposure Management – Your Path to Reduced External Cyber Security Risk

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
October 18, 2023

Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is a risk reduction strategy introduced by Gartner in 2021. Designed to significantly reduce mean time to remediation (MTTR), it relies on coordination of people, processes and technology. Choosing the right CTEM technology is critical to efficient implementation.



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Automated Pen Testing for Efficient Red Teaming

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
October 9, 2023

Explore the complexities of manual pen testing and red teaming. How can you leverage automated pen testing solutions to optimize your team’s process?



Perspectives

If you aren’t running the right security testing, how protected are you?

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
September 20, 2023

Many organizations see the value of active testing across their external attack surface but don’t have the resources to execute it. CyCognito solves five key challenges for organizations looking to reduce external attack surface risk and lower their mean time to remediation (MTTR).



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Reduce your External Attack Surface with Better Communications across Security, IT and Business Teams

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
March 16, 2023

Solving meaningful external risk challenges requires the right information at the right time in the hands of the right people.



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Three Actions to Reduce External Risk

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
August 15, 2022

IT security teams are well aware their organizations are under constant attack. Reconnaissance scans and initial access attempts – logged nearly every day on heavily monitored web servers, SSH gateways and VPN gateways – are harsh reminders of exposure and risk.



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CyCognito Operationalizes CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
May 20, 2022

“Bad news, early” is a common business mindset designed to communicate urgency behind the need to identify small problems before they become big problems. 



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One month in: CyCognito looks at Spring4Shell

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
May 5, 2022

NIST assigned Spring4Shell a score of 9.8, most likely out of concern of a similar blast radius to Log4Shell, which was trivial to exploit and very common.



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CyCognito Research Report

State of External Exposure Management

Download CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report to learn key recommendations that your Security teams can implement to improve their exposure management strategy and minimize risk.

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External Exposure & Attack Surface Management For Dummies

As your attack surface has grown to cloud infrastructures and across subsidiaries, attackers are looking for and finding unknown and unmanaged assets to serve as their entry points.

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Request a personalized walkthrough of the CyCognito platform to see how we can help your company identify all its internet-exposed assets, focus on which are most vulnerable to attacks, and accelerate your time to remediating critical risks.