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Jason-Pappalexis

Jason Pappalexis

Sr. Technical Marketing Manager

Jason Pappalexis has worked in cybersecurity for nearly two decades, holding roles across government security administration, third-party testing, solutions architecture, product management, and technical product marketing.



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Navigating Compliance Challenges Across Your External Attack Surface

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.

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

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

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?

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

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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Shrink your External Attack Surface with Better Communications

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

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

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

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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