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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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Stop Remediating Backward – Reactive Approaches Aren’t a Long-Term Solution
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
June 17, 2024
SecOps is often challenged to prioritize issues efficiently. CyCognito delivers the accuracy, coverage, and frequency for confident remediation.
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No Room for Doubt – Why Security Testing is Essential for your External Attack Surface
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
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
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).
Featured, Research
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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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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