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A New Framework: Understanding Exposure Management
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 11, 2024
Savvy security leaders are moving from the legacy framework of vulnerability management to the emerging framework of exposure management. To learn more about common challenges security teams might face on their journey to exposure management, check out this report: “Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management: A Roadmap for Modernizing Your Application Attack Surface Security.”
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Six Signs that Exposure Management is Right for Your Organization
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
October 14, 2024
Exposure Management (EM), introduced by Gartner in 2022, represents the evolution or vulnerability management. With EM, security teams can address visibility and testing gaps, and stay ahead of threats. This blog includes six signs that your organization needs EM, and five essential requirements to implement it.
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Think your attack surface is covered? Let’s look at the math.
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
September 30, 2024
Many organizations believe their security testing is robust, but common tools like vulnerability scanning and penetration testing often leave surprising gaps. Infrequent tests, limited asset coverage and inaccurate results leave exposure and risk. Achieving ideal security goals requires full coverage, high accuracy, and frequent testing—criteria most approaches struggle to deliver. CyCognito bridges these gaps with automated testing for network systems and web applications, helping organizations strengthen their security, continuously.
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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.
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Web Application Security Testing: Struggles, Shortfalls and Solutions
By Graham Rance
Field CTO
June 3, 2024
A survey of cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. and U.K. reveals challenges in web application security testing. Key findings include extensive attack surfaces due to numerous in-house and third-party applications, frequent security incidents, concerns about the effectiveness of existing tools, and inadequate testing coverage. Additionally, over half of respondents struggle to remediate discovered vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the need for improved web application security testing strategies.
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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.
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CyCognito Recognized as Leader in the GigaOm Radar for Attack Surface Management 2024
By Carrie Oakes
Was Sr. Director of Product Marketing
March 18, 2024
This GigaOm Radar report examines 22 of the leading ASM solutions in the market. It compares offerings against the key capabilities, including continuous discovery of attack surface, managing inventory of attack surface assets, identifying risks in attack surface, and false positive management. CyCognito was named a Leader and Fast Mover because of its innovative approach to asset discovery and vulnerability assessment, balanced with a solid foundation in mature platform offerings.
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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.
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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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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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