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What’s New in CyCognito: July 2025 Platform Enhancements
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
July 21, 2025
This month’s CyCognito updates give security teams more precision, clarity, and control in exposure management. With the general availability of Teams for advanced role-based access control and enhanced service evidence for greater detection transparency, users gain deeper insights into their environments. Smarter search, streamlined navigation via the new Quick Start feature, and unified asset management improvements all support faster, more confident decision-making.
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Faster Fixes: Solving the Security Testing Trade-off
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
May 19, 2025
Security teams are under constant pressure to find and fix vulnerabilities faster, but traditional approaches to security testing often create delays. In this blog, we explore why active security testing, despite its perception for being slow and resource intensive, is the key to achieving faster and more confident fixes. You will learn how accurate testing results drive smarter remediation decisions, how fully automated testing at scale overcomes common operational challenges, and why reducing your window of exposure requires moving beyond passive scanning. If your organization is struggling with long remediation cycles and hidden risks, this is the blueprint for accelerating your security outcomes.
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External Attack Surface Management Promised Visibility — But Did It Deliver?
By Graham Rance
Field CTO
May 12, 2025
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) promised to illuminate the unknown, but early tools barely scratched the surface, relying on what security teams already knew. Today’s attacker-centric EASM flips the script, discovering unknown assets, mapping them to the business, and validating real-world risk with zero input. The result isn’t just visibility—it’s proof of exposure, and a clear path to action.
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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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Five Questions Your EASM Vendor Doesn’t Want You to Ask
By Tim Matthews
Was Chief Marketing Officer
October 7, 2024
With EASM becoming essential to security operations, many vendors are jumping on board, but not all solutions are enterprise-grade. Basic EASM products can waste time, undermine security teams, and offer a false sense of protection. To avoid these pitfalls, ask your vendor these five critical questions—if they can’t answer, it’s a red flag.
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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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A Recent Interview Uncovers How Berlitz Corporation Reduced Critical Alerts by 86% and Saved 100K with CyCognito
By Brittany Busa
Customer Marketing and Advocacy Lead
July 22, 2024
I recently sat down with Daniel Schlegel, the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Security Officer, and Chief Privacy Officer of Berlitz Corporation, a global leader in language training and cultural education, to hear about their transformative experience using CyCognito to gain global external attack surface visibility, reduce costs, and enhance their security posture.
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Recent Interview Reveals How Asklepios Kliniken GmbH Improves Risk Exposure with CyCognito
By Brittany Busa
Customer Marketing and Advocacy Lead
July 1, 2024
I recently sat down with Daniel Maier-Johnson, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Markus Diehm, Cybersecurity Analyst, with Asklepios Kliniken GmbH, Germany’s second-largest private healthcare provider, to hear about their experience using CyCognito to gain continuous monitoring, prioritize cyber risks, and safeguard patient information.
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What CISOs Need to Know About the SEC’s New Rules
By Tim Matthews
Was Chief Marketing Officer
May 6, 2024
The U.S. SEC recently adopted new cybersecurity disclosure rules. This post describes the new disclosure rules and the potential burdens being placed on CISOs.
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How Ströer, Uncovers and Secures Hidden Digital Assets with CyCognito
By Brittany Busa
Customer Marketing and Advocacy Lead
March 4, 2024
Benjamin Bachmann, VP of Group Information Security at Ströer, transformed the German media conglomerate’s security posture by implementing CyCognito.
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