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Perspectives

Six Signs that Exposure Management is Right for Your Organization

Jason-Pappalexis
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

Tim-Matthews
By Tim Matthews
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.

Jason-Pappalexis
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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Common security testing approaches leave gaps. Here’s how to find them.

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
September 16, 2024

Gaps in security testing involve more than missed assets – infrequent and inaccurate security testing can be just as big. This blog provides a five-step plan to help you find testing gaps and tighten your testing program, improving risk management, decision-making, and cost efficiency. A must-read for anyone looking to strengthen their security across their external attack surface.



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A Recent Interview Uncovers How Berlitz Corporation Reduced Critical Alerts by 86% and Saved 100K with CyCognito

Brittany-Busa
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

Brittany-Busa
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.



Perspectives

What CISOs Need to Know About the SEC’s New Rules

Tim-Matthews
By Tim Matthews
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.



Perspectives

How Ströer, Uncovers and Secures Hidden Digital Assets with CyCognito

Brittany-Busa
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.



Perspectives

The CISA Points Way Forward for More Effective Vulnerability Management with Directive 23-01

Carrie-Oakes
By Carrie Oakes
Sr. Director of Product Marketing
February 26, 2024

CISA’s proactive approach to cybersecurity is highlighted, focusing on two directives: BOD 22-01, which mandates agencies to consult the “Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog,” and BOD 23-01, aimed at improving agency asset visibility and vulnerability detection. These directives emphasize asset discovery and vulnerability enumeration as crucial activities for risk reduction. CyCognito’s platform aligns with these directives by automating discovery, contextualizing assets, and prioritizing vulnerabilities based on attacker perspective, enabling organizations to efficiently close gaps in their attack surface management.



Perspectives

The Long Tail of the Supply Chain: Leveraging Exposure Management to Mitigate Risk from Current or Former Vendors

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
February 20, 2024

Networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks recently exposed current and former customer information due to a Salesforce misconfiguration. While incidents like these can give attackers valuable data and footholds into your network, leveraging exposure management best practices and processes can help organizations mitigate these risks.




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CyCognito Research Report

State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

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Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

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