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The CISA Points Way Forward for More Effective Vulnerability Management with Directive 23-01
By Carrie Oakes
Was 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.
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No Room for Error: Experiments with Generative AI in EASM
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
November 13, 2023
Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence that generates new content –including text, images, and video – in response to user prompts. These AI models are trained on huge volumes of data and use algorithms to create content that has a similar structure to their training data
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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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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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Vulnerability Prioritization: What to Consider
By Greg Delaney
Was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at CyCognito
August 24, 2023
Vulnerability prioritization is the process of identifying and ranking vulnerabilities in order to focus efforts on the most important vulnerabilities.
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How to Supercharge your Vulnerability Remediation Process
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
August 9, 2023
Vulnerability remediation is the process of identifying and neutralizing security issues affecting cyber assets. Because these issues can cause millions of dollars in lost revenue, remediation costs, or fines if they result in a data breach or damage to cyber-infrastructure, vulnerability remediation is one of the most important parts of cybersecurity.
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External Exposure Management: Key to Safeguarding Your Attack Surface
By Tim Matthews
Was Chief Marketing Officer
August 3, 2023
Manage the entire attack surface with external exposure management. Learn more about the key ways to safeguard your attack surface at CyCognito.
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How Automation Can Empower Your Security Operations Team
By Aviel Tzarfaty
Was a Product Manager at CyCognito
November 21, 2022
Automation and intelligent workflows are the cornerstones of an effective external risk management approach to cybersecurity and a surefire way to reduce mean time to remediation of vulnerabilities.
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Rash of Breaches Hit Businesses in Australia Hard
By Tom Spring
Was a Media Manager at CyCognito
November 17, 2022
Recent spate of Aussie breaches spur huge fines to push security teams to tighten their external attack surface.
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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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