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Enable your security and operations teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate exposures to stay ahead of attackers.

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The CyCognito platform helps you identify all of the attacker-exposed assets in your IT ecosystem for a complete view of your attack surface.

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Perspectives

How Automation Can Empower Your Security Operations Team

Aviel-Tzarfaty
By Aviel Tzarfaty
Product Manager
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. 



Perspectives

Rash of Breaches Hit Businesses in Australia Hard

Tom-Spring
By Tom Spring
Media Manager
November 17, 2022

Recent spate of Aussie breaches spur huge fines to push security teams to tighten their external attack surface.



Perspectives

Three Actions to Reduce External Risk

Jason-Pappalexis
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.



Perspectives

BYOPT (Bring Your Own Pen Tester) A CyCognito Use Case for Pen Testing

Phillip-Wylie
By Phillip Wylie
Hacker in Residence
June 2, 2022

While some organizations may be fine with an ASM solution that automatically bundles in pen testing, for more companies I think CyCognito, supplemented with a dedicated pen testing team, is a better solution.



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How to Get the Most out of Pen Tests

Phillip-Wylie
By Phillip Wylie
Hacker in Residence
March 30, 2022

Over the years, pen tests have increasingly become a mandated component of regulatory and compliance standards. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requiring pentests be performed in card data environments (CDEs) grew this need for compliance-based pen testing. 



Perspectives

The Great Resignation Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How to Retain Your Cybersecurity Employees.

Jim-Wachhaus
By Jim Wachhaus
Director of Technical Product Marketing
March 24, 2022

Despite the best efforts of automation and AI, we will always need people to prevent hackers from stealing data and wreaking havoc on computer networks essential for most businesses today. In essence, a domino effect over the last two years of Covid-19 has led to the “Great Resignation” and the “Great Retirement.”



Perspectives

Empowering Security Operations To Know Which Risks to Remediate First

Dima-Potekhin
By Dima Potekhin
CTO and Co-Founder
March 17, 2022

Exploit Intelligence offers an end-to-end solution that prioritizes which risks to remediate immediately, before they are exploited, by proactively discovering external assets, testing vulnerabilities, and providing expert threat- plus risk-based insight.



Perspectives

Exploit Intelligence: It’s Not Just for Offensive Security Pros Anymore

Phillip-Wylie
By Phillip Wylie
Hacker in Residence
March 16, 2022

Equipping defenders with exploit intelligence is a way CyCognito helps defenders learn the offensive security side of things. 



Perspectives

Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Discover Everything

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022

Imagine a cybersecurity team that is working hard with the usual tools and best practices. All seems on course for protecting the enterprise attack surface.



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Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Assess All Assets to Detect All Risks

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022

Business risks lurk in many places. For cybersecurity, the worst risks are often the ones you never saw coming.  To illustrate, consider this real example: A manufacturing conglomerate has an engineer build a Javascript connector for remote access to a mainframe but inadvertently exposes it to the internet. How do you discover this risk and its potential damage? A penetration test will not help unless you happen to be testing that particular machine among hundreds or thousands of servers. A vulnerability scan also will not help, as the risk will be invisible because it is not among the Common Vulnerabilities and…




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CyCognito Research Report

State of External Exposure Management

Download CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report to learn key recommendations that your Security teams can implement to improve their exposure management strategy and minimize risk.

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External Exposure & Attack Surface Management For Dummies

As your attack surface has grown to cloud infrastructures and across subsidiaries, attackers are looking for and finding unknown and unmanaged assets to serve as their entry points.

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