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BYOPT (Bring Your Own Pen Tester) A CyCognito Use Case for Pen Testing
By Phillip Wylie
Was Hacker in Residence at CyCognito
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
By Phillip Wylie
Was Hacker in Residence at CyCognito
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.
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The Great Resignation Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How to Retain Your Cybersecurity Employees.
By Jim Wachhaus
Was Director of Technical Product Marketing at CyCognito
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.”
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Empowering Security Operations To Know Which Risks to Remediate First
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.
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Exploit Intelligence: It’s Not Just for Offensive Security Pros Anymore
By Phillip Wylie
Was Hacker in Residence at CyCognito
March 16, 2022
Equipping defenders with exploit intelligence is a way CyCognito helps defenders learn the offensive security side of things.
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Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Discover Everything
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
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. A Real World Example 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…
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Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Prioritize Risks that Endanger Your Business
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022
With a global pandemic affecting everyone, prioritization has determined Covid-19 vaccination eligibility and in what order people receive their vaccine.
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Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Winning the Remediation Race
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022
Risk remediation is a wildly unequal race between attackers with advanced processes and attack tools and defenders struggling to keep afloat with tedious, manual processes and 20-year-old technology.
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Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Time Crowns the Winner in Security
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022
Every time a new security gap is created, it is an all-out race between attackers and defenders, with the winner taking all.
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