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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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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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.”
Read more about The Great Resignation Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How to Retain Your Cybersecurity Employees.
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.
Read more about Empowering Security Operations To Know Which Risks to Remediate FirstEquipping defenders with exploit intelligence is a way CyCognito helps defenders learn the offensive security side of things.
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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.
Read more about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Discover EverythingBusiness 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…
Read more about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Assess All Assets to Detect All RisksWith a global pandemic affecting everyone, prioritization has determined Covid-19 vaccination eligibility and in what order people receive their vaccine.
Read more about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Prioritize Risks that Endanger Your BusinessRisk 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.
Read more about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Winning the Remediation RaceEvery time a new security gap is created, it is an all-out race between attackers and defenders, with the winner taking all.
Read more about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Time Crowns the Winner in Security