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By Jason Pappalexis ・

An accurate external asset inventory forms the foundation for reduced exposure and risk. CyCognito’s unique approach to organizational reconnaissance, asset discovery, and contextualization provides IT Security teams with meaningful information that reduces time to remediation.

Read more about Discovery: Don’t Let the Wrong Definition Impact Your Risk Exposure
By Emma Zaballos ・

Cyber Monday is right around the corner and millions of consumers will flock to ecommerce websites in search of the best deals. But can shoppers be assured that the sites they do business with are secure and compliant? Before and during the holiday shopping season, retailers need to ensure that ecommerce websites with missing WAFs, cryptographic vulnerabilities, or easily exploited critical issues.

Read more about This Holiday Shopping Season, Your Attack Surface is Open for Business
By Jason Pappalexis ・

Achieving compliance for any sized organization is often time-consuming and stressful, forcing many security teams to divert their attention away from the tasks at hand. The value (and necessity) of achieving a successful audit efficiently cannot be understated, but the challenges are real. Using CyCognito to discover and test externally exposed assets and dynamically map issues to compliance frameworks provides the continuous visibility needed to streamline their work.

Read more about Navigating Compliance Challenges Across Your External Attack Surface
By Jason Pappalexis ・

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.

Read more about Continuous Threat Exposure Management – Your Path to Reduced External Cyber Security Risk
By Aviel Tzarfaty ・

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are the most common protection for web applications. WAFs protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between the application and the internet. However, WAFs need to be deployed and configured to protect web applications specifically. If they are not, this leaves open a potential route for an attacker.

Read more about How to Ensure WAF Coverage Using CyCognito
By Jason Pappalexis ・

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).

Read more about If you aren’t running the right security testing, how protected are you?