Many organizations believe their security testing is robust, but common tools like vulnerability scanning and penetration testing often leave surprising gaps. Infrequent tests, limited asset coverage and inaccurate results leave exposure and risk. Achieving ideal security goals requires full coverage, high accuracy, and frequent testing—criteria most approaches struggle to deliver. CyCognito bridges these gaps with automated testing for network systems and web applications, helping organizations strengthen their security, continuously.
Gaps in security testing involve more than missed assets – infrequent and inaccurate security testing can be just as big. This blog provides a five-step plan to help you find testing gaps and tighten your testing program, improving risk management, decision-making, and cost efficiency. A must-read for anyone looking to strengthen their security across their external attack surface.
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.
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.
