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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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GigaOm Radar for Attack Surface Management 2024

The expansion of an organization's attack surface continues to present a critical business challenge. Download the GigaOm Radar for Attack Surface Management to get an overview of the available ASM solutions, identify leading offerings, and evaluate the best solution for you.  More...

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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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External attack surface management is advancing cybersecurity into a new era. Learn how security experts across all industries benefit from using CyCognito’s platform.

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We believe all organizations should be able to protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers.

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The knowledge you need to manage and protect your attack surface.

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Attack Surface Protection

Attack surface protection is the process of continuously discovering, classifying and testing the security of your attacker-exposed IT ecosystem.

It combines advanced ASM capabilities with automated multi-factor testing to discover the paths of least resistance that attackers are most likely to use to compromise organizations. The first, foundational step in attack surface protection is to fully map the organization’s externally-exposed attack surface. While most ASM and EASM approaches stop there or use a proxy risk measure (such as banner grabbing), attack surface protection takes that process a step further. Attack surface protection uses active security testing that goes beyond simply mapping out the attack surface and applying indirect security measurements. To complete the protection process, discovered risks must be prioritized, so that security teams can plan their remediation efforts and address the most potentially damaging issues.

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What is Attack Surface Protection?

Eliminate cybersecurity risks before attackers can exploit them.