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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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State of External Exposure Management

Download CyCognito’s State of External Exposure Management Report to learn key recommendations that your Security teams can implement to improve their exposure management strategy and minimize risk. More...

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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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False Positive

A false positive is an alert that a detective and protection software generates when legitimate activity is classified as an attack.

This may not seem as harmful as a false negative, but it can be detrimental in the long term. In the short term, it can result in a website, file, or item being quarantined, blocked, or deleted and in the long term lead to alert fatigue and ignoring alarms. Like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, the problem is liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.

False positives can also occur easily in attack surface management when assets are incorrectly attributed to an attack surface. In these cases it’s important to have a facility for vetting these and excluding them from future assessments.

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Improve Attack Surface Visibility While Reducing False Positives

Join Meir Asiskovich, VP of Product at CyCognito, as he demonstrates how your Security team can build a more streamlined and focused attack surface visibility program that eliminates this noise, prioritizing risks based on their business impact, discoverability, and exploitability intelligence.