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Active Security Testing

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Active security testing reduces your risk of attacks

Cybercriminals actively test your external attack surface to uncover gaps, exposures, and misconfigurations they can leverage.

Fight back with CyCognito’s fully automated multi-pass and multi-engine active test architecture to proactively resolve issues before they become incidents.

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Key Benefits

Active security testing is a carefully controlled two-way conversation between a tester and an asset. This interaction leads to more high-fidelity results that permit issues to be resolved promptly.

Validate Security Controls

Ensure your assets are secure, no matter the size of your external attack surface

Focus on Urgent Issues

Tens of thousands of tests, including application testing/DAST, for unparalleled insight

Remediate with Confidence

High accuracy, multi-pass and multi-engine architecture

Validate Security Controls

Uncover gaps before they become issues

Active testing verifies your security measures and controls. These simulated attacks allow SecOps teams to see how their defenses perform and adjust accordingly.

Through a broad regimen of network and web application tests, including dynamic application security tests (DAST), CyCognito rigorously assesses the state of your security infrastructure, identifying web application firewall presence, exposed data, lack of SSO/CAPTCHA, lack of cookie consent, authentication issues, injection vulnerabilities, and more.

Focus on Urgent Issues

Move beyond CVEs and CVSS

Unlike single-pass banner-grabbing technologies, active testing is a two-way multi-phase conversation between a test engine and a target. Each stage of dialog informs the next test phase, leading to fine-tuning and additional insight.

CyCognito moves beyond CVEs and CVSS by combining high-confidence active test results, business context, and technical context for unique discoverability and attractiveness scores and your most complete picture of risk.

Remediate with Confidence

Stop chasing false positives

Active security testing mimics the behavior of a human attacker. Built-in success criteria provide the high confidence, and meaningful results you require.

CyCognito’s payload-based security testing, delivered by our multi-pass and multi-engine test architecture, has the high-fidelity and low noise you need to ensure your incident response teams always work on the most important and urgent issues.

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Accelerate your risk remediation

Getting results without disrupting business is essential for CIOs.

With the CyCognito platform, you can manage your risk confidently and intentionally to minimize your organization’s risk exposure. Learn about our revolutionary approach to external cyber risk management. Discover more about our solutions and how we help organizations identify, understand and master their risk in profound new ways.

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Solution Brief

Security Testing

Download this brief to learn about the challenge of testing at scale, how to stay ahead of your changing attack surface, and how you can best prioritize and remediate risk.

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