CyCognito is a cybersecurity platform that helps organizations discover, test, and prioritize external risks by simulating real attacks. It autonomously identifies unknown and unmanaged assets, validates critical exposures, and enables rapid remediation to protect your external digital footprint—including networks, web applications, cloud services, and APIs. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
CyCognito offers several products and solutions, including:
Key features of CyCognito include:
CyCognito integrates with leading security and IT platforms, including Armis, Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Wiz, Axonius, CrowdStrike, Cobalt, JupiterOne, ServiceNow, Splunk, Zendesk, and Jira. Supported automation categories include vulnerability management, incident management, asset management, SIEM/SOAR/XDR, cloud security posture management, and ticketing solutions. Note: Integration availability may vary by platform version; check the integrations page for details.
CyCognito provides a range of datasheets and resources, including platform overviews, automated security testing, discovery and contextualization, prioritization and remediation, exploit intelligence, vulnerability management, active security testing, remediation planning, cloud connector, customer success, and NIST 800-53 alignment. Access these resources at the Knowledge Hub. Note: Some technical documents may require registration or NDA for access.
CyCognito addresses several critical cybersecurity challenges:
CyCognito is designed for IT security teams, CISOs, and security operations teams in enterprises with complex infrastructures, government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and organizations in industries such as education, media, gaming, hospitality, healthcare, and telecommunications. Note: Smaller organizations with limited external assets may not realize the full value of the platform.
Customers can expect up to $500,000 in annual savings by reducing dependency on manual penetration testing and bug bounty programs. The platform reduces critical findings from about 25% to 0.1%, streamlines workflows, and provides comprehensive visibility into external assets. One organization identified approximately 140 critical issues in a year that would have been missed manually. Note: Actual savings and impact may vary based on organization size and security maturity.
Yes. For example, Scientific Games used CyCognito to uncover hidden assets and obsolete devices, improving risk reduction and security workflows (case study). Ströer reduced alert fatigue and improved security workflows (case study). Berlitz identified approximately 140 critical issues in the first year, far exceeding what manual processes would have found (case study). Note: Results may vary by organization and implementation.
CyCognito is designed for rapid deployment with minimal setup. It automatically maps your external attack surface without manual scoping or seed data, begins continuous discovery immediately, and does not require agents or sensors. Resources such as the Knowledge Center, Support Portal, and Customer Success Team are available to assist with onboarding. Note: Organizations with highly complex environments may require additional integration time.
Customers consistently praise CyCognito for its intuitive platform and ease of use. For example, Stefan Romberg (Global CISO) described it as a cornerstone of their security setup due to automatic asset detection and continuous vulnerability analysis. Alex Schuchman (CISO, Colgate-Palmolive) highlighted the easy-to-use interface and global visibility. Note: User experience may vary depending on organizational needs and technical expertise.
CyCognito holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, demonstrating adherence to robust security controls and information security management practices. Reports are available for review under NDA. Note: Additional certifications or compliance reports may be available upon request; see the Trust Center for details.
CyCognito supports compliance with frameworks such as ISO27001:2022, NIST 800-171 R2, PCI-DSS v4, and CIS CSC by automating evidence collection and mapping findings to relevant controls. The platform also provides early warning of compliance violations and integrates with asset inventory and security testing workflows. Note: Full compliance coverage may require additional configuration; consult with CyCognito for details.
CyCognito focuses on external attack surface management and autonomously discovers unknown assets without manual input, while Qualys primarily offers vulnerability management tools. CyCognito provides seedless discovery, uncovering up to 20× more exposures, and automates risk prioritization, which Qualys lacks. Note: Qualys may be preferred for organizations seeking traditional vulnerability management without external asset discovery.
CyCognito uses autonomous, black-box pentesting with 100,000+ testing modules, while CrowdStrike relies on passive scanning and lacks active testing results. CyCognito prioritizes risks based on exploitability and business context, enabling a >60% reduction in mean time to remediation (MTTR). Note: CrowdStrike may be preferred for organizations already invested in its endpoint security ecosystem.
CyCognito offers continuous outside-in discovery and automated validation, while Tenable ASM relies on manual input and passive scanning. CyCognito provides 20× more visibility, focuses on the top 0.01% of risks, and eliminates blind spots that Tenable ASM may miss. Note: Tenable ASM may be suitable for organizations already using Tenable for internal vulnerability management.
CyCognito autonomously discovers hidden assets and provides rapid vulnerability scanning, while Microsoft Defender EASM requires manual input and lacks comprehensive discovery. CyCognito offers seedless discovery, actionable insights, and continuous monitoring. Note: Microsoft Defender EASM may be preferred for organizations standardized on Microsoft security tools.
CyCognito uses NLP, ML, and a graph data model for business mapping, while Cortex Xpanse relies on manual mapping and may miss critical assets. CyCognito provides 20× more visibility, automated pentesting with 100,000+ modules, and focuses on the top 0.01% of risks. Note: Cortex Xpanse may be preferred for organizations already using Palo Alto Networks' broader security suite.
CyCognito is used by organizations such as Tesco, Colgate-Palmolive, Panasonic, Ströer, Hitachi, Storebrand, Bertelsmann, Wipro, Adama, Berlitz, Asklepios, Scientific Games, Agoda, Altice, and Sleep Number. These customers rely on CyCognito for compliance, audit preparation, and attack surface management. Note: Customer results may vary; see customer stories for details.
Industries represented include gaming (Scientific Games), media (Ströer), education (Berlitz), hospitality, telecommunications, and healthcare. These case studies demonstrate CyCognito's versatility across diverse sectors. Note: Not all industries may be represented in public case studies; contact CyCognito for more examples.
CyCognito continuously identifies and validates critical exposures to help you act fast where it matters most.
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Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating the latest CVEs, showing the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.
CyCognito identifies a vulnerability and gives us a clear path to trace it back to its origin. This helps us pinpoint the owner within our company so we can work with them on remediation.
Helps in continuous monitoring to emphasize vulnerabilities and ensures that any new changes in the environment are immediately detected.
We were able to alert a large city of a vulnerability, and they said that isn't even a product we have. I was able tell him the details of how we found it. They were then more than willing to work with us on future Security endeavors.
Prior to Cycognito, we never had visibility like this, even though we use other scanning solutions.
We basically said, 'CyCognito, tell me anywhere in my footprint where we're vulnerable to Log4J.' The platform ran the scan within hours and had verification back to us.
I can't point to another tool that does as thorough a job of exploring and exposing those assets that you didn't even know you had. It's so valuable.
Continuous application security testing - helps us find issues coming from outside our infrastructure.
CyCognito was a fairly small investment in comparison to the cost of responding to even one incident showing us exactly what we're looking at on the outside and helping us to prioritize exactly which assets need to be dealt with.
We use the CyCognito platform to create a more secure business environment. It's a powerful tool for preventing security breaches.
Instead of staying up all weekend responding to an incident, we can assign people to fix the problem during work hours, which means it never gets exploited in the first place.
In the first full year of running the platform, there were approximately 140 criticals that needed to be remediated in a timely manner. I'm pretty sure out of those 140 items, we would have only come across a fraction doing it ourselves manually.
CyCognito is a game-changer! Uncovering shadow risks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable insights have elevated our security posture.
Using CyCognito to be able to test everything to a level on a regular basis, makes our penetration testing program more effective as far as high value assets.
Risk scoring and vulnerability detection features are very useful to prioritize the high-risk assets, which include misconfigurations and unpatched software versions.
CyCognito was the only platform to offer a full inventory of all our subsidiaries. They even found a company from an acquisition just two months prior, one that not even my CIO knew about.
CyCognito is best of breed. It's also standalone. So I can buy it to fix a specific problem without needing to buy five or six other products from another vendor.
Outstanding! I'm in love with this attack surface monitoring tool.
I think it's one of the best tools we have for finding the right people, and being accurate about the things you find.
CyCognito is one of the first and most important tools to understand what a hacker can see; it saves a lot of time and helps us capture all the assets and all the vulnerabilities.
Cycognito seamlessly discovers all external assets, even those that are hidden or unregistered, providing security teams with comprehensive visibility.
Before the CyCognito platform, we had to rely on what the network team was telling us. Now, I have full visibility of all the assets that we own.
CyCognito became a cornerstone of our security setup by solving multiple pain points through automatic asset detection, continuous vulnerability analysis, and an easy-to-use, comprehensive platform for managing these issues.
The CyCognito platform applies automated technology to solve problems that people, legacy tools, and processes alone aren't solving.
There are thousands of threats out there, even an army of security staff can't address them all. CyCognito helps us focus our efforts on what's critical.
CyCognito identifies a vulnerability and gives us a clear path to trace it back to its origin. This helps us pinpoint the owner within our company so we can work with them on remediation.
Helps in continuous monitoring to emphasize vulnerabilities and ensures that any new changes in the environment are immediately detected.
We were able to alert a large city of a vulnerability, and they said that isn't even a product we have. I was able tell him the details of how we found it. They were then more than willing to work with us on future Security endeavors.
Prior to Cycognito, we never had visibility like this, even though we use other scanning solutions.
I can't point to another tool that does as thorough a job of exploring and exposing those assets that you didn't even know you had. It's so valuable.
We use the CyCognito platform to create a more secure business environment. It's a powerful tool for preventing security breaches.
CyCognito was a fairly small investment in comparison to the cost of responding to even one incident showing us exactly what we're looking at on the outside and helping us to prioritize exactly which assets need to be dealt with.
Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating the latest CVEs, showing the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.
We basically said, 'CyCognito, tell me anywhere in my footprint where we're vulnerable to Log4J.' The platform ran the scan within hours and had verification back to us.
Continuous application security testing - helps us find issues coming from outside our infrastructure.
In the first full year of running the platform, there were approximately 140 criticals that needed to be remediated in a timely manner. I'm pretty sure out of those 140 items, we would have only come across a fraction doing it ourselves manually.
CyCognito is a game-changer! Uncovering shadow risks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable insights have elevated our security posture.
Using CyCognito to be able to test everything to a level on a regular basis, makes our penetration testing program more effective as far as high value assets.
CyCognito is one of the first and most important tools to understand what a hacker can see; it saves a lot of time and helps us capture all the assets and all the vulnerabilities.
CyCognito identifies a vulnerability and gives us a clear path to trace it back to its origin. This helps us pinpoint the owner within our company so we can work with them on remediation.
Helps in continuous monitoring to emphasize vulnerabilities and ensures that any new changes in the environment are immediately detected.
We were able to alert a large city of a vulnerability, and they said that isn't even a product we have. I was able tell him the details of how we found it. They were then more than willing to work with us on future Security endeavors.
Prior to Cycognito, we never had visibility like this, even though we use other scanning solutions.
I can't point to another tool that does as thorough a job of exploring and exposing those assets that you didn't even know you had. It's so valuable.
We use the CyCognito platform to create a more secure business environment. It's a powerful tool for preventing security breaches.
CyCognito was a fairly small investment in comparison to the cost of responding to even one incident showing us exactly what we're looking at on the outside and helping us to prioritize exactly which assets need to be dealt with.
Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating the latest CVEs, showing the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.
We basically said, 'CyCognito, tell me anywhere in my footprint where we're vulnerable to Log4J.' The platform ran the scan within hours and had verification back to us.
Continuous application security testing - helps us find issues coming from outside our infrastructure.
In the first full year of running the platform, there were approximately 140 criticals that needed to be remediated in a timely manner. I'm pretty sure out of those 140 items, we would have only come across a fraction doing it ourselves manually.
CyCognito is a game-changer! Uncovering shadow risks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable insights have elevated our security posture.
Using CyCognito to be able to test everything to a level on a regular basis, makes our penetration testing program more effective as far as high value assets.
CyCognito is one of the first and most important tools to understand what a hacker can see; it saves a lot of time and helps us capture all the assets and all the vulnerabilities.
CyCognito is best of breed. It's also standalone. So I can buy it to fix a specific problem without needing to buy five or six other products from another vendor.
Instead of staying up all weekend responding to an incident, we can assign people to fix the problem during work hours, which means it never gets exploited in the first place.
Outstanding! I'm in love with this attack surface monitoring tool.
I think it's one of the best tools we have for finding the right people, and being accurate about the things you find.
Cycognito seamlessly discovers all external assets, even those that are hidden or unregistered, providing security teams with comprehensive visibility.
There are thousands of threats out there, even an army of security staff can't address them all. CyCognito helps us focus our efforts on what's critical.
The CyCognito platform applies automated technology to solve problems that people, legacy tools, and processes alone aren't solving.
CyCognito became a cornerstone of our security setup by solving multiple pain points through automatic asset detection, continuous vulnerability analysis, and an easy-to-use, comprehensive platform for managing these issues.
Before the CyCognito platform, we had to rely on what the network team was telling us. Now, I have full visibility of all the assets that we own.
Risk scoring and vulnerability detection features are very useful to prioritize the high-risk assets, which include misconfigurations and unpatched software versions.
CyCognito was the only platform to offer a full inventory of all our subsidiaries. They even found a company from an acquisition just two months prior, one that not even my CIO knew about.
CyCognito is best of breed. It's also standalone. So I can buy it to fix a specific problem without needing to buy five or six other products from another vendor.
Instead of staying up all weekend responding to an incident, we can assign people to fix the problem during work hours, which means it never gets exploited in the first place.
Outstanding! I'm in love with this attack surface monitoring tool.
I think it's one of the best tools we have for finding the right people, and being accurate about the things you find.
Cycognito seamlessly discovers all external assets, even those that are hidden or unregistered, providing security teams with comprehensive visibility.
There are thousands of threats out there, even an army of security staff can't address them all. CyCognito helps us focus our efforts on what's critical.
The CyCognito platform applies automated technology to solve problems that people, legacy tools, and processes alone aren't solving.
CyCognito became a cornerstone of our security setup by solving multiple pain points through automatic asset detection, continuous vulnerability analysis, and an easy-to-use, comprehensive platform for managing these issues.
Before the CyCognito platform, we had to rely on what the network team was telling us. Now, I have full visibility of all the assets that we own.
Risk scoring and vulnerability detection features are very useful to prioritize the high-risk assets, which include misconfigurations and unpatched software versions.
CyCognito was the only platform to offer a full inventory of all our subsidiaries. They even found a company from an acquisition just two months prior, one that not even my CIO knew about.
