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External Exposure & Attack Surface Management For Dummies

As your attack surface has grown to cloud infrastructures and across subsidiaries, attackers are looking for and finding unknown and unmanaged assets to serve as their entry points. 

Perspectives

BYOPT (Bring Your Own Pen Tester) A CyCognito Use Case for Pen Testing

Phillip-Wylie
By Phillip Wylie
Was Hacker in Residence at CyCognito
June 2, 2022

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.



Research

Exclusive EASM Report: Mergers and Acquisitions Top 2022 External Attack Surface Management Risks

Tom-Spring
By Tom Spring
Was a Media Manager at CyCognito
June 2, 2022

Mergers and acquisitions, poorly managed web apps and insecure PII represent biggest risks tied to external attack surfaces in 2022. 



Company

CyCognito Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance

Alex-Zaslavsky
By Alex Zaslavsky
Was Sr. Product Manager at CyCognito
May 23, 2022

At CyCognito, our mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. We can’t do that unless we ourselves maintain the highest standards of security. That’s why we’re pleased to announce that CyCognito has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation. 



Products

CyCognito Operationalizes CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
May 20, 2022

“Bad news, early” is a common business mindset designed to communicate urgency behind the need to identify small problems before they become big problems. 



Research

Big Problem with BIG-IP: Vulnerability Alert | CVE-2022-1388 in F5 BIG-IP

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
May 12, 2022

On May 4th, 2022, F5 announced their internal discovery of a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2022-1388, that affects all firmware versions of their BIG-IP product.



Research

One month in: CyCognito looks at Spring4Shell

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
May 5, 2022

NIST assigned Spring4Shell a score of 9.8, most likely out of concern of a similar blast radius to Log4Shell, which was trivial to exploit and very common.



Research

Detecting and Validating Spring4Shell Vulnerability: CVE-2022-22965

Alex-Zaslavsky
By Alex Zaslavsky
Was Sr. Product Manager at CyCognito
April 6, 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting the Spring Framework, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation.



Perspectives

How to Get the Most out of Pen Tests

Phillip-Wylie
By Phillip Wylie
Was Hacker in Residence at CyCognito
March 30, 2022

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. 



Perspectives

The Great Resignation Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How to Retain Your Cybersecurity Employees.

Jim-Wachhaus
By Jim Wachhaus
Was Director of Technical Product Marketing at CyCognito
March 24, 2022

Despite the best efforts of automation and AI, we will always need people to prevent hackers from stealing data and wreaking havoc on computer networks essential for most businesses today. In essence, a domino effect over the last two years of Covid-19 has led to the “Great Resignation” and the “Great Retirement.”



Perspectives

Empowering Security Operations To Know Which Risks to Remediate First

Dima-Potekhin
By Dima Potekhin
CTO and Co-Founder
March 17, 2022

Exploit Intelligence offers an end-to-end solution that prioritizes which risks to remediate immediately, before they are exploited, by proactively discovering external assets, testing vulnerabilities, and providing expert threat- plus risk-based insight.




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CyCognito Research Report

State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

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Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

Download the report to learn about the historical trends behind the emergence of exposure management, how to develop a strategic plan and assemble a team to smoothly transition frameworks, and example tech stacks to consider for your organization.

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