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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.



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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.



Perspectives

Exploit Intelligence: It’s Not Just for Offensive Security Pros Anymore

Phillip-Wylie
By Phillip Wylie
Was Hacker in Residence at CyCognito
March 16, 2022

Equipping defenders with exploit intelligence is a way CyCognito helps defenders learn the offensive security side of things. 



Products

Identifying and Mitigating Potential Russian Cyber Attacks – Proactive Measures in the CyCognito Platform

Jeff-Romano
By Jeff Romano
Was Chief Customer Officer at CyCognito
March 3, 2022

Effective immediately, the CyCognito platform is able to help identify and mitigate the gaps used by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.



Perspectives

Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Discover Everything

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022

Imagine a cybersecurity team that is working hard with the usual tools and best practices. All seems on course for protecting the enterprise attack surface.



Perspectives

Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Assess All Assets to Detect All Risks

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022

Business risks lurk in many places. For cybersecurity, the worst risks are often the ones you never saw coming.  A Real World Example To illustrate, consider this real example: A manufacturing conglomerate has an engineer build a Javascript connector for remote access to a mainframe but inadvertently exposes it to the internet. How do you discover this risk and its potential damage? A penetration test will not help unless you happen to be testing that particular machine among hundreds or thousands of servers. A vulnerability scan also will not help, as the risk will be invisible because it is not…



Perspectives

Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Prioritize Risks that Endanger Your Business

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022

With a global pandemic affecting everyone, prioritization has determined Covid-19 vaccination eligibility and in what order people receive their vaccine.




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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

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