CyCognito Wins Three Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

Company recognized for outstanding technology, innovative approach and overall contribution to the cybersecurity industry

Palo Alto, California – March 4, 2020

CyCognito Inc., developers of innovation to eliminate the world’s shadow risk, today announced it is a winner in three categories of the 2020 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Best Product SaaS/Cloud Security, Cutting Edge Security Company of the Year and Editors Choice InfoSec Startup of the Year.

These awards further validate the need for a modern security risk assessment solution that meets the requirements of today’s organizations. Security professionals understand that attackers only need a single blind spot for entry, while they are tasked with guarding everything. Legacy approaches that were designed over 20 years ago to protect internet-exposed assets are unaware of significant portions of modern enterprise IT ecosystems. CyCognito’s approach enables an organization to quickly understand its attack surface, pinpoint critical risks and prioritize remediation, eliminating shadow risk.

The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards is an independent awards program that honors companies and individuals that demonstrate excellence, innovation, and leadership in information security. Each year, it is produced in cooperation with the Information Security Community on LinkedIn, tapping into the experience of 400,000+ cybersecurity professionals to recognize the world’s best cybersecurity products, individuals, and organizations.

"We're thrilled to name CyCognito a winner in three categories of our InfoSec Awards program. They won these awards not only because they deliver a new innovative approach to protecting companies against attackers, they are committed to driving cybersecurity awareness and education for their customers," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher, Cyber Defense Magazine.

The CyCognito platform maps all Internet-exposed assets in an organization, determines their business context (i.e., relevance), detects and prioritizes attack vectors and recommends remediation steps. It is the first platform to fully expose and map the organization’s entire attack surface, including assets that organizations don’t manage and may not even know exists, but that are readily identified by bad actors targeting the business, including assets that are part of third-party, partner and subsidiary environments. The platform uses a unique reconnaissance process supported by a 60,000+ node botnet that surveils assets from multiple locations around the world, at multiple intervals, undetectably and non-intrusively, to reveal the full extent of the attack surface, including critical vectors that other solutions miss.

“Since launching our new platform in November, the customer response has been overwhelmingly positive,” stated Rob Gurzeev, co-founder and CEO of CyCognito. “This response coupled with winning the 2020 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in three categories is a true testament to the power of our technology. We will continue to deliver the most advanced innovative shadow risk elimination platform, ensuring our customers are protected from the most sophisticated attackers.”