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CyCognito vs Tenable ASM

Tenable: Where Your Attack Surface is an Afterthought

Why Customers Choose CyCognito over Tenable ASM

Tenable ASM requires extensive manual work – up to 10 hours per asset – to verify ownership, validate threats, and manually map the changing attack surface, wasting the time of security teams. Enterprises relying on Tenable ASM are left with attack surfaces riddled with blind spots and critical risks left exposed to attackers.

Tenable is an established player in the legacy Vulnerability Management space with a wide range of tools for security professionals in cloud, OT, and IT, including market-leading internal asset testing tools. However, when it comes to attack surface management, Tenable ASM’s incomplete asset discovery and low-frequency testing capabilities can’t deliver deep, automated discovery at the scale that enterprises require.

Organization Discovery & Mapping

Use deep discovery to see what an attacker sees.

Tenable ASM
Tenable ASM’s limited discovery leaves you with blind spots.
  • Tenable ASM ignores the organization’s business structure, forcing you to try to map things manually and leading to blind spots
  • Tenable ASM focuses on known domains and IPs, leaving most of the attack surface in the dark
  • Tenable ASM can’t show risk on the subsidiary or regional level and fails to identify critical areas for security investment and improvement
CyCognito starts by mapping your organization and continuously updates it as your business changes.
  • CyCognito uses natural language processing, machine learning, and a graph data model to automatically map the organization, and identify subsidiaries
  • CyCognito goes beyond owned environments, covering data centers, SaaS, IaaS, partners, brands, acquired companies, joint ventures, and cloud environments
  • CyCognito categorizes subsidiaries based on risk score and creates a plan to improve their security posture

Zero-Input Discovery

Find your unknown unknowns.

Tenable ASM
Tenable ASM keeps your unknown unknowns in the dark.
  • Tenable ASM’s discovery process requires customer-supplied seed data and extensive manual work to adjust output
  • Tenable ASM’s limited asset metadata lacks attribution to asset owners or business units
CyCognito doesn’t rely on what you know to find what you don’t.
  • CyCognito requires zero-input, zero-seeds, zero configuration, and zero onboarding
  • CyCognito uses OSINT-based reconnaissance techniques to attribute and contextualize the entire attack surface and identify unknown unknowns

Automated Unauthenticated Security Testing

High confidence automated risk validation for all assets.

Tenable ASM
Tenable ASM uses limited, low fidelity, low frequency testing
  • Tenable ASM relies on passive scanning, while bulky agent-based testing is available only through other Tenable products
  • Other Tenable products, like Tenable VA and DAST, require significant input, configuration, and overhead, leaving critical risks uncovered
CyCognito actively and non-intrusively tests for 10,000s of CVEs with more than 80,000 tests.
  • CyCognito’s automated, unauthenticated security tests span 35+ categories, including DAST, WebApp OWASP Top 10, weak credentials, exploitable vulnerabilities, and data exposure
  • CyCognito’s testing engines cover 100% of your exposed attack surface on customizable cadences, even for attack surfaces that contain millions of assets and tens of thousands of web applications

Accelerated Red Teaming

Maximize the results of your pen testing.

Tenable ASM
Tenable ASM leaves red teams chasing false positives.
  • Tenable ASM’s passive scanning leads to wasted time validating false positives and misses real risks
  • Tenable ASM requires teams to spend 3-10 hours per asset finding and verifying asset owners*
  • Tenable ASM doesn’t discover unknown unknowns, leaving the riskiest assets in the dark and untested
CyCognito’s single source of truth scales your red team and makes your pen-testing budget go further.
  • CyCognito’s suite of +80,000 unauthenticated automated remote checks reduces repetitive work
  • CyCognito supplies context and attribution for all external assets, making pen test information easier to operationalize
  • CyCognito provides the coverage, accuracy and frequency required to understand gaps in security posture

*According to former Tenable customers.

Risk-based Issue Prioritization

Focus on risks, not on issues.

Tenable ASM
Tenable ASM misses assets and issues, leading to ineffective prioritization.
  • Tenable ASM and VA’s prioritization is ineffective, classifying up to 3% of all issues as critical, and up to 25% of them as high severity*
  • Tenable ASM’s lack of prioritization, exploitability evidence, and attribution to owners leads to mean time to remediation (MTTR) of 6 months or more
CyCognito’s prioritization considers asset attractiveness to attackers, business context, targeted threat intelligence, and results from +80,000 tests.
  • CyCognito’s next-gen prioritization algorithms identify less than 0.1% of issues as critical, focusing your teams on the most critical risks to your attack surface
  • CyCognito prioritizes every issue alongside verifiable evidence of exploitability, enabling a >60% reduction in MTTR, often days instead of weeks.

*According to former Tenable customers.

Remediation Validation and Integrations

Minimize errors, maximize efficiency.

Tenable ASM
Tenable ASM’s lack of connection to other security tools slows MTTR.
  • Leading industry analysts criticized Tenable ASM for their lack of critical third party connectors to ingest and export data
  • Tenable ASM alone cannot validate remediation success, requiring manual followup
  • Tenable ASM lacks the ability to build a remediation plan to guide systematic improvements
CyCognito’s validation tools integrate directly with the leading security solutions like Splunk, ServiceNow, and Armis.
  • CyCognito supports over 1,200 integrations and apps that help you work seamlessly, centralize information, and boost collaboration.
  • CyCognito’s Remediation Validation feature automatically checks if a remediation attempt has been successful
  • CyCognito’s Remediation Planner tool builds remediation plans to improve the security posture of organizations and their subsidiaries
Customer Story

“CyCognito is worth every cent we pay and it helps me sleep better because I know we’re checking our internet-facing assets on a regular basis.”

Benjamin Bachmann | Vice President, Group Information Security

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