CyCognito Company Research Report

Company Overview

Name

CyCognito

Mission of the Company

To be the foremost vendor in the emerging category of Exposure Management. The mission is to autonomously discover, test, and prioritize each organization’s security risks based on a global analysis of all the external attack surfaces a real attacker would likely exploit.

Founding Data

• Founded by: Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin, veterans of national intelligence agencies

• Year Founded: No information is available

Key People

• CEO and Co-Founder: Rob Gurzeev

• CTO and Co-Founder: Dima Potekhin

• Senior Vice President of Operations: Oded Simon

• Chief Product Officer: Ansh Patnaik

• Senior Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances: Randy Streu

• Chief Revenue Officer: Jason Stewart

• Chief Marketing Officer: Tim Matthews

• Chief Customer Officer: Sean Blenkhorn

• Global VP of People: Ayelet Senderovits Shapiro

• SVP Engineering: Shlomi Oren

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Number of Employees

No information is available

Revenue

No information is available

Recognition and Clients

CyCognito is known for helping organizations uncover and eliminate cyber risk exposures. The platform is utilized by large enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations, including Colgate-Palmolive, Tesco, and Scientific Games.

Products

Product Overview

CyCognito offers comprehensive cybersecurity solutions aimed at managing and protecting external attack surfaces. These products leverage machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and active security testing to provide comprehensive risk management.

Main Products

Attack Surface Management

• Description: Provides comprehensive attack surface visibility.

• Key Features:

• Automatically builds a map of organizational business structures.

• Identifies and classifies assets.

• Continuous asset discovery and monitoring.

Automated Security Testing

• Description: Active security testing for external attack surfaces.

• Key Features:

• Multi-pass, multi-engine architecture.

• Conducts tens of thousands of security tests.

• Identifies critical security vulnerabilities.

Exploit Intelligence

• Description: Enhances risk prioritization using threat intelligence.

• Key Features:

• Combines threat intelligence with discovered attack surface gaps.

• Focuses on the most critical risks.

Features of the Products

• Discovery:

• Uses ML, NLP, and a graph data model for autonomous asset discovery.

• Requires no information from organizations to build an asset inventory.

• Contextualization:

• Provides detailed context about assets, including ownership and related risks.

• Active Security Testing:

• Continuous and automated tests to reveal potential attack vectors.

• Prioritization:

• Focuses on the most immediate and critical security challenges.

• Remediation Acceleration:

• Streamlines the remediation process by integrating with IT tools and providing detailed evidence and guidance.

Recent Developments

Integrations and Enhancements

• Integration with ServiceNow (August 20, 2024):

• Enhances asset management and incident response.

• Synchronizes CyCognito assets with ServiceNow configuration items.

AI Features

• New AI features (May 1, 2024):

• Includes AI search, financial evidence collection for multilingual analysis, and AI translation for better contextual understanding.

Partnerships

• Collaboration with DXC Technology (April 11, 2024):

• CyCognito’s capabilities are now available to DXC customers for efficient vulnerability management.

Reports and Findings

• State of External Exposure Management, 2024 (September 18, 2024):

• Highlights rising software supply chain threats, vulnerabilities in web servers, and cryptographic protocols.

Notable Press Coverage

• Security Info Watch: CyCognito report exposes rising software supply chain threats.

• Dark Reading: Discussed the urgency of mitigating software supply chain attacks.

Awards

• 2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Silver award.

• 2023 Globee Cybersecurity Awards: Silver Globee winner.

• 2021 Globee Cybersecurity Awards: Gold Globee winner.

• 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor: Cyber and IT Risk Management.

• 2020 SINET 16 Innovator Awards: Recognized as a leading innovator.

Events

Upcoming Events

• Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit EMEA 2024: September 23-25, 2024, in London, England.

• Cybersecurity Summit: Columbus, September 26, 2024, in Columbus, OH.

Recent Events

• Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum: September 18, 2024, in Portland, OR.

• Cybersecurity Summit: July 18, 2024, in Washington D.C.

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