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CyCognito Platform

byCyCognito
in External Attack Surface Management
4.7

Overview

Product Information on CyCognito Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is CyCognito Platform?

CyCognito Platform is a software designed to help organizations identify and manage security risks across their external attack surface. By automatically discovering assets and assessing vulnerabilities, the software enables continuous monitoring of externally exposed systems and applications. CyCognito Platform utilizes reconnaissance techniques to provide comprehensive visibility of unknown, unmanaged, and unprotected assets that could be targeted in cyber attacks. The software delivers actionable insights to prioritize remediation efforts, facilitating proactive risk reduction and supporting compliance initiatives. Through automated analysis and contextual risk assessment, CyCognito Platform addresses the challenge of shadow IT and asset sprawl, assisting security teams in reducing their exposure to threats.

CyCognito Platform Pricing

CyCognito Platform is a software that uses a subscription-based pricing model, with tiers that vary depending on the scope of coverage, number of assets monitored, and additional features required by the organization. The pricing structure typically involves annual or multi-year contracts and may include custom plans based on enterprise needs.

Overall experience with CyCognito Platform

VULNERABILITY MANAGER
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Intuitive Interface and Realm Management Amid Periodic Sluggishness in Platform Response”

4.0
Sep 15, 2025
Great insights on vulnerabilities. CyCognito delivers all information you need to investigate, clarify and remediate vulnerabilities in your designated environment. Sadly the performance in the platform is slow from time time, but you can build around this problem using the API or creating reports.
Research and Development Associate
<50M USD, Energy and Utilities
CRITICAL

“Explore the Ease of Finding and Focusing on Big Issues with this Software”

3.0
Jun 13, 2024
Not had much to do with the vendor, but the software is good and does what it says it will.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 1st December 2023

CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. Based in Palo Alto, CyCognito serves a number of large enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2017
Head office location
Palo Alto, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://www.cycognito.com/

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CyCognito Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

The looks and the instinctively handling of the platform. You find everything where you expect it to be. Also it is very easy to manage the so called realms (the designated environment you want to apply cyber risk management to).

Like

Good analytics, easy to filter and find. Nice dashboard, allows you to focus on the larger issues easily. Good remidation advice with useful and helpful links.

Like

Their support team will ensure you do not have any assets effected by latest cve's. The asset path and how it directly connected to your enviorment.

Dislike

The performance. From time to time CyCognito is very slow and it can take a while to search for something. But you can safe your search via its filtering options for later.

Dislike

Too many links, annoying to keep opening web page after web page to hone in on an issue.

Dislike

One thing i would like to have incorporated. Is not only have CISA certified cve's (which are great) but also utilize some sort of other media forms of exploits. Typically the latest security vuls come from security researchers and often first seen on twitter.

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CyCognito Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(39 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
72%
4 Star
26%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.7

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • VULNERABILITY MANAGER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Intuitive Interface and Realm Management Amid Periodic Sluggishness in Platform Response

    4.0
    Sep 15, 2025
    Great insights on vulnerabilities. CyCognito delivers all information you need to investigate, clarify and remediate vulnerabilities in your designated environment. Sadly the performance in the platform is slow from time time, but you can build around this problem using the API or creating reports.
  • SECURITY ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Supportive CVE Protection Yet slight gap on Broader Coverage of Emerging Vulnerabilities

    5.0
    Jun 18, 2025
    Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating latest cve's, to show the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.
  • Security Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    CyCognito's Impact: Exploring Key Features and Ease of Use

    5.0
    Apr 15, 2025
    My overall experience with CyCognito has been excellent. There is plenty of accessibility in the platform, and the overall ease of use is fantastic for new comers.
  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Cycognitos: A Reliable Force in Managing External Attack Surface

    5.0
    Apr 24, 2025
    It has been a pleasure working with the rep, an exceptionally effective and dedicated success manager.
  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Effortless setup and overall experience

    5.0
    Jan 17, 2025
    The tool dashboard is easy to understand and requires minimal setup, which can be used to detect and discover the vulnerabilities. It helps the users to easily navigate through the platform and understand the risk posture of the organization. It features asset discovery and vulnerability management, which helps to manage the attack surface. Coming to asset discovery, Cycognito identifies web applications and cloud environments and scans for the misconfigured assets. Cycognito offers Threat intelligence which provides security for the threats and attacks targeting the assets of the organization, which helps for a proactive approach based on the trends. The reports provide detailing in every aspect allowing the teams to monitor the security efforts and track progress. High priority alerts can also be tracked down for the remediation process. We can customize user roles and permissions so that sensitive information is accessible to those who need it. Cycognito integrates with the cloud environments and scale quickly for our organization. The tool offers great support through chat/ email, and we have biweekly calls as well. It also provides a knowledge base with guides on where we can address common issues.
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