# CyCognito

CyCognito is a cybersecurity company based in the United States, founded in 2017. It has 7 products listed on CybersecTools.

> External attack surface management platform using attacker simulation

Source: https://cybersectools.com/companies/cycognito · Updated November 2026

## Quick facts

- Category: [Exposure & Vulnerability Management](https://cybersectools.com/categories/exposure-vulnerability-management)
- Type: Product vendor
- Headquarters: United States
- Founded: 2017
- Products listed: 7
- Website: [cycognito.com](https://www.cycognito.com/)

## What does CyCognito do?

CyCognito provides an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) platform that helps organizations discover, test, and prioritize security risks across their external-facing digital assets. The company was founded by former intelligence operatives from the Israeli Defense Forces' 8200 unit who specialized in offensive security.

The platform operates by simulating attacker reconnaissance and exploitation techniques, starting with only a company's name to discover all internet-facing assets including networks, web applications, cloud applications, and APIs. Rather than relying on traditional vulnerability scanning that generates lists of potential issues, CyCognito takes an attacker's perspective to test assets and identify exploitable security gaps. The system uses a global cloud network to scan and analyze attack surfaces at scale.

The platform focuses on reducing false positives by reporting only the most critical and exploitable issues, helping security teams prioritize remediation efforts. CyCognito addresses the challenge of managing sprawling digital infrastructure that includes unknown or unmanaged assets often missed by legacy security tools.

The company serves enterprise customers across various industries, including organizations like Colgate-Palmolive. CyCognito holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications and maintains GDPR compliance. The company is backed by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Ventures, and Accel.

Categories: [Exposure & Vulnerability Management](https://cybersectools.com/categories/exposure-vulnerability-management)

## CyCognito products

- [CyCognito External Exposure Management](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-external-exposure-management): External attack surface mgmt platform with continuous discovery & validation (commercial)
- [CyCognito Contextualization](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-contextualization): Attack surface asset classification and contextualization platform (commercial)
- [CyCognito Active Security Testing](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-active-security-testing): Automated active security testing platform for external attack surfaces (commercial)
- [CyCognito Prioritization](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-prioritization): Risk prioritization platform for external attack surface management (commercial)
- [CyCognito Remediation](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-remediation): External attack surface mgmt platform with remediation acceleration features (commercial)
- [CyCognito EASM Platform](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-easm-platform): EASM platform that discovers, attributes, and actively validates external assets and risks (commercial)
- [CyCognito Exploit Intelligence](https://cybersectools.com/tools/cycognito-exploit-intelligence): Threat intel platform for prioritizing vulnerabilities based on attacker TTPs (commercial)

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