My main use case for CyCognito is attack surface management. It helps me bridge ethical considerations as it serves as a simulation of what an attacker would do in real life, allowing me to continuously discover and test internet-facing assets without requiring manual scope definition. From a pen testing perspective, I want to automate the reconnaissance and information gathering that I would likely do manually, such as subdomain enumeration, live checks, liveness checking, fingerprinting, and scanning; that is what my test cases have for CyCognito. A specific example for CyCognito involves a mid-sized fashion and electronics brand where we were delving into their infrastructure. We tried to spin up a staging environment during a payment system migration and noticed that nobody commissioned the staging server. It remained live and was running an older version of the checkout software with an unpatched vulnerability that the internal security team did not know existed because it was never added to the asset inventory. Traditional scanners work from inside out, depending on a known asset list, but CyCognito works from outside in, observing the attack surface as an attacker would do and discovering unknown exposed assets, including shadow IT and forgotten infrastructure. We began by inputting the company name to find the staging checkout through certificate transparency logs and DNS enumeration, leading to the identification of an orphaned checkout-related subdomain that surfaced as a critical risk handling payment functionalities with an outdated stack. We achieved all of this before an attacker could exploit it. Another aspect of my use case for CyCognito is related to compliance with PCI DSS, which is regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. For any e-commerce platform accepting credit card and debit card information, we must comply with this guideline. We handle card payment and subject it to PCI DSS requirements, knowing that every system in our cardholder data environment must comply with this policy. With CyCognito's asset inventory, we are able to support that requirement by continuously surfacing what is internet-facing and what touches our payment flows.
Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) tools offer organizations a way to continuously test the effectiveness of their security measures by simulating cyberattacks in a controlled environment. With the rise in cyber threats, BAS has become an essential element in corporate security strategies. These tools help identify vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure by deploying automated, simulated attacks, allowing companies to proactively find and fix weaknesses before they can be exploited. Real user...
My main use case for CyCognito is attack surface management. It helps me bridge ethical considerations as it serves as a simulation of what an attacker would do in real life, allowing me to continuously discover and test internet-facing assets without requiring manual scope definition. From a pen testing perspective, I want to automate the reconnaissance and information gathering that I would likely do manually, such as subdomain enumeration, live checks, liveness checking, fingerprinting, and scanning; that is what my test cases have for CyCognito. A specific example for CyCognito involves a mid-sized fashion and electronics brand where we were delving into their infrastructure. We tried to spin up a staging environment during a payment system migration and noticed that nobody commissioned the staging server. It remained live and was running an older version of the checkout software with an unpatched vulnerability that the internal security team did not know existed because it was never added to the asset inventory. Traditional scanners work from inside out, depending on a known asset list, but CyCognito works from outside in, observing the attack surface as an attacker would do and discovering unknown exposed assets, including shadow IT and forgotten infrastructure. We began by inputting the company name to find the staging checkout through certificate transparency logs and DNS enumeration, leading to the identification of an orphaned checkout-related subdomain that surfaced as a critical risk handling payment functionalities with an outdated stack. We achieved all of this before an attacker could exploit it. Another aspect of my use case for CyCognito is related to compliance with PCI DSS, which is regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. For any e-commerce platform accepting credit card and debit card information, we must comply with this guideline. We handle card payment and subject it to PCI DSS requirements, knowing that every system in our cardholder data environment must comply with this policy. With CyCognito's asset inventory, we are able to support that requirement by continuously surfacing what is internet-facing and what touches our payment flows.