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Continuous Security Validation

Every exposure tested, every risk confirmed

CyCognito runs active security tests across your entire external footprint - at a scale no manual program can match - so security teams know exactly which exposures pose actual risk.

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Continuous AI pentesting,
across all exposed assets.

CyCognito uses Target Graph™ to map business, security, and stack context across all exposed assets. Agents use it to orchestrate pentesting campaigns: chain attacks, deliver proof, and adjust as the surface changes.

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At a glance

Every Asset, Always Tested
Every Asset,
Always Tested


CyCognito uncovers your full external footprint and runs security testing across every asset. No manual scoping, agents, or credentials required.

Broad Coverage, Deep Validation
Broad Coverage,
Deep Validation


Active and passive testing across web, cloud, network, and AI surfaces. 100,000+ attack scenarios and 30+ threat categories. Every result confirms real, exploitable risk.

Verified, Not Inferred
Verified,
Not Inferred


Payload-based testing directly interacts with each asset using built-in success criteria. Every result is evidence, not an inference from a banner or version string.

Darrell Jones

CyCognito then becomes a force multiplier to cybersecurity penetration teams, because now you're able to test and find all the things you didn't know were blind spots in your world.

Deloitte Deloitte Darrell Jones ・ Chief Information Security Officer
Find It. Test It. Automatically
Discovery and Testing, Combined

Find It. Test It. Automatically

Most testing tools require you to tell them what to test. CyCognito discovers your entire external footprint and immediately begins testing every asset it finds, continuously and without manual setup.

From Possible Risk to Confirmed Exploit
Exploitability Confirmed

From Possible Risk to Confirmed Exploit

Not every exposure is a risk. CyCognito's multi-pass, multi-engine testing architecture confirms whether an attack path is real and exposure is genuinely exploitable. Every test is validated for safety before deployment, no brute force, no state changes, no disruption to production.

The Scale Problem, Solved
Auto Pentesting at Scale

The Scale Problem, Solved

Traditional pen testing is point-in-time. CyCognito runs continuous security testing across your entire external footprint, cutting typical external pen test time by 70%+, so testers focus on complex exploitation rather than repetitive groundwork.

Assumed Security Is Not Verified Protection
Security Control Validation

Assumed Security Is Not Verified Protection

WAF, authentication, API security, and CSPM controls only reduce risk when they actually work. CyCognito tests deployed controls against live assets and surfaces the gaps between what is assumed to be protected and what is actually protected.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Passive testing observes surface signals such as open ports, banners, and version strings and infers potential risk from them. Active testing interacts directly with the target using payloads and success criteria to confirm whether an exposure is genuinely exploitable. CyCognito uses both, combining passive reconnaissance with active validation to produce a complete and high-confidence picture of exploitable risk.

CyCognito runs more than 100,000 security tests across more than 30 exposure categories, including OWASP application weaknesses, authentication bypass, exposed data, injection vulnerabilities, orphaned assets, misconfigured security controls, and cloud-specific exposures across web, API, and network surfaces.

An exposure is any externally reachable asset: a website, an API endpoint, a cloud service. It is a fact, not a risk in itself. An exploitable risk is an exposure that has been confirmed, through active testing, to contain a weakness that an attacker could actually use. CyCognito tests the exploitability of exposures so teams act on confirmed risk rather than theoretical possibility.

CyCognito tests whether WAF, API security controls, CSPM policies, and authentication surfaces are present and behaving as expected under real conditions. Gaps between assumed and actual coverage are surfaced as findings with supporting test evidence.

Yes. CyCognito uses unauthenticated black-box techniques designed not to disrupt live traffic, modify data, or require downtime. Safety is built into the test design rather than applied as a constraint after the fact.

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