CyCognito vs Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management comparison

Legacy security testing approaches may help security teams find and remediate risks on-premises and directly managed infrastructure. But, they are no match for the rapidly expanding attack surface caused by modern, highly distributed IT ecosystems.

CyCognito was founded by veterans of national intelligence agencies who understand how attackers exploit blind spots, and who recognized the need for a radical new approach to threat assessment. Our mission is to build the next-generation security risk assessment product category: solutions that autonomously discover, enumerate, and prioritize each organization’s security risks based upon a global analysis of all external attack surfaces and attack vectors that a real attacker would likely exploit.

In this era of hybrid work, shadow IT creates an increasingly serious security risk. Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management helps cloud security teams see unknown and unmanaged resources outside the firewall.