
CyCognito provides an external attack surface management (EASM) platform that helps organizations discover, test, and prioritize their critical security risks from an attacker's perspective. Founded by veterans of national intelligence agencies, the company leverages a botnet and discovery engine with graph data modeling to map and classify assets across an organization's entire external attack surface, including traditional data centers, SaaS, IaaS, and cloud environments. Their platform automates reconnaissance, identifies unmanaged and unknown assets, and simulates real attacks to report only the most urgent issues, aiming to reduce risk and eliminate exposures that attackers would exploit. CyCognito serves large enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations, with key solutions including Attack Surface Management (ASM), Automated Security Testing (AutoPT), Cyber Asset Inventory (CAASM), and Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM).

CyCognito provides an external attack surface management (EASM) platform that helps organizations discover, test, and prioritize their critical security risks from an attacker's perspective. Founded by veterans of national intelligence agencies, the company leverages a botnet and discovery engine with graph data modeling to map and classify assets across an organization's entire external attack surface, including traditional data centers, SaaS, IaaS, and cloud environments. Their platform automates reconnaissance, identifies unmanaged and unknown assets, and simulates real attacks to report only the most urgent issues, aiming to reduce risk and eliminate exposures that attackers would exploit. CyCognito serves large enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations, with key solutions including Attack Surface Management (ASM), Automated Security Testing (AutoPT), Cyber Asset Inventory (CAASM), and Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM).
What they do: External Attack Surface Management (EASM) platform that discovers, tests, and prioritizes external assets and exposures
Founded / HQ: Founded 2017; headquartered in Palo Alto, California; origin in Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel
Founders / Leadership: Co‑founders Rob Gurzeev (CEO) and Dima Potekhin (CTO)
Funding to date: Approximately $153M (last disclosed round: $100M Series C, Dec 2021)
Customers / Target: Large enterprises and Fortune 500 organizations
External attack surface exposure and risk prioritization for large enterprises
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Cybersecurity
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Series C reported at an $800M valuation
“Backed by institutional venture firms including Lightspeed, Accel, Sorenson Ventures, UpWest, The Westly Group, Thomvest Ventures, and The Heritage Group”