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CyCognito Platform
What CyCognito Platform is
CyCognito Platform discovers, tests, and prioritizes external security risks from an attacker’s perspective. It starts with an organization’s name and continuously maps its external footprint without seed data, IP lists, or manual setup. Its stated discovery coverage includes cloud, SaaS, APIs, on-premises systems, AI assets, and third-party systems. Testing spans 100,000+ attack scenarios across 30+ threat categories, including web, cloud, network, and AI surfaces. Risk ranking combines validated findings with business context, asset attractiveness, discoverability, and attacker activity. Specialized AI agents look for attack paths, chained exploits, and business-logic flaws, then provide reproduction steps and remediation guidance. The platform supports discovery and testing across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and lists 1,200+ integrations, including ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk, Wiz, Axonius, and Cortex XSOAR. It includes daily monitoring and API access. A free risk assessment is offered, but no free plan or trial is stated.
Who it suits
CyCognito presents itself for organizations seeking external asset discovery, security testing, attack-path analysis, and risk prioritization. Its offerings cover different asset scales, with pricing determined by the relevant assets.
What it does well
- Maps external assets continuously from an organization name
- Tests more than 100,000 attack scenarios
- Provides reproduction steps and remediation guidance
- Lists 1,200+ integrations
What to know first
- No free plan or trial is stated
- Pricing depends on asset volume or active assets
Limits
The pricing page uses custom estimates and asset-volume bands rather than fixed prices. The listed offerings scale by total assets or by active IPs and web applications.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Adversarial Exposure Validation | Pricing based on number of active IPs and web applications · asset scale options: Up to 5,000; 5,001–25,000; 25,001–100,000; 100,001+ | On request |
| Continuous AI Pentesting | Always-on testing · asset scale options: Up to 5,000; 5,001–25,000; 25,001–100,000; 100,001+ | On request |
| Attack Surface Management | Pricing based on total asset volume · asset scale options: Up to 5,000; 5,001–25,000; 25,001–100,000; 100,001+ | On request |
| Exploit Intelligence | Pricing based on number of active IPs and web applications · asset scale options: Up to 5,000; 5,001–25,000; 25,001–100,000; 100,001+ | On request |
| Custom quote | Attack Surface Management, Adversarial Exposure Validation, Exploit Intelligence, Continuous AI Pentesting · asset-volume pricing · monthly, bi-weekly, weekly or daily scanning | On request |
As cycognito.com lists them, read 2 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Getting started
- Open the CyCognito platform website
- Provide the organization’s name to begin external discovery
- Choose an offering and applicable asset-volume band
- Request a custom estimate
- Use onboarding and ongoing support to configure operations
Verdict
CyCognito Platform combines external footprint discovery with security testing and prioritized findings.
Questions
Is CyCognito Platform free?
No. It is a paid platform with pricing on request. The company offers a free risk assessment, but that is not described as a free plan or trial.
Which platforms does it support?
CyCognito is available through web and API access. Its cloud coverage includes AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
What does pricing depend on?
Pricing uses asset-volume bands for some offerings and the number of active IPs and web applications for others. Fixed prices are not shown.
Does it provide integrations?
Yes. CyCognito says it supports more than 1,200 integrations, including ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk, Wiz, Axonius, and Cortex XSOAR.
What support is included?
The pricing page describes onboarding, ongoing customer-success engagement such as quarterly business reviews, and 24x7 support coverage.
Facts from CyCognito Platform's own pages
- AI pentesting
- Continuous AI Pentesting uses specialized agents to reason about attack chains, chained exploits and business-logic flaws across web apps, APIs, cloud services and exposed AI infrastructure. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API
- CyCognito provides a REST API using secure API keys and end-to-end encryption for access to platform data. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API lifecycle
- The API catalog says version 0 remains supported but is undergoing deprecation while version 1 is the current REST API. · apis.io, 15 Oct 2026
- API operations
- The documented API includes user endpoints such as GET and POST /v1/users and GET /v1/users/{email}. · apis.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Beyond CVEs
- The platform tests non-CVE weaknesses such as misconfigurations, data exposure and authentication bypass risks. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud coverage
- The platform supports external discovery and testing across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments. · cycognito.com, 2 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- CyCognito lists Palo Alto, California as its headquarters location. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The company identifies itself as CyCognito Inc. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists CyCognito as a privately held company with 51–200 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Continuous testing
- CyCognito actively tests the mapped external footprint and confirms which exposures are exploitable. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Coverage
- CyCognito says its discovery network covers cloud, SaaS, APIs, on-premises, AI assets, and third-party systems. · cycognito.com, 2 Oct 2026
- Deployment model
- The terms define the product as a remotely provided SaaS service rather than software installed on customer infrastructure. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Developer documentation
- A public API reference is hosted at api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html and an OpenAPI specification is available through the API catalog. · apis.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Discovery
- The platform starts with an organization’s name and continuously maps its external footprint without seed data, IP lists, or manual setup. · cycognito.com, 2 Oct 2026
- Discovery network
- CyCognito says its global discovery network has 60,000 nodes and covers cloud, SaaS, APIs, on-premises, AI and third-party systems. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Evidence trail
- Each finding includes how it was discovered, why it belongs to the organization and who owns it. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- CyCognito was founded in 2017. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Free assessment
- The company site offers a free risk assessment; it does not state that this is a free plan or free trial. · cycognito.com, 2 Oct 2026
- Funding
- CyCognito announced a $100 million Series C in December 2021, bringing total funding to $153 million. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Independent headcount estimate
- Crustdata reports 103 employees and $153 million raised as of 2026. · research.crustdata.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- CyCognito advertises more than 1,200 integrations spanning asset management, vulnerability management, SIEM/SOAR/XDR, cloud security and ticketing. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The terms reserve ownership of the service and prohibit reverse engineering, copying or creating derivative works, indicating proprietary software rather than open source. · cycognito.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 false positives
- A G2 reviewer says false positives keep the service from being excellent. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Gartner navigation
- A Gartner reviewer complains that resolving an issue requires opening too many linked pages. · gartner.com, 15 Oct 2026
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