CyCognito

CyCognito and Wiz together enable cloud security teams to significantly increase cloud workload security coverage by combining the deep visibility of Wiz’s CNAPP with CyCognito’s continuous DAST and deployment gap discovery. 

Wiz provides a code-to-runtime solution—prioritizing the risks that matter most, surfacing them earlier in the SDLC, and detecting real-time threats across your cloud environment. CyCognito complements this by operating independently of cloud provider APIs to discover externally exposed assets across sanctioned and unsanctioned environments in public, private, and hybrid clouds. With over 90,000 automated tests—including DAST for web applications—CyCognito identifies issues ranging from OWASP Top 10 risks to sensitive data exposures.

Integration benefits

• Comprehensive Asset Discovery: Identify exposed assets belonging to all organizations, including divisions and brands for large conglomerates.

• Shadow Asset Identification: Reveal out-of-policy or unmanaged assets across your cloud estate.

• Enhanced Contextualization: Enrich asset metadata with ownership and business context for better prioritization.

• Accelerated Remediation: Streamline response by correlating external exposure findings with Wiz's prioritized risk insights.

The better together story

CyCognito identifies externally exposed assets that are provisioned outside of existing guardrails, including shadow IT and unsanctioned environments.

While Wiz delivers deep internal context across code, cloud, and runtime, CyCognito complements it by discovering externally exposed assets and validating real-world risks. 

• CyCognito imports assets from Wiz: Customer can manage external exposure of assets in CyCognito, and find cloud assets where Wiz isn't deployed

• CyCognito exports issues to Wiz: Customer can find DAST security gaps in production

This joint approach provides security teams with insight into external exposures, enabling them to manage risk across complex, distributed, multi-cloud environments effectively.

Use case

According to the 2023 Thales Cloud Security Study, 39% of organizations reported a cloud data breach, with over half linked to human error. Cloud security teams using Wiz gain strong visibility into workloads, misconfigurations, and runtime risks and threats within their managed cloud accounts. CyCognito complements this by providing dynamic application security testing (DAST) for production applications and continuously discovering externally exposed assets—including those not tied to known environments—ensuring complete visibility across the attack surface.

Challenge

Cloud environments are dynamic and complex, with assets frequently spun up outside managed accounts or organizational oversight. While Wiz provides deep visibility into risks within managed cloud environments through cloud APIs and integrations, organizations also need visibility into assets and exposures beyond their known infrastructure.

Better Together

Wiz and CyCognito combine to provide complete visibility across your cloud estate—both known and unknown. Wiz surfaces the most critical risks across your managed environments by correlating vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity issues, and real-time threats. CyCognito complements this by scanning the internet to discover externally exposed assets, including those outside of your cloud provider’s scope. With over 90,000 non-intrusive active tests—including DAST for web apps—CyCognito validates production risks like OWASP Top 10 issues and data exposures.

CyCognito findings are ingested by Wiz and visualized in Wiz's Security Graph. This correlation enhances Wiz’s prioritization by revealing new attack paths, enabling teams to take faster, more informed remediation actions.

Market Challenge

Limited visibility into external exposures, shadow IT, and unmanaged cloud assets creates serious security gaps. Without continuous discovery and validation of real-world risks, teams cannot effectively prioritize or reduce their attack surface.

39% of organizations experienced a cloud data breach last year, often due to unknown or unmanaged assets. Security teams struggle to keep pace with the dynamic nature of cloud environments, leaving critical exposures unaddressed.