CyCognito vs CrowdStrike EASM: attack surface management compared

CyCognito

• Owner or subsidiary attributedDocumented
• Exploitability provenDocumented
• Ticket or workflow createdDocumented
• Compensating control appliedNot documented
• Fix retestedDocumented

CrowdStrike EASM

• Owner or subsidiary attributedNot documented
• Exploitability provenPartial
• Ticket or workflow createdDocumented
• Compensating control appliedPartial
• Fix retestedNot documented

CyCognito wins on

• Discovery of unknown assets and subsidiaries: 9 vs 7

  Starts from the organization's name with no IP ranges or asset lists and covers subsidiaries, acquired-company infrastructure and third-party-connected systems.

• Attribution accuracy and false-positive handling: 8 vs 5

  Every finding carries a trace of how it was found, why it belongs to the organization and who owns it.

• Exploitability validation: 8 vs 5

  Runs more than 100,000 unauthenticated black-box security tests across more than 30 exposure categories, designed not to disrupt production.

• Remediation and mitigation support: 7 vs 6

  Step-by-step guidance per issue, owner-linked workflows and a retest after each fix; no automated mitigation is documented.

• Time to value: 9 vs 7

  The organization's name is the only required input.

• Pricing transparency: 4 vs 3

  Publishes its pricing basis (total asset volume for ASM; active IPs and web applications for exposure validation) and a quote form with a stated 24-hour average response; no list price.

CrowdStrike EASM wins on

• Integrations and platform reach: 8 vs 7

  Sits in the CrowdStrike Falcon platform beside threat intelligence, IT hygiene and vulnerability management across endpoints, cloud, network and OT/IoT; ServiceNow and Jira are the named integrations.

Choose CyCognito if

• Finding unknown assets, subsidiaries and acquired infrastructure is your main gap. CyCognito scores 9 on discovery: Starts from the organization's name with no IP ranges or asset lists and covers subsidiaries, acquired-company infrastructure and third-party-connected systems.
• You want results with the least setup. CyCognito scores 9 on time to value: The organization's name is the only required input.

Choose CrowdStrike EASM if

• The tool has to fit a wider security platform or many existing tools. CrowdStrike EASM scores 8 on integrations: Sits in the CrowdStrike Falcon platform beside threat intelligence, IT hygiene and vulnerability management across endpoints, cloud, network and OT/IoT; ServiceNow and Jira are the named integrations.
• Finding unknown assets, subsidiaries and acquired infrastructure is your main gap. CrowdStrike EASM scores 7 on discovery: CrowdStrike says its internet mapping technology continuously indexes the entire internet and maps known and unknown assets, including shadow IT, 24/7; the inputs needed and subsidiary coverage are not described.