CyCognito vs Tracecat
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CyCognito is a Leader and Outperformer in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for ASM; automates discovery and prioritization of external attack surface vulnerabilities using attacker-perspective scanning across the full digital estate.
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CyCognito is a cybersecurity company specializing in External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and Exposure Management — helping enterprises discover, assess, and prioritize all externally exposed assets and vulnerabilities across their digital environment from an attacker''s perspective. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, CyCognito uses a combination of automated discovery techniques, graph-based asset relationship mapping, and AI-driven risk scoring to continuously identify assets that organizations often don''t know they have — including shadow IT, forgotten cloud instances, acquired company infrastructure, and misconfigured third-party integrations.
SF YC W24 open-source SOAR security automation deployed by 200+ orgs (Fortune 500 + federal); $500K-$2M seed on Temporal's durable execution with 100+ integrations competing with Splunk SOAR and Tines for security incident response.
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Tracecat is a San Francisco-based open-source security automation platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000-$2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Pioneer.app, Pioneer Fund, and SurgePoint Capital — providing security operations, IT, and infrastructure teams with a modern, cost-effective alternative to commercial SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) tools for automating security alerts, incident response, and IT workflows. Deployed by 200+ organizations from Fortune 500 companies to federal agencies, Tracecat is built on Temporal's durable execution platform (used by Datadog, Netflix, and Stripe) and offers 100+ integrations, AI-assisted runbooks, case management, and lookup tables. Founded in 2024 by Chris Lo and Daryl Lim.
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