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GigaOm Names Cobalt an “Outperformer” for Third Consecutive Year in Annual Radar Report for PTaaS.
3 PEAT
GigaOm Names Cobalt an “Outperformer” for Third Consecutive Year in Annual Radar Report for PTaaS.

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Pentester Spotlight: Herane Malhotra

This month's Pentester Spotlight features Herane Malhotra, a Core Pentester since 2021 and Lead.
Mar 26, 2023
Est Read Time: 2 min

OAuth Vulnerabilites Pt. 2

OAuth is a widely-used protocol that enables users to authorize third-party applications to access their data from other services, such as social media or cloud storage. However, like any technology, OAuth is not immune to vulnerabilities. This is Pt. 2 of a two-part series by Core Pentester Shubham Chaskar.
Mar 20, 2023
Est Read Time: 10 min

AI May Not Steal Your Job, But It Could Eliminate It With A Devastating Cyberattack

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been used in a variety of cybersecurity tools - but let’s talk about the flip side of that coin. How could AI be used to attack, rather than defend?
Mar 17, 2023
Est Read Time: 3 min

Effective Penetration Testing Frameworks and Methodologies

Penetration testing is vital to identify potential security vulnerabilities on a network before cybercriminals find and...
Mar 16, 2023
Est Read Time: 5 min

Gartner Names Cobalt in Report on DevSecOps Tools for Secure Software Delivery

Gartner's recent report “How to Select DevSecOps Tools for Secure Software Delivery” gives a birds-eye view of the technology landscape, emphasizing the benefits to integrating developer-friendly tools into DevOps pipelines. In a section of the report titled “Preproduction and Release Phases” Gartner name-drops Cobalt as a representative penetration testing vendor.
Mar 15, 2023
Est Read Time: 2 min

Active Directory Series: Active Directory Fundamentals

Active Directory is a Microsoft service that provides centralized management of user accounts, devices, and access to resources in a networked environment. It allows IT professionals to create and manage users, groups, computers, and other resources on a network, and control access to those resources based on policies and permissions.
Mar 13, 2023
Est Read Time: 12 min

Cobalt Release Blog: February 2023

Read about the improvements we launched to our PtaaS Platform last month: new integrations, asset vulnerability updates, and more.
Mar 10, 2023
Est Read Time: 1 min

The Life of a Bug

With this post I'll present a way to better understand bugs, from their origin until their death. I’ll do this by introducing the idea of a security bug pipeline and Fix-to-Fix framework.
Mar 3, 2023
Est Read Time: 5 min

Decoding the Differences: Black, Gray, and White-Box Pentests

Different types of pentesting methods have designated colors with the key differences.
Mar 1, 2023
Est Read Time: 5 min

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