CyCognito

CyCognito is a cybersecurity company providing an external attack surface management (EASM) and exposure management platform. Its cloud-native platform continuously discovers, maps, and tests an organization's internet-exposed assets—domains, IPs, web apps, APIs, and cloud environments—to surface and validate critical exposures before attackers exploit them. The CyCognito API V1 is a REST API (API-key authenticated) that lets you query assets and issues, manage attack-surface scope, attribute assets to organizations, manage users and cloud connectors, run exports and executive reports, and verify the identity of scanner IPs. CyCognito is backed by Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

CyCognito publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: API V1. Tagged areas include Company, Cybersecurity, Attack Surface Management, Exposure Management, and Security.

CyCognito’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, authentication, and 24 more developer resources.

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45.2/100 developing Agent 69/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 0 Features

CompanyCybersecurityAttack Surface ManagementExposure ManagementSecurityVulnerability ManagementCloud SecurityAPI Security

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Composite quality — 45.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 69/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Postman

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cycognito
name: CyCognito
description: CyCognito is a cybersecurity company providing an external attack surface management (EASM) and exposure management
  platform. Its cloud-native platform continuously discovers, maps, and tests an organization's internet-exposed assets—domains,
  IPs, web apps, APIs, and cloud environments—to surface and validate critical exposures before attackers exploit them. The
  CyCognito API V1 is a REST API (API-key authenticated) that lets you query assets and issues, manage attack-surface scope,
  attribute assets to organizations, manage users and cloud connectors, run exports and executive reports, and verify the
  identity of scanner IPs. CyCognito is backed by Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cycognito/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.cycognito.com/images/social/banner-homepage-2400x1256-email.png
tags:
- Company
- Cybersecurity
- Attack Surface Management
- Exposure Management
- Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Cloud Security
- API Security
apis:
- name: CyCognito API V1
  description: The CyCognito API V1 is a REST API that allows you to post and get data from the platform's main data entities—assets
    and issues. You can manage the scope of your attack surface, attribute assets to organizations, manage users and cloud
    connectors, request data and PDF exports and executive reports, and verify the identity of IP scans on your assets. Authentication
    is via an API key passed in the Authorization header. The legacy V0 API is still supported but is undergoing deprecation.
  humanURL: https://api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html
  baseURL: https://api.platform.cycognito.com
  tags:
  - Attack Surface Management
  - Exposure Management
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cycognito-v1-openapi-original.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.platform.cycognito.com/v1/docs/index.html
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/demo
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/platform/pricing.php
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/blog/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/CyCognito
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/joint-operations-participant-24342014/workspace/cycognito
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/cycognito-v1-openapi-original.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cycognito-authentication.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cycognito-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/cycognito-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cycognito-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cycognito-v1-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cycognito-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.cycognito.com/company/trust.php
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cycognito-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cycognito-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/cycognito-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cycognito-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cycognito-data-model.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cycognito-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cycognito-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/cycognito-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cycognito-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cycognito-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence