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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

One of the most single-minded of these security vendors is startup CyCognito. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. That’s a major step forward.