Cogent Security Makes the Fortune Cyber 60 for a Second Year, With a Plan to Run Cyber Defense Like a Factory
San Francisco, CA, November 3rd, 2026, CyberNewswire
Cogent Security, an applied AI cybersecurity company, reported that the PHP2Shell vulnerability exposed significant gaps in enterprise vulnerability response. Disclosed on October 21, PHP2Shell involved two critical flaws that had remained in PHP for more than a decade. AI-assisted research helped identify the vulnerabilities and develop working exploits in approximately one week, with attacks beginning before a patch was available. Cloudflare recorded millions of exploitation attempts that day.
According to Cogent Security’s research, by 5 p.m. Pacific, the average Fortune 500 company had patched fewer than 1% of its 2,266 affected assets.
That gap between how fast attackers move and how fast large companies respond is the problem Cogent was built to close. The company, an applied AI lab focused on cybersecurity, has been named to the Fortune Cyber 60 for the second consecutive year.
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