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Thoughts, perspectives, and industry commentary from the Cobalt team.

Cobalt Platform Deep Dive: New and Improved Navigation

What is new and improved navigation? There are a few core principles that web-based applications, especially SaaS or...
Nov 1, 2020
Est Read Time: 2 min

A Pentester’s Guide to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Examine a common security vulnerability, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
Oct 30, 2020
Est Read Time: 8 min

Pentester Spotlight: Nikhil Srivastava

Nikhil Srivastava has been a top-performing pentester on the Cobalt platform for the past five years. He is an active...
Oct 28, 2020
Est Read Time: 6 min

Changelog — October 2020

Check out what we’ve been working on over the past month:
Oct 26, 2020
Est Read Time: 2 min

Design Sprints in Distributed Teams: How We Do it at Cobalt

A design sprint is a powerful tool for teams to work towards a shared vision to design and test features quickly....
Oct 25, 2020
Est Read Time: 4 min

The Cobalt Core: A pentester community built on diversity, collaboration, and learning

The Cobalt Core is our highly-experienced, geographically-diverse community of pentesters. The community consists of...
Oct 21, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min

A Pentester’s Guide to HTTP Request Smuggling

What is HTTP Request Smuggling? HTTP request smuggling is an attack technique that is conducted by interfering with the...
Oct 15, 2020
Est Read Time: 9 min

3 Steps to Creating Career Paths: How We Did it at Cobalt

In 2019, the Cobalt People team launched our first company-wide career paths. This was an important exercise, as it...
Oct 6, 2020
Est Read Time: 4 min

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