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Alteryx
Alteryx Builds a Single Source of Truth for Vulnerability Management with Cogent
How a leading analytics company is tackling the ownership problem and consolidating vulnerability management across its security stack
100x
Reduction in criticals/highs
<15 mins
From finding to autonomous triage
100%
Coverage with Cogent
The Customer
Alteryx is a leading software company that helps organizations automate data engineering and analytics. With a global customer base and a complex IT environment, the company handles high volumes of sensitive data. Cybersecurity is foundational, both to protect customer data and to meet regulatory obligations.
The Challenge
Alteryx had strong scanning coverage. They ran cloud security posture management, vulnerability scanning, open-source software composition analysis, endpoint protection, and regular pen tests. But the manual work that came after detection was a challenge.
Ownership was a constant bottleneck. Roughly 40 percent of vulnerability findings lacked a documented owner. The security team had to dig through Confluence pages to figure out who was responsible for a given cloud account or asset. Shared services were the most difficult: multiple teams used them, but nobody was fully accountable. When tickets were assigned to individuals, those individuals would sometimes unassign them, causing back-and-forth that stalled fixes for days.
Most vulnerability tickets defaulted to the security team’s own Jira project rather than routing to the responsible engineering team. That made it impossible to report on which application teams were meeting remediation SLAs and which were falling behind. The team had dashboards pulling from their data warehouse, but without reliable ownership data feeding those dashboards, they couldn’t drive accountability.
Engineering teams also had limited bandwidth for remediation. Security needed to send only the most critical findings, but lacked the tools to confidently separate what required immediate action from what could wait. The volume of findings across their tooling was significant, and without reliable prioritization, the risk of overwhelming engineering with low-priority work was constant. When too many tickets landed in an engineer’s queue, the response was predictable: they would stop looking at security tickets entirely.
The Solution
Cogent deploys as the layer on top of Alteryx’s existing scanners and AppSec tools, connecting findings to owners and driving work toward closure. Cogent’s AI agents handle the investigation and coordination work: resolving ownership and packaging findings into remediation actions. Humans stay in control. The agents do the legwork.
The deployment connects to Alteryx’s existing security tooling and deduplicates overlapping alerts into single exposure records while preserving provenance back to each source. The goal is a unified view of assets, vulnerabilities, owners, and controls that teams can query in plain English.
Cogent cross-references findings against the actual environment: whether a vulnerable component is reachable from the internet, whether a compensating control is in place, whether automated patching already covers the asset on a known cycle. By correlating scanner data with asset context and business criticality, Cogent separates the findings that require human action from the ones that do not.
To address the ownership problem, Cogent’s AI agents correlate tags and metadata with Alteryx’s internal documentation, including Confluence wiki pages that map to teams. The system resolves common ambiguity (stale docs, shared services, multi-owner assets) and attaches a confidence level to each assignment. With human review and approval, Cogent generates remediation-ready tickets routed directly to the right teams and projects.
The Results
In the span of weeks, the Cogent platform was able to close Alteryx's ownership gap and map findings to the responsible engineering team rather than letting them default to security's backlog. The time the team previously spent investigating ownership, building tickets, and chasing down assignees adds up. Across the program, Cogent is saving the team more than 100 hours per month in manual work.
With those ownership assignments in place, Cogent replaces the manual Jira ticket creation process with automated dispatch that sends remediation work to the correct team and project, cutting out the back-and-forth that stalled fixes for days.
With ownership resolved and tickets flowing to the right people, the next focus is reducing noise. Cogent's prioritization layer filters raw scanner output down to what is critical and actionable, a reduction of roughly 100x in the volume of critical and high findings that require human attention. Engineering teams at Alteryx have limited capacity, and the trust relationship between security and engineering depends on sending only the work that genuinely needs their input. When engineers receive focused, high-confidence tickets instead of a firehose of alerts, they stay engaged with security work instead of tuning it out.
Consolidating scanner data into a single platform also gives the team something they've lacked: a reliable, unified view for reporting and dashboarding. Rather than stitching together outputs from multiple tools, the security team has one source of truth for vulnerability status across the environment. That foundation makes it possible to give leadership per-team compliance and SLA reporting, so the security organization can answer with confidence which groups are meeting their remediation timelines and which need attention. Mean time to remediation has already decreased by 5 percent, with further improvement expected as the ownership and automation layers mature.
