Comparison between Fluid Attacks and Cure53 | Fluid Attacks

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How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Cure53's? The following comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company’s cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.

Criteria
Fluid Attacks Essential
Fluid Attacks Advanced
Cure53
Accuracy
Fluid Attacks' SAST tool achieved the best possible result against the OWASP Benchmark: a TPR (True Positive Rate) of 100% and an FPR (False Positive Rate) of 0%.
Fluid Attacks identifies 90% of the evaluated systems' risk exposure. (Accuracy is calculated with the F1 score. Risk exposure is calculated with the formula CVSSF=4^(CVSS-4).)
Cure53 does not show information regarding false positive or false negative rates.

Binary SAST
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential supports APK files.
Yes. Fluid Attacks Advanced's capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
No
Languages (source code SAST)
YesFluid Attacks Essential supports the following languages and technologies: Android, C#, CloudFormation, Configuration files, Dart, Docker, Docker Compose, Go, HTML, HTML5, jBASE, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Kubernetes, PHP, Python, Razor, Shell Scripting, Storybook, Swift, Terraform, TypeScript and YAML.
YesFluid Attacks Advanced supports all languages and technologies supported in the Essential plan, as well as the following: ABAP, ActionScript, Apex, Assembler, ATS, Awk, C, C++, Clean, ClojureScript, Colm, cScript, Dale, Elvish, F#, Falcon, Fish, Fortran, Guile, Hana SQL Script, Haskell, Haxe, Idris, Ion, Janet, JCL, Joker, JScript, JSP, Lisp, Lobster, Natural, Nim, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PL-SQL, PL1, PL/SQL, PowerScript, PowerShell, Prolog, R, RC, RPG4, Rust, Scala, SQL, SQR, Standard ML, T24, TAL, tcsh, Transact-SQL, VB.NET, VBA, VisualBasic 6, XML, among others.
No




Frameworks (source code SAST)
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential supports the following frameworks: .NET, .NET Core, Angular, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, Django, Express, FastAPI, Flask, Flutter, Ktor, Laravel, Nest, Next.js, Node.js, React Native, React.js, Spring, Spring Boot and Vue.js.
Yes. Fluid Attacks Advanced supports all frameworks supported in the Essential plan, as well as the following: Apache Struts, Ember.js, Gatsby, Meteor, Phoenix, Ruby Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, Svelte, Symfony, Tornado, among others.
No
DAST
YesFluid Attacks Essential scans unauthenticated HTTP endpoints, including headers, DNS records, HTML content, and SSL connections for encryption suites, protocols, and X509 certificates.
YesFluid Attacks Advanced's capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
No
IAST
No
No
No
SCA
YesFluid Attacks Essential supports the following package managers: Cargo, Composer, Conan, Docker Images, GitHub Actions, Go, Gradle, Hex, Maven, NPM, NuGet, pNPM, pip, Poetry, Pub, RubyGems, SBT, SwiftPM and Yarn.
YesFluid Attacks Advanced's capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
No

Secrets
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential detects secrets in API keys, AWS credentials, database connection passwords, express-session secrets, hardcoded emails (in security-related contexts), hardcoded environment variables (e.g., api_key, password, secret), hardcoded secrets in cryptographic calls, JWT, private keys, RSA keys, salts, SSH keys, symmetric keys, initialization vectors, SonarQube tokens and passwords (in identifiable fields).
Yes. Fluid Attacks Advanced's capability is equal to that of the Essential plan, with the addition of manual reviews to verify other attack vectors and the exploitability of secrets.
No
Containers
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential scans containers based on the following distributions: Alpine, Arch, Debian, and RedHat.
Yes. Fluid Attacks Advanced's capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
No
PTaaS
No
Yes
No. Cure53 offers one-shot MPT.
Reverse engineering
No
Secure code review
No
CSPM
No
ASPM
No
SCM integrations
It offers the same integrations as the Essential plan.
None
Ticketing integrations
It offers the same integrations as the Essential plan.
None
ChatOps integrations
None
None
None
IDE integrations
It offers the same integrations as the Essential plan.
None
CI/CD integrations
AWS CodePipeline, Bamboo, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, TeamCity, Travis CI, and any other CI/CD system that supports Docker
It offers the same integrations as the Essential plan.
None
Cloud Integrations
It offers the same integrations as the Essential plan.
None
Compliance integrations
None
NoneNone
SCA integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Its capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
None
SAST integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Its capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
None
DAST integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Its capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
None
IAST integrations
None
None
None
Secrets integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Its capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
None
Container integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Its capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
None
CSPM integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Its capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
None
Compliance
Fluid Attacks Essential validates some requirements based on these standards and guidelinesAgile Alliance, BSIMM, BIZEC-APP, BSAFSS, CAPEC™, CASA, C2M2, CCPA, CERT-C, CERT-J, CIS, CMMC, CPRA, CWE™, CWE TOP 25, ePrivacy Directive, FACTA, FCRA, FedRAMP, FERPA, FISMA, GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA, HITRUST CSF, ISA/IEC 62443, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, ISSAF, LGPD, MITRE ATT&CK, MISRA-C, MVSP, NERC CIP, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-63B, NIST 800-115, NIST 800-171, NIST CSF, NIST SSDF, NYDFS, NY SHIELD Act, OSSTMM3, OWASP API Security Top 10, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP-M TOP 10, OWASP SAMM, OWASP SCP, OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks, OWASP TOP 10, PA-DSS, PCI DSS, PDPA, PDPO, POPIA, PTES, Resolution SB 2021 2126, SANS 25, SIG Core, SIG Lite, SOC2®, SWIFT CSCF, WASC and WASSEC.
Fluid Attacks Advanced validates all the requirements according to the same standards and guidelines as the Essential plan.
Cure53 validates requirements based on these standards and guidelines: GDPR, HIPAAamong others.
Fast and automatic
No
Remediation
Fluid Attacks Essential provides detailed documentation on fixes and features both on its platform and in its VS Code extension, which uses generative AI to offer custom step-by-step correction guidance. Additionally, its extension leverages gen AI to offer automated fixes capabilities.
In addition to the Essential plan features, Fluid Attacks Advanced offers the option of "Talk to a hacker" in which its experts help clients understand the most challenging vulnerabilities, which helps as a basis to figure out remediation.
Cure53 provides detailed documentation on the fixes in the reports it delivers to the client along with the MPT results.
CI/CD security 
Fluid Attacks Essential can integrate with CI/CD systems and trigger a build pipeline failure to prevent from deploying a noncompliant software version into production (break the build).
Fluid Attacks Advanced's capability is equal to that of the Essential plan.
No
Vulnerability detection method
Hybrid (automated tools + AI + human intelligence)
Human intelligence (as part of its MPT offering)
Vulnerability chaining
No
By combining vulnerabilities A and B, Fluid Attacks Advanced discovers a new, higher impact vulnerability C.
By combining vulnerabilities A and B, Cure53 discovers a new, higher impact vulnerability C.
Delivery of evidence
Fluid Attacks Essential's evidence is delivered in (a) PDF executive reports, (b) XLSX technical reports, (c) code pieces and (d) graphs and metrics of the system's security status.
Fluid Attacks Advanced delivers all the types of evidence mentioned in the Essential plan, and additionally, (a) video recordings of the attack and (b) screenshots with explanatory annotations.
Cure53's evidence is delivered in (a) PDF reports.
Exploitation
No
Fluid Attacks Advanced can do exploitation as long as the client provides an available environment.
Cure53 does exploitation as part of its MPT offering.
Zero-day vulnerabilities
No
Fluid Attacks Advanced's security researchers search for zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source software.
No
AI/ML triage
No
Using artificial intelligence (AI), Fluid Attacks Advanced prioritizes potentially vulnerable files for assessment. Its AI is specially trained by machine learning (ML) with thousands of snippets of vulnerable code.
No
Year founded
Same as the Essential plan
Number of employees
139
Same as the Essential plan
Main capability
AI-Powered PTaaS with Native ASPM and Built-In Scanners
Extra capabilities
None
None
Reputation sites (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Between 8.89 and 9.71 based on 36 reviews over 6.3 years from the following three sources: ClutchGartner Peer Insights and PeerSpot
Same as the Essentials plan
No reviews
Certifications or attestations
It is covered by the same certifications and attestations as the Essential plan.
No
Offensive certifications
0
202 offensive certifications from 59 different types
offensive certifications from 4 different types
Deployment
Same as the Essential plan
No
Demo
 No
Freemium
No
No
No
Free trial
YesPOV to evaluate up to 3 applications, lasting 4 to 8 weeks depending on the organization's size.
No
Open source
Yes. MPL-2.0 license. Totally equivalent to the paid version.
Yes. MPL-2.0 license. Partially equivalent to the paid version.
No
Marketplaces
It is available in the same marketplace as the Essential plan.
No
Transparent pricing
No
No
No
CNA
No
CVE
Fluid Attacks has identified a total of 257 CVEs to date that have been officially published in the MITRE database.
Same as the Essential plan
No
Status page
No

Note on reference review date
References were last checked on Oct 30, 2024.
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