Comparison between Fluid Attacks and Synacktiv | Fluid Attacks

Synacktiv

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Synacktiv'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
Synacktiv
Focus
AI-Powered PTaaS on top of Native ASPM with Built-In Scanners
Extras
None
Same as the Essential plan
Employees
Same as the Essential plan
Reputation
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 Essential plan
None
Followers
18K based on the following social media: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube
Same as the Essential plan
30K based on the following social media: LinkedIn and X
Research Firms
None
Same as the Essential plan
None
Founded
Same as the Essential plan
Funding
Bootstrapped
Same as the Essential plan
No information available
Revenue
Same as the Essential plan
No information available
CVE
Fluid Attacks has identified 257 CVEs published in the MITRE database, ranking the company among the top 10 CVE labs globally.
Same as the Essential plan
Synacktiv has identified 132 CVEs published in the MITRE database.
Compliance
Same as the Essential plan
None
Documentation
Same as the Essential plan
No
Status
Same as the Essential plan
No
Incidents
Yes. 7.35 per month
Same as the Essential plan
No information available
Visits
38K per month. Top 5: 48% CO, 16% GB, 11% US, 6% IN, 2% MX and others 17%
Same as the Essential plan
21K per month. Top 5: 41% KE, 13% RE, 8% CN, 4% FR, 2% US and others 32%
Authority
Same as the Essential plan
Distribution
Direct or with any of its 14 partners
Same as the Essential plan
Marketplaces
Same as the Essential plan
None
Freemium
No
Same as the Essential plan
No
Free trial
YesPOV to evaluate up to 3 applications, lasting 4 to 8 weeks depending on the organization's size.
No
Demo
No
Pricing
Pricing drivers
No information available
Deployment
Same as the Essential plan
None
Open source
YesMPL-2.0 license. Totally equivalent to the paid version.
YesMPL-2.0 license. Partially equivalent to the paid version.
No
Standards
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.
Synacktiv validates requirements based on these standards and guidelines: CWE, ISO/IEC 27001OWASP TOP 10PCI-DSS, RJELamong others.
Detection method
Hybrid (automated tools + AI + human intelligence)
Human intelligence (as part of its MPT offering)
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).)
No information available

Fast and automatic
Same as the Essential plan
No
AI
Using GenAI, Fluid Attacks Essentials generates custom fixes from the IDE or ASPM that explain how to remediate vulnerabilities, or it generates automated fixes that provide patches to serve as a skeleton for a pull request that fixes a vulnerability.
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.
None
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. The extension also leverages generative AI to provide automated fix capabilities. Additionally, there is a knowledge base with examples of remediation available.
In addition to the Essential plan features, Fluid Attacks Advanced offers the option of "Talk to a hackerin which its experts help clients understand the most challenging vulnerabilities, which helps as a basis to figure out remediation.
Synacktiv provides detailed documentation on the fixes in the reports it delivers to the client along with the MPT results.
Outputs
Fluid Attacks Essential's evidence is delivered in (a) PDF executive reports, (b) XLSX technical reports, (c) code pieces(d) graphs and metrics of the system's security status and (e) a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) exportable in CycloneDX or SPDX formats, with options to download in JSON or XML.
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.
No information available
PTaaS
No
No. Synacktiv offers one-shot MPT.
Reverse engineering
No
Secure code review
No
No information available
Pivoting
No
Yes. By combining vulnerabilities A and B, Fluid Attacks Advanced discovers a new, higher impact vulnerability C.
Yes. By combining vulnerabilities A and B, Synacktiv discovers a new, higher impact vulnerability C.
Exploitation
No
Yes. Fluid Attacks Advanced can do exploitation as long as the client provides an available environment.
Yes. Synacktiv does exploitation as part of its MPT offering.
Zero-day vulnerabilities
None
Fluid Attacks Advanced's security researchers search for zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source software.
None
SLA
No information available
Accreditations
Same as the Essential plan
CESTI and PASSI
Hacker certifications
Not applicable
ASPM
Same as the Essential plan
No
IDE
The IDE extensions provide detailed information on vulnerabilities and remediation recommendations and leverages generative AI to offer automated fixes and generate customized step-by-step remediation guides.
Same as the Essential plan
None
CLI
Yes. Fluid Attacks' free, open-source scanner can function as a command-line interface (CLI) tool.
Same as the Essential plan
None
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).
Same as the Essential plan
None
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.
Same as the Essential plan
No
Reachability
Yes. Fluid Attacks' tool reachability module is currently available for direct dependencies in the following languages: JavaScript, Python and TypeScript
Same as the Essential plan
No
SBOM
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential supports supply chain analysis for the following package managers: Alpine Package Keeper (apk), APK (Android Package), Bundler (Ruby), Cargo (Rust), CocoaPods (Swift), Composer (PHP), Dart Pub (Dart), dpkg (Debian), Gradle (Java), Hex (Elixir), Maven (Java), NPM (JavaScript), Pacman (Arch Linux and derivatives), PECL (PHP), Pip (Python), Pipenv (Python), PNPM (JavaScript), Poetry (Python), RPM (Redhat), Swift Package Manager (Swift) and YARN (JavaScript).
Same as the Essential plan
No
Containers
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential scans containers based on the following distributions: Alpine, Arch, Debian, and RedHat.
Same as the Essential plan
No
Source SAST (languages)
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
Source SAST (frameworks)
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
Binary SAST
Yes. Fluid Attacks Essential supports APK files.
Same as the Essential plan
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.
Same as the Essential plan
No
IAST
No
Same as the Essential plan
No
CSPM
Same as 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
SCM integrations
Same as the Essential plan
None
Binary repositories integrations
None
Same as the Essential plan 
None
Ticketing integrations
Same as the Essential plan
None
ChatOps integrations
None
Same as the Essential plan
None
IDE integrations
Same 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
Same as the Essential plan
None
SCA integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Same as the Essential plan
None
Container integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Same as the Essential plan
None
SAST integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Same as the Essential plan
None
DAST integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Same as the Essential plan
None
IAST integrations
None
Same as the Essential plan
None
Cloud Integrations
AWSAzure and GCP
Same as the Essential plan
None
CSPM integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Same as the Essential plan
None
Secrets integrations
Native scanner (included, no integration needed)
Same as the Essential plan
None
Compliance integrations
None
Same as the Essential plan
None

Note on reference review date
References were last checked on Oct 28, 2024.
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