Comparison attributes
In order to show the benefits of choosing Fluid Attacks' application security solution, in this section, Fluid Attacks' offering is compared with those of other providers. The information is presented in tables that weigh the features of Fluid Attacks' Advanced and Essential plans against the competition's offerings across several attributes.
Here are the descriptions of each attribute:
Focus: Main area of specialization or emphasis of the solution or service offered by the company.
Extras: Additional solutions or services offered by the company that are outside its primary focus.
Employees: Total number of staff members employed by the company.
Reputation: Aggregate score, on a scale of 1 to 10, derived from the ratings in recognized review platforms, the number of reviews and the length of time the company has been reviewed on those platforms.
Followers: Total number of followers the company has across major social media platforms.
Citing research firms: Research firms that have cited the company in their reports or industry analyses.
Founded: Year the company was established.
Funding: Sources of financial support the company has received since its inception.
Revenue: Estimated range of the company’s annual income in US dollars.
CVE: Number of vulnerabilities identified by the company that have been published in the MITRE database.
Compliance: Certifications and attestations that the company has obtained and are currently valid.
Documentation: A dedicated website is provided with information, instructions, steps and guides for using the offered solution or service.
Status: A dedicated webpage is provided to inform users about the service status, including interruptions or scheduled maintenance.
Incidents: Average number of incidents per month recorded on the status page.
Visits: Average number of visits per month to the commercial website over a six-month period, along with the top five countries with the highest attributed number of visits, specifying the percentage of visits per country during the specific month when the comparison was last updated
Distribution: Model through which the solution or service is distributed and sold, either directly or through partners.
Marketplaces: Online marketplaces where the service or solution is available for purchase, either at a defined price or through a private offer.
Freemium: The company offers a free version of the solution or service that any user can access, with the option to upgrade to additional features through paid plans.
Free trial: The company offers the option to try the solution or service for a set number of days, either through a free trial, proof of value, or proof of concept.
Demo: The company offers the option to view a demonstration of its platform through a meeting, showcasing how it works and its key features.
Price communication: Method by which the price of the solution or service is made available to the public, either through the company’s website, online marketplaces, or by contacting the sales team.
Pricing drivers: Model and factors considered by the company when determining how to charge for the solution or service.
Deployment: Method by which the solution or service delivers its core platform, whether as SaaS or on-premise.
Open source: Whether the company offers an open-source version with functionalities that are either partially or fully equivalent to the paid version.
Standards: Industry standards and regulations whose implementation can be validated through the use of the solution or service.
Detection method: Security testing technique(s) used by the solution or service to perform analysis and detect vulnerabilities.
Accuracy: A measure of the vulnerability detection precision of the solution or service, considering factors such as false positive rate and true positive rate.
Fast and automatic: The solution or service includes proprietary tools that perform scans quickly and automatically in IT systems.
AI: Capabilities of the solution or service that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance vulnerability prioritization and assist with remediation.
Remediation: Options provided by the solution or service to support users in remediating vulnerabilities after they have been identified.
Outputs: Formats and methods by which clients receive and can export evidence of results following analyses conducted by the solution or service.
PTaaS: The solution or service provides methodologies where ethical hackers perform continuous penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities, attempt exploitation, and report findings.
Reverse engineering: The solution or service offers methodologies where ethical hackers deconstruct software in order to find security flaws or vulnerabilities.
Secure code review: The solution or service provides methodologies in which ethical hackers manually review applications' source code to identify vulnerabilities that automated tools might overlook.
Vulnerability chaining: The solution or service detects vulnerabilities through the combination of two or more vulnerabilities, achieving a higher impact in flaw exploitation than when the vulnerabilities are exploited separately.
Exploitation: The solution or service has the ability to perform vulnerability exploitation according to customer requirements.
Zero-day vulnerabilities: Method used to detect and identify zero-day vulnerabilities.
SLA: Reliability and reach of the service-level agreement between the company and the client.
Accreditations: Accreditations that the company has obtained and are currently valid.
Hacker certifications: Number of offensive certifications held by the company's hacking team (only applicable to solutions or services that involve manual penetration testing or penetration testing as a service).
ASPM: The solution or service offers tools for application security posture management, which involves orchestrating AST tools and correlating and prioritizing findings in favor of risk exposure management.
IDE: Features provided by the solution or service's extension for integrated development environments.
CLI: Whether the solution or service is also offered as a command line interface application.
CI/CD security: Capabilities provided by the solution or service when integrating with CI/CD systems.
SCA: The solution or service offers tools able to analyze, scan and identify vulnerabilities present in open-source components.
Reachability: The solution or service offers the ability to identify whether a vulnerability in direct dependencies is reachable or not (i.e., the analyzed source code does use the vulnerable function) helping the prioritization the vulnerabilities that are truly critical.
SBOM: The solution or service offers the capability to generate a software bill of materials as a result of analyzing the supply chain of the system under evaluation.
Containers: The solution or service offers tools able to analyze containers.
Source SAST (languages): The solution or service offers automatic source code scanners that detect vulnerabilities in code, supporting various programming languages.
Source SAST (frameworks): The solution or service offers automatic source code scanners that detect vulnerabilities in code, supporting various frameworks.
Binary SAST: The solution or service offers tools that can analyze binary files to find vulnerabilities without reviewing the source code.
DAST: The solution or service offers tools to find vulnerabilities in applications' execution time with a focus on web applications and APIs.
IAST: The solution or service offers tools that combine static and dynamic testing within the running application, identifying vulnerabilities while the application interacts with users and the environment.
CSPM: The solution or service offers tools capable of helping in cloud security posture management.
Secrets: The solution or service offers tools that can analyze and detect secrets.
SCM integrations: Integrations with source code management tools to automate the process of scanning and managing vulnerabilities directly within the code repositories.
Binary repositories integrations: Integrations with binary repository tools to manage and analyze binary files and dependencies within repository systems.
Ticketing integrations: Integrations with ticketing systems to automatically create, track, and manage vulnerability-related tickets within the workflow.
ChatOps integrations: Integrations with messaging and chat tools to facilitate communication, collaboration, and automated workflows directly within the chat platform.
IDE integrations: Integrations with integrated development environments (IDEs) to provide developers with direct access to vulnerability management features within their coding environment.
CI/CD integration: Integrations with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems to automate security scans and vulnerability detection within the development pipeline.
SCA integrations: Integrations with software composition analysis (SCA) tools to detect vulnerabilities in open-source libraries and dependencies used within the application.
Container integrations: Integrations with container analysis tools to scan and secure containerized applications and their configurations.
SAST integrations: Integrations with static application security testing (SAST) tools to perform static code analysis and detect vulnerabilities in source code.
DAST integrations: Integrations with dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools to assess running applications and identify vulnerabilities through real-time testing and interaction.
IAST integrations: Integrations with interactive application security testing (IAST) tools, enabling the detection of vulnerabilities during the runtime of applications, combining both static and dynamic testing techniques.
Cloud integrations: Integrations with cloud environments to perform cloud security posture management (CSPM) scans, assessing and ensuring the security of cloud configurations and services.
CSPM integrations: Integrations with CSPM tools to scan and manage security configurations across cloud environments.
Secrets integrations: Integrations with tools for analyzing and detecting secrets to help identify and manage sensitive information, such as API keys and credentials, within applications and code.
Compliance integrations: Integrations with automated compliance tools to help ensure that the solution or service adheres to relevant regulatory and industry standards.
The official marketing information available on the referenced company's website is used to make it easier for the customer to review and quickly compare it with Fluid Attacks' offerings. Claims made by the supplier from sources other than the website are not considered.
