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.
- Organization: Attributes referring to the company itself, including its size, reputation, expertise, and market presence.
- Service: Attributes related to the engagement of expert offensive security professionals.
- Product: Attributes mainly describing the specific software products or platforms offered by the company.
- Integrations: Attributes referring to the compatibility and interoperability of the company's solutions with other tools and platforms.
- No: Indicates that the provider lacks or does not have what is mentioned in the given attribute.
- No information: Indicates that the provider may have what is described in the attribute, but there is no public information available about it.
- Yes. No information: Indicates that it is certain the provider has what is mentioned in the attribute, but no further details are provided.
Organization
Focus: Main area of specialization or emphasis of the solution or service offered by the company.
Extras: Solutions or services offered by the company that are outside its focus.
Headcount: Total number of employees working for the company.
Headcount distribution: Number of talents distributed by teams.
Headcount Growth: Employee growth rate over 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years.
Headquarters: Headquarters with the highest employee concentration.
Countries: Countries where the company has operational centers.
Reputation: Maximum 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.
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.
Acquisitions: Acquisitions and acquirers of the company.
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.
Bug Bounty: The company has Bug Bounty programs that reward third parties for finding vulnerabilities in its systems.
Visits: Average number of visits per month to the commercial website over a six-month period, along with the top three 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.
Authority: Authority Score based on Semrush metrics.
Vulnerability database: The solution features a public database of vulnerabilities, whether discovered internally or reported by third parties.
Content: Resources where the company provides content related to application security and the solution or service.
Knowledge Base: Number of knowledge base sections offering key information about the company and its industry.
Community: Community spaces where knowledge, resources, and collaborations related to the industry are shared.
Sync training: Courses and training sessions offered by the company that are synchronous, meaning both parties must be present at the same time and place.
Async training: Courses and training programs offered by the company that are asynchronous, meaning users can complete them at their own time and pace.
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: Options 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.
Pricing: 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 tiers: Total number of plans available for distributing the company's services.
Minimum commit: Minimum contractual commitment, either on a monthly or annual basis.
Minimum payment period: Minimum billing and payment terms supported: monthly (on-demand) or annual (12-month prepaid).
Minimum scope: Minimum acquisition sizes offered.
Minimum average monthly payment: Average monthly cost for the minimum permitted scope units.
Minimum offer: Detection methods offered by the solution or service at the minimum pricing tier and usage scope.
Pricing drivers: Model and factors considered by the company when determining how to charge for the solution or service.
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 review applications' source code to identify vulnerabilities that automated tools might overlook.
Pivoting: 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.
Manual reattacks: Number of manual reattacks available upon client request.
Zero-day vulnerabilities: Method used to detect and identify zero-day vulnerabilities.
SLA: Indicators of the service-level agreement between the company and the client.
Min availability: Minimum service availability SLA guaranteed by the solution, and the corresponding evaluation timeframe.
After-sale guarantees: The company offers contractual guarantees for non-compliance with certain terms.
Accreditations: Accreditations that the company has obtained and are currently valid.
Hacker certifications: Number of certifications in offensive security held by the company's hacking team (only applicable to solutions or services that involve manual penetration testing or penetration testing as a service).
Type of contract: Model where the company engages expert offensive security professionals, either through direct contracts or alternative arrangements.
Endpoint Control: As part of its hacking service, the company retains control of the attacker's endpoint to safeguard the client's information.
Channel Control: The company maintains complete control over the communication channel between the hacker and the TOE, enforcing the implementation of the Zero Trust security model.
Standards: Number of industry standards, guidelines and regulations whose implementation can be validated through the use of the solution or service.
Detection method: Methods used for vulnerability detection, including automated tools, human intelligence, or artificial intelligence (AI)
False positives: F0.5 score percentage based on internal analysis and measurements involving vulnerabilities as units.
False negatives: F2.0 score percentage based on internal analysis and measurements involving risk exposure values as units.
Remediation: Number of options provided by the solution or service to support users in remediating identified vulnerabilities.
Outputs: Number of options for clients to receive and export results following analyses conducted by the solution or service.
Product
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.
API: Type of API offered by the solution, enabling integration and access to its features.
IDE: Number of features provided by the solution's extensions for integrated development environments.
CLI: Whether the solution or service is also offered as a command line interface application.
CI/CD: Capability to break the build or lack thereof.
Vulnerability Sources: Vulnerability sources used to populate the solution’s database in order to address known vulnerabilities.
Priority criteria: Criteria taken into account when performing the prioritization calculation.
Scanner origin: A property of the solution that specifies whether the scanners used are proprietary or third-party, indicating the provider in the latter case.
SCA: Number of package managers supported by the solution or service to analyze, scan, and identify vulnerabilities in open-source components.
SCA (AI Models): The solution provides the ability to identify vulnerable AI models deployed by the user.
Reachability: Number of programming languages supported by the solution or service 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.
Reachability type: The solution’s reachability type, indicating whether it is deterministic or probabilistic.
SBOM: Number of package managers supported by the solution or service to generate a software bill of materials as a result of analyzing the supply chain of the system under evaluation.
Malware Detection: The solution includes malware detection capabilities for packages and libraries.
Autofix on components: Automatic repair of vulnerable components and libraries is supported by the solution, ensuring they are updated to safe and compatible versions.
Containers: Number of operating system distributions supported by the solution or service to analyze containers.
Source SAST (languages): Number of programming languages supported by the solution or service to detect vulnerabilities in code.
Source SAST (frameworks): Number of frameworks supported by the solution or service to detect vulnerabilities in code.
Custom rules: The solution enables customers to define and implement their own custom scan rules.
IaC: Total number of configuration languages and infrastructure-as-code schemas supported by the solution’s SAST capabilities.
Binary SAST: Number of binary file formats supported by the solution or service to find vulnerabilities without requiring access to the source code.
DAST: Number of attack surface kinds supported by the solution or service to find vulnerabilities in applications' execution time with a focus on web applications and APIs.
API security Testing: The solution provides security capabilities for the APIs utilized by the client.
IAST: Number of programming languages supported by the solution or service to test within the running application, identifying vulnerabilities while the application interacts with users and other applications and services.
CSPM: The solution or service offers tools capable of helping in cloud security posture management.
Environments: Environments covered by the solution for security—whether on the left (development) or right (production) side.
ASM: The solution includes attack surface management capabilities.
Secrets: Number of secrets types supported by the solution or service to analyze and detect secrets.
AI: Number of AI capabilities supported by the solution or service to enhance vulnerability prioritization and assist with remediation.
Open-source: Whether the company offers an open-source version with functionalities that are either partially or fully equivalent to the paid version; and if so, its license.
Provisioning as Code: The solution enables infrastructure provisioning as code through the use of Terraform modules for instance creation.
Deployment: Method by which the solution or service delivers its core platform, whether as SaaS or on-premise.
Regions: Regions where services are distributed to optimize performance, availability, and local compliance.
Status: The company offers a dedicated webpage to inform users about the service status, including interruptions or scheduled maintenance.
Incidents: Average number of incidents per year recorded on the status page, based on data from the most recent full calendar year.
Integrations
SCM: Number of integrations with source code management tools to automate the process of scanning and managing vulnerabilities directly within the SCM system.
Binary repositories: Number of integrations with binary repository tools to manage and analyze binary files and dependencies within repository systems.
Ticketing: Number of integrations with ticketing systems to automatically create, track, and manage vulnerability-related tickets within the workflow.
ChatOps: Number of integrations with messaging and chat tools to facilitate communication, collaboration, and automated workflows directly within the chat platform.
IDE: Number of integrations with integrated development environments (IDEs) to provide developers with direct access to vulnerability management features within their coding environment.
CI/CD: Number of integrations with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems to automate security scans and vulnerability detection within the development pipeline.
SCA: Number of integrations with software composition analysis (SCA) tools to detect vulnerabilities in open-source libraries and dependencies used within the application.
Container: Number of integrations with container analysis tools to scan and secure containerized applications and their configurations.
SAST: Number of integrations with static application security testing (SAST) tools to perform static code analysis and detect vulnerabilities in source code.
DAST: Number of integrations with dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools to assess running applications and identify vulnerabilities through real-time testing and interaction.
IAST: Number of 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: Number of integrations with cloud environments to perform cloud security posture management (CSPM) scans, assessing and ensuring the security of cloud configurations and services.
CSPM: Number of integrations with CSPM tools to scan and manage security configurations across cloud environments.
Secrets: Number of 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.
Remediation: Number of integrations with tools focused solely on vulnerability remediation, helping to automatically fix or manage detected security issues.
Bug Bounty: Number of integrations with bug bounty platforms, enabling collaboration with external researchers to identify and report security vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Management: Integration with vulnerability management platforms, enabling centralized tracking, prioritization, and remediation of identified security issues.
Compliance: Number of 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.
