Best Vulnerability Assessment Tools
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What are Vulnerability Assessment Tools?
Vulnerability assessment tools help organizations identify, analyze, prioritize, and remediate security weaknesses across networks, applications, cloud environments, endpoints, databases, and IT infrastructure. These tools scan systems for known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, outdated software, exposed services, and compliance gaps that could be exploited by attackers. The software often includes risk scoring, asset discovery, continuous monitoring, remediation guidance, compliance reporting, and automated scanning capabilities to help security teams manage vulnerabilities efficiently. Many vulnerability assessment solutions integrate with SIEM, SOAR, asset management, ticketing, and security operations platforms to streamline remediation workflows and improve security visibility. By proactively identifying and prioritizing security risks, vulnerability assessment tools help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, reduce attack surfaces, and maintain regulatory compliance. Compare and read user reviews of the best Vulnerability Assessment tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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NinjaOne
NinjaOne
NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for 35,000+ customers in 140+ countries. The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience to work faster, smarter, and easier while IT teams modernize and improve efficiency. NinjaOne is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools. The company is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years. -
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ManageEngine Endpoint Central
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Endpoint Central is built to secure the digital workplace while also giving IT teams complete control over their enterprise endpoints. It delivers a security-first approach by combining advanced endpoint protection with comprehensive management, allowing IT teams to manage the entire endpoint lifecycle, all from a single console. With automated patching across Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,000+ third-party applications, it ensures vulnerabilities are mitigated before attackers can exploit them. Its next-gen antivirus (NGAV) feature, powered by AI-driven behavioural detection, provides 24/7 protection against ransomware, malware, and zero-day threats. Endpoint Central further strengthens enterprise defenses with a broad set of security capabilities, including vulnerability assessment and mitigation, peripheral device control, data loss prevention, application control, endpoint privilege management, encryption with FileVault and BitLocker, and browser security.Starting Price: $795.00/one-time -
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Reflectiz
Reflectiz
Reflectiz is a web exposure management platform that helps organizations identify, monitor, and mitigate security, privacy, and compliance risks across their online environments. It provides full visibility and control over first, third, and fourth-party components like scripts, trackers, and open-source libraries that traditional security tools often miss. Operating remotely without embedding code, Reflectiz ensures no impact on site performance, no access to sensitive user data, and no additional attack surface. The platform analyzes your digital supply chain, identifying risks in real-time and allowing for swift mitigation. Reflectiz offers a centralized dashboard for monitoring all public web assets, empowering teams with governance, risk management, and continuous monitoring. It helps businesses reduce attack surfaces, enhance security, and maintain compliance with evolving standards—without requiring code modifications.Starting Price: $5000/year -
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NetBrain
NetBrain
NetBrain pioneers Agentic NetOps, delivering autonomous network operations through AI agents that diagnose, decide, and act with full network context. NetBrain serves approximately one third of the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 across the most complex enterprise networks in the world, with offices in Boston, London, Munich, Hyderabad, Beijing, and Toronto. -
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Astra Pentest
Astra Security
Astra’s Pentest is a comprehensive penetration testing solution with an intelligent automated vulnerability scanner coupled with in-depth manual pentesting. On top of 10000+ tests including security checks for all CVEs mentioned in the OWASP top 10, and SANS 25, the automated scanner also conducts all tests required to comply with ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2, and GDPR. Astra offers an interactive pentest dashboard that the user can use to visualize vulnerability analyses, assign vulnerabilities to team members, and collaborate with security experts. And if the users don’t want to get back to the dashboard every time they want to use the scanner or assign a vulnerability to a team member, they can simply use the integrations with CI/CD platforms, Slack, and Jira.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Action1
Action1
Action1 is an autonomous endpoint management platform trusted by many Fortune 500 companies. Cloud-native, infinitely scalable, highly secure, and configurable in 5 minutes—it just works and is always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits. By pioneering autonomous OS and third-party patching with peer-to-peer patch distribution and real-time vulnerability assessment without needing a VPN, it eliminates routine labor, preempts ransomware and security risks, and protects the digital employee experience. In 2025, Action1 was recognized by Inc. 5000 as the fastest-growing private software company in America. The company is founder-led by Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, American entrepreneurs who previously founded Netwrix, a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity company.Starting Price: $0 USD/per device/per month -
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Runecast
Runecast Solutions
Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform that saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers. By proactively using our agentless scanning in real-time admins discover potential risks and remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. It provides continuous audits against vendor best practices, common security standards, and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Detect and assess risks and be fully compliant across your hybrid cloud in minutes. Runecast has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry. -
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Vendifi
Vendifi
Vendifi is a cutting-edge third-party risk management (TPRM) platform built for regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and government. Designed to simplify vendor compliance, Vendifi automates the entire due diligence process—from creating regulatory-compliant questionnaires to distributing them, chasing third parties for documentation, and validating responses. Alongside automated due diligence, Vendifi provides advanced cybersecurity monitoring, including real-time threat detection, vulnerability assessments, and ransomware alerts. Built on Microsoft SharePoint and Azure, Vendifi integrates seamlessly with your existing ecosystem, ensuring data security and compliance within your Office 365 environment. Whether you're managing 10 vendors or 10,000, Vendifi scales with your needs, offering a centralized solution for third-party risk management, compliance tracking, and vendor lifecycle management.Starting Price: $11499/annual -
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Tenable Nessus
Tenable
Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. From the beginning, we've worked hand-in-hand with the security community. We continuously optimize Nessus based on community feedback to make it the most accurate and comprehensive vulnerability assessment solution in the market. 20 years later and we're still laser focused on community collaboration and product innovation to provide the most accurate and complete vulnerability data - so you don't miss critical issues which could put your organization at risk. Today, Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. -
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Acronis Cyber Protect
Acronis
Managing cyber protection in a constantly evolving threat landscape is a challenge. Safeguard your data from any threat with Acronis Cyber Protect (includes all features of Acronis Cyber Backup) – the only cyber protection solution that natively integrates data protection and cybersecurity. - Eliminate gaps in your defenses with integrated backup and anti-ransomware technologies. - Safeguard every bit of data against new and evolving cyberthreats with advanced MI-based protection against malware. - Streamline endpoint protection with integrated and automated URL filtering, vulnerability assessments, patch management and moreStarting Price: $85 -
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Hakware Archangel
Hakware
Hakware Archangel is an Artificial Intelligence based vulnerability scanner and pentesting tool. Archangel scanner enables organizations to monitor their networks, systems, and applications for security vulnerabilities with advanced Artificial intelligence continuously testing your environment. Why use Archangel? -Identify vulnerabilities before cyber criminals do -Our vulnerability scanning mitigates the risks of a data breach, which will come with a range of costs, including remediation, the loss of customers as a result of reputational damage and fines -Vulnerability scanning is not explicitly required by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or POPI (Protection Of Personal Information Act), but the -Regulation does require organisations that process personal data to ensure that they have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures – which includes identifying vulnerabilities -The international standard for information security, ISO 27001Starting Price: $100 -
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Quixxi
Quixxi
Quixxi is a leading provider of mobile app security solutions that empowers enterprises and security professionals to protect their mobile applications through its patented and proprietary three-pillar platform: SCAN, an automated vulnerability assessment tool (SAST/DAST/WebAPI) that integrates into the development pipeline to identify and fix vulnerabilities with full remediation guidance; SHIELD, a one-click application shielding tool (RASP) that provides baseline security controls to protect intellectual property and defend against malicious third-party attacks; and SUPERVISE, a runtime monitoring solution that enables remote disabling, messaging, security logs, and customer analytics for enhanced app management and visibility. Serving: Mobile App Developers, Security Teams, and Organizations in Banking, Fintech, Digital Wallets, Healthcare, Government, and ITStarting Price: $29 for One-Off plan -
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Saner CVEM
SecPod Technologies
SecPod Saner CVEM is a continuous vulnerability and exposure management platform designed to help organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate risks before attackers can exploit them. The platform unifies asset discovery, vulnerability detection, compliance management, endpoint management, posture anomaly detection, patch management, exposure visibility, and risk prioritization in one workflow. Saner CVEM uses AI-powered asset visibility, machine-learning anomaly detection, and intelligent prioritization to identify both known vulnerabilities and exposure gaps that traditional scanners may miss. It evaluates risk using factors such as EPSS, CISA KEV status, SSVC, asset criticality, business context, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and CWE mapping. The platform also supports integrated patch deployment, posture improvement, compliance automation, and continuous scanning across Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, servers, endpoints, and third-party applications.Starting Price: $50/year/device -
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Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus is redefining the vulnerability management software category as the single source of record for all assets, vulnerabilities, and associated data. We unlock the value you’re not getting from existing tools and place you squarely on the path to program maturity by unifying the people, processes, and technology involved in vulnerability management. With Nucleus, you receive unmatched visibility into your program and a suite of tools with functionality that simply can’t be replicated in any other way. Nucleus is the single shift-left tool that unifies development and security operations. It unlocks the value you’re not getting out of your existing tools and puts you on the path to unifying the people, processes, and technology involved in addressing vulnerabilities and code weaknesses. With Nucleus, you’ll get unmatched pipeline integration, tracking, triage, automation and reporting capabilities and a suite of tools with functionality.Starting Price: $10 per user per year -
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Skybox Security
Skybox Security
The Skybox approach to risk-based vulnerability management starts with fresh vulnerability data from your entire network — physical IT, multi–cloud and operational technology (OT). Skybox uses a wide range of sources, including asset and patch management systems and network devices, to assess vulnerabilities without a scan. We also collect, centralize and merge data from multiple scanners to give you the most accurate vulnerability assessments on demand. Centralize and enhance vulnerability management processes from discovery to prioritization and remediation. Harness the power vulnerability and asset data, as well as network topology and security controls. Use network modeling and attack simulation to find exposed vulnerabilities. Augment vulnerability data with intelligence on the current threat landscape. Know your best remediation option, including patching, IPS signatures and network–based changes. -
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Qualys VMDR
Qualys
The industry's most advanced, scalable and extensible solution for vulnerability management. Fully cloud-based, Qualys VMDR provides global visibility into where your IT assets are vulnerable and how to protect them. With VMDR 2.0, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure its true risk, and track risk reduction over time. Discover, assess, prioritize, and patch critical vulnerabilities and reduce cybersecurity risk in real time and across your global hybrid IT, OT, and IoT landscape. Quantify risk across vulnerabilities, assets, and groups of assets to help your organization proactively mitigate risk exposure and track risk reduction over time with Qualys TruRisk™ -
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Digital Defense
Fortra
Providing best-in-class cyber security doesn’t mean blindly chasing the latest trends. It does mean a commitment to core technology and meaningful innovation. See how our vulnerability and threat management solutions provide organizations like yours with the security foundation needed to protect vital assets. Eliminating network vulnerabilities doesn’t have to be complicated, even though that’s what some companies would have you believe. You can build a powerful, effective cybersecurity program that is affordable and easy to use. All you need is a strong security foundation. At Digital Defense, we know that effectively dealing with cyber threats is a fact of life for every business. After more than 20 years of developing patented technologies, we’ve built a reputation for pioneering threat and vulnerability management software that’s accessible, manageable, and solid at its core. -
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NodeZero by Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai® can assess the attack surface of your hybrid cloud, helping you continuously find and fix your internal and external attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero is an unauthenticated, run-once container you deploy yourself. No persistent agents and no provisioned credentials, up and running in minutes. With NodeZero, you own your pen test from start to finish. You configure the scope and attack parameters. NodeZero conducts benign exploitation, gathers proof, and delivers a complete report, so you can focus on real risk and maximize your remediation efforts. Run NodeZero continuously and evaluate your security posture over time. Proactively identify and remediate attack vectors as they appear. NodeZero discovers and fingerprints your internal and external attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults. -
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Tanium
Tanium
Empowering the world’s largest organizations to manage and protect their mission-critical networks. Our data model can collect new, ad-hoc data on the fly in seconds, allowing customers, partners and Tanium to quickly develop capabilities on this extensible platform. Our patented architecture collects and distributes data to millions of endpoints in seconds, with zero infrastructure. Enable decision-making where data is generated: the endpoint itself. Our agent consumes minimal endpoint resources and bandwidth while fitting on the firmware of the smallest chips. Expand your capabilities without expanding Tanium’s footprint. We’ve found that the best way for customers to understand what we do is to show our platform in action. Orion Hindawi, Tanium’s co-founder and CEO, will guide you through a hands-on keyboard tour to show what Tanium does and the power of the platform. Track down every IT asset you own instantaneously. -
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Detectify
Detectify
Detectify sets the standard for External Attack Surface Management (EASM), providing 99.7% accurate vulnerability assessments. ProdSec and AppSec teams trust Detectify to expose exactly how attackers will exploit their Internet-facing applications. The Detectify platform automates continuous real-world, payload-based attacks crowdsourced through its global community of elite ethical hackers, exposing critical weaknesses before it’s too late. Detectify is available on the global market, except US-sanctioned countries. It is tech-agnostic, which means you can deploy the scanning engines as long as you are hosted in the cloud. Currently, Detectify is trusted by 1500+ security-conscious companies including popular app-makers King, Trello, Grammarly. No matter how much security knowledge you have, Detectify helps you stay on top of security and build safer web applications.Starting Price: $89 per month -
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Pentest-Tools.com
Pentest-Tools.com
Pentest-Tools.com helps security professionals find, validate, and communicate vulnerabilities faster and with greater confidence - whether they’re internal teams defending at scale, MSPs juggling clients, or consultants under pressure. With comprehensive coverage across network, web, API, and cloud assets, and built-in exploit validation, it turns every scan into credible, actionable insight. Trusted by over 2,000 teams in 119 countries and used in more than 6 million scans annually, it delivers speed, clarity, and control - without bloated stacks or rigid workflows. ✔️ Comprehensive toolkit with real-world coverage ✔️ Validated findings rich with evidence ✔️ Automation options with granular control ✔️ Flexible, high-quality reporting ✔️ Workflow-friendly by designStarting Price: $95 per month -
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Beagle Security
Beagle Security
Beagle Security helps you to discover website & API security issues at the right time and address them in the right way. AI-powered core for test case selection, false-positive reduction & accurate vulnerability assessment reports. Integrate with your CI/CD pipeline & communication apps for an automated and continuous vulnerability assessment process. Fix security issues by following the actionable steps provided and improve your website’s security. Get assistance from our security team if you need help addressing a specific security issue or for anything relating to security. Built with the vision to provide affordable security solutions for growing businesses to address their concerns. Years of research and development combined with our industry experience lead to what we have today. We are continuously innovating to reduce human effort and improve the accuracy and efficiency of penetration testing with the help of artificial intelligence.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Saint Security Suite
Carson & SAINT
This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options. As a vulnerability management solution, SAINT Security Suite’s security research and development efforts focus on investigation, triage, prioritization, and coverage of vulnerabilities of the highest levels of severity and importance. Not willing to settle for just blanket coverage and raw data, our analysts focus on developing tools for what matters to our customers.Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user -
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GFI LanGuard
GFI Software
GFI LanGuard enables you to manage and maintain endpoint protection across your network. It provides visibility into all the elements in your network, helps you assess where there may be potential vulnerabilities, and enables you to patch them. The patch management and network auditing solution are easy-to-use and easy to deploy. Automatically discover all the elements in your network, including computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, printers, servers, virtual machines, routers and switches. Group your devices for better management. Distribute management to different teams and see everything from a central management dashboard. Identify non-patch vulnerabilities by using an updated list of 60,000+ known issues as well as items such as open ports and system information about users, shared directories and services. Find gaps in common operating systems. Identify missing patches in web browsers and third-party software.Starting Price: $32 per year -
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NorthStar Navigator
NorthStar.io, Inc.
NorthStar is redefining Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with simple, contextual vulnerability prioritization for easier remediation. Common challenges NorthStar addresses are listed below: • Prioritize issues that should be addressed first in order to make the best use of limited resources. • Address lingering exposures that could impact critical business services, applications, and data stores. • Bridge the visibility gap and discrepancies that exist between vulnerability assessment and patch management. • Track reduction in risk over time and validate the most important issues are being addressed first. • Deliver a complete view of their environment – all assets, vulnerabilities and exposures. • Eliminate manual processes and unnecessary spreadsheet work.Starting Price: $8 per device -
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Dhound
IDS Global
Your business is linked to critical infrastructure or sensitive data, and you understand the cost of a vulnerability that an attacker can find. You work under security regulations stated by the law to take certain security measures (i.e. SOC2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc.) and are required to conduct pentests by a third-party company. Your clients claim partnership only with reliable and secure solutions, and you keep your promises, guaranteeing your system security with the results of penetration testing. Pen test is an imitation of a real hacking attack but performed by security knights who fight for your web security with noble intentions. We conduct Penetration testing (also known as pen test or ethical hacking) so you can breathe out and be confident your system in safe hands. Unlike vulnerability assessment, ethical hacking at Dhound not just seeks vulnerabilities. It would be too easy for us. To stay ahead of adversaries, we apply hackers’ mindset and techniques but no worry!Starting Price: $30 per month -
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SecurityMetrics Perimeter Scan
SecurityMetrics
Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment Scan For Network Security. Vulnerability scans and network scans find top cybersecurity risks such as misconfigured firewalls, malware hazards, remote access vulnerabilities, and can be used for cyber security or compliance mandates like PCI Compliance (PCI DSS) and HIPAA. Add and remove your own targets through your Perimeter Scan Portal. You can mass upload scan targets and groups. You can group and label scan targets to make it easier to manage by location, network type, or unique circumstances at your organization. Run port scans on your most sensitive targets more frequently, test in scope PCI targets quarterly, or test designated IPs after changes to your network with simplicity. Vulnerability scanning reports list the target, vulnerability type, service (e.g., https, MySQL, etc.), and the severity of each vulnerability (low, medium, high).Starting Price: $99.00/one-time -
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Medcurity
Medcurity
Medcurity is a HIPAA compliance platform built for healthcare. From solo practices to large health systems, Medcurity guides organizations through their Security Risk Analysis and keeps them audit-ready year-round. Trusted by 1,000+ healthcare organizations since 2018. What Medcurity offers: - Security Risk Analysis (SRA) aligned with current OCR standards, with guided walkthroughs and audit-ready reporting - Small Practice SRA for practices with 1 to 20 employees, starting at $499/year - PolicyScan to scan your existing policies and auto-fill SRA questions - Medcurity Academy HIPAA training for employees and compliance officers - Network Vulnerability Assessments with a live dashboard and Attack Path Visualization - BAA management with centralized tracking and e-signature - Vendor risk management - Customizable policies and procedures with review reminders A dedicated support team works alongside your organization throughout the year, not just at assessment time.Starting Price: $499/year -
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Autobahn Security
Autobahn Security GmbH
Start your cyber fitness and cyber health journey today. Autobahn Security combines six key cyber risk management requirements into a comprehensive vulnerability management program. Autobahn Security is trusted worldwide by companies of all sizes, industries, and locations. Autobahn Security is a vulnerability remediation solution that was developed by Security Research Labs' internationally recognized ethical hackers and security specialists. Autobahn Security is a more efficient way to assess vulnerabilities than traditional methods. It detects forgotten assets, automates the process, and protects your business from potential threats. Autobahn Security closes these gaps by fully automated asset discovery, vulnerability scanning, and comprehensive benchmarking based upon deep scans of more than four thousand companies.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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Vulkyrie
Vulkyrie
More than 100,000 vulnerabilities were reported for commonly used software over the last five years. In 2019 alone, more than 22,000 were reported and 1 out of 3 was given a High or Critical severity rating. Our free vulnerability scanning can help find your security issues before the bad guys do. Our Free plan comes with no limits on the number of IP addresses and URLs, and no limits on the number of vulnerability scans you can run. Unlike free trials, free versions or community editions of other vulnerability assessment tools, you no longer have to choose between your web servers, Windows servers, network devices or virtual machines. Take the first step towards better vulnerability management without the complexity and steep learning curve. Our web-based solution provides you with an easy-to-use interface to manage your security testing. Simply add your IP address or URL to start a scan and use our portal to get the issues and recommended security measures.Starting Price: $99 per month
