Cybersecurity Product Reviews - SW Labs | SC Media

A look at the company’s attack surface monitoring and web application scanning solution

Anyone familiar with managing a vulnerability scanner in the past 20 years will be able to do it in their sleep with Frontline.

This product is proof that there’s a lot more room for automation and workflow improvement in cybersecurity. 

Vulnerability scanners aren't quite as essential and central as they once were, but they're still necessary. This round of reviews will focus entirely on commercial and open-source network vulnerability scanners.

This review group will cover commercial and open-source network vulnerability scanners. In a few months, we’ll revisit vulnerability management to cover products that focus on analysis and remediation of vulnerability scanning results .

The ability to create remediation plans, goals, and SLAs is a welcome function to help keep teams focused on the most critical tasks. Ultimately, InsightVM is a product that benefits greatly from integration with the rest of the Rapid7 portfolio.

Free and open-source software (FOSS) may have a place in your security program, depending on your requirements, environment and the skill that exists in your team.

Though the term Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM) doesn’t specifically refer to external threats, that’s what this market currently focuses on. In short, products in this category aim to catalogue and help manage an organization’s exposed assets.

Due to this being a new category, we focused our time on understanding the market, how to categorize it and exploring each product’s set of features.

RiskIQ is a great example of where the freemium model works best. They’ve built an essential research tool, so even if someone wasn’t interested in their digital risk protection product, when a new offering like Illuminate comes along, RiskIQ has another opportunity to inform and upsell freemium users on new products.