Comparisons
How Guardian360 compares.
Honest, factual comparisons with the tools you are likely weighing up. We describe what each vendor does well, and we are clear about where they fit better than us. Some we replace; many we sit alongside, each one is labelled so you know which. No fear, no spin.
Compliance & GRC
Ceeyu
A Belgian third-party-risk and attack-surface platform combining supplier questionnaires with external scanning, from EUR 245 a month.
Compare →Cyberday.ai
A Finnish AI-assisted ISMS that lives inside Microsoft Teams and turns 70+ frameworks into prioritised tasks.
Compare →Cynomi
A UK and Israeli agentic vCISO and compliance platform, sold through MSPs, covering 30+ frameworks with built-in third-party risk questionnaires.
Compare →DataGuard
A German GRC SaaS with strong compliance automation across ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, TISAX, SOC 2 and the EU AI Act.
Compare →Drata
A US trust-management and compliance-automation platform, a direct peer of Vanta, covering 30+ frameworks with agentic GRC, a Trust Center and third-party risk management.
Compare →ISOPlanner
A Dutch compliance and ISMS platform built inside Microsoft 365, covering ISO 27001, NIS2, NEN 7510 and BIO, with documents kept in the customer’s own SharePoint.
Compare →Kertos
A Munich compliance-automation platform selling ISO 27001, NIS2, TISAX and ISO 42001 readiness as software plus certified human experts.
Compare →Lupasafe
A Dutch white-label MSP platform bundling security awareness training, phishing simulation, scanning, a Microsoft 365 audit and NIS2 control reporting for SMBs.
Compare →Secfix
A Munich compliance-automation platform, an EU-hosted peer of Vanta and Drata, with 250+ continuous checks and a read-only endpoint agent, sold through AWS Marketplace.
Compare →Tenacy
A French cyber-GRC SaaS hosted under French sovereignty rules, orchestrating 50+ frameworks for CISOs.
Compare →UpGuard
A US and Australian cyber-risk platform built on security ratings, third-party risk questionnaires and external attack surface monitoring.
Compare →Vanta
A US trust-management platform that automates evidence collection for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more through hundreds of integrations.
Compare →Vulnerability management
ConnectSecure
A US MSP-focused vulnerability and compliance platform (formerly CyberCNS) built for true multi-tenant management.
Compare →Dashan
A Belgian preventive-security platform combining external vulnerability scanning, phishing simulation and dark-web monitoring for micro-businesses.
Compare →Enginsight
A German vulnerability, IDS and SIEM platform with agents and on-prem options.
Compare →Greenbone / OpenVAS
A German open-source vulnerability management vendor with a daily feed and a new containerised scanner.
Compare →Holm Security
A Swedish next-generation vulnerability management platform with NIS2 packages and broadening attack-surface coverage.
Compare →Lywand
An audit and risk-assessment platform for MSPs with automated reporting and up to 80% auto-healing, focused on DACH.
Compare →N-able
A US-listed RMM and security vendor whose N-central and N-sight consoles include endpoint vulnerability management at no extra cost, prioritised by EPSS and CISA KEV.
Compare →OpenKAT
A Dutch open-source assessment toolkit that orchestrates existing scanners, suited to technical and public-sector teams.
Compare →Outpost24
A Swedish exposure-management vendor covering network, web and cloud scanning, oriented to the enterprise.
Compare →Qualys
A US cloud-native vulnerability and risk-management platform with deep container and cloud coverage and an agentic-AI fabric.
Compare →Rapid7
A US unified vulnerability management and SIEM/XDR vendor sharpening an AI-SOC strategy.
Compare →RoboShadow
A UK platform offering free and low-cost vulnerability scanning, device management and auto-remediation for MSPs and SMBs.
Compare →Security Hive
A Dutch honeypot-as-a-Service vendor providing deception technology for early breach detection.
Compare →Sophos (Managed Risk)
A UK managed vulnerability and attack-surface service, powered by Tenable and delivered through the MSP-first Sophos Central console.
Compare →Tenable
The US market leader in vulnerability management, with deep scanning and broad container and cloud coverage for large enterprises.
Compare →ThreadStone
A Dutch SMB-focused vulnerability scanner (ThreadScan), recently acquired by Techone, broadening its NL channel reach.
Compare →Asset discovery & inventory
Lansweeper
A Belgian technology asset intelligence platform that discovers and reconciles IT, OT, cloud and IoT assets into a single, enriched inventory.
Compare →runZero
A US exposure-management platform built on unauthenticated active scanning, passive discovery and API integrations.
Compare →Microsoft 365 security
Attic Security
A Dutch SaaS platform focused on continuous Microsoft 365 and Entra ID hardening and configuration monitoring.
Compare →CyberDrain CIPP
An open-source Microsoft 365 multi-tenant management portal for MSPs, self-hosted or sponsored.
Compare →Defend365
A cloud platform focused on Microsoft 365 tenant security checks, drift detection and policy compliance.
Compare →Hornetsecurity
A Hanover-based Microsoft 365 security, backup and awareness suite sold through 12,000 channel partners, owned by US-based Proofpoint since December 2025.
Compare →Inforcer
A UK Microsoft 365 multi-tenant management platform for MSPs, standardising and backing up M365 policies.
Compare →Intrusion detection & network
Check Point (Cloud Firewall)
An Israeli and US vendor whose cloud offering, formerly CloudGuard, now centres on Cloud Firewall gateways and a WAF; its CloudGuard CNAPP is end-of-sale, with posture scanning migrating to Wiz.
Compare →LANCOM Systems
A German network infrastructure vendor building routers, switches, access points and firewalls, managed from a German-hosted cloud.
Compare →OpenCanary
An open-source, self-hosted multi-protocol network honeypot daemon from Thinkst.
Compare →Rapid7
A US unified vulnerability management and SIEM/XDR vendor sharpening an AI-SOC strategy.
Compare →SecureMe2 (CyberAlarm)
A Dutch network-threat-detection vendor using on-prem sensors, with a real-time NIDS dashboard.
Compare →Security Hive
A Dutch honeypot-as-a-Service vendor providing deception technology for early breach detection.
Compare →Stormshield
A French network, endpoint and data security vendor, a wholly owned Airbus subsidiary carrying ANSSI qualification and Common Criteria approvals.
Compare →Thinkst Canary
A South African commercial honeypot and deception platform known for high-fidelity, every-alert-is-real Canary devices.
Compare →Endpoint & EDR
Bitdefender (GravityZone)
A Romanian endpoint-protection leader with mature EDR/XDR, ransomware detection and an MSP console.
Compare →ClamAV
An open-source antivirus engine used widely for mail and web gateways, a malware component, not a posture tool.
Compare →Coro
A modular AI-driven SMB/MSP platform spanning endpoint, email, network, M365 and data governance.
Compare →ESET (PROTECT)
A Slovakian vendor providing antivirus, EDR and endpoint-risk management, with cloud workload protection.
Compare →HarfangLab
A French, ANSSI-certified and ANSSI-qualified EDR, the first to hold the German BSI BSZ certification, sold entirely through partners with an MSSP track and on-premises to air-gapped deployment.
Compare →Heimdal
A Romanian/UK MSP-focused platform spanning patching, DNS, EDR and privilege management with heavy automation.
Compare →Imunify360
A host-security suite from CloudLinux for Linux web servers, with malware removal and WAF.
Compare →Microsoft Defender
Microsoft’s XDR/EDR/MDR platform with Secure Score, automatic attack disruption and Security Copilot in M365 E5.
Compare →Tanium
A US converged endpoint management platform built on a single agent, with real-time query and action across very large endpoint estates.
Compare →WithSecure
A Finnish endpoint and exposure-management platform sold largely through MSPs, with EDR/XDR, Microsoft 365 protection and, since 2026, pre-zero-day vulnerability discovery.
Compare →Exposure management & pentesting
Aikido Security
A Belgian developer-first security platform that unifies SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and cloud posture scanning in one tool.
Compare →Detectify
A Swedish EASM and application-security (DAST) vendor built on crowdsourced hacker research.
Compare →Edgescan
An Irish continuous-exposure-validation and pentest-as-a-service (PTaaS) vendor that combines automated scanning with human validation.
Compare →Hadrian
A Dutch offensive-security platform combining attack-surface management, continuous red teaming and CTEM.
Compare →Horizon3.ai
A US vendor whose NodeZero platform runs autonomous, AI-driven penetration testing in a find-fix-verify loop.
Compare →Intigriti
A Belgian bug-bounty and pentest-as-a-service (PTaaS) platform connecting organisations to a global researcher community.
Compare →Intruder.io
A UK external-attack-surface and vulnerability-management SaaS for small and mid-market customers, with simple pricing.
Compare →IONIX
A US and Israel based external attack surface and exposure management vendor focused on preemptive exposure mitigation.
Compare →Patrowl
A French SaaS combining attack-surface management, CTEM and continuous pentesting with pentester-validated findings.
Compare →Pentera
An Israeli automated security-validation platform with a natural-language AI agent guiding offensive testing.
Compare →Q-Feeds
A Dutch threat-intelligence vendor whose curated indicator feeds push into most firewalls and SIEMs, with a bundled portal for external asset discovery and unauthenticated scanning from EUR 99 a year.
Compare →ReConfirm
A Dutch External Attack Surface Management (EASM) vendor for continuous discovery and monitoring of internet-facing assets.
Compare →runZero
A US exposure-management platform built on unauthenticated active scanning, passive discovery and API integrations.
Compare →watchTowr
A Singapore-based preemptive exposure-management vendor combining external attack surface discovery, continuous automated red teaming and offensive threat intelligence.
Compare →Cloud security
Aqua Security
A US and Israeli cloud native security platform protecting containers, Kubernetes, serverless and VMs from build to runtime, sold to large enterprises and government; it also maintains the open-source Trivy scanner.
Compare →Check Point (Cloud Firewall)
An Israeli and US vendor whose cloud offering, formerly CloudGuard, now centres on Cloud Firewall gateways and a WAF; its CloudGuard CNAPP is end-of-sale, with posture scanning migrating to Wiz.
Compare →CrowdStrike (Falcon Cloud Security)
A US platform whose Falcon Cloud Security module protects AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, agentless for posture and with the Falcon sensor at runtime; a repeat cloud workload protection leader.
Compare →Orca Security
An Israeli and US cloud security platform that scans AWS, Azure and Google Cloud agentlessly, with CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM and container coverage, sold to enterprise and upper mid-market.
Compare →Palo Alto Networks (Cortex Cloud)
A US vendor whose cloud product, formerly Prisma Cloud, is now Cortex Cloud, a CNAPP built into its Cortex security operations platform, with about 145 built-in standards.
Compare →Sysdig
A US cloud security vendor, founded by the creators of Falco and Wireshark, whose Sysdig Secure CNAPP watches containers, Kubernetes and cloud accounts at runtime.
Compare →Upwind Security
A US and Israeli cloud and AI security platform combining agentless cloud scanning with a runtime sensor, sold to enterprises and cloud-native scale-ups, pitched as the independent alternative to Wiz.
Compare →Wiz
A US cloud security platform, founded in Israel and part of Google Cloud since March 2026, that scans AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle accounts agentlessly; a Forrester CNAPP leader.
Compare →Managed security & MDR
Arctic Wolf
A US security-operations vendor delivering 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) as a concierge service on its Aurora platform.
Compare →cWatch (Comodo)
A US managed website-security service including WAF, SOC monitoring and malware cleanup.
Compare →Eye Security
A Dutch MDR and cyber-insurance hybrid for SMB and mid-market, with a 24/7 SOC.
Compare →Guardz
A US and Israeli MSP-exclusive suite bundling Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace posture, identity, email, endpoint and awareness in one multi-tenant console, on SentinelOne and Check Point.
Compare →Huntress
A US MSP-channel security vendor offering managed EDR, Microsoft 365 identity threat detection, SIEM and awareness training, with published per-seat pricing.
Compare →NTT Security (SamurAI MDR)
A managed detection and response service from NTT Security, priced per endpoint and delivered from a single SOC in Sweden, strongest in OT, maritime and manufacturing.
Compare →Orange Cyberdefence
A French managed-cybersecurity giant with pan-European reach and analyst-driven managed services.
Compare →Email & identity security
DMARC Advisor
A Dutch email-authentication SaaS (DMARC, SPF, DKIM, BIMI), the first European DMARC provider.
Compare →Hornetsecurity
A Hanover-based Microsoft 365 security, backup and awareness suite sold through 12,000 channel partners, owned by US-based Proofpoint since December 2025.
Compare →Passguard
A Dutch infostealer-intelligence platform detecting compromised devices, stolen credentials, sessions and cookies.
Compare →Security awareness
Awaretrain
A Dutch security-awareness and phishing-simulation platform, sold through MSPs, with a large module library and early Dutch Cyberbeveiligingswet content.
Compare →Guardey
A Dutch SMB platform combining VPN, DNS-filtering and gamified security awareness.
Compare →KnowBe4
The US category leader in security awareness and human risk, owned by Vista Equity Partners, with 1,000+ training items including full Dutch content and published per-seat pricing.
Compare →Lupasafe
A Dutch white-label MSP platform bundling security awareness training, phishing simulation, scanning, a Microsoft 365 audit and NIS2 control reporting for SMBs.
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