Guided scenario
Budget vulnerability scanning
Finding security holes across hosts, networks, and web apps shouldn't require a big platform spend. This shortlist ranks vulnerability scanners by value, including affordable commercial and open-source options. Weigh agent vs. agentless (or both) coverage, web-app/container/cloud scanning breadth, and risk-based prioritization against price, and check how licensing scales with the number of assets you need to scan.
Edgescan
www.edgescan.com
Edgescan is a Dublin-founded SaaS platform unifying DAST, API security testing, network vulnerability management, mobile app testing, and attack surface management, with optional human-validated PTaaS.
Greenbone
www.greenbone.net
Greenbone is the German company stewarding OpenVAS, the leading open-source vulnerability scanner, with free and commercial editions.
Holm Security
www.holmsecurity.com
Holm Security is a Swedish Next-Gen Vulnerability/Exposure Management platform covering systems, networks, web applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes and containers, and user (phishing) risk.
Intruder
www.intruder.io
Intruder is a SaaS vulnerability scanner aimed at lean security teams and startups, with issues triaged by severity out of the box.
Qualys
www.qualys.com
Qualys delivers the cloud-based Enterprise TruRisk platform, with VMDR for vulnerability management, detection, and response.
Rapid7
www.rapid7.com
Rapid7 InsightVM is a vulnerability-management platform spanning endpoint to cloud, using a single Insight Agent plus agentless scan engines.
