How Vigilance Compares to the Tools You Already Run.
Most of these tools find a problem someone already reported. Vigilance finds what is new: the update that gained a hidden power, before you install it. You almost always want both.
Known Risk versus New Risk
Most tools below find known risk. That is a bug or a bad package someone already reported, with a name and a number. It matters, and they do it well. Vigilance finds new risk. That is a file that gained a capability it never had, that no report covers yet. The chart splits the two.
| Known risk | New risk | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tool | Finds known bugs | Spots a new risky file | Spots a file that can do more than before | Looks inside containers | Runs on the machine, not just CI | Works with no internet |
| Vigilance | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Pro |
| Aikido | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Black Duck | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Snyk | Yes | No | No | Yes | Some | No |
| Socket | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Some | No |
| SafeDep | Yes | Yes | Some | No | Yes | No |
| ReversingLabs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some | Some |
| Sonatype Nexus | Yes | Some | No | Yes | No | No |
| JFrog Xray | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Chainguard | Yes | No | No | Some | No | No |
| Tripwire | No | Some | No | Some | Yes | Yes |
| Wazuh | Yes | Some | No | No | Yes | Some |
| Qualys FIM | No | Some | No | No | Yes | No |
| CrowdStrike FileVantage | No | Some | No | No | Yes | No |
| AIDE | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Wiz | Yes | No | No | Yes | Some | No |
| GitHub Advanced Security | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Sigstore and SLSA | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Trivy | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Some |
| Semgrep | Some | Some | No | No | Yes | Some |
| Mend | Yes | Some | No | Some | Some | No |
| Checkmarx | Yes | Some | No | Some | Some | No |
| Veracode | Yes | Yes | Some | Some | Some | No |
| Anchore | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Some |
| Endor Labs | Yes | Some | No | Some | Some | No |
Only Vigilance answers yes to every new-risk column. It does that on your own machine. The Pro plan also runs with no internet.
Read the attack evidence
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Compare by Category
Find known bugs and bad packages
Vigilance vs Snyk
Checks your code and the parts you depend on against a list of known bugs, then opens pull requests to fix them.
Vigilance vs Socket
Reads packages from public places like npm and flags a new version that starts running scripts or reaching the internet.
Vigilance vs SafeDep
Reads your dependencies and flags a package that its threat feed or code analysis calls malicious, in CI and before install.
Vigilance vs ReversingLabs
Unpacks a release and compares it to an earlier version, then flags new behaviour. It leans on the cloud and a huge file database.
Vigilance vs Sonatype Nexus
Holds your packages and blocks the ones it knows are bad before a build can pull them.
Vigilance vs JFrog Xray
Scans everything stored in Artifactory and reports known bugs, licence problems and where a bad part came from.
Vigilance vs GitHub Advanced Security
Warns you when a part you depend on has a known bug, or when a password gets committed. It also warns you when its scanner finds a mistake in your code.
Vigilance vs Trivy
Scans containers, folders and repositories for known bugs, bad settings and committed passwords. It is free and runs anywhere.
Vigilance vs Semgrep
Reads source code and finds mistakes in it, using rules you can write yourself.
Vigilance vs Mend
Checks your open-source parts against a list of known bugs and flags packages it knows are bad.
Vigilance vs Checkmarx
A cloud platform that scans your code and open-source parts for known bugs.
Vigilance vs Veracode
A cloud platform that finds known bugs and, with Phylum, blocks bad packages.
Vigilance vs Anchore
Open-source tools that list what is in a build and flag parts with known bugs.
Vigilance vs Endor Labs
Finds known bugs that your code can reach and blocks bad packages at install.
Vigilance vs Aikido
Runs many scanners in one cloud platform. It covers code, packages, secrets and cloud setup, and scores them against known bugs.
Vigilance vs Black Duck
Lists the open source parts inside your software and flags the ones with known bugs.
Vigilance vs Chainguard
Builds container images that hold almost nothing, so there is almost nothing in them to go wrong.
Watch files change
Vigilance vs Tripwire
Watches files on a server and tells you when one changed. You write a policy first that says which files matter.
Vigilance vs Wazuh
An open-source agent on each machine that watches files, reads logs and flags known bugs.
Vigilance vs Qualys FIM
A cloud agent that watches files on your servers and reports every change to Qualys.
Vigilance vs CrowdStrike FileVantage
A file monitoring add-on to the Falcon agent that reports changes to the cloud.
Vigilance vs AIDE
A free tool that records a fingerprint of your files, then tells you which ones changed.
Cloud and release checks
Vigilance vs Wiz
Looks across your cloud accounts and shows where they are exposed, with nothing to install on each machine.
Vigilance vs Sigstore and SLSA
Signs a release and records how it was built, so you can prove it came from the build you expect.
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