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Last updated: Nov 4, 2026

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This section compares the application security solution of Fluid Attacks with the solutions of other providers. The purpose of the comparison is to show the benefits of the Fluid Attacks solution. Each comparison has four tables, one for each category. The tables compare the Advanced and Essential plans of Fluid Attacks with the offering of the other provider, attribute by attribute.

The attributes are in four categories:

• Organization: Attributes about the company, for example, its size, reputation, expertise, and market presence
• Service: Attributes about the work of expert offensive security professionals
• Product: Attributes about the software products or platforms of the company
• Integrations: Attributes about the compatibility of the solutions of the company with other tools and platforms

These are the descriptions of the attributes.

Organization

• Focus: The primary area of specialization of the solution or service of the company
• Extras: The solutions or services of the company that are not part of its focus
• Headcount: The number of employees. Usually, it is the number of LinkedIn accounts that show the company as their employer.
• Headcount distribution: The distribution of employees by team. It uses the roles and functions on LinkedIn.
• Headcount growth: The growth rate of employees in the last 6, 12, and 24 months. It uses the historical headcount data on LinkedIn.
• Headquarters: The countries where the company operates or has offices. Usually, this information comes from LinkedIn or from the official website of the company.
• Countries: The countries where the company has employees under contract. This information comes from the public LinkedIn profiles.
• Reputation: The minimum aggregate score, on a scale of 1 to 10. The score uses the ratings and the number of reviews on known review platforms. It also uses the length of time that the platforms show reviews of the company.
• Followers: The total number of followers of the company on the primary social media platforms
• Research firms: The research firms that mention the company in their reports or industry analyses
• Founded: The year when the company started
• Funding: The sources of money that the company got since it started
• Acquisitions: The companies that the company bought, and the companies that bought it
• Revenue: The estimated range of the annual income of the company, in US dollars
• Third-Party CVEs Discovered: The CVEs that show the company as the discoverer of a vulnerability in software that it does not own
• Compliance: The certifications and attestations that the company has and that are in effect at this time
• Bug bounty: The company has bug bounty programs that give rewards to third parties when they find vulnerabilities in its systems.
• Visits: The average number of visits per month to the commercial website in a six-month period. This attribute also shows the three countries with the most visits. It also shows the percentage of visits from each country in the month of the last update of the comparison.
• Authority: The Authority Score from the Semrush metrics
• Public vulnerability DB: The company has a public database of vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities can come from the company or from third parties.
• Content: The resources where the company gives content about application security and about the solution or service
• Comprehensive documentation: The number of sections of the documentation of the company. The sections are the categories that Fluid Attacks defines.
• Community: The community spaces where people share knowledge, resources, and work together on topics of the industry
• Sync training: The synchronous courses and training sessions of the company. The two parties must be present at the same time and place.
• Async training: The asynchronous courses and training programs of the company. Users can complete them at their own time and speed.
• Distribution: The model to distribute and sell the solution or service: directly or through partners
• Marketplaces: The online marketplaces where users can buy the service or solution, at a defined price or through a private offer
• Freemium: The company has a free version of the solution or service that any user can use. Users can upgrade to more features with paid plans.
• Free trial: The options to try the solution or service for a set number of days:
  • A free trial
  • A proof of value
  • A proof of concept
• Demo: The company shows how its platform works and its primary features in a demonstration during a meeting.
• Open demo: The company has an online demo that does not ask for registration. Users can explore the platform and use it without a meeting with a representative.
• Pricing: The method that the company uses to show the price of the solution or service to the public:
  • On its website
  • On online marketplaces
  • Through the sales team
• Pricing tiers: The total number of plans of the services of the company
• Minimum term: The minimum contract commitment: monthly or annual
• Minimum payment period: The minimum billing and payment terms: monthly (on demand) or annual (12-month prepaid)
• Minimum capabilities: The detection methods of the solution or service in the minimum pricing tier and usage scope
• Minimum scope: The minimum sizes that a customer can buy
• Pricing drivers: The model and factors that the company uses to calculate the price of the solution or service
• Free implementation: The solution or service includes deployment and enablement at no cost in addition to the price of the plan.
• Free support: The solution or service includes continuous technical help and maintenance with no recurring fees in addition to the price of the plan.

Service

• PTaaS: The solution or service includes continuous penetration testing. Ethical pentesters find vulnerabilities, try to exploit them, and report the results.
• Reverse engineering: In the service, ethical pentesters deconstruct or disassemble software to find security flaws or vulnerabilities.
• Secure code review: In the service, security analysts review the source code manually. They find vulnerabilities that automated tools possibly do not find.
• Pivoting: In the service, ethical pentesters exploit vulnerabilities together or one after the other. Thus, they can find more complex security flaws or attack paths with more severe impacts than when they exploit each vulnerability separately.
• Exploitation: In the service, ethical pentesters exploit vulnerabilities in accordance with the requirements of the customer.
• Manual reattacks: The number of manual reattacks that a client can ask for
• Zero-day vulnerabilities: The method to find zero-day vulnerabilities
• SLA: The indicators of the service-level agreement between the company and the client
• Minimum availability: The minimum service availability that the SLA of the solution guarantees, and the period of the evaluation
• After-sale guarantees: The company gives contract guarantees if it does not comply with some terms.
• Accreditations: The accreditations that the company has and that are in effect at this time
• Pentester certifications: The number of certifications in offensive security of the pentesting team of the company. This attribute applies only to the solutions or services that include manual penetration testing or penetration testing as a service.
• Type of contract: The model that the company uses to hire expert offensive security professionals: direct contracts or other arrangements
• Endpoint control: In its hacking service, the company keeps control of the endpoint of the attacker to protect the information of the client.
• Channel control: The company keeps full control of the communication channel between the pentester and the TOE. Thus, it applies the Zero Trust security model to this channel.
• Standards: The number of industry standards, guidelines, and regulations whose implementation the solution or service can validate
• Detection method: The methods to find vulnerabilities: automated tools, human intelligence, or artificial intelligence (AI)
• False positives: The F0.5 score percentage. It comes from internal analysis and measurements, with vulnerabilities as units.
• False negatives: The F2.0 score percentage. It comes from internal analysis and measurements, with risk exposure values as units.
• Remediation: The number of options of the solution or service to help users fix the vulnerabilities that it finds
• Outputs: The number of options that clients have to get and export the results of the analyses of the solution or service

Product

• ASPM: The solution or service has tools for application security posture management. These tools orchestrate AST tools, and they correlate and prioritize findings to manage risk exposure.
• API: The type of API of the solution. The API gives access to the features of the solution and lets users integrate it with other tools.
• IDE: The number of features of the extensions of the solution for integrated development environments
• CLI: The solution or service is also available as a command-line interface application.
• CI/CD: The solution can break the build.
• Vulnerability sources: The vulnerability sources that fill the database of the solution with known vulnerabilities
• Threat model alignment: The solution correlates the threat model of the user with the vulnerabilities that it finds.
• Priority criteria: The criteria that the solution uses to calculate the priority
• Custom prioritization: Users can specify the criteria to prioritize vulnerabilities.
• Scanner origin: The scanners of the solution are proprietary or third-party. If they are third-party, this attribute shows the provider.
• SCA: The number of package managers that the solution or service supports to analyze open-source components and find vulnerabilities in them
• AI security: The solution can find vulnerable AI models that the user deployed.
• Reachability: The number of programming languages that the solution or service supports to find if a vulnerability in direct dependencies is reachable. A vulnerability is reachable when the analyzed source code uses the vulnerable function. This capability helps to prioritize the vulnerabilities that are truly critical.
• Reachability type: The reachability type of the solution: deterministic or probabilistic
• SBOM: The number of package managers that the solution or service supports to generate a software bill of materials. It generates the SBOM from the analysis of the supply chain of the system under evaluation.
• Malware detection: The solution can find malware in packages and libraries.
• Autofix on components: The solution can fix vulnerable components and libraries automatically. It updates them to safe and compatible versions.
• Containers: The number of operating system distributions that the solution or service supports to analyze containers
• Source SAST (languages): The number of programming languages that the solution or service supports to find vulnerabilities in code
• Source SAST (frameworks): The number of frameworks that the solution or service supports to find vulnerabilities in code
• Custom rules: Customers can define and use their own scan rules in the solution.
• IaC: The total number of configuration languages and infrastructure-as-code schemas that the SAST capabilities of the solution support
• Binary SAST: The number of binary file formats that the solution or service supports to find vulnerabilities without access to the source code
• DAST: The number of attack surface types that the solution or service supports to find vulnerabilities in running applications, primarily web applications and APIs
• API security Testing: The solution has security capabilities for the APIs that the client uses.
• MAST: The solution tests mobile applications.
• IAST: The number of programming languages that the solution or service supports to test the running application. The test finds vulnerabilities while the application interacts with users and with other applications and services.
• CSPM: The solution or service has tools for cloud security posture management.
• Secrets: The number of secret types that the solution or service supports to find secrets
• AI: The number of AI capabilities of the solution or service to improve the prioritization of vulnerabilities and to help with remediation
• AI SAST: The solution uses artificial intelligence to find vulnerabilities with SAST.
• MCP: The solution has an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that clients can use to integrate AI models.
• Open-source: The company has an open-source version with functions that are partially or fully equivalent to the paid version. If so, this attribute shows its license.
• Deployment: The method that the solution or service uses to deliver its core platform: SaaS or on-premise
• Regions: The regions where the company distributes its services to improve performance, availability, and local compliance
• Status: The company has a dedicated webpage that shows the service status to users, for example, interruptions or scheduled maintenance.
• Incidents: The average number of incidents per year on the status page, from the data of the most recent full calendar year

Integrations

• SCM: The number of integrations with source code management tools. These integrations automate the scans and the management of vulnerabilities in the SCM system.
• Binary repositories: The number of integrations with binary repository tools to manage and analyze binary files and dependencies in repository systems
• Ticketing: The number of integrations with ticketing systems. These integrations create, monitor, and manage the tickets of vulnerabilities in the workflow automatically.
• ChatOps: The number of integrations with messaging and chat tools. These integrations help communication, collaboration, and automated workflows in the chat platform.
• IDE: The number of integrations with integrated development environments (IDEs). These integrations give developers direct access to vulnerability management features in their coding environment.
• CI/CD: The number of integrations with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems. These integrations automate security scans and vulnerability detection in the development pipeline.
• SCA: The number of integrations with software composition analysis (SCA) tools to find vulnerabilities in the open-source libraries and dependencies of the application
• Container: The number of integrations with container analysis tools to scan and secure containerized applications and their configurations
• SAST: The number of integrations with static application security testing (SAST) tools to analyze the code without running it and find vulnerabilities in source code
• DAST: The number of integrations with dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools to test running applications and find vulnerabilities when it tests the running application and interacts with it
• MAST: The number of integrations with mobile application security testing (MAST) tools to test running applications and find vulnerabilities when they interact with these applications
• IAST: The number of integrations with interactive application security testing (IAST) tools. With these integrations, the tools find vulnerabilities while the applications run. They use static and dynamic testing techniques together.
• Cloud: The number of integrations with cloud environments to do cloud security posture management (CSPM) scans. These scans examine the security of cloud configurations and services.
• CSPM: The number of integrations with CSPM tools to scan and manage the security configurations of cloud environments
• Secrets: The number of integrations with tools that analyze and find secrets, for example, API keys and credentials, in applications and code
• Remediation: The number of integrations with tools that are only for vulnerability remediation. These tools help to fix or manage automatically the security issues that the solution finds.
• Bug Bounty: The number of integrations with bug bounty platforms. These integrations let external researchers find and report security vulnerabilities.
• Vulnerability Management: The integration with vulnerability management platforms to monitor, prioritize, and fix security issues from one central place
• Compliance: The number of integrations with automated compliance tools. These integrations help the solution or service comply with the applicable regulations and industry standards.

The comparisons use the official marketing information on the website of the other provider. Thus, customers can examine the information and compare it with the offering of Fluid Attacks quickly. The comparisons do not use claims of the provider from sources other than its website.