Microsoft MDASH

Last updated: Nov 4, 2026

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Microsoft MDASH's?

These tables compare the solutions of the two providers, attribute by attribute. Use them to compare the solutions for the cybersecurity requirements of your company. To learn what each attribute means, read the descriptions of the attributes.

This comparison is about the product. Some attributes use information from Microsoft, the parent company of the product.

Organization

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Microsoft MDASH
Focus	Native ASPM with in-house scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with in-house scanners	AI SAST
Extras	None	None	None
Headcount	186	Same	218,134 (as Microsoft)
Headcount distribution	Engineering 42%, IT 12%, sales 16%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 24%	Same	Engineering 41%, IT 12%, sales 8%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 33% (as Microsoft)
Headcount growth	+3%, +21%, +29%	Same	+4%, +4%, +9% (as Microsoft)
Headquarters	CO and US	Same	US (as Microsoft)
Countries	AR, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DO, EC, MX, PA, PE and US	Same	IN and US (as Microsoft)
Reputation	9.27 from 388 reviews over 7 years on Clutch, G2 and Gartner	Same	No reviews
Followers	23K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	49M based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube (as Microsoft)
Research firms	None	None	Gartner
Founded	2001	Same	1975 (as Microsoft)
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Acquisitions	None	None	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Revenue	10M to 15M	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Third-Party CVEs Discovered	289 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	None
Compliance	GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	CSA STAR, Cyber Essentials Plus, FedRAMP Authorized, GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and TISAX (as Microsoft)
Bug bounty	Yes	Yes	Yes (as Microsoft)
Visits	64K per month. Top 3: 18% CO, 9% US, 5% BR. Others 68%	Same	1.1B per month. Top 3: 23% US, 7% IN, 5% GB. Others 65% (as Microsoft)
Authority	33 out of 100	Same	100 out of 100 (as Microsoft)
Public vulnerability DB	Discovered and third-party	Same	Discovered and third-party (as Microsoft)
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, glossary, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Blog, documentation and press releases
Comprehensive documentation	13 documentation sections, 5 in common and 8 additional	Same	6 documentation sections, 5 in common and 1 additional
Community	Forum	Same	Forum (as Microsoft)
Sync training	1 workshop	Same	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	No
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	None
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	No
Demo	Yes	Yes	No
Open demo	No	No	No
Pricing	Contact sales and marketplace	Contact sales	Contact sales
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	No information available
Minimum term	Monthly	Monthly	No information available
Minimum payment period	Monthly	Monthly	No information available
Minimum capabilities	ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets	Same plus: AI SAST, API security testing, MAST, PTaaS, RE and SCR	AI SAST
Minimum scope	10 authors	Same	No information available
Pricing drivers	Authors	Same	Eligible Defender XDR license and Microsoft Foundry model tokens consumed
Free implementation	Yes	Yes	No information available
Free support	Yes	Yes	No information available

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Microsoft MDASH
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	No
Manual reattacks	Not applicable	Unlimited reattacks	Not applicable
Zero-day vulnerabilities	Scanner-based zero-day vulnerability detection	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research by Microsoft powered by AI
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	No information available
Minimum availability	99.95% per year	Same	No information available
After-sale guarantees	No	Yes	No
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	CNA (as Microsoft)
Pentester certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Not applicable
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Endpoint control	No	Total	Not applicable
Channel control	No	Total	Not applicable
Standards	Some requirements from 67 standards, 1 in common and 66 additional	All requirements from the same standards	1 standard in common
Detection method	Automated tools	AI, automated tools and human intelligence	AI and automated tools
Remediation	5, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 1	3, 2 in common and 1 additional
Output	5, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 2	5, 2 in common and 3 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Microsoft MDASH
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	No
IDE	5 functionalities	Same, plus 1 functionality	No
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Does not break the build
Vulnerability sources	18 sources	Same	No information available
Threat model alignment	Yes	Yes	No
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS, Fixing cost, KEV, Reachability, Transitivity, Use and VLAI	Same	AI confidence and severity
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	No
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house
SCA	21 package managers	Same	No
AI security	No	Yes	No
Reachability	14 languages	Same	No
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Not applicable
SBOM	24 package managers	Same	No
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	No
Autofix on components	No	No	No
Containers	4 distributions	Same	No
Source SAST (languages)	14, 11 in common and 3 additional	Same	16, 11 in common and 5 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	23	Same	Yes. No information available
Custom rules	No	No	No
IaC	6	2	No
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	No
DAST	7 attack surface types	Same	No
API security testing	No	4 types of APIs	No
MAST	No	Yes	No
IAST	No	No	No
CSPM	Yes	Yes	No
Secrets	313 secrets types	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	No
AI	5 functions, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same	10 functions, 3 in common and 7 additional
AI SAST	No	Yes	Yes
MCP	Yes	Yes	No
Open-source	No	No	No
Deployment	SaaS (multi-tenant)	Same	SaaS (no tenancy information)
Regions	US	Same	AE, AU, CH, EU, GB, IN and US
Status	Yes	Yes	No
Incidents	3 per year	Same	No information available

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Microsoft MDASH
SCM	6, 2 in common and 4 additional	Same	2, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	None
Ticketing	3	Same	None
ChatOps	None	None	None
IDE	3	Same	None
CI/CD	23, 2 in common and 21 additional	Same	2, all in common
SCA	Native	Same	None
Container	Native	Same	None
SAST	Native	Same	Native
DAST	Native	Same	None
MAST	None	Native	None
IAST	None	None	None
Cloud	1	Same	None
CSPM	Native	Same	None
Secrets	Native	Same	None
Remediation	None	None	None
Bug bounty	None	None	None
Vulnerability management	None	None	None
Compliance	None	None	None

Fluid Attacks last updated these tables on 2026-10-22. The primary sources of information were microsoft.com and learn.microsoft.com. Fluid Attacks also used specialized information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.

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