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Vulnerability Scanning

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Providers using this tag (22)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
OracleCloudDatabaseEnterpriseInfrastructure378 APIs53.0FortifyApplication SecurityDASTDevSecOpsSAST42 APIs51.9Amazon InspectorComplianceContainer SecurityEC2Lambda22 APIs51.7ProjectDiscoveryCompanyCybersecuritySecurity20 APIs49.9ArmorCompanyCybersecurityManaged Detection and ResponseCloud Security70 APIs47.4CheckmarxApplication SecurityCode AnalysisDevSecOpsSAST15 APIs47.2HarnessDevOpsGitOpsInternal Developer PortalLifecycle17 APIs46.0CloudsmithArtifact ManagementDevOpsDevSecOpsDistribution22 APIs45.8AnchoreContainer SecurityContainersSBOMSoftware Supply Chain6 APIs42.7detectifyCompanySecurityCybersecurityAttack Surface Management1 API42.2
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
KubescapeKubernetes SecurityCloud Native SecurityContainer SecurityDevSecOps7 APIs37.8Aqua SecurityCloud-NativeContainersKubernetesRuntime Protection8 APIs36.6Chaitin TechSecurityWeb Application FirewallWAFCybersecurity556 APIs35.3PromptfooLLM EvaluationRed TeamingAI SecurityGuardrails6 APIs34.6TrivyContainersKubernetesSBOMSecurity4 APIs32.5OWASP ZAPSecurity TestingApplication SecurityTesting49 APIs27.742CrunchAPI SecurityPlatformScanningSecurity6 APIs27.3
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
NeuVectorComplianceContainersKubernetesOpen-Source31 APIs23.6GrypeContainer ImagesContainersOpen-SourceSBOM1 API17.3StoikCompanyCyber InsuranceCybersecurityInsurtech16.1InvictiAPI SecurityDASTSecurity1 API14.4
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Tinfoil SecurityCompanySecurityApplication Security4.4

APIs with this tag (8)

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Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Oracle Vulnerability Scanning APIThe vulnerabilityScanning API from Oracle — 41 operation(s) for vulnerabilityscanning.53.0Armor Vulnerability Scanning APIVulnerability scanning operations47.4Harness Security Testing Orchestration APIAPIs for security vulnerability detection with over 40 scanner integrations for running scans, viewing resu...46.0
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Promptfoo Red TeamPromptfoo Red Team generates adversarial test cases against LLM applications targeting prompt injection, ja...34.6Trivy OperatorThe Trivy Operator is a Kubernetes-native security toolkit that automatically scans clusters and generates ...32.542Crunch API Security AuditThe 42Crunch API Security Audit performs automated static analysis of API definitions (OpenAPI 2, 3.0, 3.1 ...27.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
GrypeGrype is an open source vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems developed by Anchore. It...17.3Invicti APIThe Invicti API provides programmatic access to Invicti security scanning capabilities, including API Disco...14.4

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
42.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DAST 5 co-occurrences Container Security 5 co-occurrences SBOM 5 co-occurrences DevSecOps 9 co-occurrences Vulnerabilities 5 co-occurrences API Security 5 co-occurrences Application Security 5 co-occurrences Containers 6 co-occurrences

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