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Its Connective Intelligence engine recursively maps internet-facing assets, including shadow IT, subsidiaries and third- and fourth-party assets in the digital supply chain.

Starts from the organization's name with no IP ranges or asset lists and covers subsidiaries, acquired-company infrastructure and third-party-connected systems.

Reconstructs the external estate from a domain name, including unknown SaaS, subsidiaries and forgotten infrastructure.

Automatically attributes each asset to the relevant subsidiary or business owner; IONIX's claim of fewer false positives is its own and not verified here.

Every finding carries a trace of how it was found, why it belongs to the organization and who owns it.

Maps discovered assets to subsidiaries, brands and M&A; the attribution evidence is described in less detail than at CyCognito or IONIX.

Confirms exploitability with non-intrusive exploit simulations; less aggressive than the attack-agent approaches documented by Hadrian and watchTowr.

Runs more than 100,000 unauthenticated black-box security tests across more than 30 exposure categories, designed not to disrupt production.

Automated red teaming with eight agents: infrastructure, web application, known exploited vulnerabilities, credential stuffing, cloud, sensitive data, third party and supply chain, and DNS.

Turns new CVEs into deployable WAF rules for virtual patching, and its Active Protection claims hijackable domains and cloud buckets on the customer's behalf.

Step-by-step guidance per issue, owner-linked workflows and a retest after each fix; no automated mitigation is documented.

Active Defense deploys mitigation rules to the network edge through WAF and firewall vendors including Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva, F5, Fortinet, Check Point and Citrix.

Names Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Cortex XSOAR, Slack, Wiz and Prisma Cloud, and identifies WAFs from 50+ vendors; narrower than the platform suites.

Names ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk and Zendesk among its integrations.

Ticketing and workflow connections to Atlassian, ServiceNow, Freshworks, Ivanti, Linear, PagerDuty, Torq and Zendesk.

States "immediate time-to-value" with minimal resources; the inputs needed to start are not published on the pages reviewed.

The organization's name is the only required input.

"Zero install", starting from a domain name.

No list price, pricing basis or trial terms published.

Publishes its pricing basis (total asset volume for ASM; active IPs and web applications for exposure validation) and a quote form with a stated 24-hour average response; no list price.

No pricing published.