Hadrian vs Censys ASM: attack surface management compared

Hadrian

• Owner or subsidiary attributedPartial
• Exploitability provenDocumented
• Ticket or workflow createdDocumented
• Compensating control appliedNot documented
• Fix retestedDocumented

Censys ASM

• Owner or subsidiary attributedNot documented
• Exploitability provenPartial
• Ticket or workflow createdDocumented
• Compensating control appliedNot documented
• Fix retestedNot documented

Hadrian wins on

• Attribution accuracy and false-positive handling: 7 vs 6

  Uses machine learning trained by ethical hackers to confirm asset ownership.

• Exploitability validation: 9 vs 5

  Agentic AI simulates attacks and, by Hadrian's account, proves exploitability within 15 minutes.

• Remediation and mitigation support: 7 vs 5

  Actionable remediation guidance, automatic ticket creation and automatic regression testing after fixes; no edge mitigation documented.

• Time to value: 7 vs 6

  Offers a free external security report; onboarding inputs are not specified.

• Pricing transparency: 6 vs 4

  Publishes a price for NOVA agentic penetration tests (from 1,250 euros per test excluding VAT, bundles available); ATLAS is priced by total asset count on request.

Censys ASM wins on

• Integrations and platform reach: 8 vs 6

  Jira, ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB, Tenable VM, Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel, Axonius, Brinqa, Slack, Webex, plus AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Choose Hadrian if

• You want proof that an exposure is exploitable before it reaches a ticket. Hadrian scores 9 on exploitability validation: Agentic AI simulates attacks and, by Hadrian's account, proves exploitability within 15 minutes.
• You want help closing exposures, not only a longer list of them. Hadrian scores 7 on remediation: Actionable remediation guidance, automatic ticket creation and automatic regression testing after fixes; no edge mitigation documented.

Choose Censys ASM if

• The tool has to fit a wider security platform or many existing tools. Censys ASM scores 8 on integrations: Jira, ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB, Tenable VM, Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel, Axonius, Brinqa, Slack, Webex, plus AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
• Finding unknown assets, subsidiaries and acquired infrastructure is your main gap. Censys ASM scores 7 on discovery: First-party scanning across all 65K ports finds services on nonstandard ports and hosts with self-signed certificates; discovery expands from seeds the customer supplies.