Rapid7 Surface Command vs Censys ASM: attack surface management compared

Rapid7 Surface Command

• Owner or subsidiary attributedNot documented
• Exploitability provenNot documented
• Ticket or workflow createdPartial
• Compensating control appliedPartial
• Fix retestedNot documented

Censys ASM

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

Rapid7 Surface Command wins on

• Remediation and mitigation support: 6 vs 5

  Built-in automation and SOAR-ready integrations; remediation workflows, SLAs and reporting are listed for higher tiers.

• Time to value: 7 vs 6

  Public self-serve trial.

Censys ASM wins on

• Discovery of unknown assets and subsidiaries: 7 vs 6

  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.

Choose Rapid7 Surface Command if

• The tool has to fit a wider security platform or many existing tools. Rapid7 Surface Command scores 8 on integrations: Sits in the Rapid7 Command platform next to Exposure Command, InsightVM and InsightCloudSec.
• You want results with the least setup. Rapid7 Surface Command scores 7 on time to value: Public self-serve trial.

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.