ARCON Secure Compliance Management vs Amazon Inspector comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ARCON are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.6, while ARCON is ranked #62. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.6% mindshare in VM, compared to ARCON’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ARCON users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

ARCON Secure Compliance Management and Amazon Inspector are competing in the security compliance sector. Amazon Inspector leads in features with advanced automation capabilities, while ARCON is stronger in pricing and support, providing better value for cost-conscious buyers.

Features: ARCON Secure Compliance Management includes robust access control options, comprehensive compliance checks, and detailed audit trails. Its platform offers a customizable automation suite for specific regulatory needs and a centralized management dashboard for better oversight. On the other hand, Amazon Inspector provides automated security assessments, integration with AWS services, and real-time risk insights. It includes machine learning capabilities for vulnerability identification and integrates with third-party notification services, providing comprehensive compliance support.

Room for Improvement: ARCON could enhance its automation capabilities and integrate more third-party services for expanded functionality. The initial setup process could be simplified to reduce configuration time. Additional user training resources would benefit clients seeking deeper product understanding. Amazon Inspector would benefit from more detailed pricing transparency, offering better visibility in cost forecasting. Improved extensibility beyond AWS infrastructure could broaden its applicability. Enhanced customer training and support resources would strengthen its service offerings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ARCON offers a flexible deployment model with extensive support services, resulting in shorter onboarding times. Its personalized support approach provides a noticeable advantage in customer service. Amazon Inspector is deeply integrated with AWS, which streamlines deployment but requires existing AWS infrastructure for optimal use, providing an adequate level of standard customer service through AWS support channels.

Pricing and ROI: ARCON Secure Compliance Management presents a competitive setup cost, delivering significant ROI through comprehensive compliance functionalities and lower entry costs, appealing to budget-sensitive companies. The absence of specific pricing can be a consideration. Amazon Inspector's pricing is usage-based, which can result in higher overall costs, yet it justifies its price with an extensive feature set, benefitting users requiring in-depth integration with AWS services.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

20th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Vendor Risk Management (6th)

ARCON Secure Compliance Man...

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

62nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Inspector is 1.6%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ARCON Secure Compliance Management is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon Inspector	1.6%
ARCON Secure Compliance Management	0.5%
Other	97.9%

Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

Abdalla Kenawy

AWS DevOps SRE/Infrastructure Engineer at Capgemini

Automated insights streamline data security assessment

For Amazon Inspector, we have many EC2 or virtual machines deployed inside our AWS environment, and the problem is that the existing package deployed inside this EC2 instance has already outdated packages. As we progress with time, this package needs to be updated for security enhancement, which requires us to uninstall the package, install the new version, and then we should be fine. However, the challenge comes with how to scan all our EC2 instances for security vulnerabilities, which is currently managed by Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector can scan EC2 instances or ECR, which is the ECR registry where we can save artifacts Docker images. Amazon Inspector can also scan Docker images uploaded to ECR for Elastic Registry service, and it can scan databases and S3 based on the latest updates. I noticed this from a couple of months ago, and it provides huge benefits for security. Regarding the best features of Amazon Inspector, it gives us a list of all existing outdated packages as part of a deployed package on EC2 instances or specific Python packages that are part of the Docker file and the Docker image itself, which are causing security concerns. Amazon Inspector can list these security concerns and offer guidance on how we can remediate it by updating the package to a specific upper version or something similar.

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SarojMohapatra

Zonal Credit Head at ICICIBANK Ltd

Great for productivity checking and provides good reports

We use this solution for password encryption and remote access. We are customers of ARCON This solution is good for productivity checking and provides good reports. We've had instances where some parameters have disappeared and that is frustrating. The automation needs to be improved. We've…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is scanning the whole repository for any sort of vulnerabilities, so it allows us to be more confident in our DevSecOps and not put a lot of folks or attention to it."

"My experience with AWS technical support is very good, I didn't face any specific challenges, and even the documentation of AWS is good for both Microsoft, which is Azure, and AWS."

"The vulnerability discovery is valuable, and they also rank those vulnerabilities for you. So, you could rapidly attack some of the higher, severe vulnerabilities as they pop up, if they do pop up."

"The scalability of the solution itself is unparalleled."

"Amazon Inspector is highly stable, rated ten out of ten, and this stability impacts business security and administration positively."

"The assessment reports provided by Amazon Inspector have helped me in identifying security vulnerabilities in my cloud applications by giving us a nicely designed dashboard that provides all the security information we need to work on remediation."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon Inspector is the categorization of findings, which filters vulnerabilities by instance, container image, container repository, and Lambda function."

"It operates continuously, so as soon as resources are created, it scans them for vulnerabilities."

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"It is very user friendly. There are not a lot of clicks and buttons. The tool helps me with the installations. The user can do the installation rather than having a technical guide. I also like the browsing stream. It has a good dashboard."

"The support for ARCON ARSIM is very good."

"It is very user friendly; there are not a lot of clicks and buttons, the tool helps me with the installations so the user can do the installation rather than having a technical guide, and I also like the browsing stream and its good dashboard."

"Good for productivity checking."

"I would definitely advise anyone to look at it, it is a good product, quite stable and scalable, and for the requirements that we looked into, ARCON met the customer's needs."

Cons

"One area for improvement in Amazon Inspector is the automation aspect."

"It has automated vulnerability assessment, yet I seek more flexibility in defining custom vulnerability checks tailored to my needs, which is more difficult."

"There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected."

"It has a limited scope. So, AWS Inspector primarily focuses on the security of the EC2 instance. So, if your architecture includes other AWS services, then you may need to use additional tools for your comprehensive security assessment. So that is one con. Another is, like, we have a dependency on agents."

"There are challenges associated with the interdependencies in AWS services, like requiring an Active Directory for other services, resulting in additional charges."

"One major area for improvement is remediation. My team works on remediating findings over time, likely using available patches. However, easier integration with Amazon's patching services would be very helpful."

"The most challenging aspect I faced with Amazon Inspector during integration was automating the remediation process."

"There isn't too much to improve right now. Scanning on demand or as a part of the pipeline versus a post pipeline solution would be good, but it is not a deal breaker by any means."

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"As for what can be improved, definitely pricing. Customers look for pricing and ARCON is a little more expensive than Thycotic. So the pricing model could be improved."

"They should also improve the license audit part. If I want to do a license audit from this tool, I'm not able to do it right now."

"The automation needs to be improved."

"I would love to have all the products. Currently they have all the server operating systems and network operating systems but they should have all the other devices also included, like security devices. That's what I think is missing. They should also improve the license audit part. If I want to do a license audit from this tool, I'm not able to do it right now."

"As for what can be improved, definitely pricing. Customers look for pricing and ARCON is a little more expensive than Thycotic."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The lowest cost would be around $10 for a few small accounts, however, for thousands of accounts, it could be around $5000 to $6000 dollars per month."

"It is scaled as you go. There are probably a certain number of scans per month, and there are tiers. If you're under a certain tier, it is free. The second level is pennies, and then all the way up to like a million. So, it has a tiered pricing program. They're pretty good with your initial scanning, and there is room to scale based on being affordable, but it is fairly cheap. There are no additional costs. They pretty much think about it as a pay-per-scan type model."

"The pricing is very transparent and clear."

"It's priced according to market standards for its services."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Inspector?

The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security. Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Inspector?

I am not honestly sure about the pricing side of Amazon Inspector, but that is taken care of by a separate team. I believe it's cheaper than the other third-party solutions.

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What needs improvement with Amazon Inspector?

They might launch support for third-party environments in the next version regarding the best features in Amazon Inspector from my perspective. The false positive rate of Amazon Inspector is a litt...

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ARCON ARSIM, ARCON SCM

Overview

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. These findings can be reviewed directly or as part of detailed assessment reports which are available via the Amazon Inspector console or API.

Amazon Inspector security assessments help you check for unintended network accessibility of your Amazon EC2 instances and for vulnerabilities on those EC2 instances. Amazon Inspector assessments are offered to you as pre-defined rules packages mapped to common security best practices and vulnerability definitions. Examples of built-in rules include checking for access to your EC2 instances from the internet, remote root login being enabled, or vulnerable software versions installed. These rules are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ARSIM – a risk, security and Information Management tool - is used for automated risk assessment and analysis. It enables a central repository of all IT risks and associated controls, automates information flow for risk assessments, provides aides for initiating necessary actions. These features ensure timely and efficient mitigation of risks. ARSIM Framework includes robust and scalable architecture, that is highly customizable, provides web and windows based user interfaces. It’s powerful connectors and agents work across technologies with several servers and databases.

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RAK Bank, AXIS Bank, Reliance Capital, Kotak Life Insurance, MTS

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