Amazon Inspector vs Bitsight comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and BitSight are both solutions in the IT Vendor Risk Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while BitSight is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.0% mindshare in IVRM, compared to BitSight’s 7.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of BitSight users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

Bitsight and Amazon Inspector are competing products in the cybersecurity space, offering unique advantages. Amazon Inspector may offer a better overall value due to its superior features.

Features: Bitsight provides performance in continuous monitoring of third-party risks, a comprehensive security rating, and enhances vendor risk management. Amazon Inspector features automated assessment capabilities for quick vulnerability identification, seamless AWS integration, and vulnerability categorization including container repositories.

Room for Improvement: Bitsight could enhance integration capabilities, broaden support for non-vendor-related risk scores, and lower setup complexity. Amazon Inspector could offer custom compliance rules, improve usability for non-AWS users, and expand on third-party software integrations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bitsight offers straightforward deployment with robust customer support for diverse environments. Amazon Inspector ensures fast cloud-based deployment as part of AWS, though challenging for non-AWS users, and provides comprehensive customer service for those familiar with AWS.

Pricing and ROI: Bitsight's substantial setup cost is balanced by ROI tied to organization size and priorities. Amazon Inspector presents cost-effective, scalable pricing for AWS customers, promising ROI for organizations invested in AWS.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector

Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (20th)

Bitsight

Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Attack Surface Management (ASM) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Vendor Risk Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Inspector is 1.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bitsight is 7.5%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Vendor Risk Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Bitsight	7.5%
Amazon Inspector	1.0%
Other	91.5%

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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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Suresh A.

Senior AIML Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Continuous monitoring has strengthened external security and improved customer trust

There are areas for improvement; we do notice sometimes finding vulnerabilities which gives us visibility to find them quickly. However, there could be a mechanism they can build on top of that for validation as they identify the issues. What will the real risk be for that identifiable issue? Sometimes it could be open because of the traffic; how they detected it could be seen as vulnerable, but upon testing, it might not be a real issue. It could be a false positive because there could be a honeypot that we built. My thinking is about validation, so if they can build that validation part before they expose the risk to the specific asset, that would help. Additionally, based on their reporting, they could also build risk scores and prioritization, which would also aid us. I would suggest adding dashboards and custom reporting, which could help us by enabling rich custom reports with filters. That is especially for leadership because they will not look at each technical area, but overall they would be looking at the risk score and what the assets or critical exposure areas are. Customizable reporting based on requirements would be valuable. I chose 9 out of 10 because the reporting and dashboards would be the first thing I would consider for improvement, and then the second is about the validation part, which could probably improve to 10 out of 10. I cannot think of too much for additional improvements. Maybe some good automation with the API solutions that could be integrated with the CI/CD pipeline or DevOps tools we are running would also be automated and tested.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

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

"The automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable."

"The scalability of the solution itself is unparalleled."

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

"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 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."

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

"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 integrate third-party tools as well. It is just a single-click option."

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"Bitsight gives me a holistic view of my entire security posture, which is something any organization would want to have after getting a tool such as Bitsight."

"Bitsight has positively impacted my organization by improving security and customer trust, giving us continuous monitoring so we now find misconfigurations within hours instead of days or weeks, which directly improves our overall security posture and reduces risk as we catch high-risk exposures early, especially unexpected cloud assets or testing endpoints that accidentally went public."

"The product helps us identify the vulnerabilities of internet-facing applications."

"Its customer service team responds quickly."

"I prefer BitSight due to its patch management capabilities. The score is a valuable feature. I have contacted the customer support through e-mail and their response rate is fast. I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"The best thing about BitSight is the comprehensive list of risk vectors, covering compromised systems, diligence failures, and behavioral anomalies."

"My advice to others looking into using Bitsight is that it provides a lot of information that was not available before, and it is especially good in recon as it can identify many things about an organization that have never been found earlier, making it a valuable tool."

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Cons

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

"The other point is that the reporting features of Inspector need improvement. For example, I am in an organization with millions of CVEs, and getting an overview of all this is challenging."

"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 false positive rate of Amazon Inspector is a little high, and it is not covering all different applications and scanning."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"I chose 8 out of 10 because if we receive invites from clients every 45 days, our subscription ends, and we have to renew it."

"At the moment, when the vulnerability score decreases, it remains the same for quite a while, even though issues are resolved in 24 hours."

"There are areas for improvement; we do notice sometimes finding vulnerabilities which gives us visibility to find them quickly. However, there could be a mechanism they can build on top of that for validation as they identify the issues."

"The solution’s benchmarking should be improved."

"Data enrichment is the major issue."

"BitSight could improve the classes and lower-level detections of anomalies that compound the information used to compute the rating."

"Its factor analysis feature could be better."

"There may be room for improvement in the methodology for identifying findings, as occasional errors occur on the technical side."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is very transparent and clear."

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

"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 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."

"The solution's price is average."

"The product has a reasonable price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	5

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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What do you like most about BitSight?

The solution is user-friendly.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BitSight?

The product is a little expensive and very oriented to large companies.

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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)

BitSight transforms how organizations manage cyber risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help organizations manage their own security performance; mitigate third party risk; underwrite cyber insurance policies; conduct financial diligence; and assess aggregate risk. With over 2,100 global customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the Standard in Security Ratings. For more information, please visit www.bitsight.com, read our blog or follow @BitSight on Twitter.

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