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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

SecurityScorecard and Amazon Inspector both compete in cybersecurity, focusing on assessing and managing risk. Based on feature integration, Amazon Inspector has the upper hand within AWS environments due to its advanced integration capabilities, although SecurityScorecard is more versatile across diverse ecosystems.

Features: SecurityScorecard offers third-party network visibility, enabling comprehensive risk assessment across various ecosystems. It provides continuous monitoring and detailed benchmarking. Amazon Inspector features automated security assessments specific to AWS workloads, leveraging vulnerability identification and ranking, and supports CIS benchmarks for enhanced compliance.

Room for Improvement: SecurityScorecard could improve by offering more configurable reporting options and enhanced team collaboration features. It may also benefit from integrating multi-factor authentication more seamlessly. Amazon Inspector could refine its integration scope beyond AWS, offer customizable compliance rule definitions, and enhance its cross-platform capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SecurityScorecard is known for its simple deployment and smooth integration with existing systems, supported by responsive customer service. Amazon Inspector benefits from AWS's native deployment ease, providing robust customer support within the AWS platform but with a narrower focus.

Pricing and ROI: SecurityScorecard provides flexible pricing suitable for various organizational sizes, delivering substantial ROI through its multifaceted risk assessment. Amazon Inspector offers cost-effective solutions within AWS environments, making it appealing for AWS-engaged businesses. While both provide good value, SecurityScorecard's ROI appears higher due to cross-platform utility.

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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)

SecurityScorecard

Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI Legal & Compliance (3rd), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (3rd)

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 SecurityScorecard is 8.1%, 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 (%)
SecurityScorecard	8.1%
Amazon Inspector	1.0%
Other	90.9%

IT Vendor Risk 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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Aayush Gangwar

Application security engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees

Vendor risk monitoring has strengthened our security posture and reduced insurance costs

In terms of improvements, I feel SecurityScorecard could enhance some of the integrations based on AI platforms, where I could receive suggestions from the AI tool regarding why SecurityScorecard rates specific issues as critical or high. Details on the technical mitigation would help my non-technical teams understand the security issues better. I think improvements could be made on the reporting side as well, such as the ability to download customizable reports. While SecurityScorecard offers various kinds of reports now, they are limited to predefined formats. Having the ability to choose specific fields for an automated report would be very helpful.

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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

"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 findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It offers an easy-to-understand layout."

"The scalability of the solution itself is unparalleled."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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"I rate the product's initial setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup process."

"SecurityScorecard has impacted my organization positively as it was a surprise to notice that many of our customers follow us there, and the tool scans the web twice per day, so we can see how hackers and what they can see from our publicly available IPs."

"SecurityScorecard has positively impacted my organization and my customers by providing numerous benefits, as customers easily obtain the score, can determine what ports are open and many other things so that they can secure their DNS, applications, and networks effectively, and they have improved compliance and security with the help of SecurityScorecard."

"The best features SecurityScorecard offers for me are mainly being able to properly position my organization's security posture because of the score that is provided."

"The biggest benefit is visibility, allowing organizations to understand their risks, vulnerabilities, and potential threats."

"The solution helps identify our environment's vulnerabilities."

"The initial setup takes just a couple of days and doesn't require any installation."

"Since we onboarded SecurityScorecard, our organization has been positively impacted by significantly improving our security maturity."

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Cons

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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"The tool needs to have the ability to mitigate vulnerabilities with alternative solutions."

"The pricing of the product needs improvement in Brazil."

"SecurityScorecard can be improved. As it currently stands, it does a good job monitoring public-facing devices and the internet and DNS."

"There are areas for improvement in response times and overall support."

"Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for SecurityScorecard, since it does not require active deployment on our side being a SaaS-first company, I expected slightly lower pricing."

"I realized that because my company was acquired by a bigger organization, SecurityScorecard started associating other portfolio company vulnerabilities to our score, which was not helpful because it was giving us wrong data and giving us vulnerabilities we did not have."

"SecurityScorecard's technical team's response time is an area that my company expects to be made faster."

"SecurityScorecard can be complex during setup, and I would recommend that anyone implementing it get help setting it up because it is not as straightforward as people might think."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The pricing is very transparent and clear."

"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 could be split into a lower-paid tier for smaller organizations and another higher tier for others with a more security-focused outlook. $1000 per month is more than some companies pay for their internet connections in total. UPDATE: they have a new 400$ a month tier for starters."

"Even though it's competitive, they offer flexible pricing structures."

"The pricing of SecurityScorecard is fair. I would rate it a seven. It's a bit more on the expensive side. In Brazil, for example, making a payment to the vendor involves wire transfers and high taxes, making it more expensive. Selling SecurityScorecard or any American vendor's product in the United States is very different from selling in South America or Brazil."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

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	7
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	3

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...

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.

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...

What do you like most about SecurityScorecard?

One of its most effective features for risk identification is its enterprise-ready automation for third-party risk measurements.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SecurityScorecard?

I have seen a return on investment with SecurityScorecard as it is easy to use and has saved us some time, so we do not need to do the scans on our own.

What needs improvement with SecurityScorecard?

I suggest that SecurityScorecard could be improved by giving a little more specifics on how the scanning works and how you are able to detect those IPs, including more details on the privacy side a...

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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.

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SecurityScorecard provides comprehensive cybersecurity insights with features such as notifications for score changes and configurable reporting, supporting team collaboration. It emphasizes multi-factor authentication and continuous monitoring for improved risk assessments.

SecurityScorecard specializes in assessing third-party cybersecurity risks, enhancing security posture, and analyzing exposed data. It offers automated information gathering and vendor reports, aiding in vulnerability assessments for supply chain risk management. Users value the Attack Surface Index and recommendations for security improvements, though faster technical response times and better cost-effectiveness, especially in Brazil, are desired. Enhancements such as app scanning and more efficient vulnerability management could expand its capabilities.

What are the key features of SecurityScorecard?

Score Change Notifications: Alerts for immediate awareness of security rating changes
Configurable Reporting: Customizable reports for different stakeholders
Team Collaboration: Tools to facilitate collaborative assessments and decision-making
Multi-Factor Authentication: Enhanced security for user logins
Continuous Monitoring: Ongoing evaluation of cybersecurity posture
Third and Fourth-Party Analysis: In-depth assessment of supply chain risks
Threat Intel Integration: Incorporation of real-time threat intelligence

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Improved Risk Management: Enhanced visibility of cybersecurity risks
Supply Chain Protection: Identification and management of third-party vulnerabilities
Operational Efficiency: Automated data collection and analysis streamline workflows
Cost-Effectiveness: Potential reduction in security management costs
Comprehensive Threat Visibility: Access to integrated threat intelligence

SecurityScorecard is utilized in industries for managing third-party cybersecurity threats by providing detailed vulnerability assessments and automated reporting. Its implementation aids supply chain risk management and enhances industry-specific security strategies, with room for improvement in technical response times and dark web intelligence inclusion.

Sample Customers

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