Automox vs Vulcan Cyber comparison

Automox and Vulcan Cyber, a Tenable Company are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Automox is ranked #30 with an average rating of 10.0, while Vulcan Cyber, a Tenable Company is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.4. Automox holds a 0.7% mindshare in VM, compared to Vulcan Cyber, a Tenable Company’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Automox users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Vulcan Cyber, a Tenable Company users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Automox and Vulcan Cyber are competitive products in cybersecurity solutions. Vulcan Cyber may have the upper hand with its advanced features and comprehensive vulnerability management, whereas Automox often shines in affordability and ease of use.

Features: Automox offers patch management, configuration automation, and security policy enforcement, simplifying IT operations. Vulcan Cyber provides robust vulnerability management, risk remediation, and threat prioritization, catering to organizations seeking advanced security solutions.

Room for Improvement: Automox could enhance its advanced feature set and expand its integration capabilities. Greater customization in Automox might benefit users seeking tailored solutions. Vulcan Cyber may improve by streamlining deployment processes and offering more intuitive interfaces. Expanding its entry-level affordability could help attract a wider customer base.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Automox features a straightforward cloud-based deployment and responsive customer service, supporting quick adoption. Vulcan Cyber requires more complex setup but offers dedicated support for integration, appealing to enterprises with specific needs.

Pricing and ROI: Automox is affordable with rapid ROI, making it economically attractive. Vulcan Cyber, though requiring higher initial investment, delivers significant returns through its comprehensive security features, suited for organizations prioritizing robust threat management.

To learn more, read our detailed Automox vs. Vulcan Cyber Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Zafran Security

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Zafran Security is 1.0%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Automox is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vulcan Cyber is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Zafran Security	1.0%
Vulcan Cyber	0.6%
Automox	0.7%
Other	97.7%

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Featured Reviews

Israel Cavazos Landini

Associate Director IT Security Operations at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Weekly insights and risk analysis facilitate informed security decisions

I appreciate the weekly insights Zafran provides, which include critical topics for networks and IT security, allowing us to evaluate which insights apply to our environment. The organization score feature is valuable to keep the leadership team updated on how our infrastructure fares security-wise. The applicable risk level versus base risk level feature is beneficial because prior to Zafran, we only used the base risk level, but now understand that risk depends on the asset itself. Zafran is an excellent tool.

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Jack Leung

EMEA Senior Systems Engineer at Quaker Chemical Corporation

Easy to use and deploy agents but needs more stability

We just need to deploy the agent to the endpoints. We don't need to set up anything. For a single agent, it takes one or two minutes. However, we deployed globally, and you need to take into consideration the time it will take to deploy across each endpoint. It's very simple to deploy. We had three or four engineers take care of the implementation.

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Shreevinayak Deshpande

Senior Analyst at Deloitte

Makes vulnerability management efficient with a single pane of glass and daily report generation

There are areas for improvement. Initially, when onboarding Vulcan Cyber, the setup and configuration was more complex than expected with a user-friendly approach. This aspect can be enhanced. An important area is performance and speed, as Vulcan Cyber often lacks speed when exporting reports. The team might have to work on scaling up servers. When we click on a vulnerability, it takes ten seconds to pop up a window and show the entire content. Instead of that, they can put a down arrow, and all the details should be shown on clicking the arrow. This will prevent that ten-second delay. Another area for improvement is providing support and documentation for their tool. Users should have access to easy-to-understand trial documentation for reference.

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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

"We are able to see the real risk of a vulnerability on our environment with our security tools."

"Zafran is an excellent tool."

"Zafran has become an indispensable tool in our cybersecurity arsenal."

"Overall, we have seen about eighty-seven percent reduction of the number of vulnerabilities that require urgency to remediate, specifically the number of criticals."

"We saw benefits from Zafran Security almost immediately after deploying it."

"The biggest improvement to our organization involves the reduction in its man hours... We've probably saved hundreds of hours."

"Previously, we would run a report, scan it, and compare it. We were spending 15 to 30 minutes a month on each machine on this stuff because you would find stuff that wasn't up to date, then you had to fix it. This solution takes that time down to minutes. Automox saves us easily many hours a month."

"It's easy to deploy agents to endpoints."

"They've been adding some new features lately, which I'm not nearly as familiar with, but the ability to just deploy patches and exempt certain machines from certain patches is helpful. For instance, for our servers, we may not want to roll out zero-day patches. We are able to exempt those and make sure that they don't get those policies. We've got certain servers that have to run a particular version of Java, and being able to exempt those servers from receiving Java updates is pretty fantastic."

"The fact that it's just one product that can patch multiple operating systems is really great."

"Among the most valuable features are its ease of use and the Worklets. Both of them are time-savers. Worklets enable us to customize things for a given environment. It's something like when Apple lets other people create applications. Other peoples' Worklets can be used in our environment and in our customers' environments. That saves a lot of time, and it's really cool."

"Its flexibility is most valuable."

"Coming from prior solutions that were a lot more effort, Automox's patch management abilities are transformational. When I took over patching at my company, they were using on-premise architecture to patch. As the workforce shifted from being in the office into their home offices, I was able to lift and shift with no effort other than deploying the new agent out into the environment."

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"The automation capabilities using the Vulcan API platform or the API feature allow me to easily automate scripts and reports and schedule them."

"It has allowed us to bring together multiple sources of information from different signal sources into a single point."

"It is very good when it comes to ingesting information from different sources and then displaying this information in an easy-to-use platform."

"Vulcan Cyber helps us prioritize the vulnerabilities that are really exploitable and our point of interest for the industry based on the threat intelligence that we get."

"The interface of Vulcan Cyber is intuitive with a lot of information about vulnerabilities, which helps in classifying and analyzing threats."

"There is a lot of flexibility in exporting, making it a really good feature. The exporting flexibility based on application type is commendable and provides significant value."

"I find the ability to consolidate information from multiple vulnerability scanners into a single source valuable."

"Vulcan Cyber offers a single pane of glass for centralizing our security data."

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Cons

"I think the ability to have some enhanced reporting capabilities is something they can improve on, as they have good reports but we have asked for some specific reporting enhancements."

"Initially, we were somewhat concerned about the scalability of Zafran due to our large asset count and the substantial amount of information we needed to process."

"The dashboarding and reporting functionality of Zafran Security is an area that definitely could use some improvements."

"The biggest area they need to fix, without a doubt, is the ability to copy and sync profiles and worklets between all of the organizations you manage, and the ability to have top-level user access control across all of the companies that you manage."

"As concerns the patching concepts, there's a bit of a learning curve in terms of working out how Automox wants you to work within the console, not only splitting up everything into groups, but then having the various policies assigned."

"There should be better inventory capabilities. Right now, they only allow you to have insight into software out-of-the-box. It would be nice to also extend that into custom inventory that can be modified and managed by the practitioner."

"The only thing that we've ever truly wanted is an onsite repository. Currently, all updates are provided directly from the internet. So, if you have 1,000 devices, all 1,000 devices go directly out to the internet. We would love the option of being able to put the updates on local storage so that we're not consuming as much bandwidth. That is literally the only thing that we've ever wanted."

"Asset management would be a great feature to add to Automox. We would run easier scripts or more out of the box scripts that would help us in audits. \"

"They need to improve the automation features."

"When we bring on a new client, we need to go into that client and manually set up my account, my chief engineer's account, three technicians' accounts, and a billing person's account all over again, which is annoying. We have probably up to 15 or 16 of our clients on Automox now. For every single one of those, we have had to go in and set this up. Then, if anything changes, we have to remember to go to Automox and change it 15 or 16 times. So, we just want inheritable permissions, and that is it. We have talked to them about this, and they are like, "Yeah, we hear a lot of complaints about it." I am thinking, "Guys, I have been complaining about this for a year and a half. When are you going to do it?" It must be some tricky thing or not an easy fix, because I can only assume if it were easy, then they would have done it by now."

"We would like to see additional detailed reporting for Service providers like us. We had to build our own reports via their APIs to meet our needs."

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"Their support is good, but there are some flaws as well. We often encounter some issues that are not applicable to Vulcan Cyber as a whole; they apply only to us because we have customized requirements. In such cases, when we reach out with specific data and issues to their support team, they sometimes come back and say that the issues have been resolved. However, when we test to see if they have been remediated, they are still there."

"The fact that we cannot use it for our reporting leads me to rate it three out of ten."

"If there was a way for me to connect to the vendor directly from the application, it would be helpful."

"It was a rough year in terms of setup. I had to set it up and onboard it. It was a significant effort from my side at least."

"An important area is performance and speed, as Vulcan Cyber often lacks speed when exporting reports."

"We have the highest privilege in the application, and at least for members with the highest privilege, having the capability to reach out to the vendor directly from the application would be beneficial."

"There are several areas needing improvement. The product helps, but the reporting relies heavily on Power BI. It is limited to graphical views and requires additional filtering, posing operational challenges."

"I would rate the tool between six and seven because there have been instances when the tool was down, and I couldn't access Cyber reports. Additionally, the Vulcan Cyber team made changes to the tool and did not notify us."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We are on the premium licensing, which is the one that has the API capability that we use."

"The pricing and licensing costs have been great for us... My advice to others who are evaluating or thinking of implementing Automox is to give it a shot. If a free trial is still available, definitely use it, because it makes life a lot easier."

"For all these software tools, it is usually a subscription model. There is a monthly charge that we need to pass along to our clients because we are doing all this for their benefit. It is only a couple of bucks a month per computer, and that is a low enough price point where our clients, without exception, have accepted it, and said, "This is great. We will pay that. It sounds like a worthwhile thing.""

"Automox just charges us a set amount per user, per month, for using the product. That is very important to us. Because it's a cloud-native solution, you're saving on the cost of hosting an on-premises solution on your servers."

"Its licensing for a year was nine grand. There was no additional fee."

"There are no additional costs in addition to the extended licensing fees with Automox. You get your support and your per endpoint license with what you purchased."

"The product is a great value."

"The cost is very reasonable compared to the competition."

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"Its pricing is quite fair compared to what is out there in the market, especially compared to the tool from Microsoft. It is a SaaS platform that has an annual cost, so it is something that is already used by many companies. It is quite affordable."

"Our leadership knows better about the pricing. As per my knowledge, which might not be accurate, its price can come down."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

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Computer Software Company

29%

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

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Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zafran Security?

Since we stood Zafran Security up in our private cloud, we handle the maintenance on our side. As we opted not to use...

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What needs improvement with Zafran Security?

In terms of areas for improvement, Zafran Security is doing a really great job as a new and emerging company. Oftenti...

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What is your primary use case for Zafran Security?

My use cases for Zafran Security revolve around two primary areas. One is around vulnerability management and priorit...

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What needs improvement with Automox?

I wouldn't be able to tell you how Automox can be improved; it seems to work very nicely already.

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What is your primary use case for Automox?

We use Automox to maintain the software on all our computers. We were using Qualys before and we're still using it, b...

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What advice do you have for others considering Automox?

Since switching over from Qualys, we have seen no positive impacts for our organization other than being able to upda...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vulcan Cyber?

I don't deal with the pricing of the solution. I'm not a part of that department.

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What needs improvement with Vulcan Cyber?

One area for improvement is clarity in the results column of vulnerability reports. Currently, the path where the vul...

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What is your primary use case for Vulcan Cyber?

I have been using the solution for more than six months. Essentially, any reporting I do for our internal Internet as...

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Overview

Zafran Security integrates with existing security tools to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities effectively, proving that most critical vulnerabilities are not exploitable, optimizing threat management.

Zafran Security introduces an innovative operating model for managing security threats and vulnerabilities. By leveraging the threat exposure management platform, it pinpoints and prioritizes exploitable vulnerabilities, reducing risk through immediate remediation. This platform enhances your hybrid cloud security by normalizing vulnerability signals and integrating specific IT context data, such as CVE runtime presence and internet asset reachability, into its analysis. No longer reliant on patch windows, Zafran Security allows you to manage risks actively.

What are the key features of Zafran Security?

Threat Exposure Management: Utilizes existing tools to prioritize vulnerabilities and manage threats.
Integrative Analysis: Combines security data with IT context for precise vulnerability management.
Real-time Risk Reduction: Enables immediate risk management without waiting for patches.
Hybrid Cloud Compatibility: Functions across diverse cloud environments for comprehensive security.

What benefits can users expect from Zafran Security?

Improved Security: Enhances protection by efficiently identifying and mitigating risks.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces unnecessary patching expenses by confirming non-exploitable vulnerabilities.
Time Savings: Frees developers to focus on root causes by handling immediate threats.
Comprehensive Insight: Offers a holistic view of security threats and vulnerabilities.

In industries where security is paramount, such as finance and healthcare, Zafran Security provides invaluable protection by ensuring that only exploitable vulnerabilities are addressed. It allows entities to maintain robust security measures while allocating resources efficiently, fitting seamlessly into existing security strategies.

Zafran Security

Facing growing threats and a rapidly expanding attack surface, understaffed and alert-fatigued organizations need more efficient ways to eliminate their exposure to vulnerabilities. Automox is a modern cyber hygiene platform that closes the aperture of attack by more than 80% with just half the effort of traditional solutions.

Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single intuitive console. IT and SecOps can quickly gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure.

Automox dramatically reduces corporate risk while raising operational efficiency to deliver best-in-class security outcomes, faster and with fewer resources.

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Vulcan Cyber is used by leading cyber security organizations to manage exposure risk created by unmitigated infrastructure, application, code and cloud vulnerabilities.

The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS starts by correlating and normalizing risk and asset data aggregated from hundreds of vulnerability scanners, asset repositories and threat intelligence feeds. These signals are then used to create a singular view of your organization's attack surfaces to make exposure risk and vulnerability prioritization accurate and actionable.

Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS reduces mean time to remediation by fostering efficient collaboration among security teams, asset and remediation owners through orchestrated workflows and automated remediation tasks.

Use Vulcan Cyber to measure security posture improvement, efficacy of vulnerability risk mitigation campaigns, and compliance with SLAs and regulatory frameworks such as PCI DSS, DORA, NIS2 and HIPPA.

Vulcan Cyber is the only vulnerability risk management solution provider to be named a "Leader" in both the Forrester Wave and Omdia Universe evaluations in 2023.

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Stitch Fix, Mandiant, Wealthsimple, Entrust, Anaplan, Deloitte, Origami Risk, Verana Health

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