Digital Shadows vs IONIX comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Digital Shadows

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Risk Protection (7th)

IONIX

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Attack Surface Management (ASM) (6th), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (5th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Digital Shadows is designed for Digital Risk Protection and holds a mindshare of 4.5%, down 7.3% compared to last year.
IONIX, on the other hand, focuses on Attack Surface Management (ASM), holds 2.0% mindshare, up 1.3% since last year.

Digital Risk Protection Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Digital Shadows	4.5%
ZeroFOX	12.8%
Recorded Future	12.5%
Other	70.2%

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Attack Surface Management (ASM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IONIX	2.0%
CrowdStrike Falcon	7.2%
Darktrace	4.9%
Other	85.9%

Attack Surface Management (ASM)

Featured Reviews

DavidJones7

Head of Content at Pharmaflow

Has required additional context for alerts but supports monitoring impersonation and threat activity effectively

I do not rate Digital Shadows a nine or ten because there are many things that need improvement. The information we get is kind of generic. For instance, for impersonation, we don't have much detail on their history, when it was used or how it was misused. Those further details would be really helpful, but the information we receive is basic, such as when it was last registered and when it was updated, without more insight about the malicious factors. For basic support from Digital Shadows, my impression is that it is six to seven because many times we see duplications or bugs, and the quality of the alerts is not up to the mark. We have escalated many times, but we do not receive solid responses from them in terms of fixes. Digital Shadows should focus on the engineering side rather than the support aspect because support is there to help us get updates, but in terms of quick fixes, it is not as responsive. The need for improvement lies more with the engineering part in fixing issues, which is linked to support.

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Rick Beltran

Director of Cybersecurity at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Is user-friendly, quick to install, and provides great visibility into our assets

IONIX helps us with KPIs by identifying our assets and locating publicly accessible vulnerabilities within those assets. Additionally, it provides a severity rating for each vulnerability. The tracking is important because it ensures we are not replicating efforts. IONIX prioritizes bug fixes based on severity using a scale of one to ten. This ensures that critical and high-priority issues are addressed immediately. IONIX helps us identify our most critical assets, the ones that have the biggest impact on our risk exposure. It can also pinpoint any of these assets that are externally facing, meaning accessible to anyone on the internet. This is extremely valuable because having critical assets exposed to the public internet significantly increases the risk of attack. By identifying these exposed assets and highlighting their vulnerabilities, IONIX provides a crucial service. IONIX excels at identifying risks in third-party digital supply chains. This makes it easy to leverage those KPIs and demonstrate a potential correlation between security and search engine optimization to our marketing team, thereby getting them involved. Fortunately, I haven't had to discuss any false positives. The majority of our alerts, particularly the medium-severity ones, seem to be triggered by hyperlinks to third-party websites. We have a significant number of these alerts, and I'm scheduled to meet with the marketing department to address them. The IONIX user interface is truly user-friendly. Setting up a link, and credentials, and navigating the platform was incredibly fast and required no prior configuration. Within five minutes, I was up and running, able to explore a report and initiate action from our infrastructure team. It's a remarkably fast and smooth experience. Non-technical people can see the evidence and take action based on their one-sentence actionable items. IONIX integrates with our SOC tools to automate tasks. We plan to further leverage IONIX by integrating our AWS public-facing assets and Jira ticketing system. This will allow for automated project creation for our infrastructure team. I realized the value of IONIX within the first five minutes. It identified two critical vulnerabilities that we were then able to address. The Active Protection feature automatically detects exploitable vulnerabilities in our system and takes control of them, without requiring manual intervention from us. IONIX can potentially take control of an asset before an attacker does. This would prevent the attacker from gaining access. IONIX would notify us of the issue and help us mitigate it before returning control of the asset. Ultimately, it's far better to have a trusted security provider like IONIX manage our assets than a malicious actor. The Active Protection feature is important to us for those reasons. IONIX helps us reduce our mean time to remediation by providing clear and concise information. This allows our marketing team to address certain situations without requiring IT intervention. I've accessed the IONIX threat exposure radar three times since its implementation, and thankfully, there haven't been any threats detected on any of those occasions.

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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

"Digital Shadows helps our organization identify and mitigate cyber threats through their crawling of the internet, gathering information, pivoting it, and then sending those alerts to us which we monitor from our SIEM tool."

"The most effective feature for threat intelligence, in my opinion, is collecting impersonating websites."

"IONIX enables us to manage all our assets from one platform. We can see all the assets, login pages, web services, etc., from one place. It automatically scans everything so we can find new information about our organization. We don't need to add each asset or interface manually."

"My favorite is the dark web association that it does. It basically takes things that are unknown to you and then also runs those URLs through the dark web to see if there are potentially leaked credentials unknown to you. It links both of those together and gives you that on a report. You can identify potentially compromised credentials that were previously unknown to you, and you can do something about them. It is a cool feature."

"The portal is an excellent resource, offering valuable insights in a clear and actionable format. It provides a wealth of information, presented in a way that's easy to understand and use. This aligns perfectly with our key focus when working with IONIX: ensuring the data they deliver is highly actionable."

"The most valuable feature of IONIX is the effortless setup."

"We're constantly surprised by how good IONIX is at detecting timely vulnerabilities."

"The integration was easy."

Cons

"The solution doesn't pick up all the brands of the URLs."

"The solution doesn't pick up all the brands of the URLs. I have a relatively small company name, however, the solution still misses a certain number of URLs with my company's name in it that are impersonating websites. It's not very comprehensive, to be honest."

"For basic support from Digital Shadows, my impression is that it is six to seven because many times we see duplications or bugs, and the quality of the alerts is not up to the mark."

"IONIX can offer additional services to detect any potential bridging of very sensitive internal resources to the external side."

"The integration and mechanisms for scanning things after we fix them could be simpler. IONIX isn't an easy product to use, but it's one of the best solutions once you learn how to work with it."

"Integrating on-premise Jira with IONIX to track changes and discussions would be highly beneficial for us in the future."

"Our team is always looking for ways to improve the product. Although we understand we are not the only client, the company has been very receptive to our suggestions."

"There are a couple of opportunities for them under integrations. They only have two SIEMs. They do not have our current SIEM in there. It would be nice to have our current SIEM in there, which is Hunter's AI."

"It would be extremely beneficial if IONIX could integrate with popular SaaS services like Salesforce, Box, Zoom, or NetSuite."

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available

"Its pricing is fair."

"The pricing is good."

"The solution's pricing is reasonable and at par with the rest of the industry."

"Since we were an early adopter of IONIX, I believe we have a very favorable pricing model."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Engineering Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Insurance Company

11%

University

Media Company

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Digital Shadows?

Regarding the cost of Digital Shadows, I think prices are a bit higher. The information provided is already available; some of it is paid information. However, considering all the information they ...

What needs improvement with Digital Shadows?

What is your primary use case for Digital Shadows?

Our main use cases for Digital Shadows are mainly using it for threat intel. For instance, we have our domain listed on Digital Shadows. Whenever we see any sort of impersonation domain registratio...

What do you like most about IONIX?

The most valuable feature of IONIX is the effortless setup.

What needs improvement with IONIX?

I don't have anything that I don't like, but there is a feature that IONIX can also consider. We're a heavy user of IONIX services and have a very, very good partnership. However, IONIX only looks ...

What is your primary use case for IONIX?

We use IONIX to identify and monitor any vulnerabilities or issues within the attack surface. It is also used to validate the remediation actions.

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Overview

Digital Shadows minimizes digital risk by identifying unwanted exposure and protecting against external threats. Organizations can suffer regulatory fines, loss of intellectual property, and reputational damage when digital risk is left unmanaged. Digital Shadows SearchLight™ helps you minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing your online brand, and reducing your attack surface. To learn more and get free access to SearchLight, visit www.digitalshadows.com.

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IONIX Attack Surface Management delivers laser-focus into your most important exploitable attack surface risks - including deep into the digital supply chain.

IONIX ASM – Widest Coverage, Sharpest Focus

IONIX is a leader in Attack Surface Management, focused on the discovery of every internet-facing asset and the ways those assets are connected, deep into an organization’s digital supply chain, shedding light on only the most important risks to your business, and providing simple-to-follow recommendations to rapidly remediate exploitable threats and reduce attack surface risk.

What is Attack Surface Management?

Attack surface management (ASM) is the continuous discovery, analysis, remediation and monitoring of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that make up an organization’s potential attack surface.

IONIX Benefits:

Discover more – get full attack surface coverage

Discover up to 50% more assets, even digital-supply chain assets
Minimize false positives
Map changes continuously

Assess further – focus only on what’s important to fix and avoid noisy alerts

Evaluate both assets and connections
Scan with the context of 13 asset categories

Prioritize smarter – Not an inventory of assets, a connected map of exploitability

Go beyond severity scores
Integrated threat intelligence
Analyze exploitability and blast radius

Remediate faster – MTTR of days, not months

Improve efficiency by clustering issues
Simple-language action items to send to SOC and IT teams
Streamline workflows with built-in integrations to SIEM, SOAR…

Protect automatically – take control of exploitable assets before hackers do

Apply Active Protection on critically vulnerable assets, preventing attacks before they happen

Sample Customers

Accenture, Pret A Manger, Human Rights Watch

Warner Music Group, Lexmark, Infosys, The Telegraph, Grand Canyon Education, E.ON

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