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Digital Shadows vs Rapid7 InsightVM comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Digital Shadows
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Digital Risk Protection (7th)
Rapid7 InsightVM
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (9th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (4th)
 

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.
Rapid7 InsightVM, on the other hand, focuses on Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, holds 10.5% mindshare, down 13.5% since last year.
Digital Risk Protection Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Digital Shadows4.5%
ZeroFOX12.8%
Recorded Future12.5%
Other70.2%
Digital Risk Protection
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Rapid7 InsightVM10.5%
Qualys VMDR12.1%
Tenable Security Center8.9%
Other68.5%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

DavidJones7 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
FL
Senior Manager - Pre-Sales at Trillium Information Security Systems
Offers robust compliance features but needs improved automation in remediation
The automation capability remediation needs improvement. The current process requires manually telling IT teams to remediate vulnerabilities, and then they update the status of these vulnerabilities in the platform. This basic feature that Rapid7 calls an automated remediation process is actually manual. We can update the status of vulnerabilities in the Rapid7 InsightVM platform and collectively see how many vulnerabilities we have identified and how many are remediated by our IT team. More automation in the remediation feature is a basic demand from many customers. The remediation part and vulnerability identification of network devices or rigid devices are not currently supported by Rapid7 InsightVM. More integration and automation are the two areas Rapid7 needs to improve in their product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most effective feature for threat intelligence, in my opinion, is collecting impersonating websites."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scan."
"You can bring in and get online to do reports fairly quickly,"
"The solution is good because it has a lot of options."
"I really love the new platform. It is really easy to understand, use, and deploy."
"InsightVM has a very organized GUI with ease of use."
"It's easy to use. It's fast, it's a powerful easy to access tool."
"It's very scalable."
"We feel the interface is very good. It is very easy to use, even a nontechnical person can use it."
 

Cons

"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."
"The solution doesn't pick up all the brands of the URLs."
"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."
"I’d like to see Rapid7 InsightVM improve by adding a knowledge base similar to what Qualys offers. This would help us easily check and search for vulnerabilities using Rapid7 IDs associated with CVs or CVSS. From a features perspective, everything was fine at the time, and the security features of Rapid7 InsightVM were effective."
"This solution creates false-positives which can cause issues with reporting."
"We have some issues with how it scans patches."
"Reporting could be expanded."
"There is room for improvement on its cloud side. In the next release I would like to see better reporting."
"I think the improvement in the tool should be to provide a better update to users because sometimes the information within the cloud and the scanner are not synchronized very fast."
"They should improve the cybersecurity feature of the solution."
"The on-premise updates could improve from Rapid7 InsightVM."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"The license is IP based. How many IPs you are using to scan is the amount of the license you have to buy. The number of users doesn't matter; many users can use it or only person. It depends on the culture of the organization."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"Our licensing costs are somewhere around $40,000 annually. There are no additional fees."
"The tool's price is neither too high nor too low. My company needs to pay 65,000 per year. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing fees attached to the solution."
"The solution is a bit more reasonably priced than other products."
"Its price is too high. My only concern or issue with Rapid7 is its pricing."
"A full license for the solution is expensive because it is at the organizational level and not by individual users."
"The solution's pricing is better than Nexus which charges a high amount for very little use."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Engineering Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise25
 

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?
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 detai...
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...
How would you choose between Rapid7 InsightVM and Tenable Nessus?
You have full visibility across cloud, network, virtual, and containerized infrastructures with Rapid7 Insight VM. You can easily prioritize vulnerabilities using attacker analytics. Overall, Rapid...
What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightVM?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightVM?
My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that both the setup cost and licensing are great.
 

Also Known As

No data available
InsightVM, NeXpose
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Accenture, Pret A Manger, Human Rights Watch
ACS, Acosta, AllianceData, amazon.com, biogen idec, CBRE, CATERPILLAR, Deloitte, COACH, GameStop, IBM
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