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Prowler vs Vulcan Cyber comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Prowler
Ranking in Cloud Security Remediation
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Vulcan Cyber
Ranking in Cloud Security Remediation
3rd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (28th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Security Remediation category, the mindshare of Prowler is 10.7%, up from 8.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vulcan Cyber is 12.2%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Security Remediation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Vulcan Cyber12.2%
Prowler10.7%
Other77.1%
Cloud Security Remediation
 

Featured Reviews

Dhruv Vaghasiya - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Titanslab Inc.
Continuous assessments have strengthened our cloud security posture and compliance readiness
Prowler would benefit from improvements in dashboards and visualization. Currently, dashboards are only available for the default configuration. If Prowler could provide custom dashboards and querying into our data, it would be more useful for organizations. Additionally, more automated suggestions and reporting customization would be valuable. Currently, Prowler only provides PDF reports for their default posture and does not provide reports for frameworks like SOC 2 Type 2. While the scanning capabilities are strong, the most significant improvements would focus on visualization, automation, and enterprise workflow integration. Deeper integration with ticketing tools and SIEM tools would enhance the platform's value. Stronger enterprise reporting and automated remediation capabilities would add significant value to Prowler.
Vikram Chakravarthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
Risk-based workflows have transformed how our teams prioritize and track critical vulnerabilities
One important area for improvement could be reporting flexibility and dashboard customization, as this would need to align with specific organizational requirements. I believe it could be better. Additionally, UI simplification and more customization around workflows and reporting would further enhance the analyst experience. Improvements in executive reporting, more customizable dashboards, and deeper workflow flexibility would enhance operational usability further. Vulcan Cyber handles scalability well in our organization. It maintains stability for visibility and remediation tracking, avoiding the need for additional storage, as it is cloud-based. It scales well in our environment, even as vulnerability data and assets grow significantly.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Prowler has positively impacted our organization by improving our security posture, increasing visibility into our cloud misconfigurations, and helping us strengthen our compliance processes."
"Before using Prowler, we were spending hours of our engineers' efforts on compliance and misconfiguration checks, saving that configuration in Excel sheets, and after switching to Prowler, these processes are super smooth and easy, and we are currently saving our engineers' time."
"Prowler has positively impacted my organization by helping us on the security front by improving compliance."
"Prowler has saved us a lot of time, as our engineers previously wasted time manually checking all the configurations of cloud resources maintained in Excel sheets; after switching to Prowler, we save 60 to 70% of our engineers' time, as they no longer need to check each cloud account and resource individually."
"Prowler has positively impacted our organization by improving our security posture, increasing visibility into our cloud misconfigurations, and helping us strengthen our compliance processes."
"Prowler offers real-time scanning, which is crucial when improving our cloud security posture, as updates can be immediately reflected on the scoreboard."
"Using Prowler scans is definitely very helpful."
"I was part of the initial deployment. It was pretty easy. To fully deploy, it took about three or four weeks."
"Vulcan enables us to automate tickets from multiple scanners. It has lots of analytics options that show us charts and allow us to view the statuses in different waves. The dashboard is nice because it's highly informative about the big picture."
"It is very good when it comes to ingesting information from different sources and then displaying this information in an easy-to-use platform."
"The interface of Vulcan Cyber is intuitive with a lot of information about vulnerabilities, which helps in classifying and analyzing threats. We have a good view of assets and vulnerabilities. It helps to do good threat analysis because we can see exactly what the threat is and assess it accordingly."
"Vulcan Cyber is a very good tool."
"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."
"Vulcan Cyber has had the biggest positive impact on my organization through the improvement in prioritization and remediation efficiency."
 

Cons

"I do have one pain point using Prowler. Every time I use Prowler to output results, they have three formats available: CSV, HTML, and JSON."
"Some of the findings in Prowler are not that critical but come in the critical category, so that could be improved."
"One limitation is that after scanning the cloud account, Prowler provides reports of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO certified, but we only receive an Excel sheet; I think a PDF report along with remediation steps is needed to help us improve our cloud accounts better."
"For the reports, Prowler does not provide PDF reports for all compliances; it only gives reports for the Prowler configuration."
"Prowler would benefit from improvements in dashboards and visualization."
"I give Prowler a score of seven or eight due to its inclusion of multiple security policies and the lack of a feature for adding false positives."
"Prowler would benefit from improvements in dashboards and visualization."
"The fact that we cannot use it for our reporting leads me to rate it three out of ten."
"The performance is bad. The query and the UI are always slow, and it's quite frustrating. Vulcan is trying to solve this with a newer design. The dashboard is also crowded. It pulls in all this raw information that you need to filter. Vulcan has filtering capabilities, but they're hard to manage. The labels aren't very clear, so you need to do things by trial and error. It's not as easy as other tools we've been using."
"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."
"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."
"It would be extremely helpful to have a community group around the product."
"An important area is performance and speed, as Vulcan Cyber often lacks speed when exporting reports."
"If there was a way for me to connect to the vendor directly from the application, it would be helpful."
"Their support is good, but there are some flaws as well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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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

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Retailer
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Prowler?
I have not deep dived into the pricing and setup cost, but the setup cost is very minimal, and using Prowler's cloud platform requires a small amount of money for securing and complying with our cl...
What needs improvement with Prowler?
Prowler is open source and easy for me to access. I know there are many other tools such as Trend Micro or Trivy. Trivy is open source as well, but because I always use it for my POC environment, I...
What is your primary use case for Prowler?
I recently used Prowler for a POC use case rather than a production environment. Prowler enables me to keep my POC environment secure so it is ready for promotion to next environments like producti...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vulcan Cyber?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Vulcan Cyber indicates that pricing typically depends on the scale of integrated assets. Organization values are usually evaluated based on...
What needs improvement with Vulcan Cyber?
One important area for improvement could be reporting flexibility and dashboard customization, as this would need to align with specific organizational requirements. I believe it could be better. A...
What is your primary use case for Vulcan Cyber?
My main use case for Vulcan Cyber involves vulnerability prioritization and tracking remediation, including exposure visibility and risk-based vulnerability management. We mainly use it to centrali...
 

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