Aikido CSPM vs Black Duck Polaris

Aikido CSPM gives teams a unified view of cloud misconfigurations, exposures, identity risks, and compliance gaps across cloud environments. It connects to accounts through read-only APIs, with no agents required, and lists AWS, Azure, GCP, and selected other providers such as DigitalOcean. Checks include public storage buckets, unencrypted databases, open SSH ports, and overly permissive IAM policies. Context-aware scoring prioritizes higher-impact production issues over lower-impact staging findings. Cloud Search accepts plain-language queries and can turn searches into real-time alerts. For some issues, Aikido offers guided fixes and auto-generated pull requests, but does not automatically change infrastructure. Other listed capabilities include container image and EC2 vulnerability scanning, IaC checks, runtime detection, asset inventory, attack path analysis, and SBOM management. Compliance checks map to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with reporting that can sync to Vanta and Drata. The free Developer plan includes one cloud account; Basic is $300 a month, while Pro and Advanced are each $600 a month.

Black Duck Polaris is a cloud application-security platform that brings several types of testing into software development workflows. Its engines cover static analysis through Polaris fAST Static, software composition analysis through Polaris fAST SCA, and dynamic analysis through Polaris fAST Dynamic. It also scans infrastructure as code and detects secrets. Dashboards, correlated and enriched findings, portfolio analytics, and role-based views help teams organize risk. Polaris can produce software bills of materials using package-manager, signature, binary, and container analysis. It generates compliance reports for PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and maps findings to OWASP Top 10 and CWE. Repository integrations include Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab. Issue tracking connects with Azure DevOps, Jira Cloud and Data Center, and ServiceNow; Jira and ServiceNow support two-way synchronization. Pricing is on request, and a free trial is available. The service description limits an application to 1 million lines of code and five supporting projects.