Aikido CSPM vs DongTai IAST

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.

DongTai IAST is an open-source tool for finding vulnerabilities in running Java applications and their third-party components. It examines application traffic as it runs, using method-call data and taint tracking across HTTP, HTTPS, and RPC requests; it does not rely on dedicated attack tests. The project lists Java, Python, PHP, and Go for detection, though the Python, PHP, and Go agents are beta and community-maintained beta agents may not deploy successfully. DongTai can analyze runtime data flows, prioritize verified findings by risk, and provide vulnerability tracing and reports. Its server also offers project and user management, notifications, a Web API, and custom vulnerability rules. Deployment options include SaaS, localized installation, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes. An IntelliJ IDEA plugin can run the Java probe and detect vulnerabilities in the IDE. The open-source self-hosted plan costs nothing. The project lists web runtime support and an Apache-2.0 license.