Aikido CSPM vs New Relic 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.

New Relic IAST probes running application code for vulnerabilities that could be exploited, helping DevOps and security teams address risk through the software development lifecycle. Dynamic assessment simulates attacks and can provide proof of exploit without code changes. New Relic APM agents deliver the capability, which can be enabled with a configuration setting change; supported languages are Go, Java, Node.js, and Ruby. Guided remediation can identify the code location, stack trace, HTTP trace, encountered URLs, exploit mechanism, and parameters involved. IAST is integrated with New Relic Vulnerability Management for ongoing discovery, fixing, and verification of high-risk vulnerabilities. Findings receive severity scores using CVSS version 3, with Low, Medium, High, and Critical ranges. The tool supports authenticated and API testing, CI/CD pipelines, and ticketing systems. A free New Relic plan is available, but IAST analysis is billed through an optional Compute Add On based on Compute Capacity Units consumed during analysis. Pricing for other plans is available on request.