Astra Security vs ZeusCloud

Astra Security is a cloud platform for continuous penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Its DAST scanner covers more than 15,000 test cases and supports authenticated scans involving MFA, SSO, and custom authentication flows. PTaaS combines certified human penetration testers with AI-assisted threat modeling, scheduled tests, and free rescans after remediation. API security features discover shadow, dormant, and undocumented APIs and test API-specific attack cases. The cloud scanner supports AWS, Azure, and GCP with more than 400 checks. Integrations include Slack, Jira, Vanta, GitLab, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Azure, and CircleCI. Astra says it is SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and its Trust Center shares security evidence. Plans include Scanner Lite at $69 a month, Scanner at $199 a month, and annual pentest options. A target is a domain and its site-tree URLs, representing an application, IP, website, or API.

ZeusCloud is a free, open-source, self-hosted platform for discovering, prioritizing, and remediating cloud security risks. It builds inventories of AWS account assets and monitors environments for attack paths and misconfigurations. The platform identifies combinations of risks that could let an attacker penetrate an environment. Access Explorer visualizes who can access what through an IAM visualization engine. Findings can be filtered, sorted, searched, and viewed with graphical context. Users can configure active rules, mute alerts, and modify or write rules as security as code. Step-by-step remediation guidance accompanies findings. The project describes support for PCI DSS and CIS benchmarks and uses Cartography for asset inventory; integrations with vulnerability and secret scanners are listed as roadmap items. The quick start clones the repository, runs make quick-deploy, and opens the interface at localhost:80. An enterprise cloud-hosted offering is available by contacting the maker. The project advises against public exposure and recommends current versions for security patches.