Check Point Exposure Management vs runZero

Check Point Exposure Management is an API-based, agentless platform for continuous threat exposure management. It links attacker activity and threat intelligence with vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and organizational assets, then prioritizes exposures by exploitability, reachability, threat activity, business impact, and existing controls. Agentic Exposure Validation uses AI agents to assess which exposures are exploitable. Remediation options include virtual patching, IPS activations, configuration hardening, IoC dissemination, and malicious-domain takedowns. The CAASM capability normalizes asset data from security, IT, cloud, and SaaS sources into a continuously updated inventory, while monitoring tool coverage for missing agents, unmanaged assets, unscanned systems, and configuration drift. Check Point describes more than 150 bidirectional integrations, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, ServiceNow, Jira, APIs, and SIEM or SOAR workflows. Fixes are validated before enforcement. Compliance reporting aligns with GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. A free exposure validation scan is available; platform pricing is on request.

runZero is an attack surface and exposure management platform for inventorying IT, OT, IoT, cloud, mobile, and remote assets. It combines active scanning, passive traffic sampling, and API integrations to keep the inventory updated. Tracked information can include assets, services, screenshots, software, vulnerabilities, certificates, wireless devices, users, and groups. Reports include layer-2 topology maps and asset risk; alerts can appear in-product or arrive by email or webhook, including Slack. The service can run as hosted SaaS or on-premise using Consoles, distributed Explorers, and a command-line tool. runZero says it operates without agents, authentication, or appliances. Prebuilt integrations span cloud providers, EDRs, MDMs, vulnerability scanners, ITSM systems, and detection platforms, with an API and scripts for custom integrations. Community Edition is free for up to 100 assets, one organization, 10 recurring tasks, and 30 days of data retention. The Platform costs what you agree with the maker. Self-hosting the console requires a Platform license with runZero Care explicitly enabled.