Check Point External Risk Management vs runZero

Check Point External Risk Management is a cloud-based service for discovering and reducing risks across an organization’s internet-facing assets. It identifies assets associated with brands, cloud environments, and suppliers, then analyzes vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, correlates them with threat intelligence, and scores and prioritizes risks. Continuous monitoring and recurring assessments aim to reveal new weaknesses and limit how long they remain exposed. Teams receive prioritized recommendations and a practical remediation and hardening roadmap, alongside a compliance and regulatory alignment review. Coverage combines threat intelligence, deep and dark web monitoring, external attack surface management, digital risk protection, and supply-chain intelligence. Check Point experts can provide investigations, threat reports, phishing-site and social-profile takedowns, red-team exercises, and attack simulations. The agentless SaaS service offers Essential and Advanced packages: Essential has one regular user, one integration, weekly scans, and 20 remediation coins; Advanced has three regular users, two integrations, daily scans, and 100 coins. Microsoft Sentinel integration can synchronize alerts and trigger SOAR playbooks. 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.