Cydarm vs Forendi

Cydarm is a cyber incident response management platform for security operations teams. It combines case management, data enrichment, editable playbooks, reporting, collaboration, and response-time SLAs. Teams can assign tasks using an open-source playbook format, while attribute-based access controls restrict visibility from whole cases down to individual comments or data types. Listed integrations include OpenAPI, email polling, webhooks, Jira, ServiceNow, Teams, PagerDuty, Slack, and SMS. Cydarm is offered as a hosted managed service or an enterprise deployment on a customer’s infrastructure, with web, API, and self-hosted platforms. It supports SSO through Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Google, and AWS, with no SSO fee. Cydarm Technologies states it meets ISO 27001:2022 requirements and has achieved certification. Security information describes disk encryption, TLS 1.2 or higher, dedicated hosted infrastructure, and network segmentation. Pricing is on request; a 30-day trial costs nothing and needs no credit card.

Forendi is a digital forensics and incident response platform for incident handling, forensic analysis and security operations. Its incident workflows cover the process from detection through resolution, with automation and real-time collaboration. Case management tracks evidence and investigations with audit trails, while lightweight agents collect evidence with integrity checks and chain-of-custody records. Hyperledger Fabric integration supports tamper-proof evidence storage and cryptographic verification.

Forendi connects with SIEM systems for threat detection and data pipelines. Its threat intelligence service offers more than one million curated indicators, each with confidence scores and expiry dates. Feed delivery supports TAXII 2.1 with STIX 2.1, a native MISP directory and cursor-paginated REST/JSON. The Forendi Agent supports Windows, macOS and Linux and communicates over secure WebSockets; the cloud deployment is listed for web, API, Linux, macOS and Windows. Plans include Threat Intelligence Feed at $199 a month, Threat Intelligence Platform at $399 a month and DFIR Platform at $499 per month. Each product has a seven-day trial intended for evaluation and integration sampling, not production replacement.