Forensicator vs SandsBytes
Forensicator
forensicator.ioSandsBytes
sandsbytes.comSide by side
| Figure | Forensicator | SandsBytes |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 0 |
| Spec score · Incident Response Software | 8.6 (#4) | 7.3 (#16) |
| Case management | Core organizes investigations, hosts, findings, notes, bookmarks, and incident-response playbooks into cases. | Sands Manage supports team collaboration, case correlation, task assignment, evidence tracking, timelines, IOC tracking, and automated reports. |
| Deployment | Core is self-hosted through Docker Compose or a Debian/Ubuntu host and supports offline update packages for air-gapped use. | The platform is deployed as a containerized stack on Ubuntu Linux 20.04.6 LTS or later, with Docker Engine and Docker Compose. |
| Purpose | Forensicator collects, analyzes, and interprets system artifacts during live investigations and produces structured HTML reports. | SandsBytes is a cybersecurity investigation and incident response platform for triaging incidents, hunting threats, documenting findings, managing evidence and IOCs, and generating structured reports. |
| Threat intelligence | Malware hash and IOC matching uses auto-updating threat-intelligence feeds, including abuse.ch and URLhaus. | Sands Investigate enriches artifacts with threat intelligence and external lookups and detects IoC hits and suspicious patterns. |
Plans
Forensicator
- ForensicatorFree
- Forensicator CoreFree
- Forensicator EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Forensicator
Forensicator has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
SandsBytes
SandsBytes is a cybersecurity investigation and incident response case-management platform for triage, threat hunting, evidence, indicators of compromise, and reporting. Its three products divide that work: Sands Investigate converts forensic artifacts into searchable, ECS-normalized records, enriches them with threat intelligence and external lookups, and flags indicator matches and suspicious patterns. Sands Manage supports collaborative cases with evidence, timelines, findings, task assignment, indicator tracking, and automated reports. Reports can be produced as PDF or DOCX files from configured templates. Sands Flow offers visual playbooks for enrichment pipelines, alert routing, and service-level escalation. Workflows can connect with external HTTP APIs, databases, queues, and file storage. The Hunt interface supports dashboard and table analysis, pivot filtering, CSV export, and bulk tagging. Deployment is self-hosted on 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS or later, accessed with Chrome, Firefox, or Edge; minimum resources are 6 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, and 100 GB free storage. A license key expires after its specified validity period, and access is rejected until renewal. Pricing is on request.