Intruder vs Kubescape

Intruder provides continuous vulnerability scanning for infrastructure, web applications, APIs, and cloud environments, with issue prioritization and remediation guidance. It ranks issues using exploit likelihood and real-world threat intelligence, while emerging-threat scans check systems within hours of new risks appearing. Cloud scans assess AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud environments for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposures. Authenticated dynamic application testing covers customer-controlled web apps and APIs, including OWASP Top 10 checks. Supported targets also include external IP addresses, domains, subdomains, internal Windows, macOS, and Linux devices, and container images. Integrations include cloud platforms, code hosts, issue trackers, chat services, Vanta, and Drata. Its API can manage targets, view issues, start scans, and retrieve results. A free plan and 14-day trial are listed. The free plan covers five infrastructure targets and weekly external scans, but does not include web apps. Internal target scanning is available only on Pro and Enterprise plans. All customers receive live chat support.

Kubescape is an open-source platform for Kubernetes security across configuration, images, compliance, and activity in running clusters. It analyzes Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and live clusters for misconfigurations. Its operator scans deployed container images for vulnerabilities using Grype and public vulnerability databases, and monitors active clusters for suspicious behavior and threats. Kubescape supports CIS, NSA-CISA, MITRE ATT&CK, and SOC 2 frameworks. Its policy engine uses Open Policy Agent to evaluate Kubernetes objects against posture controls written in Rego; the operator runs as microservices that continuously monitor cluster posture. Integrations are available for GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Lens, and Visual Studio Code. The CLI can download artifacts for local use, including in offline and air-gapped environments. Results can be exported as JSON or JUnit XML or rendered as HTML or PDF. The CLI and Kubernetes operator are self-hosted and free under Apache License 2.0. ARMO Platform is a compatible provider for uploading scan results and downloading custom artifacts; its price depends on vCPUs and other cloud resources.