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  5. AWS Shield vs Nessus

AWS Shield vs Nessus

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Overview

AWS Shield
AWS Shield
Stacks39
Followers123
Votes0
Nessus
Nessus
Stacks13
Followers8
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

AWS Shield
AWS Shield
Nessus
Nessus

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.

It is a vulnerability assessment solution to help you stay a step ahead of attackers. It is trusted by security practitioners as the industry leader in vulnerability assessment.

Seamless integration and deployment; Customizable protection; Managed Protection and Attack Visibility; Cost Efficient
Industry's lowest false positive rate with six-sigma accuracy; Deepest and broadest vulnerability coverage in the industry; Pre-built policies and templates
Statistics
Stacks
39
Stacks
13
Followers
123
Followers
8
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Windows
Windows
macOS
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi
Linux
Linux

What are some alternatives to AWS Shield, Nessus?

Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt

It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

Sqreen

Sqreen

Sqreen is a security platform that helps engineering team protect their web applications, API and micro-services in real-time. The solution installs with a simple application library and doesn't require engineering resources to operate. Security anomalies triggered are reported with technical context to help engineers fix the code. Ops team can assess the impact of attacks and monitor suspicious user accounts involved.

Instant 2FA

Instant 2FA

Add a powerful, simple and flexible 2FA verification view to your login flow, without making any DB changes and just 3 API calls.

ORY Hydra

ORY Hydra

It is a self-managed server that secures access to your applications and APIs with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. It is OpenID Connect Certified and optimized for latency, high throughput, and low resource consumption.

Virgil Security

Virgil Security

Virgil consists of an open-source encryption library, which implements CMS and ECIES(including RSA schema), a Key Management API, and a cloud-based Key Management Service.

ExpeditedSSL

ExpeditedSSL

Stop pouring through MAN pages and outdated blog posts that don't take into account new requirements. With our add-on, you can go from install to confirmed installation in as little as twenty minutes: using nothing but your browser.

Clef

Clef

Clef is secure two-factor — built for consumers. Easy to use, integrate, and pay for.

Wazuh

Wazuh

It is a free, open source and enterprise-ready security monitoring solution for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and compliance.

Detectify

Detectify

Detectify is a web security service that simulates automated hacker attacks on your website, detecting critical security issues before real hackers do. We provide you with descriptive reports of the results so that you can continue to build safe products

SSLMate

SSLMate

SSLMate is the easiest way for developers and sysadmins to buy SSL certificates.

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