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Virgil Security vs Bridgecrew: What are the differences?
Developers describe Virgil Security as "We make every developer into an applied cryptologist". 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. On the other hand, Bridgecrew is detailed as "Automate your infrastructure security from commit to cloud". It is a developer-first cloud security platform. By leveraging automation, it finds and fixes cloud misconfigurations in run-time and build-time. It makes cloud security accessible to developers by codifying and streamlining it throughout the development lifecycle—from commit to cloud.
Virgil Security and Bridgecrew can be categorized as "Security" tools.
Some of the features offered by Virgil Security are:
- End-to-end encryption
- Passwordless authentication
- Data verification
On the other hand, Bridgecrew provides the following key features:
- Find cloud misconfigurations in both run-time (AWS, GCP, Azure) and build-time (Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation)
- Fix security issues with automated playbooks and merge-ready pull requests
- Prevent misconfigurations and policy violations from being deployed with CI/CD integrations
Virgil Security is an open source tool with 140 GitHub stars and 12 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Virgil Security's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Bridgecrew
Pros of Virgil Security
- Saves me time and money1
- Added end-to-end encryption in minutes1
- #NoMorePasswords1
- #EncryptEverything1
- Quick and easy to implement & deploy1
- Easy API / SDK on every platform I need1