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24 alternatives to AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers
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AppCanary monitors servers to prevent the use of vulnerable software. The tool is designed for software developers and system administrators who need to ensure their deployed applications stay secure. It scans for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keep▲682The open-source alerts management and automation platform
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · beta.secureit.io · its alternatives →
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This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc... https://devutils.app The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build. I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
2020 · its alternatives →
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Excited to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months! We've seen nearly weekly attacks against the open source software supply chain. I saw the seeds of this trend start in the mid 2015s as an open source maintainer and I've watched it only get worse over the years. I finally decided to try to solve this problem. Socket is taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities. Unlike other scanning tools, Socket actually analyzes the…
2022 · socket.dev · its alternatives →
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Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets
2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · patchworksecurity.com · its alternatives →
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GitGuardian▲132Detect secrets in source code, public and private!
2018 · gitguardian.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, it's Farrukh and Umar. We're building listen.dev–a tool for proactive security monitoring in GitHub Actions to secure software releases from supply chain threats. Why we built this: As friends and collaborators for over a decade, we've been working on various startup ideas in dev tools and infrastructure. In 2017, while building an ML ops toolkit on Kubernetes, we got hacked. During a pilot with a fintech customer, our cluster became victim to a crypto-jacking attack. As it turned out, a dependency in our container base image contained malware (a Monero miner) which triggered inside…
2024 · its alternatives →
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A curated list of free OSS developer-first security tools
2022 · its alternatives →
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Automate app security with OSS vulnerability management
2020 · fossa.com · its alternatives →
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Probely▲87Intuitive and easy-to-use webapp vulnerability scanner
2018 · probely.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. We're thrilled to announce that we're open-sourcing our alerting CLI tool, Keep (https://github.com/keephq/keep). Designed by developers for developers, Keep streamlines and simplifies alerting, making it a first-class citizen within the development process. Think of Keep as Prometheus Alertmanager but for all observability tools, with a simple and intuitive (GitHub actions-like) syntax. We believe that alerting has historically been neglected in existing monitoring platforms, leading to subpar alerting practices. With Keep,…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SafeDep Vet▲72GitLab CI Component that lets you seamlessly protect your pipelines from vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies. The component integrates directly into your CI/CD workflow through the GitLab CI Catalog and allows you to establish policy-driven guardrails using Common Expression Language (CEL). Key features: - Set your own opinionated security policies as code using CEL - Detect and block risky OSS components before they enter your codebase - Seamless integration as a native GitLab CI Component - Available directly in the GitLab CI Catalog Try and lets us know our thoughts!
2023 · safedep.io · its alternatives →
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Open sourced application to detect security vulnerabilities.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automated security assistant for developers
2020 · shieldfy.io · its alternatives →
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GitHub▲13Prevent merging of malicious code in pull requests and CI/CD
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deploy tiny traps to detect hackers and breaches
2015 · canarytokens.org · its alternatives →
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