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24 alternatives to ESOF AppSec
ESOF AppSec Provides Applications Vulnerabilities.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ESOF AppSec launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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An open source security scanner for Visual Studio Code
2020 · its alternatives →
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- 4IA
Our open-source application allows users to obtain events, metrics, and unencrypted payload data from applications running on Linux. The AppScope dev team are looking for feedback from the community to help create the roadmap for future releases. Here, a video describing its capabilities: https://youtu.be/can1dMonRcA
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automate app security with OSS vulnerability management
2020 · its alternatives →
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- 7AK
2015 · appcanary.com · its alternatives →
- 8AO
Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tracexec helps you to figure out what and how programs get executed when you execute a command. It's useful for debugging build systems, catching fd leaks, understanding what shell scripts actually do, figuring out what programs does a proprietary software run, etc.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11PR
2016 · patchworksecurity.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Secure your web applications from the latest vulnerabilities
2020 · its alternatives →
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A curated list of free OSS developer-first security tools
2022 · its alternatives →
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Allows developers to scan their apps for vulnerabilities
2015 · its alternatives →
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AppView is an open source, runtime-agnostic instrumentation utility for any Linux command or application. It helps users to explore, understand, and gain visibility with no code modification. With one instrumentation approach for all runtimes, AppView offers ubiquitous, unified instrumentation of any unmodified Linux executable. With AppView 1.0.0 comes the new threat detection logic that allows users to capture security-related events. Is your application accessing secure files? Is it making connections it shouldn't be? Is it exfiltrating data over DNS or is GOT poisoning in effect? Other…
2024 · appview.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We wanted a simple way to update application configs, without redeploying. We wanted to remotely set variables, and read them in our application. We created Varse to do this. Varse has a dashboard for creating key - value pairs and an SDK to read them. It's un-opinionated and allows for strings, booleans, or even json objects to be stored. We have instructions for running it yourself. We also have a hosted version where you can create an account and manage variables. This is our first time building an open source project. We'd love feedback on how to do it right. Github:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 20NF
2014 · vuln.pub · its alternatives →
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Democratising Cybersecurity
2025 · thefirewall.org · its alternatives →
- 22MA
2023 · exploit.observer · its alternatives →
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A powerful JavaScript Obfuscator with VM obfuscation
Dec 2025 · obfuscator.io · its alternatives →
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