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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to NullStrike Security

Manual penetration testing for cloud, web, APIs & AI systems

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    The AI-powered AppSec platform that identifies vulnerabilities with comprehensive penetration tests and provides actionable remediation insights.

    2024 · beaglesecurity.com · its alternatives →

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    Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities. AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access. Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals. For this project we've post-trained a…

    Jun 2026 · argusred.com · its alternatives →

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    Pentest as a service

    2025 · deepstrike.io · its alternatives →

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    Pentest and patch every deploy with AI

    Jun 2026 · bestdefense.io · its alternatives →

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    Secure The Unknown

    Jun 2026 · nullsquare.net · its alternatives →

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    Latchkey▲122

    Hi HN, At Imbue, we’ve been following the rapid developments in the agent landscape and noticed that the way agents interact with third-party services on users’ behalf often leaves a lot to be desired. Integrations are ad hoc, complicated, context-heavy, and either unfriendly to non-technical users or tied to a lock-in of some sort. We‘re experimenting with a command-line tool, Latchkey, that could be used by local agents targeted at non-technical users while avoiding remote intermediaries. As far as we know, this is the only existing approach at the intersection of these two goals. Core…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7BO

    Hi HN, we’re the co-founders of Bearer, and today we launch an open-source alternative to code security solutions such as Snyk Code, SonarQube, or Checkmarx. Essentially, we help security & engineering teams to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities in their codebase, with a unique approach through sensitive data (PII, PD, PHI). Our website is at https://www.bearer.com and our GitHub is here: https://github.com/bearer/bearer We are not originally Security experts but have been software developers and engineering leaders for over 15…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous penetration testing platform

    Jun 2026 · dark-moon.org · its alternatives →

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    Axios / LiteLLM hacks behavioral detector app for Mac/PC

    Apr 2026 · edamame.tech · its alternatives →

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    Automated security assistant for developers

    2020 · shieldfy.io · its alternatives →

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    A powerful automated security testing tool

    2024 · geneau.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12AM

    I made an open source, MIT license Typescript library based on some of the latest research that generates prompt injection attacks. It is a super minimal/lightweight and designed to be super easy to use. Keen to hear your thoughts and please be responsible and only pen test systems where you have permission to pen test!

    2025 · prompt-injector.blueprintlab.io · its alternatives →

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    FAAST▲13

    Full agentic application security testing

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source AI-driven antivirus engine written in Rust

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ship secure code

    Jun 2026 · scan.nulltribe.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello Hacker News! We’re Willem, Roeland, Felix and Madeline from Aikido Security (https://aikido.dev/) We’re building a “no BS’ application security platform. It’s the platform we wish existed, but couldn’t find. Willem, our CTO had to manage (application) security at many of his previous startups, and honestly, hated it. Most security tools we had to use made us feel dumb. They were super complex and riddled with false positives. Their platform was behind the book a demo button. They had intransparent pricing models and honestly charged us way too much. We think most of…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Next-gen real-time CSPM to Identify, prioritize & remediate critical cloud security risks across AWS, Azure, Google cloud & Oracle cloud

    2015 · cloudsploit.com · its alternatives →

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    Secure At Scale, Inside All Stacks, All Apps, Anywhere.

    Dec 2025 · app.demo.accuknox.com · its alternatives →

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    Secure Your Application with Artificial Intelligence

    2025 · cybedefend.com · its alternatives →

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    AI agents now have impressive reasoning capabilities. This raises an important question: how dangerous are these AI agents at identifying & exploiting web vulnerabilities? We created CVE-bench to find out (I'm one contributor of 16). To our knowledge CVE-bench is the first benchmark using real-world web vulnerabilities to evaluate AI agents' cyberattack capabilities. We included 40 CVEs from NIST's database, focusing on critical-severity vulnerability (CVSS > 9.0). To properly evaluate agents’ attacks, we built isolated environments with containerization and identified 8 common attack…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We find what scanners miss

    Jun 2026 · faultlinesec.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22OS

    tl;dr we released openapi.security, an online tool that performs a dozen of security tests on any given openapi/swagger-based API, with no signup or email required. You can try it here: https://openapi.security My team at Escape (YC W23) is mainly focused on securing GraphQL APIs. For this, we developed a new approach called Feedback driven API Exploration. Basically, we infer the right security tests cases to run using the specification and a carefully crafted in house graph traversal algorithm. (It's a bit long to describe here but we published a more in depth explanation of…

    2023 · openapi.security · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered SAST Security That Actually Understands Your Code

    2025 · enforster.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI-Native Cybersecurity Platform for Startups and SMEs

    Jul 2026 · zonforge.com · its alternatives →

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