Intruder review

Intruder ranks fifth because it makes continuous scanning easy for teams with no security specialist. Its pricing page lists a free plan with weekly external vulnerability scans, weekly cloud checks for one account, container image scans for two images and three users. Paid tiers add emerging threat scans, custom schedules, daily cloud checks, web app and API testing and an AI analyst, and the Pro plan adds agent-based scanning for internal servers and employee devices. Intruder runs checks from Tenable, OpenVAS and Nuclei depending on plan, and connects to Jira, Slack, Teams, GitHub, ServiceNow, Drata and Vanta. Licensing is per target: a license is used when you scan a target and stays used for 30 days, so you size by what you scan each month. Its limits show at scale, where risk scoring and asset context are lighter than in Tenable or Qualys, and the pricing page showed euros from our location, so we list the USD price as pending.

Who it is for

Startups and SMBs without a dedicated security engineer that want continuous scanning and a clean dashboard.

Price

See vendor pricing (USD check pending).

US price check pending. See the vendor pricing page.

Key features

• External infrastructure, web app, API, cloud and container image scanning
• Scanning engines from Tenable, OpenVAS and Nuclei
• Emerging threat scans and remediation scans
• Agent-based internal scanning on the Pro plan
• Integrations with Jira, Slack, Teams, GitHub, ServiceNow, Drata and Vanta

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Permanent free plan with weekly external scans
• Strength: Very clear dashboard and cyber hygiene score
• Strength: 14-day trial of the Cloud plan with 5 licenses
• Weakness: USD prices were not shown to us; the page displayed euros
• Weakness: Internal scanning of servers and laptops needs the Pro plan
• Weakness: Licenses are consumed per target for 30 days, which needs planning

Key facts

• Free plan: Yes, weekly external scans, 3 users
• Plans: Free, Cloud, Pro, Enterprise
• Scanners: Tenable, OpenVAS, Nuclei
• Free trial: 14 days of the Cloud plan

Where it ranks

Intruder is No. 5 in our Best Vulnerability Management Software verdict.