How we compare to Google Security Command Center, AWS Security Hub, Tenable, Rapid7, GitHub Advanced Security, and others.
Key capabilities across security scanning tools
| Capability | Secho Scanner | GCP SCC | AWS Security Hub | Tenable | Rapid7 | GitHub Advanced | CrowdStrike |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Document / Contract Audit EO18/NDAA §889 compliance scanning |
✓ Built-in | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
3rd Party / Vendor Risk Scan any external domain |
✓ Built-in | ✗ | ✗ | Add-on | Add-on | ✗ | Limited |
Prohibited Vendor Check NDAA §889, FCC, OFAC, CISA |
✓ 27+ vendors | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
GCP Infrastructure Audit IAM, compute, storage, network |
✓ 40+ checks | ✓ Native | ✗ | Limited | Limited | ✗ | ✗ |
AWS Infrastructure Audit IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, CloudTrail |
✓ 40+ checks | ✗ | ✓ Native | Limited | Limited | ✗ | ✗ |
GitHub Org Security Repos, secrets, Actions, supply chain |
✓ Full audit | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Native | ✗ |
AI / ML Security Audit Vertex AI, SageMaker, NIST AI RMF |
✓ Built-in | Partial | Partial | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Real-time Event Detection IAM changes, cryptomining, auth bursts |
✓ Cloud Audit Logs | ✓ Native | ✓ GuardDuty | ✗ | Add-on | ✗ | ✓ Strong |
Threat Intelligence Shodan, GreyNoise, Feodo, URLhaus |
✓ Multi-source | Limited | Limited | ✓ Strong | ✓ Strong | ✗ | ✓ Strong |
Public Exposure Inventory LBs, VMs, functions, databases |
✓ Full inventory | Partial | Partial | Asset-based | Asset-based | ✗ | Limited |
Benchmark Mapping CIS, NIST, SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI |
✓ All major frameworks | CIS/NIST | CIS/NIST | ✓ Strong | ✓ Strong | ✗ | CIS/NIST |
Single CLI Binary No agent, no SaaS account needed |
✓ One binary | ✗ Requires GCP | ✗ Requires AWS | ✗ Agent required | ✗ Agent required | ✗ GitHub-only | ✗ |
Results in 60 Seconds No setup, no onboarding |
✓ | ✗ Hours/days | ✗ Hours/days | ✗ Days | ✗ Days | Minutes (repo only) | ✗ |
Human Expert Review Practitioner-reviewed findings |
✓ Included | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ Extra cost | ✗ Extra cost | ✗ | ✗ |
Pricing |
Per-scan credits | $0.06/asset/mo+ | $0.0010/check+ | $5K–$100K+/yr | $10K–$150K+/yr | $49/user/mo | $50K–$200K+/yr |
Where each tool shines and where Secho fills the gaps
SCC is Google's native cloud security posture management tool, deeply integrated into GCP. It provides excellent coverage for GCP infrastructure and ties into Chronicle for SIEM capabilities. However, it requires GCP console access, cannot scan third-party vendors or external domains, has no GitHub or cross-cloud coverage, and pricing scales aggressively with asset count. It also lacks prohibited vendor compliance checks — a critical gap for government contractors and organizations subject to NDAA §889.
AWS Security Hub aggregates findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, and other AWS-native services. It's solid for AWS-centric environments with CIS and NIST benchmark support. The limitation is that it's entirely AWS-bound — no GCP, no GitHub, no external vendor assessment, no threat intelligence beyond AWS services. Setup requires enabling and integrating multiple services, and findings can take hours to propagate. There is also no human review layer.
Tenable is the industry leader in vulnerability management, with deep CVE scanning, agent-based host assessment, and strong compliance mapping. It excels at host-level vulnerability discovery. However, it requires agent deployment, has high licensing costs starting at $5K/year for small organizations, focuses primarily on known CVEs rather than cloud configuration posture, and has limited TPRM or supply chain capabilities. It does not check GitHub org security, AI workloads, or prohibited vendor compliance.
Rapid7 offers broad security coverage across vulnerability management, DAST, and SIEM. InsightVM provides strong host scanning similar to Tenable, while InsightAppSec adds web application testing. Like Tenable, it requires agent deployment, has substantial licensing overhead, and has limited cloud configuration posture and supply chain coverage. Its TPRM capabilities are typically sold as a separate add-on product.
GHAS provides excellent code-level security for GitHub repositories — code scanning (CodeQL), secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. It is the gold standard for source code security within GitHub. However, it only covers GitHub repositories and does not assess organization-level security posture, GitHub Actions security misconfigurations, cross-repo permissions, or any cloud infrastructure.
Wiz is one of the fastest-growing cloud security platforms, offering agentless CNAPP coverage across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes. It has strong attack path analysis and deep cloud integration. The significant limitation is cost — Wiz pricing typically starts at $100K/year, making it inaccessible for small-to-mid market organizations. It also has no TPRM capability and does not assess external vendor security posture or supply chain compliance.
CrowdStrike Falcon is the industry leader in endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat intelligence, and real-time incident response. Its strength is unmatched at the endpoint layer — behavioural AI, kernel-level telemetry, and a best-in-class threat intel network. It also includes cloud workload protection (CWP) and identity threat detection. Where CrowdStrike falls short for the specific use cases Secho addresses: it has no TPRM capability, no document compliance scanning (EO18/NDAA §889), no GitHub org security audit, and no prohibited vendor detection in contracts or supply chain. It also requires agent deployment on every endpoint, which makes external vendor assessment impossible.
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