BCDRPulse or a dedicated vulnerability scanner?
A dedicated scanner usually digs deeper, often behind a login and across networks. Our scan reads the public surface of a website you own and turns it into a grade anyone can follow.
A specialised tool
A dedicated vulnerability scanner
Side by side.
| What is compared | BCDRPulse | A dedicated vulnerability scanner |
|---|---|---|
| What it examines | A website's public surface: security headers, HTTPS enforcement, exposed files, technology disclosure, cookies, email and DNS records | Often servers, networks and applications, checked against lists of known vulnerabilities |
| Behind a login | No | Often, with credentials you supply |
| How it works | Passive and read-only | Often active probing |
| The result | One A to F grade, every finding explained, and a PDF report with an AI summary | Usually a long list of findings ranked by severity |
| Scheduling | You start each scan | Often scheduled |
| Reports for a standard | None. A report is supporting evidence, not a certification | Some offer reports mapped to a compliance standard |
| In the same account | Uptime monitoring, load and stress tests, TLS analysis and resilience campaigns | Usually scanning only |
| Which sites | Only sites you have verified you own | Any target you are authorised to scan |
Which one?
Choose BCDRPulse when
- A customer or an insurer asks how your website is set up, and you want evidence to hand over.
- You want a grade and explanations a non-specialist can read.
- You also want monitoring and tests on the same sites.
Choose a dedicated vulnerability scanner when
- You need to scan servers, internal networks or anything behind a login.
- You need scans on a schedule, or reports mapped to a compliance standard.
- You need findings matched against lists of known vulnerabilities.
No automated scan, ours included, replaces a penetration test: a person trying to break in. We do not offer one. This page names no company and no product of another company. "Often", "usually" and "some" describe what tools of this kind commonly publish; set the limits of the one you are weighing beside the figures on our pricing page.
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Start with your own sites.
Monitoring is free for 10 sites. Add the tests when you need them.