SecPortal vs Detectify
continuous external monitoring vs pentest delivery
Detectify is a continuous external attack surface monitoring platform that watches a verified domain perimeter for new exposures and known vulnerabilities. SecPortal is a pentest delivery and findings platform that runs scheduled external scanning, authenticated web testing, and code scanning inside an engagement workflow with AI report generation and a branded client portal. The two platforms solve adjacent problems and the right answer depends on whether the buyer is monitoring an internal estate or running scoped engagements that ship to clients.
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| Feature | SecPortal | Detectify |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Pentest delivery and findings management for client engagements | Continuous external attack surface monitoring for an internal estate |
| External vulnerability scanning | ||
| Domain verification before scanning | ||
| Subdomain enumeration and discovery | ||
| Continuous scheduled scanning | ||
| Authenticated web application scanning (DAST) | Application Scanning module | |
| Code scanning (SAST and SCA via Semgrep) | ||
| Engagement model with scope, ROE, and deliverables | ||
| Client model with onboarding, contacts, and access control | ||
| Branded white-label client portal on your subdomain | ||
| AI-powered report generation (executive, technical, remediation) | ||
| 300+ finding templates with remediation guidance | Detectify-curated guidance per finding | |
| CVSS 3.1 vector parsing and auto-scoring | Severity classification | |
| Manual finding entry with full editor | Limited | |
| Scanner result import (Nessus, Burp Suite, CSV) | ||
| Retest workflow paired to original finding | Re-scan validates closure | |
| Compliance framework templates | 21 frameworks | Limited |
| Integrated invoicing and Stripe Connect payments | ||
| Activity audit trail with CSV export | Limited | |
| MFA enforcement on every workspace | ||
| Free plan available | ||
| Transparent pricing without sales call | Quote-based for most plans | |
| Setup time | 2 minutes | Domain verification plus onboarding |
| Best fit for | Pentest firms, MSSPs, consultancies, and AppSec teams that ship findings to clients or stakeholders | Internal security teams that want to monitor their own external surface continuously |
SecPortal vs Detectify: pentest delivery against continuous external monitoring
Detectify is a well-known external attack surface management (EASM) and application scanning platform built around continuous monitoring of a verified domain perimeter. Detectify Surface Monitoring watches the external surface for new exposures, drift, and detected vulnerabilities; Application Scanning runs deeper testing against the web applications inside that surface. The buyer model assumes an internal security team that owns an asset estate and wants the platform to keep watching that estate as it changes.
SecPortal is a different category. SecPortal is the pentest delivery and findings platform for security firms, MSSPs, consultancies, and in-house teams that run scoped engagements and ship findings to clients or stakeholders. The engagement, the scoping, the manual and scanner findings, the AI-generated report, the branded client portal, the retest, and the invoice all sit inside one workspace. If the question is whether to monitor an estate or to deliver assessments, this page is the side-by-side.
Where the EASM model stops for delivery work
These are not Detectify-specific criticisms; they are properties of a continuous EASM platform when the buyer compares it to running scoped client engagements on a platform built for delivery.
No Engagement Model
Detectify is built around a continuously monitored asset estate. There is no concept of a scoped engagement with a defined start and end date, a rules-of-engagement document, an associated scope statement, or a deliverable handed to an external client at the end. Consultancies that run client engagements have to model that lifecycle outside Detectify.
No Client Portal
Detectify findings live inside the Detectify console. There is no white-label portal that a consultancy can hand to a client on its own subdomain so the client can review findings, track remediation, and download deliverables under the consultancy brand. Sharing findings with an external party means exporting and emailing or building a custom integration.
No AI-Powered Narrative Reports
Detectify produces a continuous feed of detected exposures with severity and remediation guidance per finding. It does not generate executive summaries, narrative technical reports, prioritised remediation roadmaps, or compliance summaries on demand from the engagement data. Reports for client delivery have to be written manually outside the platform.
No Code Scanning
Detectify scans the external attack surface and the running web application. It does not run SAST or SCA against a source repository. Engagements that combine external testing with secure code review or supply-chain scanning need a separate code scanning tool and a separate findings workflow to consolidate the output.
No Manual Finding Entry For Pentest Output
Detectify is a scanner platform. Findings appear in the workspace because Detectify detected them. A pentest also produces findings the scanner cannot detect: business logic flaws, chained exploits, manual SSRF or IDOR proofs. Detectify has limited room for those because they do not originate from a Detectify scanner module.
No Invoicing or Engagement Billing
Detectify is licensed per asset or per surface and the customer is billed by Detectify. There is no built-in invoicing for a consultancy to bill its own clients out of the platform, no Stripe integration to collect payment, and no invoice generation tied to engagement deliverables. Consultancies use a separate accounting tool to bill the work that Detectify supports.
What SecPortal adds to the picture
Engagement-Aware Workflow
Every scan, finding, retest, and report sits inside an engagement that has a client, a scope, a status, and a delivery date. The model matches the way pentest firms and consultancies actually deliver work: bounded engagements with a written scope, a kickoff, and a deliverable rather than continuous monitoring of an internal asset register.
AI Report Generation
Generate executive summaries, full technical reports, remediation roadmaps, and compliance summaries from the engagement findings with a single click. The AI uses the workspace context: engagement scope, findings, severities, and CVSS vectors. The report becomes a draft the team edits, not a blank page they start from.
White-Label Client Portal
Every workspace gets a branded client portal on its own subdomain. Clients log in to review findings, track remediation, download reports, and communicate with the team under the consultancy brand. The portal is not a Detectify-branded login screen; it is the consultancy brand the client paid for.
Full Stack Scanning
External domain scanning runs across 16 modules covering SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation. Authenticated web scanning runs DAST behind a stored credential. Code scanning runs SAST and SCA against a connected repository through Semgrep. One workspace covers the surface, the application, and the source.
300+ Finding Templates
A finding template library covers the recurring vulnerability classes a pentest produces: injection, access control, cryptography, configuration, authentication. Templates carry CVSS vectors and remediation guidance so the tester edits the proof rather than rewriting the description from scratch.
Integrated Invoicing
Stripe Connect-backed invoicing turns engagement deliverables into invoices a client can pay inside the workspace. Engagement scope and pricing become the invoice line items; the audit trail walks back from the payment to the engagement to the findings that supported it.
Who each platform is the right fit for
Detectify and SecPortal solve adjacent problems for different buyers. The honest framing is that the right tool depends on whether the primary motion is monitoring an internal surface or delivering assessments to external clients.
Detectify
Internal security teams that want continuous external attack surface monitoring against their own estate, with detection of new exposures, misconfigurations, and known vulnerabilities as the surface changes. The buyer is the security team that owns the estate; the user is the analyst who triages the feed.
SecPortal
Pentest firms, MSSPs, consultancies, and in-house teams that run scoped engagements and ship findings to clients or stakeholders. The buyer is the firm or team that delivers assessments; the user is the tester who writes the finding and the consultant who delivers the report.
When the answer is both
A team that needs continuous monitoring of its own external surface and also runs scoped engagements for clients can use Detectify for the monitoring work and SecPortal for the engagement and delivery work. The two are adjacent rather than substitutes; the question is which problem is the primary one this year.
How SecPortal scanning compares to Detectify scanning
Both platforms run external scanning against verified domains and both gate scans on proof of ownership. Where they diverge is what surrounds the scanner. SecPortal treats scanning as one input into an engagement workflow that also includes manual findings, AI-generated reports, retests, and a client deliverable. Detectify treats scanning as the platform itself, with monitoring as the surrounding workflow.
The external scanning feature runs 16 modules across SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation. The authenticated scanning feature adds DAST behind stored credentials so issues that only surface inside an authenticated session do not slip past anonymous scanning. The attack surface management feature covers subdomain discovery, takeover detection, and exposed cloud storage. Together they cover the surface that an EASM platform watches, plus the manual and authenticated layers that turn scanner output into a pentest deliverable.
Why delivery teams pick SecPortal over an EASM platform
- Replace external monitoring licensing on assets you do not own with a workspace that models clients, engagements, and deliverables
- Generate executive and technical reports from engagement findings instead of writing them outside the platform after every assessment
- Hand clients a branded portal on your subdomain instead of exporting findings and emailing PDFs
- Bring code scanning into the same workspace as external scanning instead of stitching together SAST output from a separate tool
- Capture manual pentest findings (business logic, chained proofs, IDOR walkthroughs) alongside scanner output rather than tracking them in a side document
- Pair every finding with a retest cycle that closes the loop and updates the deliverable instead of waiting for the next continuous scan to confirm the fix
- Bill the engagement out of the same platform with Stripe Connect rather than running invoicing in a separate accounting tool
- Start on a free plan and pay for the seats and storage you actually use rather than committing to a per-asset surface licence up front
From scan to deliverable
The output of a scanner is the beginning of a deliverable, not the end. SecPortal turns scan results into draft findings, the tester triages and validates them, the findings management layer holds the consolidated record with CVSS, evidence, and remediation, and the AI reports feature generates the executive and technical narrative the client receives. The branded client portal is where the deliverable lands; the continuous penetration testing workflow is the engagement model that turns repeated scanning into a recurring deliverable rather than a continuous stream.
For the operations layer that runs alongside delivery, the pentest project management workflow covers the scope, schedule, and deliverable model; domain verification covers how every scan is gated to a verified target so authorisation is provable before any module fires.
Adjacent comparisons
If the evaluation is between Detectify and other vulnerability scanning, EASM, or delivery platforms, the comparisons below cover the same buying decision from different angles.
- SecPortal vs Qualys for the enterprise vulnerability management comparison.
- SecPortal vs Rapid7 for the InsightVM and InsightAppSec internal SecOps comparison.
- SecPortal vs Nessus for the network scanner-only comparison.
- SecPortal vs Pentera for the automated security validation comparison.
- SecPortal vs Intruder for the SaaS continuous external and authenticated scanner comparison.
- SecPortal vs Acunetix for the dedicated web vulnerability scanner comparison.
- SecPortal vs Invicti for the enterprise DAST console with Discovery Engine and Proof-Based Scanning.
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