SecPortal vs Edgescan
delivery workspace vs continuous managed validation
Edgescan is a continuous full-stack vulnerability management platform that combines automated scanning across web applications, APIs, hosts, networks, mobile, and cloud with a managed validation layer where analysts review and triage findings before they reach the customer. The buyer assumption is a mid-market or enterprise internal security or vulnerability management team that wants a vendor-managed continuous programme against a known asset estate, with the validation work outsourced to the Edgescan team. SecPortal is a different shape: scoped engagements, scanning, manual finding entry, AI report generation, branded client portal, and the engagement record live inside one workspace. This page is the side-by-side for buyers comparing a continuous managed-validation Hybrid PTaaS service to a delivery workspace that scans, reports, and delivers on its own.
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| Feature | SecPortal | Edgescan |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Security delivery workspace with scanning, findings, AI reports, branded client portal, and engagement record on one tenant | Continuous full-stack vulnerability management platform with managed analyst validation between scanner output and the customer finding feed |
| Engagement model with scope, ROE, and deliverables | Continuous managed-validation programme against the registered asset estate rather than scoped engagement with a kickoff and a deliverable | |
| Client model with onboarding, contacts, and access control | Internal user roles inside the Edgescan portal; no external client onboarding model | |
| Branded white-label client portal on a tenant subdomain | ||
| Built-in external vulnerability scanning (16 modules: SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, CVE correlation) | Native external scanning across web applications, APIs, hosts, and networks as part of the continuous coverage | |
| Authenticated web application scanning (DAST, 17 modules) | Authenticated web and API testing as part of the continuous coverage | |
| Code scanning (SAST and SCA via Semgrep) | ||
| Subdomain enumeration and external attack surface discovery | External attack surface management module included in the continuous coverage | |
| Manual finding entry with full editor | Findings are scanner-derived and analyst-validated rather than entered by an operator inside the customer workspace | |
| AI-powered narrative report generation (executive, technical, remediation) | Dashboards, validated finding feeds, and severity views rather than engagement-shaped executive, technical, and remediation deliverables | |
| 300+ finding templates with remediation guidance | Vendor-curated vulnerability records with analyst-validated remediation guidance | |
| CVSS 3.1 vector parsing and auto-scoring | Severity calibration applied through the analyst validation layer | |
| Scanner result import (Nessus, Burp Suite, CSV) | Validated finding feed is the primary intake path rather than third-party scanner ingestion | |
| Encrypted credential vault for authenticated scans (AES-256-GCM) | Credentials handled inside the managed service for authenticated coverage | |
| Managed analyst validation between scanner output and the customer feed | Core mechanic; analyst hours are bundled into the contract alongside scanner coverage | |
| Vendor-operated SLA against the validated finding feed | Core mechanic; SLA targets against time-to-validation and time-to-customer-delivery are part of the service | |
| Retest workflow paired to original finding | Closure validation runs through the next continuous validation cycle rather than a tester-driven retest paired to the original record | |
| Exception register with eight-field decision chain | Per-finding accepted-risk and false-positive handling inside the managed validation workflow | |
| Compliance framework templates | 21 frameworks including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight | Compliance reporting derived from validated finding coverage against the asset estate |
| Continuous scheduled scanning cadence (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly) | Continuous scanning against the registered asset estate is the platform default rather than a configurable schedule | |
| Scan-to-scan diff and change-event generation across scheduled runs | Trend and recurrence views derived from the validated finding feed | |
| Integrated invoicing and Stripe Connect payments for engagements | ||
| Activity audit trail with CSV export | Platform audit logs inside the Edgescan portal | |
| MFA enforcement on every workspace | SSO and IdP-driven controls inside the customer tenant | |
| Free plan available | Sales-led commercial pricing rather than a published free tier | |
| Pricing model | Free, Pro, Team | Sales-led with annual commitment, priced on the registered asset estate (web applications, APIs, hosts, networks, mobile, cloud) and the validation tier |
| Setup time | 2 minutes | Named account onboarding, asset registration, baseline scan ramp, and validation calibration over a multi-week ramp |
| Best fit for | AppSec teams, internal security teams, vulnerability management teams, product security teams, pentest firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that want scanning, findings, AI reports, branded portal, and the engagement record on one workspace | Mid-market and enterprise internal security and vulnerability management teams that want a vendor-managed continuous Hybrid PTaaS programme priced on the asset estate and the validation tier |
SecPortal vs Edgescan: continuous managed validation vs delivery workspace
Edgescan is a continuous full-stack vulnerability management platform that combines automated scanning across web applications, APIs, hosts, networks, mobile, and cloud with a managed validation layer where analysts review and triage findings before they reach the customer. The platform was an early entrant in the Hybrid Penetration Testing as a Service category and is often evaluated by mid-market and enterprise internal security and vulnerability management teams that want a vendor-managed continuous programme against a known asset estate.
SecPortal is a different shape. SecPortal is the security delivery and findings workspace for AppSec teams, product security teams, vulnerability management teams, internal security teams, penetration testing firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that run scoped engagements and ship findings to application owners, business unit stakeholders, auditors, or external clients. The engagement, the scoping, the manual and scanner findings, the AI-drafted report, the branded client portal, the retest, and the invoice all sit inside one workspace. If the buying question is whether to license a continuous managed-validation service against the asset estate or run a delivery workspace that holds scoped engagements and ships deliverables, this page is the side-by-side.
Where the continuous managed-validation model stops for delivery work
These are not Edgescan-specific criticisms; they are properties of a continuous managed-validation Hybrid PTaaS service when the buyer compares it to a delivery workspace that holds scoped engagements, ships engagement-shaped reports, and runs under the security team brand.
Built around a continuous full-stack vulnerability service, not a scoped delivery workspace
Edgescan operates a continuous full-stack vulnerability management service that combines automated scanning (web application, API, host, network, mobile, cloud) with a managed validation layer where analysts review and triage findings before they reach the customer. The buyer assumption is an internal security or vulnerability management team that wants a vendor-managed continuous programme against a known asset estate, with the validation work outsourced to the Edgescan team. SecPortal is a different shape: a security delivery and remediation workspace that runs its own external, authenticated, and code scanning, holds the engagement record (scope, kickoff, deliverable, retest, closure), accepts manual finding entry from the workspace team, drafts the AI report, and ships the deliverable through a branded portal on a tenant subdomain.
No engagement-shaped scope, deliverable, or closure record
Edgescan is organised around the registered asset estate, the recurring scan cadence, the validated finding feed, and the SLA on outstanding work. There is no concept of a scoped engagement that opens with a kickoff, runs against a defined target list and timebox, ships a signed-off final report under a stakeholder name, schedules a tester-driven retest, and closes with an invoice. Teams that need to deliver a scoped pentest, a one-off vulnerability assessment, an AppSec review, or a compliance-driven security testing engagement on top of continuous coverage have to model that lifecycle outside the Edgescan console.
No branded client portal on your own subdomain
Edgescan findings are reviewed inside the Edgescan portal. The portal serves the customer team and the Edgescan-validated record. There is no white-label tenant subdomain a security team can hand to an external client, an application owner, a business unit stakeholder, or a regulator under their own brand. SecPortal serves a branded client portal on the tenant subdomain so every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download lives under your name rather than under a vendor name. That matters whenever the buyer is delivering output to a downstream recipient and the deliverable has to look like it came from the security team rather than from a third-party validation service.
No AI-drafted engagement-shaped narrative reports
Edgescan publishes the annual Edgescan Vulnerability Statistics Report and surfaces dashboards, validated finding feeds, severity views, and remediation status against the asset estate. It does not draft engagement-shaped executive summaries, narrative technical writeups, or remediation roadmaps from a scoped finding set on demand. SecPortal uses Claude to draft executive, technical, and remediation deliverables from the live engagement findings, including CVSS vectors, evidence, severity, and asset context, so the team edits a draft rather than starting from a blank page.
No code scanning inside the same workspace
Edgescan covers the running application surface, the API surface, the host and network surface, and the cloud surface through scanning and validation. It does not run SAST or SCA against connected source repositories as part of the same workspace. Programmes that combine external testing with secure code review or supply-chain dependency analysis stitch the code-side output together through a separate code scanning tool. SecPortal runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep against repositories connected via GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth, and the code-side findings sit on the same engagement record as the external and authenticated scan output.
Sales-led pricing tied to asset count, scope tier, and managed-validation hours
Edgescan pricing is sales-led and is typically licensed against the asset estate (web applications, APIs, hosts, networks, mobile, cloud accounts) and the validation tier (fully managed, hybrid, self-service-plus). Annual commitment, named-account onboarding, and a multi-week ramp-up to baseline the estate are standard. SecPortal pricing is published on the website with a free plan, monthly Pro and Team tiers, and no annual contract floor for the Pro and Team tiers; new workspaces can sign up and run a scan inside two minutes.
Continuous managed validation vs delivery workspace as buyer shapes
The honest framing is that the two models solve adjacent problems for different buyer shapes. Saying one is universally better than the other misses the underlying buying decision the security team is making.
A continuous managed-validation service is built around the asset estate and the SLA clock
Edgescan and adjacent continuous Hybrid PTaaS platforms start from the assumption that the customer has a defined asset estate (web apps, APIs, hosts, networks, mobile, cloud) and wants a vendor to run scans against that estate on a recurring cadence, send the raw output through an analyst validation layer, and present the customer with a validated finding feed against an SLA target. The economic value is removing the per-finding triage and validation cost from the internal security team by paying the vendor for analyst hours alongside scanner coverage.
A delivery workspace is built around the engagement record and the deliverable
SecPortal does not assume that a continuous managed-validation service against the whole estate is the right shape for every security testing programme. The workspace runs its own external, authenticated, and code scanning, holds the finding record, supports manual entry from a tester or reviewer, calibrates severity through CVSS 3.1 with environmental adjustment, and ships the deliverable through a branded portal on a tenant subdomain. The same record holds for a scoped pentest, a continuous vulnerability assessment, an AppSec code review, a cloud security assessment, and a compliance-driven engagement. The finding lives where the work is delivered, not in a vendor-validated feed that ends at the SLA boundary.
The right answer depends on whether the security team is buying validation hours or shipping deliverables
If the internal security or vulnerability management team has a stable asset estate, an existing remediation workflow, and a budget shape that fits a managed validation service against the whole estate priced on assets and analyst hours, a continuous managed-validation platform like Edgescan is the right shape. If the team is shipping engagement deliverables to internal application owners, external clients, business unit stakeholders, regulators, or auditors and the buyer wants the scanner, the manual finding entry, the AI report, the branded portal, the invoice, and the retest on one workspace without a heavy onboarding ramp, a delivery workspace like SecPortal is the right shape. Both can be true for different teams or for the same team at different programme phases.
Who each platform is the right fit for
Buyer fit is the operating question, not feature parity. The right platform depends on whether the security team is buying validation hours on a continuous service against the asset estate or shipping engagement deliverables on a delivery workspace.
Edgescan fits enterprise teams buying continuous managed validation against a defined estate
If you are an enterprise or mid-market internal security or vulnerability management team, the asset estate is reasonably stable, the executive sponsor wants vendor-managed analyst validation on top of scanner coverage, and the budget fits a sales-led annual programme priced on assets and validation hours, Edgescan was built for that shape. The buyer is paying for the combination of continuous scanner coverage plus the validation team that calibrates severity, removes false positives, and presents a validated finding feed against an SLA target.
SecPortal fits teams shipping engagement deliverables on a delivery workspace
If you are an AppSec team, a product security team, a vulnerability management team, an internal security team, a penetration testing firm, an MSSP, or a consultancy that wants the scanner, the engagement record, the manual finding entry, the AI report, the branded portal, the invoice, and the retest all on one tenant, SecPortal carries that lifecycle without forcing the team to license a managed validation programme or design a multi-week onboarding ramp before the first deliverable lands. The same workspace serves an internal team shipping reports to application owners and a firm shipping reports to external clients.
SecPortal fits buyers who want the deliverable, the brand, and the engagement record on one workspace
If the security testing output is read by an application owner, a business unit stakeholder, an auditor, a regulator, or an external client, and every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download has to live under your brand rather than under a third-party validation service brand, SecPortal is the workspace that holds the record. Findings can still be imported from Nessus, Burp Suite, or CSV when scanners or services outside SecPortal are part of the picture, alongside SecPortal native external, authenticated, and code scanning. The same record holds for an internal team that wants the deliverable shape (executive summary, technical writeup, remediation roadmap, retest closure pack) without buying analyst hours from a continuous validation service.
Pricing comparison
SecPortal publishes pricing on the website. Edgescan pricing is sales-led and tied to the registered asset estate and the validation tier. The tiers below are illustrative of the buying shape rather than a direct per-feature equivalence.
SecPortal Free
Free forever
1 user, 3 clients, 2 engagements per client, 3 AI credits, 6 core scan modules.
SecPortal Pro
$149 per month
Unlimited clients and engagements, AI reports, full external scanner suite, authenticated scanning, code scanning, retesting workflow, and branded client portal.
SecPortal Team
$299 per month
Everything in Pro plus team management, RBAC, invoicing, continuous monitoring schedules, scan diff, and additional AI credits.
Edgescan
Sales-led pricing
Annual commitment priced on the registered asset estate (web applications, APIs, hosts, networks, mobile, cloud) and the validation tier; named account onboarding and baseline ramp are standard.
Why teams pick SecPortal alongside or instead of Edgescan
- Move from a sales-led continuous managed-validation annual contract to a workspace that holds engagements, findings, AI reports, retests, and a branded portal on one record
- Generate executive summaries, technical writeups, and remediation roadmaps from engagement findings rather than waiting on a validated feed against an SLA clock
- Hand application owners or external clients a branded portal on your subdomain instead of access to a third-party validation service portal
- Bring code scanning into the same workspace as external and authenticated scanning instead of stitching together SAST and SCA output from a separate tool
- Capture manual findings (business logic, chained proofs, IDOR walkthroughs, authentication bypasses, social engineering pretext review) alongside scanner output rather than tracking them in a side document
- Pair every retest to the original finding so the closure record holds up under audit rather than relying on the next continuous validation cycle to confirm the fix
- Map findings across 21 frameworks including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight from one workspace
- Bill the engagement from 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 sales-led annual programme up front
- Use SecPortal alongside Edgescan when continuous managed validation against a defined estate sits next to scoped engagement delivery to application owners, auditors, or external clients
How SecPortal scanning compares to the Edgescan model
SecPortal scanning is operator-driven rather than service-mediated. The same workspace runs the external scan, the authenticated DAST scan, and the code scan, then surfaces the findings on the engagement record the operator owns. Edgescan adds an analyst validation layer between scanner output and the customer feed; that validation tier is part of the licensed service rather than a workspace capability the customer operates. The trade is analyst hours bundled into the contract against operator control of the validation step.
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 through cookie, bearer, basic, or form authentication so issues that only surface inside an authenticated session do not slip past anonymous scanning. The code scanning feature runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep against a repository connected via GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth. The continuous monitoring feature runs daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly scans on a schedule and writes the results back to the same engagement record.
How credentials and authorisation are handled before any scan runs
Authenticated scanning needs credentials to live somewhere durable, and external scanning needs proof of target ownership before any module fires. SecPortal stores credentials in an encrypted credential vault with AES-256-GCM, scoped to a verified domain. Every external scan is gated on domain verification through DNS TXT or meta tag, and the scan-guard codes (DOMAIN_NOT_VERIFIED, CREDENTIAL_DOMAIN_MISMATCH, AUTH_NOT_ALLOWED) refuse to run when the chain of evidence does not hold. The authorisation discipline lives in the workspace rather than inside a vendor-managed service.
From scan to deliverable
The output of a scan is the beginning of a deliverable, not the end. SecPortal turns scan results into draft findings, the operator triages and validates them, the findings management layer holds the consolidated record with CVSS vectors, evidence, and remediation, and the AI reports feature generates the executive and technical narrative the recipient receives. The branded client portal is where the deliverable lands; the scanner result triage workflow covers how raw scanner output becomes a calibrated finding before it is promoted onto the canonical record.
For internal security teams that want to run an Edgescan programme for continuous coverage and a SecPortal workspace for engagement delivery in parallel, the remediation tracking workflow and the security testing programme management workflow cover how findings from multiple sources move from intake to closure with named owners, SLA tiers, and an audit trail. The importing third-party scanner results guide documents the verified Nessus, Burp Suite, and CSV import paths if the team wants to keep an existing continuous scanner and consolidate findings on the SecPortal record.
Honest scope: what SecPortal does not do
SecPortal is a security testing and delivery workspace. It is not a managed validation service, not an analyst-hours subscription, and not a Hybrid Penetration Testing as a Service vendor. The capabilities below are intentionally out of scope so the buyer can read the comparison accurately.
- SecPortal does not provide a managed validation team that reviews scanner output and removes false positives on behalf of the customer; validation is the operator workflow inside the workspace.
- SecPortal does not bundle analyst hours into a subscription tier and does not run a Hybrid PTaaS programme on behalf of the customer against a registered asset estate.
- SecPortal does not ship a vendor-operated SLA against the validated finding feed; SLA tiers and breach handling live in the workspace and are run by the team that owns the engagement.
- SecPortal does not publish a multi-year vulnerability statistics report against an aggregated customer estate; the workspace is the customer record, not a research dataset.
- SecPortal does not ship packaged push connectors into Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, SIEM, SOAR, GRC, CMDB, or ticketing platforms; integration into those systems is the workspace consumer responsibility, not a managed-service offering.
- SecPortal does not provide enterprise SSO, SCIM provisioning, or SAML federation; workspace authentication uses email and password with mandatory MFA via TOTP.
Adjacent comparisons
If the evaluation is between Edgescan and other continuous scanning, Hybrid PTaaS, enterprise vulnerability management, or web application security testing platforms, the comparisons below cover the same buying decision from different angles.
- SecPortal vs Intruder for the continuous SaaS vulnerability scanning comparison against a self-service estate.
- SecPortal vs Detectify for the external attack surface monitoring comparison.
- SecPortal vs Tenable.io for the enterprise exposure management comparison.
- SecPortal vs Qualys for the enterprise vulnerability management comparison.
- SecPortal vs Rapid7 for the InsightVM and InsightAppSec internal SecOps comparison.
- SecPortal vs Cobalt for the original Pentest as a Service alternative inside the same buyer evaluation.
- SecPortal vs Synack for the crowdsourced continuous penetration testing alternative inside the Hybrid PTaaS category.
- SecPortal vs HackerOne for the bug-bounty-anchored continuous testing alternative.
- SecPortal vs Bugcrowd for the alternative crowdsourced bug-bounty comparison inside the same evaluation.
- SecPortal vs Acunetix for the dedicated web vulnerability scanner comparison.
- SecPortal vs Invicti for the DAST-anchored web vulnerability scanning comparison.
- SecPortal vs Pentera for the automated security validation alternative against the same asset estate.
- Findings management with CVSS 3.1 vector parsing, severity calibration, and 300+ finding templates that hold the audit record.
- Bulk finding import for the CSV path that brings Edgescan validated findings or other third-party scanner output onto the engagement record.
- Retesting workflows for the per-finding retest path that pairs the original finding to the verified closure record.
- Vulnerability finding intake workflow for the structured intake path that captures findings from scanner output, manual testers, third-party validation services, and imported reports on one canonical record.
- Vulnerability prioritisation workflow for severity calibration, asset criticality weighting, and EPSS plus KEV signal integration on the prioritisation queue.
- Continuous threat exposure management cycle for the five-phase CTEM operating model that runs alongside continuous scanning and validation programmes.
- SecPortal for vulnerability management teams for the in-house find, track, fix, and verify audience overview that runs alongside continuous managed validation.
- SecPortal for AppSec teams for the application security audience overview that ships engagement records, retests, AI reports, and branded portal output across the application estate.
- SecPortal for internal security teams for the enterprise internal security audience overview and adoption read across scoped engagement delivery.
When the work is scoped engagement delivery, native scanning, and AI reporting on a workspace your team operates, not a vendor-managed continuous validation programme
Run scoped AppSec, pentest, vulnerability management, and cloud security assessment engagements, generate AI reports, and ship findings through a branded portal on one workspace. SAST plus dependency analysis plus DAST plus external scanning live on the same engagement record alongside manual finding entry, the exception register, the retest workflow, and the activity audit trail. Pair alongside an Edgescan programme when the security team also runs continuous managed validation against a defined asset estate. Start free.
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