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Attaxion vs Hilt

Attaxion sells a platform that maps an organization's entire attack surface, identifies critical vulnerabilities and supports remediation with guided next steps and workflows. Hilt sells a platform that maps data movement across cloud and endpoint infrastructure. CISO Tribune files both under Third-party risk and security ratings. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Attaxion vs Hilt: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AttaxionAttaxion sells a platform that maps an organization's entire attack surface, identifies critical vulnerabilities and supports remediation with guided next steps and workflows.attaxion.comHiltHilt sells a platform that maps data movement across cloud and endpoint infrastructure.hilt.ai
What it sells
  • Community Edition[6]A free tier to which an account is downgraded after its trial ends.
  • Platform[3][4][5]Maps data movement across cloud and endpoint infrastructure.
  • Infrastructure[1][2][3][4]Collectors read activity at the kernel across Linux hosts, VMs, containers, and bare metal.
  • Endpoints[4]Kernel collectors on macOS and Windows plus a managed browser extension.
  • Auto-update agent[5]Optional agent that rolls out collector updates in the customer's cluster.
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Attaxion sells plans to growing businesses with a sizeable online infrastructure and to larger companies with big external attack surfaces. Attaxion says it commonly works with larger businesses with an extensive infrastructure. The uses Attaxion describes cover automated security testing for web apps, monitoring of third-party technologies and assessing the security posture of target candidates.Hilt describes cases involving regulated customer records leaving onto an engineer's laptop and trading strategies leaving a firm for personal accounts. Hilt collectors cover Linux hosts, VMs, containers, and bare metal, and macOS and Windows devices. For airgapped environments, Hilt ships an offline bundle.
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Where they overlap

  • Attaxion and Hilt are both filed under Third-party risk and security ratings.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Attaxion's primary category is External attack surface management; Hilt's is Data loss prevention.
  • Attaxion is also filed under Vulnerability management and Dynamic application security testing. Hilt is also filed under Insider risk management and Workforce AI usage security.
  • Attaxion lists Community Edition. Hilt lists Platform, Infrastructure, Endpoints and Auto-update agent.

What it sells: Attaxion

What Community Edition does[6]
After its trial ends, an Attaxion account is downgraded to the free Community Edition tier. On the Community Edition tier, Attaxion runs discovery and vulnerability scans on a monthly basis. The number of scanned assets is reduced to 40, and only 50% of them can be viewed.

What it sells: Hilt

What Platform does[3][4][5]
Hilt ties each move to a real person and the job that ran it, then scores it against how the data normally moves. Hilt uses a temporal GNN with proprietary ML models to score every move, and agentic investigation writes the case. Hilt deploys as a single-tenant platform inside the customer's own cloud account.
What Infrastructure does[1][2][3][4]
Hilt collectors read process, file, and network activity at the kernel across Linux hosts, VMs, containers, and bare metal. Hilt collectors roll across a fleet, one per host, with no reboot and no inline tap.
What Endpoints does[4]
Hilt device endpoints run kernel collectors on macOS and Windows, plus a managed browser extension across Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Chromium browsers. On macOS, Hilt uses a system collector and a managed browser extension to watch the last hop, resolved to the person and process behind it.
What Auto-update agent does[5]
The Hilt auto-update agent runs as a Kubernetes CronJob in the customer's cluster. The Hilt auto-update agent polls the Hilt release registry, mirrors new images into the customer's registries, rolls out the update, verifies health after rollout, and reports status to a configured webhook.

Questions about Attaxion and Hilt

What do Attaxion and Hilt sell?
Attaxion sells Community Edition. Hilt sells Platform, Infrastructure, Endpoints and Auto-update agent.
Are Attaxion and Hilt in the same category?
They share Third-party risk and security ratings. Attaxion's primary category is External attack surface management and Hilt's is Data loss prevention.
Who are Attaxion and Hilt sold to?
From its own pages, Attaxion sells plans to growing businesses with a sizeable online infrastructure and to larger companies with big external attack surfaces. Hilt describes cases involving regulated customer records leaving onto an engineer's laptop and trading strategies leaving a firm for personal accounts.

About Attaxion

Attaxion sells a platform that maps an organization's entire attack surface, identifies critical vulnerabilities and supports remediation with guided next steps and workflows. Attaxion is an EASM platform with asset discovery techniques. Attaxion discovers assets both known and unknown to the organization using it. In addition to the assets a customer specifies, Attaxion discovers other assets on the external attack surface and scans them for vulnerabilities.[3][4][6][7]

Attaxion LiveSight shows what is exposed across an attack surface and who is actively communicating with the network in near real time. Attaxion has a free Community Edition tier, to which an account is downgraded after its trial ends. On the Community Edition tier, Attaxion runs discovery and vulnerability scans on a monthly basis. On the Community Edition tier, the number of scanned assets is reduced to 40, and only 50% of them can be viewed.[5][6]

Attaxion runs fully automated security testing for web apps across an organization's entire external attack surface. Attaxion discovers web applications across the entire external attack surface, including ones the organization did not know about or forgot about. Attaxion finds issues in web applications such as vulnerable third-party technology, XSS and open ports. Attaxion continuously analyzes web applications and finds vulnerabilities and misconfigurations without causing disruptions. Attaxion builds and maintains an inventory of third-party technologies used across web apps, highlighting technology versions and related assets that pose higher risks. Attaxion can generate reports for individual web apps and for an entire external attack surface. Attaxion provides detailed reports for stakeholders on each web app an organization manages.[2][5][7]

Attaxion uses EPSS and CISA KEV data to help prioritize critical issues that are more likely to be exploited or known to be exploited in the wild. The vulnerability catalog of Attaxion is regularly updated with new entries, and Attaxion continuously runs scans across web applications to find assets vulnerable to emerging threats. Attaxion creates support tickets with information about issues.[7]

Attaxion identifies, assesses and continuously monitors for new third-party technologies and associated risks. Attaxion provides insights into the security posture and inherited cyber risks of target candidates. Attaxion is used to eliminate potential compliance issues by ensuring all external assets are cataloged and scanned for vulnerabilities.[5]

A regional bank with about $80 billion in assets relied on Attaxion to switch to risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM). The regional bank serves users across North America, focuses on commercial banking and offers financial advisory and investment services. The regional bank operates in a heavily regulated industry and maintains compliance with requirements such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and PCI DSS. The infrastructure security team at the regional bank is short-handed. The regional bank moved from traditional vulnerability management to risk-based vulnerability management with automatic asset discovery, to cover its web-facing infrastructure and prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability. The regional bank chose the Attaxion EASM platform to provide the necessary data and enable RBVM. Using varied cyber reconnaissance techniques, Attaxion enabled the bank to identify and secure previously unknown assets that were putting it at risk of non-compliance. Some of the previously unknown assets at the regional bank were not in scope for penetration tests and would have remained shadow IT after the yearly pentesting exercise. For the regional bank, Attaxion goes beyond CVSS-based risk scoring and factors EPSS and CISA KEV data into vulnerability prioritization.[1][4][5]

Totalmobile gained attack surface visibility, uncovered shadow IT and implemented EASM with Attaxion. Pollysoft automated visibility over its external assets and critical vulnerabilities. Rand Machine Products uses automated asset discovery with Attaxion for remediation. PEAK Wind worked toward NIS2 compliance with continuous external visibility. A small security team scans servers and web apps using the attack surface management of Attaxion.[1][5]

Attaxion commonly works with larger businesses with an extensive infrastructure. Attaxion accounts can be upgraded from within the app, and the Attaxion sales team sets up custom Enterprise plans.[1][5][6]

Attaxion on the record

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Attaxion full record

  1. [1]attaxion.comAttaxion · attaxion.com · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Test web application securityAttaxion · attaxion.com · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]About us | AttaxionAttaxion · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]How Attaxion Helped a Regional Bank Implement RBVM | AttaxionAttaxion · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Attaxion: Agentless Exposure Management with #1 Asset CoverageAttaxion · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Pricing | AttaxionAttaxion · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Test Web Application Security | AttaxionAttaxion · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A

Hilt full record

  1. [1]hilt.aiHilt · hilt.ai · undated page, accessed November 6, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Hilt | Data Movement Governance at the KernelHilt · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Architecture & data flow - Hilt DocumentationHilt · published October 8, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]The Hilt platform | Agentic Data Movement Governance at the kernelHilt · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Security operations - Hilt DocumentationHilt · published October 8, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Access & identity - Hilt DocumentationHilt · published October 8, 2026 · Tier A

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