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Bishop Fox vs Bitsight

Bishop Fox sells offensive security services, including penetration testing and continuous security testing. Bitsight delivers a map of assets and vulnerabilities across an enterprise and its supply chain, prioritized by real-time threat intelligence. CISO Tribune files both under External attack surface management. 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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Bishop Fox vs Bitsight: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Bishop FoxBishop Fox sells offensive security services, including penetration testing and continuous security testing.bishopfox.comBitsightBitsight delivers a map of assets and vulnerabilities across an enterprise and its supply chain, prioritized by real-time threat intelligence.bitsight.com
What it sells
  • Cosmos[3][7][13][14]Bishop Fox's cloud-native technology platform and the foundation of its offensive security services.
  • Penetration Testing Services[4]Bishop Fox penetration testing across applications, networks, products, cloud, and AI systems.
  • Application Penetration Testing[3][9][14]Testing of web, mobile, and other applications, including an AI-powered portfolio option.
  • External Penetration Testing[10]Perimeter testing that emulates targeted adversaries.
  • Hardware Penetration Testing[4][11]Testing of connected devices and their ecosystems.
  • Continuous Security Testing[5][8]Managed continuous testing that Bishop Fox ties to Continuous Threat Exposure Management programs.
  • AIMap[3]Open-source tool built by Bishop Fox for testing exposed AI endpoints.
  • Vendor Risk Management[5]Helps risk and security teams manage a growing vendor portfolio.
  • Continuous Monitoring[6][11]Delivers daily insight into vendors and their vendors.
  • Security Ratings[2][7]Gives an objective, outside-in measure of supplier cybersecurity performance.
  • Attack Surface Intelligence[2][8]Combines external attack surface intelligence and AI-driven threat intelligence.
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence[2][9]Delivers threat intelligence through the platform and APIs.
  • Supply Chain Exposure Management[2][11]Monitors third-party vendors and sends evidence-backed threat alerts.
  • Third-Party Intelligence[7]Brings supplier security posture and live threat intelligence together.
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Headquarters
Tempe, United States[2]Not stated on its pages
Founded
2005[1][4][8]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
  • February 10, 2026Bishop Fox announced an updated application penetration testing service that combines its expert testing teams with its proprietary AI engine, Cosmos AI.[14]
  • March 19, 2026Bitsight introduced Bitsight Security Posture Management, designed to help organizations measure, improve and demonstrate cyber resilience.[15]
  • February 10, 2026Bitsight announced Dark Web Intelligence for Supply Chains, a capability for detecting and responding to threats across vendor ecosystems.[14]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[16]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Bishop Fox sells mainly to organizations that want offensive security testing of their applications, cloud, networks, devices, and AI systems. Bishop Fox says most enterprises manage many applications with constrained budgets and headcount. Customers it describes include a healthcare technology company moving to SaaS, an energy provider facing nation-state threats to critical infrastructure, and a financial services organization. Its hardware testing is aimed at healthcare devices, consumer tech, and industrial systems. Bishop Fox says it works with customers who are looking to safely deploy AI, release a new app or service, or validate corporate governance. Cosmos is delivered as a managed platform, so customers do not deploy or maintain it themselves.Not written yet
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September 27, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Bishop Fox and Bitsight are both filed under External attack surface management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Bishop Fox's primary category is Penetration testing and red team services; Bitsight's is Third-party risk and security ratings.
  • Bitsight is also filed under Threat intelligence and Vulnerability management.
  • Bishop Fox lists Cosmos, Penetration Testing Services, Application Penetration Testing, External Penetration Testing, Hardware Penetration Testing and 2 more. Bitsight lists Vendor Risk Management, Continuous Monitoring, Security Ratings, Attack Surface Intelligence, Cyber Threat Intelligence and 2 more.
  • Bishop Fox is headquartered in Tempe, United States.
  • Bishop Fox was founded in 2005.

What it sells: Bishop Fox

What Cosmos does[3][7][13][14]
Cosmos builds and verifies a living inventory of an organization's external attack surface. It integrates with customer workflows through Jira and ServiceNow, syncing validated findings into existing ticketing systems. Bishop Fox operates and manages Cosmos as part of its services, and customers do not deploy or maintain it.
What Penetration Testing Services does[4]
Bishop Fox penetration testing spans applications, networks, products, cloud, and AI systems. Engagements cover web and mobile apps, cloud environments in AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes, and IoT, consumer, commercial, and industrial devices.
What Application Penetration Testing does[3][9][14]
Bishop Fox runs in-depth manual and dynamic analyses of Android and iOS devices and apps, guided by OWASP testing methodologies. Bishop Fox AI-Powered Application Penetration Testing delivers validated, expert-reviewed findings across an entire portfolio.
What External Penetration Testing does[10]
Bishop Fox says its External Penetration Testing emulates targeted adversaries and results in discovery of defensive gaps, including likelihood of exploitation and business impact. Testing extends to public cloud storage services and peripheral web apps.
What Continuous Security Testing does[5][8]
Bishop Fox provides continuous security testing that it describes as integral to a successful Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program. Its managed services identify, prioritize, and help remediate business-impacting exposures.
What AIMap does[3]
AIMap is an open-source tool built by Bishop Fox. It discovers, scores, and tests exposed AI endpoints.

What it sells: Bitsight

What Vendor Risk Management does[5]
Teams build a third-party inventory by inviting vendors to the platform and connecting with them. Teams review uploaded documents in one place, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, SIG questionnaires, insurance, and external audits. Bitsight Vendor Risk Management syncs data with GRC and reporting tools, including RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and LogicManager, through an open API.
What Continuous Monitoring does[6][11]
Bitsight Continuous Monitoring delivers daily, objective insight into vendors and their vendors. It includes automatic fourth-party discovery that maps the technology stacks of vendors. It provides 12+ months of risk analytics for every vendor in a portfolio.
What Security Ratings does[2][7]
Bitsight Security Ratings provide an objective, continuously updated view of each supplier's cybersecurity posture. Teams can track whether supplier posture is improving or deteriorating over time. Teams can combine posture with live threat activity to distinguish isolated events from broader weaknesses.
What Attack Surface Intelligence does[2][8]
It inventories internet-facing systems including domains, subdomains, IPs, hosts, software, CVEs, certificates, cloud storage, and exposed services. It detects shadow IT and unsanctioned assets across AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS environments.
What Cyber Threat Intelligence does[2][9]
Bitsight delivers cyber threat intelligence in structured, actionable formats through the platform and APIs. Bitsight tracks 700+ ATP groups, 4,000+ malware types, 95M threat actors, 6M unique IOCs, and 1B compromised credentials weekly. Bitsight supports STIX/TAXII and offers simplified, integration-ready data structures.
What Supply Chain Exposure Management does[2][11]
Bitsight Beacon is Bitsight's Supply Chain Exposure Management data solution that continuously monitors third-party vendors and provides triaged, evidence-backed threat alerts for supply chain exposures. Bitsight Beacon alerts are delivered directly into SIEM and SOAR. Bitsight Beacon covers more than 30 threat scenarios.
What Third-Party Intelligence does[7]
Bitsight Third-Party Intelligence brings supplier security posture and live threat intelligence together in one place. It monitors ransomware, data breaches, hacktivism, and cyber news affecting suppliers. Its dashboard gives a centralized view of supplier ratings, threat activity, trends, and adverse events.

Questions about Bishop Fox and Bitsight

What do Bishop Fox and Bitsight sell?
Bishop Fox sells Cosmos, Penetration Testing Services, Application Penetration Testing, External Penetration Testing, Hardware Penetration Testing and 2 more. Bitsight sells Vendor Risk Management, Continuous Monitoring, Security Ratings, Attack Surface Intelligence, Cyber Threat Intelligence and 2 more.
Are Bishop Fox and Bitsight in the same category?
They share External attack surface management. Bishop Fox's primary category is Penetration testing and red team services and Bitsight's is Third-party risk and security ratings.
Where are Bishop Fox and Bitsight headquartered?
Bishop Fox is headquartered in Tempe, United States.
When were Bishop Fox and Bitsight founded?
Bishop Fox was founded in 2005.
Who are Bishop Fox and Bitsight sold to?
From its own pages, Bishop Fox sells mainly to organizations that want offensive security testing of their applications, cloud, networks, devices, and AI systems.
What have Bishop Fox and Bitsight announced recently?
February 10, 2026: Bishop Fox announced an updated application penetration testing service that combines its expert testing teams with its proprietary AI engine, Cosmos AI. March 19, 2026: Bitsight introduced Bitsight Security Posture Management, designed to help organizations measure, improve and demonstrate cyber resilience.

About Bishop Fox

Bishop Fox sells offensive security services, including penetration testing and continuous security testing. Bishop Fox says it has 20 years of offensive security experience and thousands of customer engagements. Bishop Fox was founded by ethical hackers. Bishop Fox says it is behind offensive security tools including Sliver and CloudFox. Bishop Fox applies agentic AI to its offensive testing, and Bishop Fox assesses models and architectures as part of securing AI and LLM initiatives.

Bishop Fox penetration testing spans applications, networks, products, cloud, and AI systems. Bishop Fox offers assessments of AI systems tailored to the customer's use case, priorities, and development lifecycle. Bishop Fox's application offering includes web and mobile app penetration testing, AI-powered portfolio assessments, and secure code review. Application testing covers web, thick-client, e-commerce, single page applications, and APIs. Bishop Fox runs in-depth manual and dynamic analyses of Android and iOS devices and apps, guided by OWASP testing methodologies. Bishop Fox AI-Powered Application Penetration Testing delivers validated, expert-reviewed findings across an entire portfolio. Bishop Fox application testers are fluent in programming languages such as Python, C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, GO, Swift, PHP, Rust, and Objective C.[9]

Bishop Fox cloud testing goes beyond configuration reviews to identify critical and exploitable paths in AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes environments. Bishop Fox network testing simulates real-world attack scenarios to uncover perimeter weaknesses and identify how an attacker could gain access to internal networks. Bishop Fox says its External Penetration Testing emulates targeted adversaries and results in discovery of defensive gaps, including likelihood of exploitation and business impact. Bishop Fox hardware and software testing covers IoT, consumer, commercial, and industrial devices. Hardware testing inspects devices down to electronic components including PCBs, chips, storage, debugging interfaces, and bus protocols. Bishop Fox experts test strategic partners and 3rd party vendors.[11]

Bishop Fox provides continuous security testing that it describes as integral to a successful Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program. Bishop Fox managed services identify, prioritize, and help customers remediate business-impacting exposures. Bishop Fox Attack Surface Discovery continuously finds, validates, and attributes perimeter assets. Bishop Fox Emerging Threat Testing delivers a per-environment verdict. Bishop Fox says its red team work lets customers face the tactics real adversaries use and see how their team responds. Bishop Fox customizes its reporting, weekly status reports, and post-engagement reviews to the unique needs of the customer's organization.[12][13]

Cosmos is Bishop Fox's cloud-native technology platform and the foundation of its offensive security services. Cosmos is built on stateless microservices that auto scale to enterprise volumes, continuously discovers external assets, and routes high-confidence findings into an expert human validation pipeline. Cosmos builds and verifies a living inventory of an organization's external attack surface. Cosmos runs daily automations that validate reachability and protocol behavior so customers see only verified, visible assets. Cosmos captures evidence in the form of technology fingerprints, screenshots, and service metadata. Cosmos uses tenant- and organization-level cloud connectors. Cosmos integrates with customer workflows through Jira and ServiceNow, syncing validated findings into existing ticketing systems. Validated outputs are surfaced through the Bishop Fox Portal, which provides an asset inventory, confirmed findings, indicators of exposure, and a triage workflow integrated with customer ticketing and collaboration systems. Bishop Fox operates and manages Cosmos as part of its services, and customers do not deploy or maintain the platform themselves.[7]

Bishop Fox built AIMap, an open-source tool that discovers, scores, and tests exposed AI endpoints. Sliver is a cross-platform general purpose implant framework. Sliver supports asymmetrically encrypted C2 over DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, and Mutual TLS.

Bishop Fox says it helps customers who are looking to safely deploy AI, release a new app or service, or validate corporate governance. A healthcare technology company moving to SaaS needed to validate its multi-tenant cloud platform, secure connected device provisioning, and maintain visibility across a growing attack surface. An energy provider faces constant threats from nation-state actors targeting critical infrastructure. Equifax runs year-round perimeter testing to safeguard high-value data. Zoom used continuous attack surface monitoring to protect its expanding platform. Apollo selected Bishop Fox to perform a Google Security Assessment of its application, external perimeter, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. John Deere relied on in-depth product security reviews and ongoing protection through a managed offensive security platform. Ventrilo.ai partnered with Bishop Fox for application penetration testing and AI security assessments. A financial services organization tested Bishop Fox's Cosmos AI platform against a realistic application.[7][9][13]

Bishop Fox on the record

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Bishop Fox full record

  1. [1]bishopfox.comBishop Fox · bishopfox.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]ContactBishop Fox · bishopfox.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Bishop Fox | The leading authority in offensive security… | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Offensive Security: Penetration Testing Services | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Continuous Security Testing Services | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Red Team Services | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Cosmos Technology Platform | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Offensive Security Services | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Application Penetration Testing Services | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]External Penetration Testing for Network Security | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Hardware Security Assessments and Product Security… | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Bishop Fox | Tactics of Deception: Protecting Trust and PurposeBishop Fox · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Explore Customers of Our Offensive Security Solutions | Bishop FoxBishop Fox · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Bishop Fox Redefines Offensive Security at Scale with AI-Augmented Penetration TestingBishop Fox · published February 10, 2026 · Tier A

Bitsight full record

  1. [1]Bitsight insurance business grows 30 h1 extending market leadershipBitsight · bitsight.com · published October 9, 2025 · Tier A
  2. [2]bitsight.comBitsight · bitsight.com · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Bitsight | The Cyber Risk Platform Trusted by the Fortune 500Bitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Bitsight Vendor Network | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Vendor Risk Management (VRM) Platform | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Third Party Risk Management Solutions | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Bitsight Third-Party Intelligence SolutionBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Attack Surface Intelligence Solutions | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cyber Threat Intelligence Data | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Identity Intelligence Solutions | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Supply Chain Exposure Management | Bitsight BeaconBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]SPM Integrations | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]About Bitsight Security | BitsightBitsight · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Bitsight Launches Industry’s First Dark Web Intelligence for Supply Chains, Empowering Organizations to Predict and Prevent Third-Party Exploits | BitsightBitsight · published February 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Bitsight Introduces Security Posture Management to Operationalize Enterprise Cyber Resilience | BitsightBitsight · published March 19, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Bitsight Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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