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Bishop Fox vs Detectify

Bishop Fox sells offensive security services, including penetration testing and continuous security testing. Detectify is an application security platform that combines Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Attack Surface Management (ASM). 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 Detectify: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Bishop FoxBishop Fox sells offensive security services, including penetration testing and continuous security testing.bishopfox.comDetectifyDetectify is an application security platform that combines Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Attack Surface Management (ASM).detectify.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.
  • Application Scanning[9][10]Crawls and fuzzes custom web apps, including the parts behind login.
  • API Scanning[10]Tests every operation in an OpenAPI spec or GraphQL schema with payload-based tests.
  • Alfred AI[13]Turns published CVEs into payload-based tests that a Detectify security researcher reviews before they go live.
Categories
Headquarters
Tempe, United States[2]Stockholm, Sweden
Founded
2005[1][4][8]2013[1]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesOwned by Insight Partners since 2024[2][5][6][13]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
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]
  • October 29, 2026Detectify announced that it is one of the vendors featured in KuppingerCole's 2026 Leadership Compass on Attack Surface Management.[17]
  • May 26, 2026Detectify unveiled an MCP Server, an integration layer that brings its security testing engines into AI.[4]
  • March 24, 2026Detectify launched IP Range Scanning, which enables continuous discovery and monitoring of entire IP address blocks.[18]
  • February 3, 2026Detectify launched Internal Scanning, which brings its crawling and fuzzing engine behind the customer's firewall.[3]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[5]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
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
Last verified
September 27, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Bishop Fox and Detectify 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; Detectify's is Dynamic application security testing.
  • Bishop Fox lists Cosmos, Penetration Testing Services, Application Penetration Testing, External Penetration Testing, Hardware Penetration Testing and 2 more. Detectify lists Application Scanning, API Scanning and Alfred AI.
  • Bishop Fox is headquartered in Tempe, United States. Detectify is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Bishop Fox was founded in 2005. Detectify was founded in 2013.
  • Detectify is owned by Insight Partners, since 2024.

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: Detectify

What Application Scanning does[9][10]
Application Scanning crawls apps in a real browser, so it renders JavaScript and handles single-page apps. It tests with payloads from 1,765+ modules built by ethical hackers in the Crowdsource community. A recorded login lets it test areas behind sign-in.
What API Scanning does[10]
API Scanning builds the scan from an uploaded OpenAPI spec or GraphQL schema. Findings are confirmed by running the payload, not by matching a signature.
What Alfred AI does[13]
Alfred AI monitors public CVE disclosures to find CVEs with a working public proof of concept. It builds a payload-based test from the proof of concept. A Detectify security researcher reviews every test before it goes live.

Questions about Bishop Fox and Detectify

What do Bishop Fox and Detectify sell?
Bishop Fox sells Cosmos, Penetration Testing Services, Application Penetration Testing, External Penetration Testing, Hardware Penetration Testing and 2 more. Detectify sells Application Scanning, API Scanning and Alfred AI.
Are Bishop Fox and Detectify in the same category?
They share External attack surface management. Bishop Fox's primary category is Penetration testing and red team services and Detectify's is Dynamic application security testing.
Where are Bishop Fox and Detectify headquartered?
Bishop Fox is headquartered in Tempe, United States. Detectify is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
When were Bishop Fox and Detectify founded?
Bishop Fox was founded in 2005. Detectify was founded in 2013.
Who owns Bishop Fox and Detectify?
Detectify is owned by Insight Partners, since 2024.
Who are Bishop Fox and Detectify 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 Detectify 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. October 29, 2026: Detectify announced that it is one of the vendors featured in KuppingerCole's 2026 Leadership Compass on Attack Surface Management.

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

Sources

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

Detectify full record

  1. [1]AboutDetectify · detectify.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Insight partners acquires majority stake in detectifyDetectify · newsroom.detectify.com · published October 29, 2024 · Tier A
  3. [3]Introducing Detectify Internal Scanning for internal scanning behind the firewallDetectify · published February 3, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Detectify brings AppSec automation to AI agents with MCP Server and continuous testingHelp Net Security · published May 26, 2026 · Tier B
  5. [5]Detectify Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  6. [6]Detectify - Application security built and trusted by hackersDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Application security built on hacker researchDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Surface Monitoring | Attack Surface Management | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Application Scanning | DAST for Web Apps | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]API Scanning | API Security Testing | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Internal Scanning | DAST for Internal Apps | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]PCI ASV Scanning | Approved PCI DSS Scans | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Alfred AI | CVE Tests Built by AI | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]MCP Server | Claude Code, Cursor and more | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Agentic Tooling | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Integrations | Jira, Slack, Teams and More | DetectifyDetectify · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Detectify featured in KuppingerCole's Analysts 2026 Leadership Compass on Attack Surface ManagementDetectify · published October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Detectify uncovers hidden assets and risks across entire IP rangesHelp Net Security · published March 24, 2026 · Tier B

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