Qualys vs ZeroFox

About ZeroFox

ZeroFox sells a fused cybersecurity platform that brings intelligence, AI, and cybersecurity experts together in one continuous loop of discovery, validation, and disruption. ZeroFox describes its platform as used for discovering, validating, and disrupting threats across the surface and dark web to social media and marketplaces. ZeroFox fuses cyber threat intelligence, attack surface intelligence, and digital risk protection with AI-driven correlation, expert validation, and takedowns. ZeroFox states that the modern attack surface spans platforms, people, and places that organizations do not control.^[1][3][4][5]

ZeroFox pairs AI-powered discovery with 24/7 analyst validation and automated takedowns. In the discovery step, ZeroFox finds, maps, and monitors a digital presence that includes domains, subdomains, IPs, social accounts, exposed credentials, executive profiles, misconfigs, and the real-world locations and events where risk concentrates. In the validation step, ZeroFox combines large-scale automation with human expertise to determine what is real, relevant, and urgent. ZeroFox connects a data graph of 12B+ signals to vet threats in context.^[4]

In the disruption step, ZeroFox executes automated, analyst-guided response workflows that change attacker outcomes in the real world. ZeroFox uses its Global Disruption Network and its relationships with platforms, providers, and infrastructure partners to shut down abuse, interrupt campaigns, and suppress repeat activity. ZeroFox says the Global Disruption Network works with ISPs, registrars, hosts, and digital platforms. ZeroFox runs takedown automation through 80+ partnerships and automated takedown channels.^[4][5]

On the intelligence side, ZeroFox fuses Dark Ops, threat channel infiltration, asset fingerprinting, and analyst expertise to deliver finished intelligence. ZeroFox tracks forums, markets, and chats for chatter, access sales, and stolen data. ZeroFox connects 12B signals into insights and forensics to support investigations and threat-informed defense. ZeroFox detects exposed accounts and triggers resets and controls. ZeroFox delivers indicators and finished intel ready for a customer's stack, and its cyber threat intelligence connects to TIP, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR for automated action.^[3]

ZeroFox describes Digital Risk Protection as using advanced threat intelligence to safeguard external assets such as brands, domains, and executives from threats originating outside the firewall, across social media, marketplaces, and the surface, deep, and dark web. ZeroFox offers Brand, Domain, Executive, and Social Media Protection. ZeroFox brand protection addresses scams, counterfeit listings, copyright infringement, and brand abuse across digital channels. ZeroFox monitors 180+ digital platforms across social apps, forums, marketplaces, and the deep and dark web. Analysts at ZeroFox verify detections to reduce false positives.^[5][6][11]

ZeroFox offers an executive protection solution aimed at impersonation, doxxing, and escalating physical threats. ZeroFox detects and removes fake profiles, hijacked accounts, and AI-generated video or audio built to impersonate or discredit executives. ZeroFox uses dual LLM sentiment analysis to track tone and emotion around an executive in real time and flag aggressive or obsessive actors trending toward physical risk. With ZeroFox, a customer uploads an itinerary and ZeroFox maps the route and surfaces threats at every stop.^[10]

ZeroFox External Attack Surface Management defines and maps an organization's internet-exposed attack surface, identifying known and unknown assets.^[14]

ZeroFox provides its platform as a cloud-based software-as-a service security solution on a subscription basis. ZeroFox provides OnWatch technical support for the platform at the plan level a customer purchases. ZeroFox, Inc. is a Delaware corporation located at 1500 Whetstone Way, Suite 500, Baltimore, MD 21230.^{[3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][13][14][15]}