Ares vs Hadrian

Traditional scanners detect. Ares reasons, chains, and validates autonomously.

Hadrian made its name mapping the outside of your company. Its platform continuously discovers every internet-facing asset you have, the forgotten subdomains, expired certificates, and shadow infrastructure attackers find first, and with Nova it now runs autonomous external pentests against that surface. For breadth of external exposure, Hadrian is excellent, and it is a three-time leader in attack surface management for a reason. Ares is not an attack surface tool. She does not crawl the internet to inventory your footprint. She goes deep on the targets that matter most, the APIs, web apps, and mobile apps, testing behind authentication for the broken object level authorization and business logic flaws that only show up when you act like a logged-in attacker. Hadrian tells you what is exposed. Ares tells you how far an attacker gets once they are inside your app.

Them

Ares

Purpose-built API security testing (BOLA, OWASP API Top 10)

No, external attack surface focus

Yes, built API-first

Native mobile application testing

No, not in scope

Yes, mobile apps tested today

Deep business logic and authorization testing behind authentication

No, validates externally exposed assets

Yes, tests with real credentials and roles

Continuous external attack surface discovery (shadow assets, subdomains, certificates)

Yes, their core strength

No, tests the targets you define

Autonomous, black-box testing from the attacker's perspective

Yes

Yes

Validated findings with exploit steps and business-impact priority

Yes

Yes

Them

Ares

No, external attack surface focus

Data-driven, accurate and updated in real time

No, not in scope

Yes, mobile apps tested today

No, validates externally exposed assets

Yes, tests with real credentials and roles

Yes, their core strength

No, tests the targets you define

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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