Ares vs Vulnerability Scanners

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

A vulnerability scanner gives you a list. Ares gives you proof. Scanners are fast and broad. They crawl your environment, match what they find against a database of known vulnerabilities, and hand your team a long report of things that might be exploitable. That breadth has real value for tracking known CVEs at scale. But a scanner cannot tell you which of those findings a real attacker could actually use, and it cannot see the flaws that have no signature, the broken object level authorization, the business logic abuse, the chain of small weaknesses that add up to a breach. Ares can. She attacks your APIs, web apps, and mobile apps the way an adversary would, proves every finding with a working exploit, and shows you the full path from entry to impact. A scanner tells you what to worry about. Ares tells you what is actually broken.

Them

Ares

Confirms each finding with a working exploit

No, flags potential issues, leaving you to triage false positives

Yes, every finding is proven

Tests business logic and broken object level authorization (BOLA)

No, signature matching cannot reason about app logic

Yes, a core competency

Chains weaknesses into a complete attack path

No, reports isolated findings

Yes, entry to impact

Finds novel flaws, not just known CVEs

No, limited to a database of known signatures

Yes, discovers what has no signature yet

Native mobile application testing

No, out of scope for the category

Yes, mobile apps tested today

Broad known-CVE coverage across your entire environment

Yes, their core strength

No, focused on application-layer exploitation

Them

Ares

No, flags potential issues, leaving you to triage false positives

Data-driven, accurate and updated in real time

No, signature matching cannot reason about app logic

Yes, a core competency

No, reports isolated findings

Yes, entry to impact

No, limited to a database of known signatures

Yes, discovers what has no signature yet

No, out of scope for the category

Yes, mobile apps tested today

Yes, their core strength

No, focused on application-layer exploitation

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