Endpoint Management Security Tools

Aikido provides everything the average startup to mid-market company needs for security in a box - every code and cloud security scanner under the sun without much feature compromise, alongside a surprisingly robust runtime application solution for things like bot prevention. A no-nonsense replacement for a lot of more "specialized" solutions that tend to slow developers down.

AI-powered endpoint security platform that gives teams control over everything running on their endpoints so they can adopt AI safely.

Pluto is a leading AI security solution that specializes in securing endpoints and agentic building solutions like Lovable and Base44

Jamf is the long time king of apple MDM. They have a robust set of features and integrations that make them the go-to for apple device management with a rich feature set allowing a ton of customization. However, as with all enterprise software, there has also been an increase in bloat over time.

Kandji is doing a great job giving Jamf a run for their money, especially for startups and midmarket. Their platform is able to focus more on the use cases that matter for most companies, with the downside being edge requirements from advanced Jamf users.

Bloom discovers and governs AI agents, extensions, IDE plugins, and MCP servers on endpoints with contextual risk assessments.

AI-driven SIEM and security analytics built on the open Elastic (Elasticsearch) stack, unifying detection, investigation, and response across endpoints and clouds.

Socket has great malware detection capabilities as part of their SCA solution, alongside function reachability from their acquisition of Coana. They have especially robust support within the JavaScript ecosystem.

Qualys offers just about every vulnerability scanner you could want from a single vendor - from cloud to on premise to code. They have great vulnerability insights and scanning capabilities in a holistic place, but the platform UX can be difficult compared to more specialized vendors.

Tenable offers a robust ecosystem of vulnerability scanning solutions, most recently consolidated with their Tenable One Exposure Management platform. Tenable offers scanning from cloud to DAST to network scanning, and is widely deployed across enterprises in order to consolidate different scanners. Their exposure management platform has done a great job bringing together their various data points, creating a more unified experience that the platform had been missing.

SentinelOne was one of the first major security providers to normalize their data into a data lake architecture, and the benefits are more clear than ever: giving customers a single place to manage all of their security programs, from EDR to CNAPP to AI Security. Consolidating this data enables teams to run cross-domain investigations without stitching integrations between separate products, and gives Purple AI (their agentic analyst) a unified data plane to reason across instead of guessing at relationships between siloed tools.

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Koi offers full inventories and workflows for managing packages, extensions, AI tools, containers and other components that users and developers pull from public marketplaces and registries that MDM and EDR tools rarely see. Koi scores risk per and enforces policy with an agentless approach so even exempt developer machines stay governed.

Cortex Cloud is a security operations platform that integrates cloud and application security capabilities into their larger security operations offerings. This provides a single hub for managing first and third party findings across vulnerabilities and runtime events.

CrowdStrike's container runtime technically works, but deployment, maintenance, and usefulness do not compare to other tools at the time of testing. CrowdStrike's Windows offerings remain dominant in the space, but their CNAPP and container security solutions are difficult to recommend.

Fleet has built a very cool MDM on top of OSQuery that includes being able to run scripts and do more robust endpoint management - across platforms and with little complexity.

Intent-aware workspace security platform that uses on-device AI reasoning to read human, AI, and app activity and intervene before risky actions complete.

Governance capabilities for MCP servers, skills, and AI agents with threat detection, fine-grained permissions, and full observability.

Evren has a very cool solution for developer workstations involving a lightweight Linux distro that gives developers a lot of freedom while keeping essential management and visibility functionalities for security teams.