Cyberwatch Alternative
Cyberwatch and TechWatchAlert are two French vulnerability management vendors. Cyberwatch scans, with or without an agent, covers OT and several frameworks, and is sold after a demo. TechWatchAlert starts from the agent and your existing tools, patches and proves for NIS2, self-service and at a public price. The choice depends on what you need to cover, and how you want to buy it.
What Cyberwatch is, exactly
Cyberwatch, a subsidiary of Framatome Cybersecurity, presents itself as the sovereign platform for continuous vulnerability and compliance management, for IT, OT, cloud and sensitive environments: asset discovery, scans with or without an agent, prioritization, remediation, NIS2, DORA and CRA compliance, and a disconnected (air-gap) mode. The product is available in French, English and Spanish. Buying it goes through a demo, then a quote.
It is an enterprise suite, and a good one on that ground.
The real differences
| Criterion | TechWatchAlert | Cyberwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Instant sign-up | Yes | Demo, then quote |
| Public pricing | Yes | Custom quote |
| Free plan | Yes | No (trial on request) |
| Machine inventory | Windows, Linux, macOS agent; connectors | Scans with or without an agent |
| Active network scanning | No | Yes |
| Discovery of unknown assets | Partial (directory, external surface) | Yes |
| Third-party scanners read through their APIs | Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Defender, CrowdStrike | Not disclosed |
| Patch management | Yes, in rings (Team plan) | Yes |
| Compliance | NIS2, ISO 27001, CIS, ANSSI guide (Team plan) | NIS2, DORA, CRA and others |
| OT and disconnected environments | Offline agent on isolated networks | Yes |
| End-of-life (EOL) tracking | Yes | Not disclosed |
| Interface languages | Seven languages, including English | French, English, Spanish |
| Data hosting | France | France |
The “active network scanning” row is the most important in the table, and it counts against us. Our agent and connectors see what is managed; a scanner also finds what nobody had recorded.
What Cyberwatch does better than we do
It sees what you have not declared. A forgotten server, a bundled library, a version that was never written down anywhere: scanning finds them, our matching does not. If your inventory is uncertain, start there.
Its compliance goes further. DORA, the CRA, industrial OT, disconnected environments: beyond the vulnerability side of NIS2 and ISO 27001 that we cover, Cyberwatch covers more frameworks and terrains.
It is multilingual and equipped for large organizations, with the sales and contractual support that comes with it. In a public tender or with a large account, that counts for more than a pleasant interface.
What we do differently
You know the price before talking to anyone. Pricing is public, the free plan requires no credit card, and setup takes minutes rather than meetings. For a team of fewer than ten people, that is often the difference between actually monitoring and putting it off.
Nothing mandatory to deploy. No network access to grant, no scan window to negotiate. You start from an import of an SBOM (the bill of materials of your components), from your existing tools (Intune, GLPI, RMM, scanners read through their APIs) or from the agent, and the alerts come in.
For the real inventory of your machines, the agent installs with one command on Windows, Linux and macOS, and also works offline on an isolated network: the encrypted, signed collection is transferred as a file.
Prioritization is built into the alert. Every CVE arrives with its status in CISA’s KEV catalog (confirmed exploitation), its EPSS score (probability of exploitation within 30 days) and its CVSS score (intrinsic severity), in that order. The full reasoning is laid out in our guide to CVE monitoring.
End of support is tracked, with advance notice before the deadline. Cyberwatch does not publicly mention such a feature.
Who it's for, in practice
Team of two to ten people, known infrastructure. Self-service wins: account created, stack declared, first alert at the next synchronization. A six-week sales cycle for the same result makes no sense at this size.
Organization with a heterogeneous, poorly inventoried infrastructure. Cyberwatch first, to find out what you have. We can come in afterwards for monitoring and end of life; the two are not mutually exclusive.
An entity subject to NIS2. The Team plan keeps the registers (incidents, accepted risks, suppliers, inventory reviews) and produces the management report from your alerts and patches. For DORA, the CRA or an OT fleet, Cyberwatch covers more.
Method and verification date
Facts checked on on the vendors’ public pages, without privileged access or real-world testing of their product. Positioning, languages and pricing model come from the vendor’s public pages. Spotted an error or a change in offering? Report it via our contact page: we correct the row and re-date the page.