Cyberwatch Alternative
Cyberwatch is a French vulnerability management and compliance suite, with an infrastructure scanner, sold through a sales cycle. TechWatchAlert covers a narrower part of the problem, being alerted about your own components, self-service and at a published price. The choice depends on how much you need to cover.
In short, before you scroll
- Built and hosted in France
- Free plan, no credit card
- Publicly listed prices
- Export your data at any time
A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is the public identifier of a vulnerability. A scanner looks for traces of it on your machines; a monitoring service watches for its publication and matches it against your inventory. They are not the same job.
What Cyberwatch is, exactly
Cyberwatch is a well-established French vendor whose platform covers asset discovery, vulnerability scanning, prioritization, remediation and regulatory compliance. The product is available in French, English and Spanish. Buying it goes through a demo, then a quote: there is no public price and no self-service sign-up.
It is an enterprise suite, and a good one in that space. We do not claim to cover the same scope.
The real differences
| Criterion | TechWatchAlert | Cyberwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Instant sign-up | Yes | Demo, then quote |
| Public pricing | Yes | Custom quote |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Targeted CVE monitoring and alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Active infrastructure scanner | No (monitoring, not scanning) | Yes |
| Discovery of unknown assets | No | Yes |
| Compliance management | No | Yes |
| End-of-life (EOL) tracking | Yes | Not disclosed |
| REST API | Yes | Depends on plan |
| Interface languages | French and English | French, English, Spanish |
| Data hosting | France | France |
The “discovery of unknown assets” row is the most important one in the table, and it counts against us. We start from what you declare; a scanner finds what you did not know you had.
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.
It covers compliance. Frameworks, configuration drift, audit reports: that is a discipline in its own right, and one we do not address at all.
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 to deploy. No agent on your machines, no network access granted, no scan window to negotiate. You declare your stack by hand, via an SBOM import (the inventory of your components) or through detection on a public URL, and the alerts start arriving.
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.
Operator subject to compliance obligations. If you need to produce regulatory compliance reports, we do not meet that need, and no clever wording will change that.
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.