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Search engine for internet-connected devices, with a $49 one-time membership
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Shodan is a search engine for internet-connected devices that security teams, researchers and developers use to discover exposed services. It includes Monitor, a developer API, Maps, Images and bulk data. The vendor claims over 3 million registered users.
Shodan crawls the internet, indexes banners and metadata, and lets users search or monitor by IP, filter or organization via the site or API.
Users include security teams and researchers, with the vendor claiming 89 percent of the Fortune 100 and over 1,000 universities.
Membership is a $49 one-time fee. Freelancer is $69 per month, Small Business $359 and Corporate $1,099, and Enterprise is custom. Query credits range from 100 to unlimited. All accounts have a free API plan. Prices are shown in dollars.
The vendor names Chrome and Firefox extensions and offers a REST API.
Censys is a similar internet scanning and attack surface platform. CyCognito and NetSPI focus on external attack surface management and testing services, and Tenable is a vulnerability management vendor.
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
GlobalHIPAA
HealthcarePCI DSS
FinanceCCPA
PrivacyFedRAMP
GovernmentCSA STAR
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