Everyone scans code. Almost no one sees your fleet.
Most tools inspect one of two things: source code and CI pipelines, or ports and binaries. Neither answers the question that matters when a critical CVE lands — which devices are running the affected package, in which ecosystem, right now? Sentari answers it from the endpoint itself — and turns that answer into on-premise vulnerability management, compliance automation, and signed, regulator-ready evidence.
Source & CI dependency scanners (SCA)
Built for: Finding vulnerable dependencies in source repositories and build pipelines.
Blind spot: They analyze code before it ships. They can't tell you what is actually installed on a running device — a venv on an analyst's workstation, a conda environment in an ML pipeline, an OS package on a server.
SBOM ingestion & vuln-management platforms
Built for: Ingesting SBOMs from other tools and correlating them against vulnerability feeds.
Blind spot: They depend on someone else generating and pushing an accurate SBOM. No agent, no fleet ground-truth — and an SBOM is a point-in-time snapshot, not a live inventory.
Endpoint & network vulnerability scanners
Built for: Inspecting ports, services, and OS-level binaries across the network.
Blind spot: They were never designed to enumerate package environments. Application-level packages across Python, npm, NuGet, and Java are invisible to them.
Package proxies & install firewalls
Built for: Blocking policy-violating packages at a central proxy or registry.
Blind spot: Anything installed outside the proxy — a misconfigured index, an offline install, a system package, a container base image — passes straight through unseen.
Cloud / SaaS security platforms
Built for: Fast, hosted analysis with minimal setup.
Blind spot: The deployment model itself disqualifies them for air-gapped, sovereign, and classified environments — where the data can never leave your infrastructure.
IT asset management (ITAM)
Built for: Tracking hardware, operating systems, and licensed applications.
Blind spot: They stop at the application level. The open-source packages inside those applications — where the CVEs actually are — go untracked.
What the categories above typically can't do
A best-case blend across those tool categories, next to Sentari.
| Capability | Typical tools | Sentari |
|---|---|---|
| Sees what is actually installed on live endpoints | ||
| Every ecosystem — Python, npm, NuGet, Java/Maven, OS packages, containers | ||
| Runs fully on-premise / air-gapped; inventory never leaves your network | ||
| Prevents disallowed installs at the endpoint (install gate) | ||
| Correlates CVEs against NVD, OSV & CERT-EU with VEX | ||
| Generates SBOMs itself (CycloneDX 1.6 + SPDX 2.3) | ||
| Remediation campaigns that close the loop on the same fleet | ||
| Reproducible, signed, control-mapped NIS2 / DORA / CRA / CyFun evidence | ||
| DORA Register of Information (Art. 28) from agent-observed suppliers |
What only Sentari does
Not a better scanner. A different vantage point — and the whole lifecycle around it.
Ground truth, not guesswork
A single-binary agent reads what is really installed on every device — across every ecosystem — and reports it to a server you control. Not what a repo declares. What is actually there.
The full loop, one platform
Prevent disallowed installs with the install gate, see everything across the fleet, monitor CVEs and exposure, and remediate with campaigns — instead of stitching four categories of tools together.
Built for sovereignty
On-premise and air-gap first, with an immutable audit trail and your inventory never leaving your network. The default posture for every regulated organization — banks, critical infrastructure, manufacturers, and public institutions alike — not a paid add-on.
Compliance as evidence, not a checkbox
Reproducible, signed evidence mapped to specific NIS2, DORA, CRA, and CyFun controls — generated from the real state of your fleet, including the DORA Register of Information (Art. 28). Ready for an auditor.
Comparisons describe categories of tooling by design, not specific products. Many organisations run Sentari alongside a source/CI scanner — the two see different things.
See Sentari in action
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