Integrate Microsoft Security DevOps with Vulnetix. The MSDO GitHub Action runs multiple security tools and produces aggregated SARIF output.
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace Microsoft Security DevOps. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of Microsoft Security DevOps (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
Microsoft Security DevOps is strongest at its core category and also carries features in IaC & Cloud Configuration, Container & Image Scanning, SCA, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | Microsoft Security DevOps |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ✓ Runs Bandit (Python), ESLint (JS) and BinSkim (binaries) as static analyzers |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ~ Trivy also detects known-vulnerable dependencies |
| DAST (dynamic testing) | ~ Ingests DAST results; no native dynamic engine | ✗ |
| Container & image | ✓ Image CVEs, base image, Dockerfile | ~ Trivy scans container images |
| IaC / misconfiguration | ✓ Terraform, k8s, CloudFormation | ✓ Checkov, Terrascan and Template Analyzer cover Terraform/ARM/Bicep/K8s/CloudFormation |
| Secret scanning | ✓ 1,000+ rules, source + binary + git history | ~ Legacy CredScan deprecated; secret scanning now delegated to GitHub Advanced Security |
| Cloud / CSPM | ✓ Cloud-posture findings, compliance tab | ✗ |
| Mobile (MAST) | ~ Ingests mobile scanner output; no native mobile engine | ✗ |
| License compliance | ✓ SPDX, copyleft/AGPL/SSPL policy | ✗ |
| SBOM generation | ✓ CycloneDX 1.7 + SPDX 2.3, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Malware / supply-chain | ✓ De-duplicated corpus + install-time firewall (25+ registries) | ~ AntiMalware (Defender) scans and can break the build on malicious content, Windows agent only |
| Network / infra vuln | ~ Ingests network scanner output; no native network scanner | ✗ |
| Fuzzing | ✗ Ingests fuzzing crashes; no native fuzzer | ✗ |
| Pentest / bug bounty | ✗ Ingests pentest/bug-bounty findings; not a testing service | ✗ |
| The Vulnetix orchestration layer | ||
| Cross-scanner dedup & one queue (ASPM) | ✓ Correlates every scanner into one prioritised queue with ownership routing | ~ Aggregates tool SARIF and surfaces in Defender for Cloud, but no cross-scanner dedup/risk model |
| Exploit-intel prioritisation | ✓ EPSS, CISA KEV, Coalition ESS, CWSS, Vulnetix LEV | ✗ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ Tree-sitter + CVEAffected; direct/transitive/semantic | ✗ |
| Versioned VEX + audit trail | ✓ Immutable OpenVEX/CycloneDX, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Safe Harbour autofix | ✓ Resolves + applies the nearest safe version | ✗ |
| End-of-life policy | ✓ Flags/blocks past-EOL runtimes & packages | ✗ |
| SSVC / risk-based policy | ✓ SSVC v2 + CISA/FedRAMP/Essential-8 presets | ✗ |
✓ full · ~ partial · ✗ not covered
What Microsoft Security DevOps does well
- Free, Microsoft-maintained meta-orchestrator that installs, pins and runs SDL analyzers with deterministic, portable configs across GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
- Broad open-source tool bundle out of the box: Bandit, ESLint, BinSkim, Checkov, Terrascan, Template Analyzer and Trivy
- Native SARIF aggregation into a single CodeAnalysisLogs artifact that feeds Microsoft Defender for Cloud for code-to-cloud visibility
- Strong Azure/ARM/Bicep IaC coverage via Template Analyzer, Checkov and Terrascan plus container and IaC scanning through Trivy
Where Vulnetix adds to it: MSDO bundles Microsoft/OSS scanners into one CI step and feeds Defender for Cloud; Vulnetix goes further as a scanner-agnostic ASPM layer, ingesting MSDO's SARIF alongside any other tooling and adding cross-scanner deduplication into one prioritised queue, exploit-intel prioritisation (EPSS/KEV/ESS/LEV), reachability, versioned VEX with audit, SSVC, EOL policy, license and full CycloneDX 1.7/SPDX 2.3 SBOM generation, plus supply-chain malware and an install-time package firewall across 25+ registries. Better together: MSDO runs the Microsoft-native scan step, Vulnetix consolidates and prioritises its output.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Microsoft Security DevOps keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise Microsoft Security DevOps results in Vulnetix
Upload Microsoft Security DevOps SARIF output to the Vulnetix platform to deduplicate findings, prioritise them with EPSS, CISA KEV and Coalition ESS exploit intelligence, and track remediation across every scanner in a single queue.