shadowserver.org
Shadowserver
Who runs Shadowserver, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest threat intelligence alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- GreyNoise
Measured from Shadowserver’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Shadowserver01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Shadowserver
Shadowserver shadowserver.org
The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone.
Wikidata: Internet security non-profit
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Shadowserver tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Shadowserver
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Shadowserver, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Shadowserver match.
- 01
Shodan Search Engine
Search Engine for the Internet of Things
Very close - 02
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 03
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close - 04
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 05
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Very close - 06
Fight for the Future
Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]
Very close - 07
a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Close - 08
Hyphanet
free software
Close - 09
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Close - 10
Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
Close - 11
La Quadrature du Net
La Quadrature du Net promeut et défend les libertés fondamentales remises en question par certains usages des outils informatiques. L’association lutte par exemple contre la censure et la surveillance, que celles-ci viennent des États ou des entreprises privées. Elle questionne la façon dont le numé
Close - 12
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services, and support on cyber security for Canada and Canadians.
Close - 13
Home Page
API endpoint
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CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
Close - 15
Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Close - 16
I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN
I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.
Close - 17
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Close - 18
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Close - 19
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Close - 20
Welcome to NTPsec
implementation of Network Time Protocol
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Shadowserver’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Shadowserver uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Shadowserver adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Shadowserver’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.2
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- bunny.net header server: BunnyCDN-ASB1-925
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.2)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=tiVxSpYg2xBbmxJY9KRvIqRhw4CN6v-Tw9cU5V04gJ4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Cloudflare · not on shadowserver.org 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on shadowserver.org 11/20
- jQuery · not on shadowserver.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on shadowserver.org 8/20
- Google Fonts 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on shadowserver.org 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on shadowserver.org 6/20
- PHP 6/20
- WordPress 6/20
- Stripe · not on shadowserver.org 5/20
- nginx · not on shadowserver.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on shadowserver.org 5/20
- Adobe Fonts · not on shadowserver.org 4/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on shadowserver.org 4/20