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
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Closest alternative
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01 · 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.

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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

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Fewer trackers than ShadowserverNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

19 of the 60 sites closest to Shadowserver match.

  1. 01
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

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  2. 02
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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  3. 03
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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  4. 04
    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

    international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

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  5. 05
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    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.

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  6. 06
    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    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 […]

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  7. 07
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures cve.org Top 10K English No trackers

    a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities

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  8. 08
    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

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  9. 09
    inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

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  10. 10
    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

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  11. 11
    La Quadrature du Net laquadrature.net English No trackers

    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

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  12. 12
    Cyber cyber.gc.ca English No trackers

    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.

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  13. 13
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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  14. 14
    CIA cia.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    CIA

    national foreign intelligence agency of the United States

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  15. 15
    United States Department of Justice justice.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

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  16. 16
    I2P geti2p.net English No trackers

    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.

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  17. 17
    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority iana.org Top 10K No trackers

    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

    standards organization overseeing IP addresses

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  18. 18
    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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  19. 19
    Debian debian.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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04 · 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
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
36 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.

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