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Cybersecurity companies: the work behind stack detection
This page is about stack detection for cybersecurity companies: the options you actually have, what each one costs, and which one we would pick. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Company Tech Stack Detection is the one that does this for cybersecurity companies.
The problem
Cybersecurity companies skew stack detection, for a reason specific to them. Cybersecurity companies publish less about themselves than any other category in software, on purpose, which shapes stack detection. Worth knowing about cybersecurity companies, since stack detection inherits it: no customer logos, no team page and no office address is a posture, not an absence of data. There is 1 runnable example of stack detection for cybersecurity companies below.
Doing it end to end
- Start with one of cybersecurity companies you already know, so a wrong stack detection answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Company Tech Stack Detection across your list of cybersecurity companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for stack detection.
- Read ten rows of stack detection on cybersecurity companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- Conference sponsor lists, for cybersecurity companies. Free to read, and for this category they are the closest thing to a customer list.
- BuiltWith. The reference dataset with history and reverse lookup by technology. Priced accordingly, and still the first place most people go.
- Wappalyzer. Free as an extension, cheap as an API, shallower than BuiltWith on history. Fine for a live check on a single account.
- Their integrations page. Companies list what they connect to. It is self reported, public, and frequently more accurate than any detector.
- View source and check the DNS. Script tags, DNS records, the login subdomain. A minute per company for someone who knows what to look for, and the signatures are public.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.