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Scytale vs SecurityScorecard comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
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Ranking in AI Legal & Compliance
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
640
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (2nd), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd), Process Mining (1st), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (1st), Agentic Automation (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (1st), AI Finance & Accounting (1st), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (1st)
Scytale
Ranking in AI Legal & Compliance
8th
Average Rating
1.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
GRC (27th), IT Vendor Risk Management (19th)
SecurityScorecard
Ranking in AI Legal & Compliance
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
IT Vendor Risk Management (1st), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

Venkat Sivaprakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at Accenture
Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions
Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.
reviewer2814822 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Sudden access suspension has disrupted compliance work and raises serious trust concerns
Scytale unilaterally suspended access because in their opinion, I don't know why they did that. I'm assuming they think that we're competitive, which we're not. They sold us the system and sent a contract to us in full knowledge of what we do as a business. Compliance is a very broad word; we provide compliance into nonprofits, housing associations, markets that these guys do not serve. Somebody inside Scytale likely thought, "Oh my God, these guys must be competitive, so let's just cut them off." I'm assuming that's what happened, but there was no explanation, nothing. Scytale did not help me streamline my compliance processes. It didn't really identify gaps. There was no gap analysis in there that we could see. I didn't really get that far to use the effectiveness of Scytale's real-time insights in identifying potential compliance issues. All my experiences with Scytale have been negative. We haven't used the automated evidence collection of Scytale. Scytale has not helped me allocate resources more efficiently for compliance; it's been the opposite experience. We have put six months of effort into looking at the controls on 27001, talking about auditors, getting audit-ready, and so forth. But we've invested significant time, which has now been a complete waste of time. Scytale is not only unreliable, considering they can suspend access without any notice or formal reason, but this lack of stability results in serious concerns about their dependability as a partner. If they can do that without explanation, my fear is that even if they switch it on again, who's to know in three months' time that the same thing couldn't happen again?
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Application security engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees
Vendor risk monitoring has strengthened our security posture and reduced insurance costs
In terms of improvements, I feel SecurityScorecard could enhance some of the integrations based on AI platforms, where I could receive suggestions from the AI tool regarding why SecurityScorecard rates specific issues as critical or high. Details on the technical mitigation would help my non-technical teams understand the security issues better. I think improvements could be made on the reporting side as well, such as the ability to download customizable reports. While SecurityScorecard offers various kinds of reports now, they are limited to predefined formats. Having the ability to choose specific fields for an automated report would be very helpful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of this solution are its scalability, security using the credential vault, and ease of use for business."
"Automation Anywhere is unlike any other software; Automation Anywhere provides me with my bread and butter, and I just love the tool."
"Training videos are very good and include detailed examples, which is really helpful for beginners."
"Automation Anywhere's central command center is good."
"It has been really useful for traditional RPA, which remains our forte."
"We have already seen ROI, and we are already clocking in around 7000 hours of savings per month in terms of productivity."
"No review content was provided."
"The organizations where we have implemented AA have seen tremendous benefits achieved in terms of time and cost-saving with the highest quality of deliverables."
"The processes I participated in during the setup of Scytale were straightforward; it was acceptable and fine."
"The biggest benefit is visibility, allowing organizations to understand their risks, vulnerabilities, and potential threats."
"With its automated approach, nothing is missed on the IPs your organization is related to."
"Fortify Data offers attack surface capabilities that identify vulnerabilities, exposed ports, and dark web information."
"The best features SecurityScorecard offers for me are mainly being able to properly position my organization's security posture because of the score that is provided."
"SecurityScorecard continuously scans just about every IP address out there, which means there is information available about virtually every company."
"I rate the product's initial setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup process."
"SecurityScorecard has positively impacted my organization and my customers by providing numerous benefits, as customers easily obtain the score, can determine what ports are open and many other things so that they can secure their DNS, applications, and networks effectively, and they have improved compliance and security with the help of SecurityScorecard."
"The initial setup takes just a couple of days and doesn't require any installation."
 

Cons

"We'd like to see more AI features."
"The Excel command has some limitations that they are working on."
"The product is good, no doubt about it, but we need the OCR for handwritten documents, the web-based solution, and the licensing has to be improved."
"The Recorder action in the A2019 Community edition is not supported."
"They should do more on the cognitive side."
"Copilot is an area with a lot of scope for improvement. It's the number one thing to improve."
"When we are moving from one version to another version, it's very difficult because most of the features stop working. They should first test everything and then release the new version. For example, there's a system variable known as the Excel Cell Row.... When going from version 11.1 to 11.3, this variable was suddenly not supported, and most of our bots were dependent on that. Everything went down..."
"As a developer or user, I feel that the performance of the overall package could be made a little better or reliable."
"Scytale is not reliable at all; not stable. You would be unwise to put a mission-critical function like ISO 27001 on Scytale."
"I realized that because my company was acquired by a bigger organization, SecurityScorecard started associating other portfolio company vulnerabilities to our score, which was not helpful because it was giving us wrong data and giving us vulnerabilities we did not have."
"There could be more information in regards to solving problems like hints on what specifically to look for."
"I suggest that SecurityScorecard could be improved by giving a little more specifics on how the scanning works and how you are able to detect those IPs, including more details on the privacy side about how the scanner operates and how it is sometimes allowed to do those scans."
"The tool needs to have the ability to mitigate vulnerabilities with alternative solutions."
"SecurityScorecard can be complex during setup, and I would recommend that anyone implementing it get help setting it up because it is not as straightforward as people might think."
"They could improve the process with a questionnaire module for the product."
"Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for SecurityScorecard, since it does not require active deployment on our side being a SaaS-first company, I expected slightly lower pricing."
"The pricing of the product needs improvement in Brazil."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a three-year contract with Automation Anywhere."
"Automation Anywhere University is pretty good. They make it available free for everyone."
"Roughly, as of today, it is around $250,000 annually."
"Our annual licensing costs are about $500,000."
"One of the things that will be good for the community will be to get the free version to download, which came out just a month ago called Community Edition. So, you can actually download it and try it for yourself."
"As our team size increases, we may get some more licenses for the tool."
"If we count the integrations that we have done with Appian, which is where a lot of our savings is from, we are well over a million dollars in savings. This is from only doing development for about a year and a half."
"The solution's pricing is pretty decent."
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"The pricing could be split into a lower-paid tier for smaller organizations and another higher tier for others with a more security-focused outlook. $1000 per month is more than some companies pay for their internet connections in total. UPDATE: they have a new 400$ a month tier for starters."
"The pricing of SecurityScorecard is fair. I would rate it a seven. It's a bit more on the expensive side. In Brazil, for example, making a payment to the vendor involves wire transfers and high taxes, making it more expensive. Selling SecurityScorecard or any American vendor's product in the United States is very different from selling in South America or Brazil."
"Even though it's competitive, they offer flexible pricing structures."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business154
Midsize Enterprise82
Large Enterprise536
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.
What needs improvement with Scytale?
Scytale unilaterally suspended access because in their opinion, I don't know why they did that. I'm assuming they thi...
What is your primary use case for Scytale?
My usual use case for Scytale is for ISO 27001 compliance.
What advice do you have for others considering Scytale?
We're going to sue Scytale, and we're going to sue Amazon as well because they're technically the people we're paying...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SecurityScorecard?
I have seen a return on investment with SecurityScorecard as it is easy to use and has saved us some time, so we do n...
What needs improvement with SecurityScorecard?
I suggest that SecurityScorecard could be improved by giving a little more specifics on how the scanning works and ho...
What is your primary use case for SecurityScorecard?
My main use case for SecurityScorecard is to keep an eye on our vulnerabilities and also monitor which companies foll...
 

Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
Deel, Guesty, Berlitz, AXS Guard, vSure, KOR, Trial X, Tune Insight, Agora, Leen, Upsolver. For a full list of customers and testimonials, please visit: https://scytale.ai/customers/
TriNet, USAA, Zurich, Gilt Groupe, McGraw Hill Financial
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