Free Security Plan for Lean IT Teams from Intruder
▼ Summary
– Intruder launched a Free plan offering professional-grade vulnerability management, cloud security, and attack surface management at no cost.
– The plan addresses the gap for mid-market teams that find enterprise tools too complex and small-business tools insufficient.
– It removes cost as a barrier, allowing lean teams to focus on fixing the most exploitable vulnerabilities.
– The Free plan lets teams prove value through risk visibility and remediation speed before upgrading to a paid plan.
– Features include connecting a target, integrating a cloud environment, and surfacing real exposures the same day.
Intruder has just rolled out a Free plan designed to give security, IT, and DevOps teams permanent, professional-grade access to vulnerability management, cloud security, and attack surface management , without charging a dime.
Smaller organizations face the exact same cyber threats as Fortune 500 giants, but they rarely have the budget or the headcount to keep up. Mid-sized businesses appear in breach headlines week after week, yet many still lack the proper tooling to stay ahead of attackers. To make matters worse, lean teams often rely on a disjointed collection of security products that only worsen alert fatigue, leaving critical exposures hidden in plain sight.
Security tools routinely overlook lean, mid-market teams. Intruder’s Security Middle Child research reveals that 46% of midmarket security professionals say enterprise platforms assume more staff, budget, or complexity than they can realistically manage. Another 29% report that tools built for smaller businesses no longer fit their needs. These teams are stuck in a gap the vendor market has largely ignored.
Intruder’s Free plan is built to close that gap by offering permanent, professional-grade coverage. It’s designed for companies with small attack surfaces, or for practitioners responsible for a small slice of a larger digital footprint. The plan frees lean teams to focus on fixing the vulnerabilities attackers are most likely to exploit. It also removes the single biggest barrier to adopting proper security tooling for small and midsize organizations: cost.
“Security and IT teams at small and medium-sized businesses face the same risks as their enterprise counterparts, but they’ve been priced out of the tools that would actually help them avoid breaches,” said Chris Wallis, CEO of Intruder.
“We built Intruder to enable security for the 99%, and our Free plan is the logical extension of that commitment. Intruder benefits from using open source software as part of our offering. Offering a free plan allows us to give back to the security community, which shouldn’t need a six-figure security budget and 10-person team to stay secure.”
De-risking technology procurement is another key benefit. Small and scaling businesses carry real exposure but often lack the funds for professional tooling. That leaves them relying on manual processes, patchwork solutions, or no tooling at all. Even when teams identify a product they want to buy, lengthy procurement cycles and six-figure price tags slow them down further.
With Intruder’s Free plan, security practitioners can prove value by improving risk visibility, enabling always-on monitoring, and reducing time to remediation , all before scaling coverage and moving to a paid plan. They can connect a target, integrate a cloud environment, and surface real exposures in their environment on the very same day.
Key features of Intruder’s Free plan give teams real coverage across their digital estate, including continuous vulnerability scanning, cloud environment monitoring, and attack surface visibility , all at no cost, with no time limit.
(Source: Help Net Security)
