# AttackForge alternative: pentest management or full engagement platform?

> An honest comparison of AttackForge and Tandera. AttackForge is a strong pentest management and reporting platform; Tandera adds the recon and testing side of the same lifecycle. Which fits depends on where your gap is.

AttackForge is a serious pentest management platform. It handles the operational side of running engagements well — scheduling and workflow, findings management, reporting, remediation tracking, client portals, and integrations into ticketing and developer tooling. For a team that runs a steady volume of engagements and needs the process around them to be organised and repeatable, AttackForge is a strong, purpose-built answer.

Tandera and AttackForge overlap heavily on the management and delivery side, and differ on where the engagement starts. This page is about that difference.

## What AttackForge is built to do

AttackForge is optimised for managing pentests as a repeatable process. Its strengths are workflow and operations: getting engagements scheduled, findings tracked, reports produced, remediation followed up, and results pushed into the systems developers and clients already use. Teams adopt it to bring order and consistency to a high-throughput testing operation, and it delivers that.

It is genuinely good at the management layer. If that layer is your gap, AttackForge fills it.

## Where the difference sits

AttackForge manages the engagement around findings that testers produce. The distinction from Tandera is at the front of the lifecycle:

- **Recon and testing inside the platform.** AttackForge organises the process; the actual reconnaissance and scanning happen in your own tools and arrive as findings.
- **Automated deduplication and attack-path synthesis.** Correlating 120+ tools' output into one deduplicated record, and chaining related findings into the path an attacker would take, is a testing-side capability rather than a management-side one.

Both products then cover the delivery and remediation side. The question is whether your gap is managing the process or running the recon and correlation that feed it.

## What Tandera is built to do

Tandera spans recon-to-retest on one record: automated recon that opens findings, importers from 120+ tools with automatic deduplication, attack-path synthesis, white-label PDF and PPTX reporting, and a client portal for retest and remediation. The management and delivery half overlaps with AttackForge; the recon-and-correlation half is where Tandera starts earlier.

## When AttackForge is the right call

If your engagements are well-tested but the process around them is the bottleneck — scheduling, tracking, integrations, high-volume operations — AttackForge is built precisely for that, and it is a mature platform for a busy testing practice.

Tandera fits teams that want the recon, the automatic deduplication, and the attack-path synthesis on the same platform as the management and delivery — not managed as a process around testing that happens elsewhere. If your gap is the front of the engagement rather than the operations around it, that is the difference to weigh.

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