Finite State Platform
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Grype
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| Fact | Finite State Platform | Grype |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Columbus, Ohio, United States | Santa Barbara, California, United States |
| Integrations | The maker lists GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Jira, and Slack as featured integrations. | The installation documentation provides a Docker image and lists community installation options including Homebrew, MacPorts, Winget, Scoop, and Snapcraft. |
| Intended users | Finite State says it helps teams building connected devices and describes use across security, engineering, compliance, and product teams. | The project documentation describes individual package scanning as useful for lightweight vulnerability checks and compliance scanning of specific dependencies. |
| Purpose | Finite State describes its platform as a product security system for connected devices that links firmware, binaries, source code, and compliance evidence in reviewable workflows. | Grype scans container images, filesystems, and SBOMs for known vulnerabilities. |
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Grype suits developers and teams checking packages, images, filesystems, or SBOMs for known vulnerabilities. Its individual-package scanning is also intended for lightweight checks and compliance reviews of specific dependencies.