Head to head
DefendDomain compared to CTM360
CTM360 consolidates external attack surface management, Digital Risk Protection (DRP) and threat intelligence into one subscription, and publishes a rate card for it.
CTM360 is a consolidation play, bundling external attack surface management, digital risk protection, threat intelligence, third-party risk and DMARC into one subscription. DefendDomain does one of those things and does it further down. If you are genuinely retiring four vendors into one subscription, the bundle is a real saving; if you are retiring none and the domain layer is the gap, it buys you nine things you will not switch on.
- Built around
- A consolidated external risk suite
- Sold to
- SMB to enterprise
- Typical annual cost
- Published rate card, from the low thousands for the platform into the tens of thousands for brand protection
DefendDomain and CTM360, side by side
The short version, before the argument for either of us. Every claim in the CTM360 column comes from their own published material.
| DefendDomain | CTM360 | |
|---|---|---|
| What the product is built around | 100% focused on being the best in the world at detecting and removing look-alike domains. Five detection layers, all pointed at the same job | Consolidated external risk suite spanning attack surface management, digital risk protection, threat intelligence, third-party risk and DMARC |
| Look-alike domains that never host a website | Treated as a finished weapon. Every registered look-alike is fingerprinted for MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and the moment one is wired up to send email it resurfaces | They publicly describe detecting recently registered typosquatting and look-alike domains across a large number of extensions. A combined MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC fingerprint of look-alikes that host no website, and capture of the moment one is armed to send, are not described |
| When someone copies your website | Invisible markers on every page fire when your content loads somewhere you do not control, and distinctive phrases from your site are swept across search engines continuously | Impersonation and rogue app detection are published. Site-embedded markers and phrase-level fingerprinting of your own pages are not described in their material |
| Takedowns | Unlimited on every plan, run across twelve channels in parallel, with the evidence pack frozen at initiation and the follow-up chased for you | Managed takedowns, publicly metered by annual credits that rise with the tier and reach unlimited only at the top. The free community edition includes a small number |
| Your own domains | Layer 5 grades your email authentication, DNS hygiene and takeover risk, TLS, web hardening and exposure daily and gives you an A to F scorecard with per-finding remediation | DMARC monitoring is a published module and attack surface management discovers exposed assets. That is close to our Layer 5 on the email axis, with less on the graded DNS, TLS and web hardening side |
| How you buy it | One flat annual subscription, quoted from a demo, sized for the mid-market. Self-managed or fully managed, your choice | Tiered subscriptions with a published rate card, which is rare in this category, plus a free community edition. Brand protection bands start in the tens of thousands a year and rise from there |
Comparison based on CTM360's own public product material as of September 2026. Vendors change their products, so check anything that matters to you against their current documentation and your own quote. CTM360 is a trademark of its owner. DefendDomain is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by CTM360.
What CTM360 does well, and who should buy them
Taken from what CTM360 publishes about its own product. If this is the shape of your problem, they are a reasonable buy and we will say so.
One subscription instead of four vendors
For a security team responsible for the whole external risk picture, consolidating attack surface management, threat intelligence and brand protection into one contract is a real reduction in overhead.
Published starting prices
They publish tiered starting prices and offer a free community edition, which is unusually transparent for this category and makes budgeting possible before a sales call.
Managed operations included
Their model includes managed detection and managed takedown around the clock, which matters if you are buying breadth and do not have the headcount to run all of it.
Where DefendDomain goes deeper
We work on one layer, which is the domains registered to impersonate you. Everything we build goes into finding them early and shutting them down fast.
Where a bundled module tends to stop
Brand protection inside a multi-module suite competes for engineering attention with attack surface management, threat intelligence, third-party risk and DMARC. Everything we build goes into the domain layer, which is why we can generate around 500 look-alikes per domain across 240 or more extensions and re-check them continuously.
Attack-infrastructure fingerprinting
Each confirmed attack records its registrar, nameservers, mail tenant and providers, weighted by rarity, and every other look-alike of yours is matched against that fingerprint. Confirming one attack re-scores your entire look-alike set, which is the sort of thing a specialist builds and a suite generally does not.
Two layers that do not wait for a scanner
Markers on every page of your site fire the moment your content loads somewhere you do not control, and phrase-level fingerprinting sweeps search engines for copies continuously.
What each of us costs
Not everyone in this category publishes a price, so here is the shape of it rather than a number we cannot stand behind.
What CTM360 publishes
CTM360 publishes a rate card, running from the low thousands for the platform into the tens of thousands once brand protection is included.
What moves the number
Consolidation plays price by module. The saving is real if you genuinely retire the tools the modules replace, and illusory if you keep paying for them alongside.
How DefendDomain charges
No modules to assemble and no rate card to read across. Everything we do sits in one annual subscription, because everything we do is one layer.
Choose CTM360 if
- Your mandate genuinely covers attack surface management, threat intelligence and third-party risk as well as brand abuse.
- Consolidating four vendors into one contract is the outcome your budget holder wants.
- You want a published rate card and a free tier to evaluate against before committing.
- Broad coverage at a modest entry price matters more than depth on any single layer.
- Your security team is small, and one console across several risk categories is easier to staff than four separate tools.
Choose DefendDomain if
- Domain impersonation is the problem, and the rest of a suite would be bought and not used.
- You need the look-alikes with no website caught on their mail records alone.
- You want attack-infrastructure fingerprinting, where confirming one attack re-scores the rest of your footprint.
- Somebody copying your website is a live risk and you want markers plus content fingerprinting on it.
- You want unlimited takedowns on every plan rather than an annual credit allowance that only becomes unlimited at the top tier.
What moving actually involves
There is no security agent to deploy and no data to migrate. The one thing that touches your site is the Layer 2 marker, and that is a copy-paste job rather than an integration. That makes this a shorter conversation than most security purchases, so here is the honest version of it.
Test the consolidation claim honestly
Write down the tools a suite would let you cancel, then ask whether you would actually cancel them. If the answer is none, you have added a subscription rather than replaced several.
Compare the domain module, not the suite
The fair comparison is CTM360's brand protection module against our whole product, because that is the overlap. Everything else they do is outside our scope and we are not claiming otherwise.
Check what you are locked into first
A consolidation contract usually bundles several modules onto one renewal date, so dropping the brand protection module early is rarely an option. Find out when the term ends before you plan anything. If the domain layer is the part that is underperforming, run us alongside it until then.
Questions buyers ask us about CTM360
CTM360 publishes pricing and bundles several tools. Why would we pay for a specialist as well?
You might not, and if consolidation is genuinely the goal then a suite with a published rate card is a rational buy. The question worth asking is what the brand protection module does when the look-alike never hosts a page. Our answer is that we fingerprint the mail records of every registered look-alike and resurface it the moment it is armed to send, which is the attack that costs finance teams the most and leaves the least to detect. If that specific failure mode is your worry, a module is unlikely to go that deep.
Is a suite or a specialist the better buy?
It depends on your mandate. If you are accountable for the whole external risk picture, a suite reduces vendor count and that is worth real money. If the thing keeping you awake is a domain that looks like yours being used to defraud your customers or redirect a supplier payment, a product that does only that will go further down it than a module competing for attention with four others.
Does DefendDomain cover external attack surface management?
Only the part that touches domains. Layer 5 discovers your subdomains from certificate transparency and grades email authentication, DNS hygiene and takeover risk, TLS, web hardening and exposure daily, with per-finding remediation. Full external attack surface management across cloud infrastructure and shadow IT is not something we do.
Can DefendDomain sit alongside a suite we already have?
Yes, and a few customers run it that way, using the suite for breadth and us for the domain layer. Alerts route into whatever you already run through eight channels including Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and Wazuh.
Comparing more than one vendor
Most shortlists have three names on them. Here is the same honest read on the others, or start from the full comparison hub.
See your own exposure before you shortlist anybody
Whichever way this decision goes, it is worth knowing what is already registered against your brand. Run the same Layer 1 scan our customers run, on your own domain, and we will email you the report.
- 150+ lookalike and typosquat variations of your domain, generated and checked live
- Registered lookalikes flagged, including the ones with mail servers ready to email your customers
- The full report in your inbox in minutes. No account, no card details, no sales call.