# Compare cybee with the tools you use or are looking at. What each one is built for. > Compare cybee with the protection, compliance and device tools you already use. What each is built for, where cybee fits and when your current setup is enough. Page: https://cybee.ai/compare/ (Compare Mac security tools) compare See what each tool is built for, where cybee fits and when your current setup is enough. If nobody runs security for you and your team works on Macs, start with cybee. Protection is free for every Mac. Device protection Compliance and audits Devices and access How to read these comparisons - Each page names the products it compares, links their official pages and says when they were checked. - We repeat only what each product says about itself. Packages change, so confirm yours before you decide. - The pages compare jobs and who does them. They do not test how well any product stops bad software. - If what you run already answers your clients, keep it. cybee AG, Zürich Founded by [Hekuran Doli and Kristian Kabashi](https://cybee.ai/about/#founders) [Best of Swiss Apps Hall of Fame 2025](https://cybee.ai/about/#recognition) [The Pitch by Deel, Global Top 100 of about 40,000 startups](https://cybee.ai/about/#recognition) ## Find your tool. Each group starts with a question. Pick the tool you run, or the one you are looking at. Each page says what that product is built for, what cybee is built for and where each one fits. device protection ### You have protection. Check the settings and evidence around it. [CrowdStrike Protection that your team or a security provider runs. cybee is free protection you run yourself, by asking your AI assistant.](https://cybee.ai/compare/crowdstrike/) [Microsoft Defender Sold on its own or with Microsoft 365 Business Premium. That does not mean it runs on every Mac.](https://cybee.ai/compare/microsoft-defender/) [Bitdefender Business protection run from one central screen. cybee is free protection you run by asking your AI assistant.](https://cybee.ai/compare/bitdefender/) compliance and audits ### Your client has a questionnaire. Find out what the request requires. [Vanta Coordinates a whole compliance programme. cybee does not replace it. It covers the part about your Macs.](https://cybee.ai/compare/vanta/) [Drata Organises compliance work and reads settings. cybee fixes a weak setting once the person at the Mac says yes, and dates the fix.](https://cybee.ai/compare/drata/) [Scytale Compliance software with human experts. cybee does not replace them. It covers the Macs.](https://cybee.ai/compare/scytale/) devices and access ### Your team already manages devices or access. Give each tool a clear job. [Jamf Sets up, manages and protects Macs. cybee does not manage them. It protects them and keeps a dated record.](https://cybee.ai/compare/jamf/) [Iru, formerly Kandji Manages and protects devices. cybee covers Mac protection and the dated record only.](https://cybee.ai/compare/iru/) [1Password Device Trust Checks whether a Mac may sign in to work apps. cybee does not. It protects the Mac while it runs.](https://cybee.ai/compare/1password/) Before you add a tool Each group describes a starting question, not everything a vendor sells. Keep what already works, and write to us before you put a second protection app on a Mac. ## Nobody buys security. Somebody else sets a date. For a small team, the question usually comes from outside. Start from what was asked, then check whether the tools you have already answer it. before a deal ### A client sends a security questionnaire. “Do your laptops lock automatically?” They want an answer they can check, for every laptop on their project. at renewal ### Your insurer asks what watches your Macs. One agency of about ten people answered its insurer’s questionnaire overnight. The item that mattered on the form was protection that watches what programs do. on a review ### A partner or an auditor asks for proof. Not how things should be. How they were, on which Mac, since when. ## Start with the questionnaire. Then pick the tool. The questionnaire may be the better starting point. It tells you which evidence the client needs before you buy a different tool. ask Free ### Ask before you buy. The answer comes from your Macs. Work out what the client actually asks for. Sometimes it is one setting on every Mac, with a date, and the tools you have can already show it. With cybee you ask your AI assistant, and the answer comes from dated facts on your Macs. You can see what is missing before you spend anything. [Prepare a client answer](https://cybee.ai/use-cases/security-questionnaires/)[Work through the questions](https://cybee.ai/blog/mac-security-questionnaire/) Figure: The answer names every Mac, and the one setting that is off. ## Your next client will ask. Be ready. `curl -sSf https://get.cybee.dev | sh` Run it in Terminal, a chat, your IDE or a CLI. Keep working where you started. Free for every Mac with an Apple chip · Asks before it changes your Mac [What it installs](https://cybee.ai/docs/install/#see) [Read the install script](https://get.cybee.dev)