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# ActiveState Reviews
**Vendor:** ActiveState  
**Category:** [Container Security Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-security-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 35
## About ActiveState
ActiveState provides the world's largest library of secure open source: 79 million (Java, Javascript, Python, R, Go, etc.) vetted components across all major language ecosystems, including transitive dependencies and OS-level libraries—built from source to ensure every component is verified, vulnerability-free, and continuously updated. Software teams improve security posture while accelerating development velocity. We deliver five critical outcomes. Counter Supply Chain Risks at Their Source Significantly reduce the possibility of inheriting malicious code from pre-built binaries. Replace risky, unvetted public components with secure, verifiable packages built directly from source. Gain provenance over your artifacts, ensuring bad actors and malware never reach your environment. - Protection from compromised package ecosystems and build systems - Mitigate high-profile malware attacks such as the npm Shai-Hulud attack and other future threats Continuous Remediation for Your Open Source Inventory Shift from reactive patching to proactive immunity. Maintain a hardened security posture with safe-by-default open source and continuous remediation across your inventory. ActiveState artifacts reduce your attack surface and evolve to help close vulnerabilities before they become incidents. - Up to 99% reduction in CVEs compared to community open source artifacts - Achieve up to 90% reduction in MTTR for future vulnerabilities Apply Frictionless Security Policies Embed governance directly into developer workflows without impeding engineering or adding costly CI/CD bloat. ActiveState solutions slot seamlessly into existing tools and AI coding assistants, transforming security policy from a blocker into an enabler that reduces open source approval workflows from weeks and days to just hours and minutes. - Reduce open source approval workflows from weeks and days to hours and minutes Audit Ready Compliance, Always Achieve continuous compliance with instant, granular visibility into components, licenses, and dependencies across your organization. ActiveState delivers comprehensive SBOMs and metadata by default, ensuring you can meet complex standards and minimizing the scramble of audit preparation. - Full visibility into your open source usage, including transitive and OS level dependencies Reclaim Developer Velocity and Focus Minimize high-value engineering hours on dependency conflicts, environment setup, research and remediation. ActiveState components and artifacts are fully managed to ensure they are always up to date and safe to use so your team can focus entirely on shipping revenue-generating features. - Free up 4-8 developer hours per CVE - 68% reduction in scanner noise from false positives





## ActiveState Discussions
  - [What is the difference between Python and ActivePython?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-python-and-activepython) - 1 comment

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## ActiveState Features
**Administration**
- Risk Scoring
- Secrets Management
- Security Auditing
- Configuration Management

**Risk management - Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)**
- Vulnerability Management
- Risk Assessment and Prioritization
- Compliance Management
- Policy Enforcement

**Cloud Visibility**
- Data Discovery
- Cloud Registry
- Cloud Gap Analytics

**Monitoring**
- Continuous Image Assurance
- Behavior Monitoring
- Observability

**Integration and efficiency - Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)**
- Integration with Development Tools
- Automation and Efficiency

**Security**
- Data Security
- Data loss Prevention
- Security Auditing

**Protection**
- Dynamic Image Scanning
- Runtime Protection
- Workload Protection
- Network Segmentation

**Reporting and Analytics - Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)**
- Trend Analysis
- Risk Scoring
- Customizable Dashboards

**Identity**
- SSO
- Governance
- User Analytics

**Agentic AI  - Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning

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