// COMPARISON

Rorix vs Dependabot.

Dependabot is free and keeps versions bumped. That's the extent of it. Rorix does the security work your team would otherwise do by hand — typosquat detection, policy-as-code, SBOM, licensing, active pentesting — and the integrations that make security findings actionable instead of another tab.

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CapabilityrorixDependabot

Scanning

Full transitive graph resolution✓partial

.NET project auto-discovery (.sln, .csproj, .props)✓partial

Transitive path tracing for findings✓—

Typosquat detection (Levenshtein + reputation)✓—

Speed per 1000 packages~500ms~3s

Advisories

SourcesOSV + GHSA + NVDGHSA only

EPSS exploit-prediction scoring✓—

Actively-exploited badge✓—

Update cadence15 minhourly

Policy

Declarative policy-as-code (rorix.yaml)✓—

License allow/review/block rules✓—

Org-wide policy inheritance✓—

Freeze-on-publish (quarantine new versions)✓—

Remediation

Auto PR with minimal version bump✓✓

PR with regression test scaffolding✓—

Grouped updates (release-train mode)✓partial

Backport suggestions for LTS branches✓—

Compliance

CycloneDX 1.6 SBOM export✓—

SPDX 2.3 SBOM export✓—

SARIF 2.1.0 upload to code-scanning✓partial

Signed + attested SBOMs (Sigstore)✓—

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence pack✓—

Pentesting

App + API runtime testing✓—

Nuclei detector library3,200+—

Authenticated scanning✓—

Domain verification before scan✓—

Integrations

GitHub App + checks + code-scanning✓✓

Azure DevOps native task✓—

Jira auto-ticketing✓—

Slack routing with on-call escalation✓—

Webhooks for custom workflows✓partial

WHEN DEPENDABOT IS ENOUGH

Dependabot is a reasonable choice if you're a single team, publicly hosted on GitHub, and only need CVE-flagged version bumps on a small dependency tree. It will keep things moving. It will not catch typosquats, generate SBOMs, enforce license policy, or test your running application — because that's not what it was built for.

WHEN YOU NEED RORIX

You ship .NET code in a regulated industry. Your compliance team asks for SBOMs. Your security team wants typosquat detection and policy-as-code. Your engineers are tired of Dependabot PRs they can't triage. A malicious package in a transitive dependency would be a front-page incident.