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Mondoo is a security platform that continuously scans and assesses infrastructure, cloud environments, and software supply chains for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Mondoo is a commercial compliance-automation platform delivered as a hosted service that continuously scans cloud, infrastructure, and application assets against security policies and benchmarks like CISCISA nonprofit that publishes consensus-based configuration benchmarks and controls for hardening operating systems, cloud environments, and software; cyber tools use it as a ready-made compliance baseline., then scores findings using its Risk Dimensions model. It's aimed at compliance owners and security teams who need to report posture upward rather than just track it internally, since it can turn live vulnerability management data into board-ready Executive Reports exportable to PowerPoint or PNG. Coverage extends into IaCIaCInfrastructure as Code: the practice of defining and provisioning compute infrastructure through machine-readable config files rather than manual processes, giving cyber tools repeatable, version-controlled environment setup. scanning for Terraform and CloudFormationCloudFormationAn AWS service that lets you describe and provision cloud infrastructure as declarative YAML or JSON templates, so a cyber tool can reproducibly spin up or tear down its entire AWS environment with a single API call., cloud internet-exposure detection, and shadow AI detection, alongside ongoing expansion of its MQLMQLA query language created by Microsoft for hunting across telemetry in Microsoft 365 Defender, letting cyber tools express complex behavioral detections in a structured, readable syntax. query language and policy checks. With 17 releases in the tracked window and the most recent 81 days ago, it shows steady, active development.
Mondoo is a security platform that continuously scans and assesses infrastructure, cloud environments, and software supply chains for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Which of my cloud assets are reachable from the internet and shouldn't be?
scans cloud environments for internet-exposed resources and surfaces the attack surface an outside attacker would actually see, not just what's misconfigured internally
Which of my vulnerabilities should I actually fix first?
scores findings through a five-dimension risk model that factors in things like known ransomware use, then attaches remediation context so the priority list comes with next steps
Am I running software or operating systems that are past end of life?
flags end-of-life operating systems and legacy assets directly in the posture view so they don't hide among routine findings
Which of my Terraform or CloudFormation templates would fail a benchmark before I ever apply them?
runs IaC scanning against Terraform and CloudFormation variants and checks them against CIS and other benchmarks before the resources are provisioned
Is anyone in my org standing up AI infrastructure or tools without security's knowledge?
inspects for AI infrastructure and shadow AI usage across the environment and reports it as part of the scanned asset inventory
What do I actually tell leadership about our security posture this quarter?
turns live vulnerability management data into board-ready Executive Reports that export directly to PowerPoint or PNG for presentation
Built from Mondoo's releases, docs, README and our own runs.
“Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date.
Group names and tags are our labels.
Mondoo covers 1 of the 11 endpoint investigation and controls capabilities we track.
What Mondoo offers you
Command-line interface3
CSV data export1
Kubernetes-native deployment1
MCP server1
Natural-language query1
No capabilities match.
+Security baseline assessment3 featuresEndpoint investigation and controlssince 2024▸
+Policy and compliance checksshippedRuns CIS benchmarks, compliance framework checks, and a broad library of security policy checks across supported platforms.23 releases · first seen Apr 2025▸
Shared capability: Security baseline assessment
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Adds six new out-of-the-box policies.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Six new out-of-the-box policies included by default
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Introduces the uk-cyber-essentials-v3_3 framework for compliance checking against the UK Cyber Essentials standard
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Adds support for the UK Cyber Essentials v3.3 compliance framework
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Integrates nearly 30 new CIS Benchmarks and STIG policies into the compliance assessment framework
Mondoo Release Highlights August 2026 · Aug 2026
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Adds 145 new compliance/security checks to identify vulnerabilities across supported environments.
Mondoo Release Highlights June 2026 · Jun 2026
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+Infrastructure as code (IaC) scanningshippedScans Terraform, CloudFormation, and other infrastructure-as-code files for security misconfigurations before deployment.7 releases · 1 other source · first seen Jul 2024▸
Shared capability: Security baseline assessment
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Adds a unified IaC provider that discovers and scans every kind of infrastructure-as-code in a repository.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Support for OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code scanning
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds first-class OpenTofu scanning.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Expands infrastructure as code (IaC) scanning scope with new checks and improved coverage
Mondoo Release Highlights April 2026 · Apr 2026
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Expands infrastructure as code (IaC) scanning coverage.
Mondoo Release Highlights April 2026 · Apr 2026
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Supports IaC scanning for Terraform and CloudFormation variants.
Mondoo Release Highlights March 2026 · Mar 2026
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example
Scan an infrastructure repository including OpenTofu files.$ mondoo iac scan .
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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+Post-quantum cryptography readiness assessmentshippedAssesses readiness for post-quantum cryptographic standards across 26 platforms.2 releases · first seen Jul 2026▸
Shared capability: Security baseline assessment
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Adds post-quantum cryptography readiness assessment across 26 platforms.
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Adds post-quantum cryptography readiness checks across 26 platforms
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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+MCP server1 featureInterfaces and integrationssince 2025▸
+AI-assisted exploration via MCP servershippedExposes Mondoo spaces, findings, and policies to AI clients such as Claude Desktop so users can explore results through natural language queries.4 releases · 1 other source · first seen Apr 2025▸
Shared capability: MCP server
Also counts toward: MCP server, Natural-language query
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New hosted MCP server lets AI tools (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code) connect to Mondoo using a read-only API token.
Connect Claude and other AI tools to Mondoo with the MCP server · seen Jul 2026
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Enables natural-language exploration of Mondoo spaces, findings, and policies directly from AI-powered clients.
Connect Claude and other AI tools to Mondoo with the MCP server · seen Jul 2026
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Adds mondoo-mcp-server as a transport layer enabling AI agents (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code) to query hosted Mondoo spaces, findings, and policies via natural language using a read-only API token.
Connect Claude and other AI tools to Mondoo with the MCP server · Jul 2026
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Adds a Mondoo Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to enable AI accelerated findings remediation
Mondoo Release Highlights April 2025 · Apr 2025
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example
Connect Claude Desktop to your hosted Mondoo instance to ask questions about your infrastructure compliance state.$ ``` { "mcpServers": { "mondoo": { "url": "https://<your-mondoo-instance>/api/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <read-only-api-token>" } } } } ```
Connect Claude and other AI tools to Mondoo with the MCP server · Jul 2026
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+Other / not yet classified17 featuresFeatures we have not matched to a capability yet. A suggested match is marked.▸
+Mondoo Query Language (MQL)shippedsuggestedProvides a purpose-built query language that lets users write custom policies and security checks against supported resources.15 releases · 1 other source · first seen Aug 2025▸
Suggested capability: Security baseline assessment. This is our guess, not confirmed.
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Adds cross-version MQL support so queries work across different resource schema versions.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds 500+ new MQL resources covering Windows, IIS, MDM, and EDR surfaces.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds OCSF, InSpec, and CSV scan output formats.︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄
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Introduces MQL strict mode for tighter query validation.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Cross-version MQL support allows queries to run across different runtime versions without modification
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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--output-format inspec enables InSpec-compatible JSON/JSONL output
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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example
Run MQL queries with strict type checking to catch errors early.$ mondoo scan --strict -q 'windows.process { name }'
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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+Remediation guidanceshippedPairs each finding with remediation steps and automation snippets for tools such as Ansible, Bash, and Terraform.13 releases · 1 other source · first seen Mar 2025▸
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Adds SecurityScorecard findings as a native data source within Mondoo assessments
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Enables AI-driven remediation suggestions for vulnerabilities fixable via configuration changes
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Adds remediation context alongside findings to help practitioners prioritize and act on issues.
Mondoo Release Highlights May 2026 · May 2026
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Expands remediation content across policies.
Mondoo Release Highlights March 2026 · Mar 2026
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Includes guided remediation steps alongside vulnerability findings to accelerate patching.
Mondoo Release Highlights November 2025 · Nov 2025
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Makes advisory remediations easier to access.
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2025 · Sep 2025
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example
Investigate specific cloud resource configurations via the API to automate remediation workflows.$ GET /api/v2/resources/{resource_id}/findings
Mondoo Release Highlights February 2026 · Feb 2026
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+Vulnerability detectionshippedDetects known vulnerabilities across operating systems, applications, and infrastructure components.14 releases · first seen Mar 2025▸
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Increases scan throughput by up to 5x through internal performance optimizations
Mondoo Release Highlights August 2026 · Aug 2026
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Adds post-quantum cryptography readiness assessment across 26 platforms.
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Expands vulnerability coverage to include nearly 100 additional desktop and server applications.
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Adds post-quantum cryptography readiness checks across 26 platforms
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Expands vulnerability detection coverage across infrastructure.
Mondoo Release Highlights February 2026 · Feb 2026
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Broadens the scope of vulnerability detection across infrastructure
Mondoo Release Highlights February 2026 · Feb 2026
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+Multi-platform asset scanningshippedScans a wide and growing range of operating systems and platforms from a single tool.13 releases · first seen Jul 2024▸
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Adds MDM and EDR resources for endpoint management.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds precise OS detection for 15 more operating systems, with deep Solaris, FreeBSD, and SUSE 16 support.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds 500+ new MQL resources, including deep coverage for Windows, IIS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and SUSE 16
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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New MDM and EDR resources for endpoint management capabilities
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds three new SaaS platforms to supported integrations for security checking.
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Adds support for six new platforms expanding cloud and infrastructure coverage.
Mondoo Release Highlights June 2026 · Jun 2026
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+Cloud security scanningshippedsuggestedInspects cloud resources and configurations for misconfigurations, internet exposure, and AI infrastructure risks.12 releases · first seen Feb 2026▸
Suggested capability: Security baseline assessment. This is our guess, not confirmed.
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Cloud scans optimized to make up to 97% fewer API calls
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Reduces cloud scan API call volume by up to 97%.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds support for 22 new cloud infrastructure providers in the scanning engine
Mondoo Release Highlights August 2026 · Aug 2026
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Extends supported provider list with 22 new cloud platforms including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud for multi-cloud posture assessment
Mondoo Release Highlights August 2026 · Aug 2026
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Adds 357 new cloud and SaaS security checks to the detection engine.
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Adds internet-exposure detection across cloud environments to surface attacker-visible attack surface.
Mondoo Release Highlights June 2026 · Jun 2026
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+Executive ReportsshippedProduces board-ready presentations from live vulnerability data and exports them to PowerPoint or PNG.8 releases · 4 other sources · first seen Apr 2026▸
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Supports export of individual report slides to PowerPoint or PNG formats.
Executive Reports is in Preview · seen Jul 2026
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Enables Executive Reports for all customers, turning live Mondoo vulnerability management data into board-ready presentations.
Executive Reports is generally available · seen Jul 2026
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New Executive Reports feature (Preview) converts live Mondoo vulnerability management data into board-ready ROI presentations.
Executive Reports is in Preview · seen Jul 2026
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Supports export of Executive Report slides to PowerPoint and PNG formats.
Executive Reports is generally available · seen Jul 2026
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General availability of the Executive Reports capability to all Mondoo customers
Executive Reports is generally available · Jun 2026
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New executive reports provide leadership-ready summaries of security posture.
Mondoo Release Highlights May 2026 · May 2026
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Generate a board-ready VM report and export it as a PowerPoint deck for stakeholder presentations.$ In the Mondoo console, navigate to Executive Reports, select your report, and choose Export > PowerPoint or Export > PNG.
Executive Reports is generally available · seen Jul 2026
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When you need to present vulnerability program ROI to leadership, use Executive Reports to generate and export polished slides directly from live Mondoo data.$ In the Mondoo console, navigate to Executive Reports (Preview) and select Export to download slides as PowerPoint or PNG.
Executive Reports is in Preview · seen Jul 2026
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Generate a board-ready vulnerability management chapter and export slides as PowerPoint files for stakeholders.$ In the Mondoo console, navigate to Executive Reports to generate the VM chapter and export each slide to PowerPoint or PNG.
Executive Reports is generally available · Jun 2026
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Generate a board-ready presentation of vulnerability ROI data for executive review.$ In the Mondoo console, navigate to Executive Reports (Preview) and select 'Export to PowerPoint' or 'Export to PNG'.
Executive Reports is in Preview · Apr 2026
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+Analytics and custom reportingshippedProvides a self-serve analytics module with built-in and custom reports, configurable data pivots, and PowerPoint or PNG export.9 releases · 1 other source · first seen Jul 2026▸
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Export individual report pages as PNG images or full reports as PowerPoint decks for stakeholder sharing.
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · seen Jul 2026
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Includes seven built-in reports covering key security metrics out of the box.
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · seen Jul 2026
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New Analytics module is generally available in the Mondoo console, offering self-serve exploration of live security data.
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · seen Jul 2026
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Supports configurable pivots to slice and dice security data across different dimensions.
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · seen Jul 2026
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Enables creation of custom reports tailored to specific organizational needs.
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · seen Jul 2026
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Adds seven built-in analytical reports for Mondoo security data
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · Jul 2026
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Share a full security posture report with leadership by exporting it as a PowerPoint deck directly from the Analytics module.$ In the Mondoo console, go to Analytics, open a built-in or custom report, then select Export > Download as PowerPoint.
Analytics Brings Self-Serve Reporting to the Console · seen Jul 2026
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+Risk prioritizationshippedScores findings across five risk dimensions and flags factors such as known ransomware association to help teams decide what to fix first.9 releases · 1 other source · first seen Feb 2025▸
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Risk Dimensions transparent five-dimension scoring model
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Introduces Risk Dimensions, a transparent five-dimension scoring model for risk assessment
Mondoo Release Highlights May 2026 · May 2026
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Introduces Risk Dimensions, a transparent five-dimension scoring model for evaluating security risk.
Mondoo Release Highlights May 2026 · May 2026
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Remediation context for risks
Mondoo Release Highlights May 2026 · May 2026
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Delivers redesigned dashboards surfacing risk data through the new scoring model.
Mondoo Release Highlights May 2026 · May 2026
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Improves scoring accuracy for End-of-Life (EOL) assets
Mondoo Release Highlights January 2026 · Jan 2026
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Configure specific assets as high priority in Mondoo dashboards via the UI.$ In the Mondoo console, go to Integrations > CrowdStrike and enable the connection. Then navigate to Settings > Priority Assets and define your custom rules.
Mondoo Release Highlights February 2025 · Feb 2025
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+Findings managementshippedLets users list, filter, and navigate all findings and resource-level results across their asset inventory.8 releases · first seen Feb 2025▸
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Automatic client updates on Windows via new managed update mechanisms
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Ingests and displays SecurityScorecard findings directly within Mondoo
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Introduces resource-level findings for cloud assets.
Mondoo Release Highlights February 2026 · Feb 2026
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Introduces resource-level granularity for cloud security findings
Mondoo Release Highlights February 2026 · Feb 2026
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Streamlines listing and filtering of findings.
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2025 · Sep 2025
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Simplified filtering on findings to narrow audit scopes
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2025 · Jul 2025
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+Software supply chain scanningshippedIdentifies NPM packages and other third-party software supply chain components that introduce dependency risks.4 releases · first seen Nov 2025▸
Also counts toward: Command-line interface
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Adds container scanning that identifies and names hardened base images.
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Hardened base image detection in container scanning reports
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Adds xgrep subcommand for terminal-based software supply chain scanning
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Enhances NPM package detection to strengthen software supply chain security.
Mondoo Release Highlights November 2025 · Nov 2025
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+MCP security scanningshippedsuggestedScans Model Context Protocol servers for security issues specific to AI integration infrastructure.2 releases · 1 other source · first seen Sep 2025▸
Suggested capability: Security baseline assessment. This is our guess, not confirmed.
Also counts toward: Command-line interface
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--output-format ocsf enables Open Compliance and Security Framework output
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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Export scan results in Open Compliance and Security Framework format for SIEM integration.$ mondoo scan --output-format ocsf <target>
Mondoo 14.0 is out! · Sep 2026
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+Network security scanningshippedsuggestedScans network assets and configurations to identify network-level security weaknesses.3 releases · first seen Nov 2025▸
Suggested capability: Security baseline assessment. This is our guess, not confirmed.
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Adds network security scanning capabilities.
Mondoo Release Highlights March 2026 · Mar 2026
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Adds network security scanning capabilities to the platform.
Mondoo Release Highlights March 2026 · Mar 2026
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Introduces new network security detection capabilities.
Mondoo Release Highlights November 2025 · Nov 2025
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+GitHub integrationshippedsuggestedIngests and applies security checks across all repositories in an organization.2 releases · first seen Sep 2026▸
Suggested capability: Security baseline enforcement. This is our guess, not confirmed.
Also counts toward: Command-line interface
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Introduces GitHub integration that applies xgrep checks across all repositories in an organization
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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Adds the xgrep subcommand to secure your software supply chain from the terminal directly into every repository via a new GitHub integration
Mondoo Release Highlights September 2026 · Sep 2026
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+Kubernetes scanning supportshippedProvides dedicated Kubernetes asset tracking and auditing via a Kubernetes Operator.2 releases · first seen Mar 2026▸
Also counts toward: Kubernetes-native deployment
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Enables AI workloads to be treated as first-class assets with dedicated asset tracking.
Mondoo Release Highlights July 2026 · Jul 2026
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Introduces the Mondoo Kubernetes Operator with a complete rewrite
Mondoo 13.0 is out! · Mar 2026
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+Shadow AI detectionshippedIdentifies unauthorized or unmanaged AI services running inside an environment.2 releases · first seen Apr 2026▸
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Introduces shadow AI detection capabilities to identify unauthorized AI tools in the environment
Mondoo Release Highlights April 2026 · Apr 2026
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Adds shadow AI detection capabilities.
Mondoo Release Highlights April 2026 · Apr 2026
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+Data export formatsshippedExports scan findings and assessment data in multiple standardized formats including OCSF, InSpec, and CSV for integration with external systems.1 release · first seen Sep 2026▸
Also counts toward: CSV data export
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--output-format csv enables CSV export for scan results
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+Security advisoriesshippedPublishes advisories that alert users to newly discovered vulnerabilities and emerging threats relevant to their environment.1 release · first seen Nov 2025▸
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Adds new Mondoo Security Advisories to surface emerging threats.
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Breaking-change disciplinehow rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
Maintenance riskquiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
Innovation & surfacenew capabilities, API and MCP surface
Five scores for Mondoo, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
Each score is 0–100 on a published rubric, derived from data this site already shows.
A dimension we cannot measure says so — it is never scored 0 and never enters a rank.
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Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
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