The product
Mortar is an evasion technique to defeat and divert detection and prevention of security products, including AV, EDR, and XDR solutions.
Mortar alternatives and competitors
Mortar is a free Red-Team & Adversary Emulation solution. The closest matches by shared tags and NIST CSF 2.0 coverage are Fortra Cobalt Strike, GoSecure Titan® Adversarial Simulation, Core Security Cobalt Strike, Dreadnode Offensive Security Agents, and Red Specter Cheatsheet. All 16 alternatives on this page are ranked the same way.
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The closest Mortar alternatives
These 8 solutions overlap most with Mortar. Each row says what the product does and, when the overlap is big enough, which capabilities it shares.
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Fortra Cobalt Strike
FeaturedThreat emulation product for adversary simulations and red team operations
Red-Team & Adversary EmulationCommercialKey features: Post-exploitation payload (Beacon) with PowerShell execution, keylogging, screenshots, and file downloads, Malleable Command and Control (C2) language for network indicator customization, Browser pivoting for hijacking authenticated web sessions, System Profiler for target fingerprinting and reconnaissance, Shared team server for collaborative red team operations
All 16 products like Mortar
Threat emulation product for adversary simulations and red team operations
Human-led adversary emulation service testing detection & response capabilities
Post-exploitation threat emulation platform for red team operations.
AI agent platform for automating offensive security operations and evals.
CLI cheatsheet for Red Specter's 30-tool offensive security platform.
Autonomous offensive security platform that finds, validates, and remediates attack paths.
Autonomous AI offensive cyber platform for sovereign-grade threat neutralization.
Red/purple team and identity security assessment service simulating real adversary attacks
Multi-agent command-and-control platform with encrypted reverse SOCKS5 tunneling
Platform for offensive security operations including ASM, VA, and DAST
AI-powered continuous pentesting platform combining autonomous agents with human hackers.
Govt-focused cyber intelligence & surveillance software provider.
AI-assisted vulnerability research and advanced offensive cyber tooling firm.
Boutique security firm offering red team, OSINT, and adversary simulation services.
Boutique cybersecurity firm offering pentesting, consulting, and DFIR services.
Alternatives to each of these
Fortra Cobalt Strike alternativesGoSecure Titan® Adversarial Simulation alternativesCore Security Cobalt Strike alternativesDreadnode Offensive Security Agents alternativesRed Specter Cheatsheet alternativesA Security alternativesKinoSec Hades alternativesCrimson7 Offensive Engineering alternativesControl Pack alternativesTrickest Attack Surface Management alternativesEthiack alternativesNSO Group alternatives
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Common questions when weighing alternatives to Mortar.
The closest matches to Mortar by shared tags and NIST CSF 2.0 coverage are Fortra Cobalt Strike, GoSecure Titan® Adversarial Simulation, Core Security Cobalt Strike, Dreadnode Offensive Security Agents, and Red Specter Cheatsheet. All of them are Red-Team & Adversary Emulation products.
This page shows 16 alternatives to Mortar, all in the Red-Team & Adversary Emulation category. Each one is matched on shared tags and NIST CSF 2.0 areas, and the closest matches rank first.
Mortar is a free Red-Team & Adversary Emulation product. You can use it at no cost. Only commercial alternatives are listed here. Free and open source products are under /free.
Mortar is a Red-Team & Adversary Emulation product in the Offensive Security category. You can compare it with the 16 other Red-Team & Adversary Emulation products on this page.
