Overview
What is Security Stack
Security Stack helps security buyers and evaluators reach decisions they can defend. It hosts a researched catalog of security products, and provides a private workspace to run evaluations: set requirements, rank candidates against them, shortlist the strongest, and record a decision backed by a scorecard.
These docs are the methodology record: how the catalog is structured, where the data comes from, and how the matching system turns your requirements into a ranking.
Catalog
Terminology
A few words carry precise meanings across these pages.
- Domain
- A broad area of security and the top level of the catalog. Evaluation packs are built per Domain.
- Category
- A specific market inside a Domain. A product carries one Category tag per market it demonstrably competes in, and features are named consistently within each Category.
- Documented feature
- A capability recorded on a product listing because there is evidence for it. Features are the unit of evidence the matching system scores.
- Evaluation
- A run through four stages: Requirements, Matches, Shortlist, Decision. It records what you need, which products cover it, and the decision you reached, with a scorecard behind it.
- Requirement
- One line of what you need: a capability, a compliance certification, an integration, or a custom row you assess yourself. Each carries a High, Medium, or Low priority, and the requirement set is the scoreboard your matches are ranked against.
- Evaluation pack
- A researcher-curated starter set of requirements for a Domain, distilled from industry-standard security frameworks. Loading one is optional, and every seeded row stays yours to edit.