patchletter vs. SecAlerts
SecAlerts is a commercial CVE alerting service: you register your software stack and receive matching vulnerability alerts from many sources — via email, Slack, Teams, Jira or API.
patchletter takes a different angle: a free update radar for sysadmins that combines vendor release tracking, actively exploited vulnerabilities (CISA KEV) and end-of-life dates — delivered as one quiet email digest instead of a real-time firehose.
Side by side
| Feature | patchletter | SecAlerts |
|---|---|---|
| Release tracking for vendor products (Proxmox, FortiOS, Veeam …) | ✓ curated vendor sources: APIs, feeds, release-notes pages | ✗ |
| Actively exploited vulnerabilities (CISA KEV) | ✓ curated & low-noise — only demonstrably exploited CVEs | ✓ |
| End-of-life / support dates | ✓ endoflife.date data on every product page | ✗ |
| Hardware / firmware (firewalls, NAS, switches) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Email instantly / daily / weekly | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slack / Teams / webhooks | ✗ on the roadmap — patchletter is email-first | ✓ |
| API | partly RSS feed per product; API on the roadmap | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ completely free, no limits | ✗ paid — free only as a time-limited trial |
When SecAlerts is the better choice
- A broad source base beyond CVEs (advisories, researcher reports) and integrations up to Jira.
- Team features and an API for larger security organizations.
Nothing wrong with running both: SecAlerts for its strengths, patchletter for the vendor gear it can’t see.
Try patchletter — free
Pick the tools you run, confirm your email, get one email when something ships.
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