AlertMyBusiness and SecAlerts: which one for a small business?
SecAlerts is built for emailing you about new vulnerabilities in the software you list, built for IT people who track CVEs. AlertMyBusiness is built for a business owner who wants everything that goes wrong quietly watched in one place. Here is where each is stronger.
What SecAlerts does well
- Broad software coverage from the vulnerability databases.
- Daily or real-time alerts on the products you choose.
- A clear catalogue of software and their vulnerabilities.
SecAlerts's own site has the current feature list and prices.
Feature by feature
| What | SecAlerts | AlertMyBusiness |
|---|---|---|
| Official vendor status pages, polled | No | Yes |
| User-reported outages (is it down for others?) | No | Yes |
| Your own website uptime, checked from two regions | No | Yes |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | No | Yes |
| Plain-English alerts for vulnerable software you run | Yes | Yes |
| Data breach alerts for your staff emails | No | Yes |
| Scam campaigns aimed at your bank, tools and industry | No | Yes |
| Tax and compliance due dates with reminders | No | Yes |
| Power outages at your locations | No | Yes |
| Grants matched to your business | No | Yes |
| Fix guides written for a business owner | Partly | Yes |
| A free plan that does not expire | Partly | Yes |
SecAlerts column as their site describes the product at the time of writing (26 October 2026); tell us through Report an inaccuracy if it has changed.
Choose SecAlerts when
You are an IT professional tracking many products and you read CVE records comfortably.
Choose AlertMyBusiness when
You want the software your website and devices run detected for you, each alert rewritten in plain English with the fixed version and a guide, and the rest of the business watched in the same place.
Common questions
Is AlertMyBusiness a replacement for SecAlerts?
For a small business, usually yes for the overlap, because the same alerts arrive with the rest of what we watch. For emailing you about new vulnerabilities in the software you list, built for IT people who track CVEs., SecAlerts may still be the better fit.
What does SecAlerts cost?
Their site lists current plans; we do not quote competitors' prices because they change. AlertMyBusiness is free for the basics and sells add-ons from one dollar a month.
Where does your data come from?
Official status pages, government advisories, vulnerability databases, breach catalogues, registries, distributors and our own checks. Every alert and page lists its sources.
Try the free plan beside it
Nothing to cancel: one website, ten tools, one location, scams and due dates, forever. Keep the other tool if it earns its place.