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AccuKnox (vs) Checkpoint
Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Checkpoint
AccuKnox delivers eBPF-based kernel telemetry and LSM enforcement, enabling real-time hardening of applications and kernels. Unlike Checkpoint, AccuKnox provides inline security, drift detection, and KIEM for privilege observability and identity query. Its auto-remediation and cloud traffic graph ensure proactive security and unmatched data protection.
Parameters
Application Security Coverage
Registry scan (ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, OpenShift, GAR)
Supports Azure Container RegistryClosed (ACR), AWS Elastic ContainerClosed Registry (ECR), Docker Hub Container Registry, Google Cloud Container Registry (GCR), Google Artifact Registry (GAR), Harbor Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, GitHub Container Registry, Quay.io Container Registry
Supports Windows image scanning
Does not support scanning windows images
Supports both direct scanning via AccuKnox platform and via deployed scanner
Requires a Scanner to be deployed
Identify 3rd Party Dependencies and their Vulnerabilities (SCA), Scan for Vulnerability in Code (SAST) and Evaluate Applications for Vulnerabilities (DAST)
Uses Spectral to scan for secrets, keys, misconfigured code and perform SCA. Does not provide DAST capabilities
Integrate with CI/CD for detecting secret leakage and Shift Left Automation with Prioritization
Supports integrating with CI/CD for Shift left security
Observability & Remediation
Application Behavior Analysis - Provides deep observability by leveraging eBPF
Application behavior Analysis using Runtime Protection mechanism that combines several engines to monitor kernel system calls, file access, and network activity
Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it
Created profiles based on behavior via profiling but can only send alerts when a violation of the profile is detected
Graphical view of identities in Kubernetes with customizable queries to define least permissive posture
Does not provide visibility into the identity structure of the Kubernetes clusters
Hardening and Prevention
Provides policies that harden the workloads and prevents violations before they happen
Deny rules kill the container to stop the attack instead of stopping the malicious process
Prevent attacks in Bare metal servers, VMs and Kubernetes workloads
Supports runtime protection in Kubernetes and AWS Serverless only
CIS benchmarking of clusters to reduce attack surface and proactive prevention of attacks using admission controllers
Supports RuleSets for CIS and provides Admission controller
Deployment Models
Air-gapped and On Prem Support
The On Premise agents need to be connected to the CloudGuard platform, it cannot be deployed On Prem
Agent based protection and Agentless scanning support
Supports both Agent based protection and Agentless scanning
Open vs Proprietary
Uses KubeArmor - An open source CNCF Sandbox project
Uses proprietary runtime protection agent
Ingests findings from other open source security tools
Does not ingest findings from open source scanners
Integrations
Integrates with both open source and proprietary scanners in addition to SIEM, Ticketing platforms
Integrates with SIEM, Ticketing and proprietary security tools
Future Proof Security
5G Workloads and IoT/Edge Security
IoT security solutions are available. Supports 5G infrastructure security
CNAPP with out of the box Kubernetes Security via Posture Management (KSPM) & Identity Management (KIEM)
Provides KSPM capabilities
AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)
AI security with Infinity GenAI Protect
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