AccuKnox (vs) Checkpoint
Continuous Security for Diverse Environments
AccuKnox provides unmatched posture management and auto-remediation across clouds, containers, and more, extending beyond CheckPoint’s network focus. Supports 33+ compliance frameworks; users report 89% fewer false positives.
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
Why DevSecOps and Security Teams Love our AppSec Platform?
“AccuKnox offers us the protection we need for our cloud infrastructure, while ModelKnox ensures that our AI assets remain secure and resilient against evolving threats.”
Utku Kaynar
CEO
“At Prudent, we advocate for a comprehensive end-to-end methodology in application and cloud security. AccuKnox excelled in all areas in our in depth evaluation.”
Manoj Kern
CIO
“Choosing AccuKnox was driven by opensource KubeArmor’s novel use of eBPF and LSM technologies, delivering runtime security”
Golan Ben-Oni
Chief Information Officer
“As 5G starts getting broad industry adoption, security is a very critical challenge. It is delightful to see an amazing innovator like SRI work with AccuKnox to deliver critical innovations”
Jim Brisimitzis
General Partner
“The discovery process is crucial to making drug discovery faster, smarter, and secure. We are pleased to partner with AccuKnox for their AI Security prowesses”
Matt Shlosberg
Chief Operating Officer
“AccuKnox very strong and Enterprise offering coupled with a strong roadmap of securing AI/LLM Models made them a compelling choice”
Rahul Saxena
Co-founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer
“AccuKnox does a tremendous job at showing the complexity of different approaches to Kubernetes security in terms of responding to high severity cloud attacks”
James Berthoty
Founder & Security Analyst
“We were able to work with a pioneer in Zero Trust Security. Tible is committed to delivering comprehensive security, compliance, and governance for all of its stakeholders”
Merijn Boom
Managing Director
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