AccuKnox (vs) CrowdStrike

Proactive Security Across All Fronts

While Crowdstrike excels in endpoints, AccuKnox secures clouds, containers, and networks with agentless risk assessment and adversarial attack creation. Supports 33+ compliance frameworks; achieves 91% reduction in remediation time per user feedback.

Parameters

Application Security Coverage

Registry scan (ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, OpenShift, GAR)

Scans AWS ECR, Docker Hub, Docker Registry V2, Google Artifact Registry, Google Container Registry, IBM Cloud, JFrog Artifactory, Microsoft ACR, Oracle Container Registry, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Quay.io, Sonatype Nexus, VMware Harbor, Google Artifact Registry, GitLab

Identify 3rd Party Dependencies and their Vulnerabilities (SCA), Scan for Vulnerability in Code (SAST) and Evaluate Applications for Vulnerabilities (DAST)

Can identify the dependencies in use and has limited supported for Vulnerability scanning in code

Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left Automation with Prioritization

Limited scanners are supported in the CI/CD Pipeline

Observability & Remediation

Application Behavior Analysis - Provides deep observability by leveraging eBPF

Supports eBPF agents

Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it

Identifies suspicious activity

Graphical view of identities in Kubernetes with customizable queries to define least permissive posture

Does not provide observability into the infrastructure setup of the cluster

Hardening and Prevention

Provides policies that harden the workloads and prevents violations before they happen

Crowdstrike provides threat intelligence and helps to respond quickly, but does not prevent

Zero day attack protection by defining the least permissive posture of the application. This will prevent any new activity that is unexpected in the application

Helps to immediately react to the attacks after they happen using telemetry, threat intelligence, and AI-powered analytics.

Identify the configurations to harden and reduce the attack surface by providing CIS and STIG Benchmarking

Provides CIS Benchmarking for hardening the workloads

Deployment Models

Air-gapped and OnPrem Support

It is a completely SaaS based solution

Policies will prevent access even if connectivity is lost

Dependent on connectivity to detect and respond

Agentless scanning support, which can also include On Prem workloads via integrations

Agentless scanning support for the cloud assets only

Open vs Proprietary

The runtime security engine, KubeArmor is an open source CNCF Sandbox project

CrowdStrike Falcon is a proprietary solution

Can ingest results from open source security tools

Ingests results from partner tools which are proprietary

Integrations

Integrates with both Open source and Proprietary tools for security

Integrates with only proprietary security tools

Future Proof Security

5G and IoT/Edge Security

Support IoT/Edge security and capabilities that apply to 5G

Only 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 AI-SPM module

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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