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AccuKnox (vs) CrowdStrike
Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over CrowdStrike Cloud Security
Unlike CrowdStrike, which lacks critical modules like Inline Prevention, AccuKnox offers a comprehensive Cloud Native Application Security Platform (CNAPP), that ensures 100% prevention from advanced "Zero-Day" attacks. Powered by inline runtime security, AccuKnox stops threats before they happen and takes action at cloud speed.
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
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