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AccuKnox vs Prisma Cloud
Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Prisma Cloud
AccuKnox stands out with Inline Security, LSM-based enforcement, and eBPF-driven observability for deep insights and zero-day prevention. Unlike Prisma, AccuKnox offers open-source community support, robust workflow integrations (e.g., ServiceNow, Splunk, Jira), and file integrity monitoring. Its WAAS, inline remediation, and policy versioning ensure comprehensive data security and runtime protection.
Parameters
Application Security Coverage
Registry scan (ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, JFrog, OpenShift, GAR.)
Repo Scan - Nexus, Alibaba Cloud Container Registry, ECR, ACR, Docker Registry v2, GitLab Container Registry, GAR, GCR, Harbor, IBM Cloud Container Registry, JFrog Artifactory Docker Registry, OpenShift integrated Docker Registry, CoreOS Quay, Trigger Registry scans with webhooks
Identify 3rd Party Dependencies and their Vulnerabilities (SCA), Scan for Vulnerability in Code (SAST) and Evaluate Applications for Vulnerabilities (DAST)
Helps identify 3rd party dependencies and licensing issues(SCA), limited languages supported for SAST Does not provide DAST
Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left Automation with Prioritization
Integrates with CI/CD for software supply chain security
Observability & Remediation
Deep Observability by leveraging eBPF agents
Runs in user space with capabilities of net_admin, sys_admin, sys_ptrace, mknod, and setfcap to interact with host and containers. IPTables to observe network traffic
Agents installed as Daemon set on k8s or as a process on host for complete observability. No changes needed on application level
Requires instrumenting the container runtime of each application with Prisma runC which is intrusive.
Provides graphical view of App Benavior and Identities in k8s
Can audit the activities on the cluster and limited visualization features
Hardening and Prevention
Hardening the system via policies
Can prevent files from being created but cannot prevent write/delete to existing files
Proactive prevention of attacks by denying access at the kernel layer using LSMs
Limited support. Certain activities like file modification cannot be prevented
Admission Controllers, PSA support to prevent vulnerable deployments
Supports Admission Controllers
Deployment Models
SaaS model supported along with On Prem and Air gapped environment support
Supports On Prem with some limitations
Agent based security for realtime protection and Agentless scanning Support
Can deploy scanners for agentless scanning and provide agent based security
Open vs Proprietary
Runtime Security solution KubeArmor is an OpenSource CNCF Sandbox project
Uses open source tools such as Checkov to perform scans
Supports ingesting vulnerability scan results from open source tools
Supports integrations with Proprietary tools
Integrations
Can integrate with both Open Source and Proprietary security tools to improve coverage
Can integrate with only Proprietary tools
Future Proof Security
5G and IoT/Edge Security
Supports 5G and IoT/Edge Security as separate modules
Only CNAPP with out of the box Kubernetes Security via Posture Management (KSPM) & Identity Management (KIEM)
Provides benchmarking checks for kubernetes to identify misconfigurations and identity issues
AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)
Provides security for AI with AI-SPM module
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