AccuKnox vs Prisma Cloud

Limited Coverage and legacy system that slow down performance

While Palo Alto 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.)

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

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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