AccuKnox (vs) Sysdig

Secure Entire Ecosystem, Not Just Containers

AccuKnox offers broader coverage than Sysdig, protecting cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and more with runtime security and zero trust principles. Supports 33+ compliance frameworks for effortless regulatory adherence; users report 89% fewer false positives.

Parameters

Application Security Coverage

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

Registry Scan (ECR, Organizational AWS GovCloud ECR, Organizational, JFrog Artifactory, ACR, ICR, Quay.io, Harbor, GAR, GCR Single Registry, Nexus, OpenShift Container Platform Registry

Single scanner can be used to scan multiple registries

A new registry scanner must be installed per registry (except for AWS Organization)

Supports scanning public registries

Public registries are not supported

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

Scans Container, IaC, Kubernetes manifest scan. Does not provide SAST and DAST capabilities for application vulnerability scanning

Integrate with CI/CD for detecting secret leakage and Shift Left Automation with Prioritization

Allows integration with CI/CD Pipelines

Observability & Remediation

Application Behavior Analysis - Provides deep observability by leveraging eBPF

Leverages eBPF for deep observability

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

Provides pre-built policies and allows customization to detect malicious activity and send alerts. Auto Tuning helps reduce false positives

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

Does not provide a graphical view of the entities and their relationships

Hardening and Prevention

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

Policies are reactive and kill the processes after they are found to violate the policy

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 identify malicious activity and quick reactions to zero day attacks

CIS benchmarking of clusters to reduce attack surface and proactive prevention of attacks using admission controllers

Supports Admissions Controller and CIS Benchmarking of clusters

Deployment Models

Air-gapped and On Prem Support

Supports Air-gapped and On Prem deployments

Agent based protection and Agentless scanning support

Supports Agentless scanning in addition to agent based scanning

Open vs Proprietary

Uses KubeArmor - An open source CNCF Sandbox project

Uses Falco Open Source

Ingests findings from other open source security tools

Ingests data from Open Source tools

Integrations

Integrates with both open source and proprietary scanners in addition to SIEM, Ticketing platforms

Can integrate with both Open Source and Proprietary tools

Future Proof Security

5G Workloads and IoT/Edge Security

Provides security capabilities at the Edge

CNAPP with out of the box Kubernetes Security via Posture Management (KSPM) & Identity Management (KIEM)

Provides only the KSPM capabilities

AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)

AI security is possible with AI Workload Security

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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