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Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over SysDig
AccuKnox’s Inline Prevention, AI/LLM-driven chatbot, and policy lifecycle management provide robust, proactive security Sysdig lacks. It combines SAST/DAST, anomaly detection, and automatic policy hardening to protect applications and kernels. With Windows support and real-time auto-remediation, AccuKnox delivers unparalleled runtime security.
Capabilities
Industry Standard (eBPF) Based Kernel Telemetry
Inline Security (as opposed to post attack mitigation)
Provides only detection capabilities
Industry Standard (LSM) Based Security Enforcement
Focused on real-time detection rather than mitigation
Supported Platforms - Linux & K8s
Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux, Raspberry Pi, ArchLinux, Alibaba Cloud Linux; K8s - on-prem (k3s, micro k8s, kubeadm), GKE, AKS, OKE, Bottle Rocket, IBM, Graviton, Rancher, Openshift, Oracle Ampere; Microshift, VMWare Tanzu, MKE, DOKS, Vm/Bare Metal
Debian v10 and above, Ubuntu v18 and above, CentOS, RHEL, SUSE, Fedora, Linux Mint, Amazon Linux, Bottlerocket, Google Container optimized OS, Oracle Linux, Amazon EKS, ECS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, OpenShift, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service(IKS), MKE, VMWare Tanzu.
Windows Support
Can be provided through Xcitium, Scanning is possible through integrations with tools like Nessus
Observability
Using eBPF
Using eBPF
Application Behavior
Automatic Policies
Drift Detection
Hardening
Application and Kernel
Policy Lifecycle Management
Network Micro Segmentation
Using eBPF
File Integrity Monitoring
Can also prevent modifications
Only monitoring
Cluster Benchmarking
Deployment
DaemonSet. No changes are required in containers Systemd for non-containerized env
DaemonSet. No changes are required in containers Standalone binary for non-containerized env
Admission Controller
Support for Serverless, VM, BareMetal, K8s
Does not support BareMetal
Asset Inventory
AWS, Azure, GCP
AWS, Azure, GCP
Cloud Misconfigurations
Drift Detection
Anomaly Detection
Monitoring and Alerts
Compliance
Offers 33+ Compliance frameworks including NIST, CIS, MITRE, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, and more
Includes NIST, CIS, PCI, GDPR, and more.
Agentless Scanning
Remediation Suggestions
Auto Remediation
Can integrate with OPA to automate compliance enforcement
Risk Correlation
Registry scan
ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, OpenShift, GAR.
ECR, Jfrog, ACR, ICR, Quay, Harbor, GAR, GCR, Nexus
Malware Scan
Requires integration
IaC Scanning
Identify 3rd Party Dependencies and their Vulnerabilities (SCA)
Generate SBOM
Scan for Vulnerability in Code as it is built (SAST)
Evaluate Applications for Vulnerabilities(DAST)
Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left Automation
Prioritization
Identify Overprivileged IAM Roles
In Roadmap
Observability of Effective Privileges
Query Identity Issues (KIEM)
Offer identity related issues in KSPM
Compliance Benchmarking
CIS for managed clusters only
On-Prem/Air Gapped
SaaS
Open Source Community Support
Ticketing/Workflow/Channels
Jira Cloud/Server, FreshService, ConnectWise, Splunk, RSyslog, AWS Cloudwatch, Azure Sentinel, Email, Slack
Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Elasticsearch, Syslog, Okta.
Security Findings
Software : CLOC, Fortify, Snyk, SonarQube, Sonartype,Trivy, Veracode Container : Clair/ECR, Snyk, Trivy. Web App : Burp, Droopescan, Zap
Can integrate with snyk and docker scout
AI/LLM-based chatbot
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Prevent attacks before they happen
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