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AccuKnox (vs) Sysdig
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.
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)
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