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AccuKnox (vs) Wiz
Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Wiz
AccuKnox excels with on-premise deployment support and unmatched CNAPP capabilities, including inline prevention and auto-remediation. Unlike Wiz, AccuKnox integrates microsegmentation, observability, and CI/CD pipelines for comprehensive runtime security. Its posture management and compliance assurance deliver proactive protection against zero-day attacks, surpassing Wiz's limited feature set.
Parameters
Application Security Coverage
Registry scan (ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, OpenShift, GAR.)
Supports Container Registry Scanning
Identify 3rd Party Dependencies and their Vulnerabilities (SCA), Scan for Vulnerability in Code (SAST) and Evaluate Applications for Vulnerabilities (DAST)
Provides SCA, SBOM and code scanning for vulnerabilities. But does not provide ability to perform DAST and scanning for best practices implemented in code
Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left Automation with Prioritization
Integrates with CI/CD and IDEs
Observability & Remediation
Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF
Wiz provides an optional agent that leverages eBPF for observability in linux and containers
Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it
Detect and respond approach to deal with issues identified at runtime
Graphical view of identities in Kubernetes with customizable queries to define least perissive posture
Can identify issues with kubernetes RBAC
Hardening and Prevention
Hardening policies based on compliances and best practices to restrict activities at he kernel layer
Detection rules for responding to events
Proactive prevention of attacks by denying access at the kernel layer using LSMs
Identifies issues in realtime and reacts to attacks as they happen
Admission controller and PSA to prevent vulnerable deployments
Supports Admission controller for security policy checks during deployment
Deployment Models
Airgapped and OnPrem Support
Only SaaS model is supported
Support for Hybrid envrionment of On Prem + Cloud
Supported only for VMWare VSphere
Agent Based Protection and Scanners for identifying vulnerabilities
Both Agentless and Agent Based supported
Open vs Proprietary
Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF Sandbox project
Completely Proprietary solution
Integrates with Open source scanners to provide a single platform view
Does not integrate with open source security tools
Integrations
Integrates with both open source and proprietary security solutions to act as a single platform to track security issues
Integrates with commercial security solutions
Future Proof Security
5G and IoT/Edge Security
Focused on Cloud Security
Out of the box Kubernetes Security via Posture Management (KSPM) & Identity Management (KIEM)
Provides KSPM to identify issues in the Kuberenetes infrastructure
AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)
Provides AI-SPM component to secure AI models and services
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