AquaSec vs Sysdig Runtime Security Platforms Compared

Compare AquaSec and Sysdig. Also see why Global DevSecOps Teams choose AccuKnox instead

Overview

AquaSec provides static security. Sysdig covers dynamic runtime events.

AccuKnox covers both—and more. From build-time checks to live enforcement, it’s your all-in-one security solution for cloud-native systems.

This page compares AquaSec and Sysdig, and shows why AccuKnox fits your needs better.

Parameters

Aquasec

Sysdig

Application Security Coverage

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

Supports registry scanning

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)

Identify 3rd party dependencies and their vulnerabilities (SCA), scan for vulnerability in code (SAST) and evaluate applications for vulnerabilities (DAST)

Cannot perform deep analysis of statis code and lacks the ability to perform DAST.

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

Supports scanning public registries

Public registries are not supported

Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left automation with prioritization

Limited CI/CD Integrations

Allows integration with CI/CD Pipelines

Observability & Remediation

Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF

Only eBPF based observability is supported

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

Point in time scans for cloud configuration. Realtime visibility is in Roadmap

Realtime scanning of cloud accounts is supported

Visibility of identities and workloads on Kubernetes as a graph via KIEM

Not supported

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

Hardening policies based on MITRE, NIST Frameworks to reduce the attack surface

Helps in detecting policy violations but does not provide inline protection

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

Auto generate zero trust policies to allow only the expected behavior of the application while denying everything else

Supports policies to identify malicious activity but performs remediations after the rule violation is detected

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

Allows performing tests on the application dynamically and reporting of activities by the application in the CI/CD and prevent deployment if issues are identified

Performs only static analysis of the application

Deployment Models

Air-gapped and on-prem support

Supports On Prem deployment

Supports Air-gapped and On Prem deployments

Agent based protection and scanners for identifying vulnerabilities

Supports Agentless scanning in addition to agent based scanning

Open vs Proprietary

Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF sandbox project

Uses Falco Open Source

Supports ingesting vulnerability scan results from open source tools

Ingests data from Open Source tools

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

Can integrate with both Open Source and Proprietary tools

Integrate with 3rd party scanning tools to provide additional context and stitch all the findings together in one place

Does not integrate with other open source or commercial scanners that maybe already available. Cannot extend capabilities via integrations

Future Proof Security

5G and IoT/Edge Security

Not supported for 5G and IoT

Provides security capabilities at the Edge

Only CNAPP without of the box Kubernetes security via posture management (KSPM) & identity management (KIEM)

Aqua provides KSPM and identity related checks in Kubernetes

Provides only the KSPM capabilities

AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)

Aqua provides AI security

AI security is possible with AI Workload Security

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