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Checkpoint vs Prisma Cloud Cloud Native Security Overview
Compare Checkpoint and Prisma Cloud. Also see why Global DevSecOps Teams choose AccuKnox instead
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Checkpoint is strong in perimeter security. Prisma Cloud offers broad CNAPP features.
Yet both can be heavy, complex, and fragmented for teams to adopt fully.
AccuKnox simplifies it. One lightweight platform to secure cloud, workloads, apps, and identities—built to scale and adapt with your team.
This page compares Checkpoint and Prisma Cloud, and shows why AccuKnox fits your needs better.
Parameters
Checkpoint
Palto Alto Cortex Cloud
Application Security Coverage
Registry scan (ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, OpenShift, GAR)
Supports Azure Container RegistryClosed (ACR), AWS Elastic ContainerClosed Registry (ECR), Docker Hub Container Registry, Google Cloud Container Registry (GCR), Google Artifact Registry (GAR), Harbor Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, GitHub Container Registry, Quay.io Container Registry
Repo Scan - Nexus, Alibaba Cloud Container Registry, ECR, ACR, Docker Registry v2, GitLab Container Registry, GAR, GCR, Harbor, IBM Cloud Container Registry, JFrog Artifactory Docker Registry, OpenShift integrated Docker Registry, CoreOS Quay, Trigger Registry scans with webhooks
Supports Windows image scanning
Does not support scanning windows images
Supports both direct scanning via AccuKnox platform and via deployed scanner
Requires a Scanner to be deployed
Identify 3rd Party Dependencies and their Vulnerabilities (SCA), Scan for Vulnerability in Code (SAST) and Evaluate Applications for Vulnerabilities (DAST)
Uses Spectral to scan for secrets, keys, misconfigured code and perform SCA. Does not provide DAST capabilities
Helps identify 3rd party dependencies and licensing issues(SCA), limited languages supported for SAST Does not provide DAST
Integrate with CI/CD for detecting secret leakage and Shift Left Automation with Prioritization
Supports integrating with CI/CD for Shift left security
Integrates with CI/CD for software supply chain security
Observability & Remediation
Application Behavior Analysis - Provides deep observability by leveraging eBPF
Application behavior Analysis using Runtime Protection mechanism that combines several engines to monitor kernel system calls, file access, and network activity
Runs in user space with capabilities of net_admin, sys_admin, sys_ptrace, mknod, and setfcap to interact with host and containers. IPTables to observe network traffic
Agents installed as Daemon set on k8s or as a process on host for complete observability. No changes needed on application level
Requires instrumenting the container runtime of each application with Prisma runC which is intrusive.
Provides graphical view of App behavior and Identities in K8s
Can audit the activities on the cluster and limited visualization features
Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it
Created profiles based on behavior via profiling but can only send alerts when a violation of the profile is detected
Graphical view of identities in Kubernetes with customizable queries to define least permissive posture
Does not provide visibility into the identity structure of the Kubernetes clusters
Hardening and Prevention
Provides policies that harden the workloads and prevents violations before they happen
Deny rules kill the container to stop the attack instead of stopping the malicious process
Can prevent files from being created but cannot prevent write/delete to existing files
Proactive prevention of attacks by denying access at the kernel layer using LSMs
Limited support. Certain activities like file modification cannot be prevented
Prevent attacks in Bare metal servers, VMs and Kubernetes workloads
Supports runtime protection in Kubernetes and AWS Serverless only
CIS benchmarking of clusters to reduce attack surface and proactive prevention of attacks using admission controllers
Supports RuleSets for CIS and provides Admission controller
Admission Controllers, PSA support to prevent vulnerable deployments
Supports Admission Controllers
Deployment Models
Air-gapped and On Prem Support
The On Premise agents need to be connected to the CloudGuard platform, it cannot be deployed On Prem
SaaS model supported along with On Prem and Air gapped environment support
Supports on prem with some limitations
Agent based protection and Agentless scanning support
Supports both Agent based protection and Agentless scanning
Can deploy scanners for agentless scanning and provide agent based security
Open vs Proprietary
Uses KubeArmor - An open source CNCF Sandbox project
Uses proprietary runtime protection agent
Uses open source tools such as Checkov to perform scans
Ingests findings from other open source security tools
Does not ingest findings from open source scanners
Supports integrations with Proprietary tools
Integrations
Integrates with both open source and proprietary scanners in addition to SIEM, Ticketing platforms
Integrates with SIEM, Ticketing and proprietary security tools
Can integrate with only Proprietary tools
Future Proof Security
5G Workloads and IoT/Edge Security
IoT security solutions are available. Supports 5G infrastructure security
Supports 5G and IoT/Edge Security as separate modules
CNAPP with out of the box Kubernetes Security via Posture Management (KSPM) & Identity Management (KIEM)
Provides KSPM capabilities
Provides benchmarking checks for kubernetes to identify misconfigurations and identity issues
AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)
AI security with Infinity Gen-AI Protect
Provides security for AI with AI-SPM module
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“Choosing AccuKnox was driven by opensource KubeArmor’s novel use of eBPF and LSM technologies, delivering runtime security”
Golan Ben-Oni
Chief Information Officer
“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
“Tible is committed to delivering comprehensive security, compliance, and governance for all of its stakeholders.”
Merijn Boom
Managing Director
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“AccuKnox allows Public Sector agencies and entities to protect themselves against current and emerging threats.”
Natalie Gregory
Vice President Enterprise Solution
“Choosing AccuKnox was driven by opensource KubeArmor’s novel use of eBPF and LSM technologies, delivering runtime security”
Golan Ben-Oni
Chief Information Officer
“AccuKnox’s strong roadmap offerings in API Security, AI/LLM Security made AccuKnox the best choice for AppSec/CloudSec platform.”
David Billeter
Cybersecurity Leader
“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
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Matt Shlosberg
Chief Operating 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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“I am quite impressed by the product and believe it’s currently the only fit for all my worries over the cloud.”
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