Checkpoint vs Sysdig Runtime Security Tools Comparison

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

Overview

Checkpoint lacks runtime visibility. Sysdig is focused on runtime but doesn’t cover identity or compliance as deeply.

AccuKnox bridges the gap. It delivers runtime protection, identity governance, compliance checks, and threat prevention in a single control plane.

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

Parameters

Checkpoint

Sysdig

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

Registry Scan (ECR, Organizational AWS GovCloud ECR, Organizational, JFrog Artifactory, ACR, ICR, Quay.io, Harbor, GAR, GCR Single Registry, Nexus, OpenShift Container Platform Registry

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

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)

Uses Spectral to scan for secrets, keys, misconfigured code and perform SCA. Does not provide DAST capabilities

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

Supports integrating with CI/CD for Shift left security

Allows integration with CI/CD Pipelines

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

Leverages eBPF for deep observability

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

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 visibility into the identity structure of the Kubernetes clusters

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

Deny rules kill the container to stop the attack instead of stopping the malicious process

Policies are reactive and kill the processes after they are found to violate the policy

Prevent attacks in Bare metal servers, VMs and Kubernetes workloads

Supports runtime protection in Kubernetes and AWS Serverless only

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 RuleSets for CIS and provides Admission controller

Supports Admissions Controller and CIS Benchmarking of clusters

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

Supports Air-gapped and On Prem deployments

Agent based protection and Agentless scanning support

Supports both Agent based protection and Agentless scanning

Supports Agentless scanning in addition to agent based scanning

Open vs Proprietary

Uses KubeArmor - An open source CNCF Sandbox project

Uses proprietary runtime protection agent

Uses Falco Open Source

Ingests findings from other open source security tools

Does not ingest findings from open source scanners

Ingests data from Open Source 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 both Open Source and Proprietary tools

Future Proof Security

5G Workloads and IoT/Edge Security

IoT security solutions are available. Supports 5G infrastructure security

Provides security capabilities at the Edge

CNAPP with out of the box Kubernetes Security via Posture Management (KSPM) & Identity Management (KIEM)

Provides KSPM capabilities

Provides only the KSPM capabilities

AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)tick

AI security with Infinity Gen-AI Protect

AI security is possible with AI Workload Security

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