CrowdStrike vs AquaSec Container Security Platforms Compared

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

Overview

CrowdStrike doesn’t extend to containers. AquaSec secures them—but lacks depth across other cloud layers.

AccuKnox combines both. Container, cloud, and workload security—all in one platform designed for DevOps, SREs, and security teams.

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

Parameters

Crowdstrike

Aquasec

Application Security Coverage

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

Scans AWS ECR, Docker Hub, Docker Registry V2, Google Artifact Registry, Google Container Registry, IBM Cloud, JFrog Artifactory, Microsoft ACR, Oracle Container Registry, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Quay.io, Sonatype Nexus, VMware Harbor, Google Artifact Registry, GitLab

Supports registry scanning

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

Can identify the dependencies in use and has limited supported for Vulnerability scanning in code

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

Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left automation with prioritization

Limited scanners are supported in the CI/CD Pipeline

Limited CI/CD Integrations

Observability & Remediation

Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF

Supports eBPF agents

Only eBPF based observability is supported

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

Realtime scanning of cloud accounts is supported

Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it

Identifies suspicious activity

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 observability into the infrastructure setup of the cluster

Hardening and Prevention

Hardening policies based on compliances and best practices to restrict activities at the kernel layer

Crowdstrike provides threat intelligence and helps to respond quickly, but does not prevent

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

Helps in detecting policy violations but does not provide inline protection

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 to immediately react to the attacks after they happen using telemetry, threat intelligence, and AI-powered analytics.

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

Identify the configurations to harden and reduce the attack surface by providing CIS and STIG Benchmarking

Provides CIS Benchmarking for hardening the workloads

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

It is a completely SaaS based solution

Supports On Prem deployment

Policies will prevent access even if connectivity is lost

Dependent on connectivity to detect and respond

Agent based protection and scanners for identifying vulnerabilities

Agentless scanning support for the cloud assets only

Open vs Proprietary

Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF sandbox project

CrowdStrike Falcon is a proprietary solution

Can ingest results from open source security tools

Ingests results from partner tools which are proprietary

Integrations

Integrates with both Open source and Proprietary tools for security

Integrates with only proprietary security 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

Support IoT/Edge security and capabilities that apply to 5G

Not supported for 5G and IoT

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

Provides KSPM capabilities

Aqua provides KSPM and identity related checks in Kubernetes

AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)

AI Security with AI-SPM module

Aqua provides AI security

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