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CrowdStrike vs Sysdig Runtime Protection Compared
Compare CrowdStrike and Sysdig. Also see why Global DevSecOps Teams choose AccuKnox instead
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CrowdStrike lacks container visibility. Sysdig focuses on runtime but lacks broader cloud protections.
AccuKnox delivers runtime security and visibility plus cloud compliance, policy enforcement, and identity protection—out of the box.
This page compares CrowdStrike and Sysdig, and shows why AccuKnox fits your needs better.
Parameters
Crowdstrike
Sysdig
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
Registry Scan (ECR, Organizational AWS GovCloud ECR, Organizational, JFrog Artifactory, ACR, ICR, Quay.io, Harbor, GAR, GCR Single Registry, Nexus, OpenShift Container Platform Registry
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
Scans Container, IaC, Kubernetes manifest scan. Does not provide SAST and DAST capabilities for application vulnerability scanning
Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left automation with prioritization
Limited scanners are supported in the CI/CD Pipeline
Allows integration with CI/CD Pipelines
Supports scanning public registries
Public registries are not supported
Single scanner can be used to scan multiple registries
A new registry scanner must be installed per registry (except for AWS Organization)
Observability & Remediation
Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF
Supports eBPF agents
Leverages eBPF for deep observability
Auto generation of policies based on the activity discovered inside containers to prevent anything that deviates from it
Identifies suspicious activity
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 observability into the infrastructure setup of the cluster
Does not provide a graphical view of the entities and their relationships
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
Policies are reactive and kill the processes after they are found to violate the policy
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.
Helps identify malicious activity and quick reactions to zero day attacks
Identify the configurations to harden and reduce the attack surface by providing CIS and STIG Benchmarking
Provides CIS Benchmarking for hardening the workloads
Supports Admissions Controller and CIS Benchmarking of clusters
Deployment Models
Air-gapped and on-prem support
It is a completely SaaS based solution
Supports Air-gapped and On Prem deployments
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
Supports Agentless scanning in addition to agent based scanning
Open vs Proprietary
Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF sandbox project
CrowdStrike Falcon is a proprietary solution
Uses Falco Open Source
Can ingest results from open source security tools
Ingests results from partner tools which are proprietary
Ingests data from Open Source tools
Integrations
Integrates with both Open source and Proprietary tools for security
Integrates with only proprietary security tools
Integrates with both open source and proprietary scanners in addition to SIEM, Ticketing platforms
Can integrate with both Open Source and Proprietary tools
Future Proof Security
5G and IoT/Edge Security
Support IoT/Edge security and capabilities that apply to 5G
Provides security capabilities at the Edge
Only CNAPP without 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)
AI Security with AI-SPM module
AI security is possible with AI Workload Security
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