AccuKnox is the best example of how to achieve NIST & MITRE conformance out-of-the-box. The team has done a great job of simplifying security concepts ....
AccuKnox delivers comprehensive Zero Trust Cloud Security and flexible deployment options – Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Edge/IoT, 5G; offering security for modern workloads (Kubernetes, IaC, API, AI/LLM) and traditional workloads (Virtual Machine, Bare Metal)
Category / Feature
On-prem deployment support
Complete platform can be deployed On-prem
Not supported
By utilzing Google Distibuted Cloud and Google Cloud Platform Premium Software
By utilzing AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Outposts etc.
On-prem Workload scanning
Supports On-prem deployment for VM, containers, k8s well.
Scanning is possible via Azure Arc
Supports On-prem deployment for containers and k8s well.
Not supported
Multi Cloud Security Support
Can support wide range of public cloud providers Supports AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Ali Baba, Digital Ocean
Supports AWS, Azure, GCP
Supports mutlicloud by utilizing modern.
Supports mutlicloud and hybrid as well.
Zero Attack Proactive defense
Offers via Inline Mitigation
Offers via Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Limited Coverage
Limited Coverage
Pod Security Policy (PSP) admission controller support
PSA is available Adminssion controller is in the roadmap
Pod Security Admission specifically in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Not supported
Limited Coverage, offers default pod policy security system for particular Kubernetes versions
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Support
Can create and manage roles that will be assigned to user profiles for their authorization.
Has a Unified RBAC model that allows administrators to control permission
Have enabled to control access to resources and actions within instances and namespaces
By utilising Amazon Cognito
Malware scanning and remediation
Requires Integration
Microsoft Defender runs real-time protection to monitor for malicious activity
Has inbuilt malware scanner services, Shielded VMs and Security Commander Centers
AWS offers a number of services including Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon S3
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Yes
Yes Reference
Has built-in service called Web Security Scanner that can identify common security vulnerabilities in web applications.
Offers various inbuilt tools such as Bright Security’s DAST, Beagle Security.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Yes
Limited Coverage, Azure DevOps & Github support
By utilising Cycode, a product available in the Google Cloud console that supports SAST
Limited Coverage, have an inbuilt tool Amazon CodeGuru
Container Scan
Has extensive coverage including Jenkins, Circle CI, Harness, Gitlab and 10+ CI/CD pipelines (Reference)
Limited Coverage, Azure DevOps & Github support
By utilising Gcloud CLI.
By utilising Amazon Inspector
GenAI Co-Pilot
AccuKnox has a Gen-AI chatbot namely ‘Ask Ada’ for any misconfigurations and security queries
Microsoft Defender has a Copilot for Security.
Limited Coverage, Duet AI is an advanced AI assistant integrated into GCP
Limited Coverage, AWS Copolit Cli is a command line interface majorly helps in architectural support
Security for AI workloads & LLM Models (AI-SPM)
AccuKnox has built LLM security module namely ‘ModelKnox’
Limited Coverage, AI Workloads security currently covered for Azure & AWS
Limited Coverage
Limited Coverage (Limited Coverage (Reference)
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)
Not supported
Supports CIEM through its integration with Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Supports Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) through Security Command Center.
Supports Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) through Sailpoint CIEM
Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) Support
Container-level visibility with unique in-line mitigation enforcement to prevent zero-day attacks.
Not supported
Limited Coverage, by utilising GKE security posture dashboard and fleet-level security posture configuration.
Utilising inbuilt tools such as Datadog,Amazon VPC
Application Detection and Response (ADR) integrations
Can integrate external services with AccuKnox which allows these services to receive logs and metrics from the SaaS platform
Not supported
Not supported
Via AWS Incident Detection and Response, Amazon Inspector
Cloud Detection Response (CDR)
Supported in Runtime Security
Not supported
Supports via Google Cloud Security Command Center
Via AWS Incident Detection and Response, Amazon Inspector (Reference here)
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Not supported
Can provide holistic dashboard view on the data security and data loss prevention techniques
By integarting with IBM Guardium Insights SaaS DSPM, Prisma Cloud DSPM
By integrating with various tools such as Strac, Dig, Zscaler.
Zero Trust policy lifecycle management
Discovered policies are autogenerated based on application behavior and can be auto updated along with versioning
Defender for Endpoint provides the threat protections and zero trust.
By utilising Beyond Corp
Yes
Application security tooling integration
Can integarte with 3rd party tools as a part of Application Security Posture Management
Can integrate with multiple tools.
Can integrate with multiple tools.
Can integrate with multiple tools.
CI/ CD pipeline security
Can integrate with popular CI/CD tools and platforms ex: Jenkins, Gitlab etc.
Have Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Cloud Apps
Offers a suite of tools designed to support CI/CD workflows like Cloud Build.
AWS has a set of tools for various stages of development.
Multi-tenancy
Does not have a unified view
Supports multi tenancy with a unified view
Supports Multi-tenancy in Identity Platform
Supports Multi-tenancy with defined architecture.
Findings & Ticketing life cycle
By using ticketing automation
Microsoft Defender has support and ticketing options by integarting with XDR
Not supported
Not supported
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) & Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) Integrations
User can integrate with various SIEM and SOAR tools like Splunk, Rsyslog, AWS CloudWatch, Elastic Search, Slack and Jira.
Supports SIEM tools that ingest information from Microsoft Entra ID using OAuth 2.0
Supporta via Google Security Operations SOAR
Limited Coverage, offers various SOAR tools, users can integrate with the existing on-prem SIEM tools.
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