Prisma Cloud vs Sysdig Cloud Security Platforms Compared

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

Overview

Prisma Cloud is powerful but hard to manage. Sysdig excels at runtime but lacks complete coverage.

AccuKnox delivers an integrated, lightweight, and developer-friendly platform for security across the full cloud-native lifecycle.

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

Parameters

Palo Alto Cortex Cloud

Sysdig

Application Security Coverage

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

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

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

Single scanner can be used to scan multiple registries

A new registry scanner must be installed per registry (except for AWS Organization)

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

Helps identify 3rd party dependencies and licensing issues(SCA), limited languages supported for SAST Does not provide DAST

Scans Container, IaC, Kubernetes manifest scan. Does not provide SAST and DAST capabilities for application vulnerability scanning

Supports scanning public registries

Public registries are not supported

Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left automation with prioritization

Integrates with CI/CD for software supply chain security

Allows integration with CI/CD Pipelines

Observability & Remediation

Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF

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

Leverages eBPF for deep observability

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.

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

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

Can audit the activities on the cluster and limited visualization features

Does not provide a graphical view of the entities and their relationships

Hardening and Prevention

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

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

Provides policies that harden the workloads and prevents violations before they happen

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

Auto generate zero trust policies to allow only the expected behavior of the application while denying everything else

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 Admission Controllers

Supports Admissions Controller and CIS Benchmarking of clusters

Deployment Models

Air-gapped and on-prem support

Supports on prem with some limitations

Supports Air-gapped and On Prem deployments

Agent based protection and scanners for identifying vulnerabilities

Can deploy scanners for agentless scanning and provide agent based security

Supports Agentless scanning in addition to agent based scanning

Open vs Proprietary

Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF sandbox project

Uses open source tools such as Checkov to perform scans

Uses Falco Open Source

Supports ingesting vulnerability scan results from open source tools

Supports integrations with Proprietary tools

Ingests data from Open Source tools

Integrations

Integrates with both open source and proprietary scanners in addition to SIEM, Ticketing platforms

Can integrate with only Proprietary tools

Can integrate with both Open Source and Proprietary tools

Future Proof Security

5G and IoT/Edge Security

Supports 5G and IoT/Edge Security as separate modules

Provides security capabilities at the Edge

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

Provides benchmarking checks for kubernetes to identify misconfigurations and identity issues

Provides only the KSPM capabilities

AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)

Provides security for AI with AI-SPM module

AI security is possible with AI Workload Security

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Cloud Compliance Tools

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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.”