Wiz vs Prisma Cloud CNAPP Solutions Compared

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

Overview

Wiz is fast to deploy and easy to use. Prisma Cloud is comprehensive but heavyweight.

AccuKnox offers the best of both. It delivers complete CNAPP coverage without the bloat—built to scale across any environment.

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

Parameters

WIZ

Palto Alto Cortex Cloud

Application Security Coverage

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

Supports Container Registry Scanning

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

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

Provides SCA, SBOM and code scanning for vulnerabilities. But does not provide ability to perform DAST and scanning for best practices implemented in code

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

Integrate with CI/CD for Shift Left automation with prioritization

Integrates with CI/CD and IDEs

Integrates with CI/CD for software supply chain security

Observability & Remediation

Deep observability with context by making use of eBPF

Wiz provides an optional agent that leverages eBPF for observability in Linux and containers

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

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

Detect and respond approach to deal with issues identified at runtime

Graphical view of identities in Kubernetes with customizable queries to define least permissive posture

Can identify issues with Kubernetes RBAC

Can audit the activities on the cluster and limited visualization features

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

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

Detection rules for responding to events

Proactive prevention of attacks by denying access at the kernel layer using LSMs

Identifies issues in real time and reacts to attacks as they happen

Limited support. Certain activities like file modification cannot be prevented

Admission controller and PSA to prevent vulnerable deployments

Supports Admission controller for security policy checks during deployment

Supports Admission Controllers

Deployment Models

Air-gapped and on-prem support

Only SaaS model is supported

Supports on prem with some limitations

Support for hybrid environment of on-prem + cloud

Supported only for VMWare VSphere

Agent based protection and scanners for identifying vulnerabilities

Both Agentless and Agent Based supported

Can deploy scanners for agentless scanning and provide agent based security

Open vs Proprietary

Built on KubeArmor which is a CNCF sandbox project

Completely Proprietary solution

Uses open source tools such as Checkov to perform scans

Integrates with open source scanners to provide a single platform view

Does not integrate with open source security tools

Supports ingesting vulnerability scan results from open source tools

Supports integrations with Proprietary tools

Integrations

Integrates with both Open source and Proprietary tools for security

Integrates with commercial security solutions

Can integrate with only Proprietary tools

Future Proof Security

5G and IoT/Edge Security

Focused on Cloud Security

Supports 5G and IoT/Edge Security as separate modules

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

Provides KSPM to identify issues in the Kuberenetes infrastructure

Provides benchmarking checks for kubernetes to identify misconfigurations and identity issues

AI Security with ModelKnox (AI-SPM)

Provides AI-SPM component to secure AI models and services

Provides security for AI with AI-SPM module

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