Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Calico Cloud
Unlike Calico Cloud, which lacks critical modules like Inline Prevention, AccuKnox offers a comprehensive Cloud Native Application Security Platform (CNAPP), that ensures 100% prevention from advanced "Zero-Day" attacks. Powered by inline runtime security, AccuKnox stops threats before they happen and takes action at cloud speed.
Capabilities
Inline Security (as opposed to post-attack mitigation)
Industry Standard (LSM) Based Security Enforcement
ASPM Comparison
Static Code Analysis
Software Composition Analysis
DAST
In Roadmap
Vulnerability Management
CSPM Executive Dashboard
Misconfiguration Detection
Single Unified Visibility
Continuous Compliance
Baseline for Drift Detection
Tools integrations
Registry support
Nexus, Docker Hub, Google Artifact, AWS ECR , Azure ACR, Harbor, Jfrog
Ticketing Integrations
Reports
CWPP Comparison
Workload Observability
KIEM
Images Risk Assessment
Vulnerability Scanning
Risk Based Prioritization
Compliance & Reporting
Compliance Dashboard
Vulnerability Management
Container protection at runtime
Drift Detection for containers
Auto Discovered Zero Trust Policy
AccuKnox discovers zero trust policy to whitelist files, process and network behavior of the workloads
Calico enforces network policy and advance network policy
Custom Zero Trust Policy
Auto discovered policies based on the application behavior
Calico Network policies:
- Calico Cloud network policy
- Calico Cloud global network policy
- Kubernetes policy
Inline Remediation
They leverage eBPF for observability and enforces network policies to restrict network access
Network Micro-segmentation
Workload Hardening Policies
Logs & Alerts
Multi User, Multi Tenant, Multi Cluster management
Channel Integrations
k8s workloads support
VM & Bare-Metal support
On-prem deployment of platform
ECS support
Windows Support
File Integrity Monitoring
Continuous Compliance
Supported Compliance
CIS, MITRE, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, SOC2, ISO 27001 AWS Security Best Practices Azure Security Best Practices GCP Security Best Practices
PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, and custom frameworks. Compliance | Tigera
Zero Day Attacks cost $3.9M on average
4+
Marketplace Listings
7+
Regions
33+
Compliance Coverage
37+
Integrations Support
Stop attacks before they happen!
According to the latest IBM cloud attack report - Each cloud attack on an average costs $3.92M
Total Exposed Attacks in 2024 Costed
~$1.72 Billion
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