Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Checkpoint
Unlike Checkpoint, 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
Industry Standard (eBPF) Based Kernel Telemetry
Inline Security (as opposed to post-attack mitigation)
Supported Platforms
Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Rocky Linux, AWS Raspberry Pi; K8s - on-prem (k3s, micro k8s, kubeadm), GKE, AKS, OKE, Bottle Rocket, IBM, Graviton, Rancher, Openshift, Oracle Ampere; Vm/Bare Metal
K8s - v1.21 and higher for both managed and unmanaged, Openshift, Tanzu. Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Amazon Linux, Google COS, AWS Bottlerocket , RHCOS (OpenShift), AKS Ubuntu
Observability
Using eBPF
Application Behavior
Drift Detection
Hardening
Application and Kernel
Blocks activity by killing containers
Policy Lifecycle Management
Auto created policy cannot be adjusted directly
Network Microsegmentation
Using eBPF
File Integrity Monitoring
Cluster Benchmarking
Deployment
DaemonSet. No changes required in containers
Kernel Headers Installation, DaemonSet agent
Admission Controller
Supported...
Support for Serverless, VM, Baremetal, k8s
Serverless, k8s support
Asset Inventory
AWS, Azure, GCP
AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Alibaba
Cloud misconfigurations
Drift detection
Monitoring and alerts
Compliance
Technical (such as STIG, CIS, MITRE, NIST) or governance (such as HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS) Compliance
CIS, Governance Specification Language (GSL) can be used to specify new rules
Agentless Scanning
Cloud Traffic Graph
Data Security
Finds Sensitive data in storage like S3 for risk classification
Remediation Suggestions
Recommend remediation and CloudBots
Auto Remediation
Can configure CloudBots for remediation
Risk Correlation
Assigns Risk Score
Registry Scan
ECR, GCR, Nexus, Docker Hub, ACR, Harbor, Quay, jFrog, GAR
ACR, GCR, ECR, GAR, Harbor, Nexus, JFrog, GitHub Container Registry
Malware Scan
Requires Integration
Agentless Registry Scan
IaC Scanning
SAST
SCA
DAST
SBOM
WAF
Prioritization
Identify overprivileged IAM roles
In Roadmap
Observability of effective privileges
Query identity issues
On-Prem/Air Gapped
Management agents are supported
SaaS
SSO
Open Source Community Support
Ticketing/Workflow
Jira Cloud/Server, FreshService, ConnectWise
QRadar, AWS SNS, EventArc, Jira, ServiceNow, MS Teams
Security Findings
"Software : CLOC, Fortify, Snyk, SonarQube, Sonartype,Trivy, Veracode Container : Clair/ECR, Snyk, Trivy. Web App : Burp, Droopescan, Zap."
AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, Azure Defender, Tenable.io, Sentra
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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