Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Crowdstrike
Unlike CrowdStrike, 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)
Industry Standard (LSM) Based Security Enforcement
Operating System
Was built in cloud and supports wide range of technology & environments
Crowdstrike provides strong coverage for endpoints and Windows, but is limited for Linux.
On-Prem (Air Gapped), SaaS
Can Support all kinds of deployment : SaaS, On-Prem (Air-Gapped)
Does not support On-Prem
Software Supply Chain Security
Can get deployed as devsecops model to identity static code issues, open source dependencies, runtime behavioral change upon PR merge
Crowdstrike is not DevOps friendly . It lacks comprehensive posture and permissions management and vulnerability prioritization capabilities
Static Code Analysis
AccuKnox can detect static code issues foryour shift-left detect-early approach
Does not support
Software Composition Analysis
AccuKnox can detect dependencies in the open source and resources used to build it
Does not support
CI/CD Integration to Build cycle
AccuKnox can function well for entire software supply chain security and runtime security in CI/CD integration model of deployment
Just support runtime security as CI/CD Integration
CSPM - Cloud Security Posture Management
Vulnerability Management
AccuKnox can help to manage vulnerability from various security niche and then prioritize it based on CVSS, Environmental Risk and consumed logic at runtime.
Prioritize vulnerability using AI (which could be hallucinating) Uses Agent for scanning
Known Attacks Detection
Easily blocked as it falls beyond Zero Trust least permissive access policy
Will be hard to identify these attacks
Multi Cloud Inventory Assessment
Supported for AWS, GCP, Azure
Supported but with Limited coverage for Azure and GCP
Mis-configuration Detection for AWS, AZURE, GCP
Supported
Supported
Dashboards
Supported
Supported
Continuous Compliance
Supported
Supported
Baseline for Drift Detection
Support for Baseline definition and Drift from the baseline
Does not support
Tools integrations
Available
Not Available
Registry support
Nexus, Docker Hub, Google Artifact, ECR,ACR, (10+)
Nexus, Docker Hub, Google Artifact, ECR ,ACR
Ticketing Integrations
Available
Available
Reports
Available
Available
CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platform)
Workload Observability
Detailed level of observability of not only files accessed, process executed and process that made network connections but also Sensitive Volume Mount points such as Secrets Manager
Gain visibility to file, process and network communication inside a container
Application Support
Support all kind of Modern workload and their associated infrastructure or traditional workload running in VMs or DC
K8s and GCP could be improved (Limited coverage overall)
Images Risk Assessment
Scans for Container Image Vulnerability and SBOMs for container Images
Scans for Container Image vulnerability
Vulnerability Scanning
Supported
Supported
Compliance & Reporting
Supported
Supported
CI/CD Integration
Supported CI/CD Integration for not only for Runtime, but also for SAST, DAST or IaC
Support only for runtime. Not for SAST, DAST, IaC
Vulnerability Management
Supported
Supported
Container Protection
AccuKnox can preempt attacks on the container before they can execute
Not supported
Drift Detection for Containers
Supported
Supported
Application Exposure
AccuKnox supports network graph behavior to understand how containers are inter-connected and exposed to the workloads
Does not Support
Auto Discovered Zero Trust Policy
Believes in proactive zero-day attack mitigation approach
Does not provide Zero Trust Policy. Only Authentication part is getting marketed as "ZTA". Follows the suite of Detect and check heuristic and then respond kind of model
Continuous Monitoring & Dynamic Policy Generation
Auto-Discovery of App Behavior Auto-Recommendation of Hardening (Security Best Practices) & Auto-generation of Zero Trust Policies
Can not support cloud monitoring and continuous compliance at runtime
Inline Remediation
Proactive and in-line mitigation before Zero-Day attack can take place
Detect and Respond Model
Network Micro segmentation
Supported
They detect IPs but do not support micro-segmentation
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