Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Prisma Cloud
Unlike Prisma, 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
Open Source Community Support
Cloud Account Inventory
AWS, Azure, GCP
AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, OCI
Misconfiguration detection
Drift Detection
Vulnerability Monitoring and Alert
Compliance
Prioritization
Container Image Scan
Registry Scan
Malware Scan
Requires Integration
Requires Wildfire
Admission Controller
Workflow Integration (Ticketing, SOAR,etc.)
Jira Cloud/Server, FreshService, ConnectWise
Service Now, PagerDuty, MS Teams, Jira, GCloud SCC, Cortex XSOAR, Azure Service Bus Queue
Security Solutions
Can integrate with open source and proprietary tools and ingest their data
Integrates with only proprietary solutions like Tenable, Qualys, AWS Inspector, Guard Duty
Observability
eBPF for deep observability
IPTable rules for network observability is not recommended
Model behavior
Auto-discover policies
Enforcement
LSM. Open Tech & Proactive security
Modified Prisma runC. Intrusive. Changes application and is not recommended
Hardening
Kernel and Application
Application
Policy versioning and rollback
Network Micro-segmentation
File Integrity Monitoring
Limited. Cannot prevent write/delete of existing file
Inline Remediation
Can stop zero day attack from taking place
Detect and Respond. Cannot Stop Zero Days attack
Telemetry
Policy Customization/Reusability
Compliance Benchmarking
SCA, SAST, DAST
SCA supported. No mention of SAST or DAST
IaC Scanning
In Roadmap
CIEM
In Roadmap
KIEM
Data Security
WAAS
On Prem Air Gapped
SaaS
Support for VM, BareMetal, Containers, Serverless
Agentless scanning support
You cannot secure what you cannot see.
Your most sensitive information is stored on cloud and on premise infrastructure. Protect what is most important from cyber attacks. Real-time autonomous protection for your network's edges.
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