Compelling Reasons to Choose AccuKnox over Wiz
Unlike Wiz, 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)
Linux Security Module (LSM) based Runtime Security
Misconfiguration
Misconfiguration detection based on CIS Benchmark
Misconfiguration detection based on CIS Benchmark
Drift Detection
Support of Baseline for Drift Detection
Minimal IaC security, drift detection and no autoremediation at the source. They can only detect secrets but after deployment of resources.
Compliance
Compliant with SOC2, STIG, PCI, HIPAA, CIS, MITRE, NIST, and 30 more
CIS, PCI, NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR
Vulnerabilities Management
Segregation of False Positives, least priority, not applicable vulnerabilities from Active ones
Segregation of False Positives, least priority, not applicable vulnerabilities from Active ones
Container Image Scan
Repo Scan - ECR, GCR, Nexus, DockerHub
Regularly scan images in container registries to detect vulnerabilities and security risks before deployment to the runtime environment
Remediation
Remediation with auto-ticket creation, bulk ticketing, comment-analysis on the ticket. Ticketing integration - Jira Cloud/Server, FreshService, ConnectWise
Partially Supported - With No Automation
Static Code Analysis (SCA)
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Runtime Pre Assessment
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Kubernetes Identity and Entitlement Management (KIEM)
AccuKnox is the only KIEM Provider in the Cloud Security Space
Admission Controller
Provide encryption to data stored in the cluster such as secrets and configuration data
Platform
Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Rocky Linux, AWS Raspberry Pi; K8s - on-prem (k3s, microk8s, kubeadm), GKE, AKS, OKE, Bottlerocket, IBM, Graviton, Rancher, Openshift, Oracle Ampere; Vm/BareMetal
VMs, containers, serverless, and PaaS – and offers full feature support across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
Observability
Leveraging eBPF for Deep Observability
Not supported
Application Behavior
Model app behavior of Process execs, File System accesses, Service binds, Ingress, Egress connections
Not supported
Auto Recommended Zero Trust Policies
Auto-Discovery of Security Policies contextual to the individual workloads behavior
Not supported
Preemptive Mitigation
Dynamically detect change in app behavior and an option to accept or deny that change
Not supported
Runtime Enforcement
Leverage LSMs (AppArmor, SELinux, BPF-LSMs) to do enforcement
Limited CWPP Features (no runtime)
Workload Hardening
In-line remediation for Zero Day Attacks such as LSMs leveraged for blocking process before its execution
Limited CWPP Features (no runtime)
Hardening Policies
Auto - Recommendation of Hardening Policies based on standard compliance framework - MITRE, NIST, PCI-DSS, CIS
Not Supported Built-in rules and create custom rules using OPA’s Rego querying language
Alerts
K8s context stitched with kernel events for traceability. Assess Cloud Accounts as well
Limited Kubernetes context (can’t understand Pods, namespaces, services, deployment, k8s API etc) No integration with K8s admission controllers to prevent vulnerabilities (only reactionary)
Network Microsegmentation
Microsegmentation control of the workload
Not supported
File Integrity Monitoring
Support for FIM
Not supported
Cluster Benchmarking
Cluster Benchmarking : Kube Bench; Node, Service : Kube Hunter, Cluster & Kube Role : Kube-RBAC
Not supported
Container Runtime
Container Runtime Support : container, Docker, CRI-O
Not supported
Runtime Security
Runtime Security: To be able to adapt to application behavior changes and recommend least permissive security policy for security
Not supported
Deployment
Support for SaaS solution as well as Onprem air-gapped deployment solution Agent - CWPP; Agentless - CSPM
Agentless for both CSPM & CWPP
Fargate/Serverless
Community Support
KubeArmor: 700,000+ downloads… 50,000+ a month and growing (global leaders consuming and contributing)
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