DevSecOps
DevSecOps bridges the gap between development, security, and operations teams by integrating security practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This is achieved through Supply Chain Security, vulnerability scanning within the CI/CD pipeline and comprehensive Container Security, which enables early identification and remediation of security weaknesses ahead of code deployment.
Supply Chain Security
Treats the entire software development process as an interconnected web, securing every stage from components to vendors to delivery. This includes identifying vulnerabilities, preventing malicious tampering, and ensuring license compliance for all included software.
PA Prisma Cloud
Offers the most comprehensive view, mapping the entire chain from infrastructure code to running applications. It scans for vulnerabilities in all components, identifying potential risks throughout the development pipeline.
OX Security
Prioritizes vulnerabilities within the supply chain using their OSC&R framework, helping developers focus on critical issues impacting their applications.
Aqua Security
Secures containerized applications; scans container registries for vulnerabilities, ensuring secure components enter the supply chain.
Snyk
Specializes in open-source libraries; identifies vulnerabilities within these libraries, mitigating risks introduced by external dependencies.
Trivy
Open Source
Finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds, and more.
TruffleHog
Open Source
Searches code repositories for secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens that might have been accidentally committed; helps developers identify and remove these secrets before code is deployed.
CI/CD Security
Automates security scans throughout the CI/CD workflow, from code commit to deployment. These scans, like SAST and DAST, identify vulnerabilities early on, preventing them from reaching production and compromising your applications.
PA Prisma Cloud
Integrates with CI/CD tools to scan code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations early in development; offers a broad view, ensuring secure code enters the pipeline.
OX Security
Focuses on Active Security Posture Management (ASPM) within CI/CD, continuously monitoring code throughout the pipeline for vulnerabilities and automating remediation.
AccuKnox
Emphasizes runtime security within CI/CD. It goes beyond scanning by offering inline prevention, and actively stopping threats during the deployment process.
SonarQube
Open Source
For static code analysis, identifies bugs, poor coding practices, and potential security vulnerabilities within the code itself; integrates with CI/CD pipelines to analyze code as developers commit changes. SonarQube acts as a gatekeeper at the code level, ensuring secure coding practices from the beginning.
NeuVector
Open Source
Scans container images throughout the CI/CD pipeline, identifying vulnerabilities in open-source libraries and other dependencies used to build containers. It integrates with container registries to enforce security policies; can block images with critical vulnerabilities from entering the supply chain.
Container Security
Extending beyond just securing containerized applications, it acts as a security shield throughout the entire container lifecycle. This includes safeguarding the container image during build, protecting the container runtime environment, and securing the container network during execution, ensuring a holistic approach to container security.
PA Prisma Cloud
Aqua Security
Provide broad container security. PA Prisma Cloud scans container images for vulnerabilities during CI/CD and monitors container health post-deployment. Aqua Security excels in securing the entire container lifecycle, from image building to runtime protection.
Upwind
Specializes in runtime container security. It continuously monitors container activity for threats and suspicious behavior, providing real-time protection.
NeuVector
Open Source
Comprehensive platform, providing vulnerability scanning, runtime protection, and compliance checks throughout the container lifecycle.
Cloud Environment Protection
CEP orchestrates a layered defense for cloud infrastructure. It utilizes IaC Security, automated configuration management and granular access controls to establish a secure foundation. CEP further bolsters security with data encryption, network segmentation, secrets management and continuous vulnerability scanning. By integrating CSPM and Kubernetes Security, CEP provides a comprehensive approach to safeguarding cloud environments.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
CSPM functions as an automated security analyst for your cloud environment. It leverages security best practices and compliance frameworks to continuously assess your cloud configuration, identify security weaknesses, and prioritize potential risks, allowing you to address them before they become exploits.
PA Prisma Cloud
Provides a comprehensive CSPM platform, encompassing workload and container security, cloud resource configuration monitoring, and compliance checks. It offers a unified view of your entire cloud environment.
Wiz
Focuses on cloud infrastructure security; identifies misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud resources (storage, compute, network) and helps ensure adherence to security best practices.
Aqua Security
Specializes in container security, but also offers CSPM features like cloud workload protection and configuration management. It caters to organizations heavily invested in containerized applications.
Tenable Cloud
Scans cloud environments for vulnerabilities in configurations, assets, and identities. It integrates well with other Tenable products for a more extensive security posture view.
Cloud Custodian
Open Source
Comprehensive platform with built-in policy engine. It allows you to define custom security policies and continuously monitor your cloud environment for compliance. It integrates with various cloud providers and offers remediation capabilities.
Prowler
Open Source
Security tool that performs Cloud and Kubernetes security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness, along with remediations. It excels at quick assessments and offers reports in various formats.
Secrets Management
Acts as a secure vault for critical credentials like API keys, passwords, and certificates. It centralizes storage, enforces access controls, and automates lifecycle management (rotation, expiration), ensuring only authorized applications and users can access sensitive data, minimizing the risk of exposure or misuse.
All solutions in this category offer secure storage, encryption, key management, plus access controls for secrets like API keys, passwords, and certificates. They integrate with a variety of applications and tools to manage seamless access to secrets.
Akeyless
Emphasizes ease of use and rapid deployment. It offers a cloud-native SaaS model and pre-built integrations with popular DevOps tools, cloud providers, and security platforms. Akeyless platform also provides Secure Remote Access, KMS, and other solutions.
HashiCorp Vault
Known for its strong security features and granular access control; caters to complex enterprise environments and integrates well with other HashiCorp products.
Infisical
Open Source
Focuses on user-centric security and zero-knowledge architecture. It keeps user encryption keys entirely on client devices, enhancing user control over secrets.
Bitwarden
Open Source
Password manager that can be used to store personal and business secrets securely. Available as a SaaS subscription service with individual and enterprise plans with a variety of features.
Kubernetes Security
Focuses on securing the entire Kubernetes cluster, from the control plane to the worker nodes: hardening the control plane with access controls and encryption, enforcing network policies between pods, and maintaining the security of the container runtime environment. By securing each layer, you create a robust defense against attacks targeting your Kubernetes deployments.
Upwind
Concentrates on runtime threat detection within Kubernetes. It continuously monitors workloads for malicious activity, offering real-time protection against attacks specifically targeting Kubernetes deployments.
KubeArmor
Open Source
Acts as a runtime security policy enforcement engine for Kubernetes clusters. It enforces predefined security policies at the pod level, preventing unauthorized actions and potential exploits within the cluster.
NeuVector
Open Source
Provides a comprehensive container security platform that integrates with Kubernetes. It scans container images for vulnerabilities, detects threats at runtime within Kubernetes environments, and offers compliance checks throughout the container lifecycle.
Calico
Cilium
Open Source
Tools focused on network security for Kubernetes clusters. Calico offers a policy-based approach to control network traffic, while Cilium utilizes eBPF technology for more granular in-kernel enforcement of network security policies within Kubernetes.
IaC Security
IaC Security doesn't focus on securing the infrastructure itself, but rather the code that defines it (Infrastructure as Code). It employs static analysis tools to identify misconfigurations and potential security vulnerabilities within your IaC scripts. By catching these issues early, you can ensure your infrastructure is provisioned securely and minimizes the risk of creating exploitable weaknesses.
Armo
Scans infrastructure code templates (Terraform, CloudFormation) for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security best practice violations. It offers a wide range of predefined policies and can automatically suggest fixes for identified vulnerabilities.
PA Prisma Cloud
Broad CSPM platform that includes IaC security; scans infrastructure code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, aligning with overall cloud security posture.
AccuKnox
Focuses on runtime security within CI/CD pipelines, including IaC. It can block deployments built from vulnerable IaC and offers additional runtime protection for IaC-provisioned infrastructure.
Tenable Cloud
Wiz
Beyond IaC security, offer broader CSPM functionalities; scan IaC for misconfigurations and also assess overall security posture of your cloud environment.
Checkov
Open Source
Policy-as-code approach allows users to define custom security policies alongside their IaC templates, enabling highly granular control over security checks.
Vulnerability Management
Is a continuous process of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, and remediating security weaknesses in your systems and applications. It involves a combination of automated vulnerability scanning tools, threat intelligence feeds, and manual security assessments.
PA Prisma Cloud
Broad CSPM platform that includes vulnerability management. It scans cloud resources, containers, and workloads for vulnerabilities, providing a centralized view.
Tenable Nessus
Commercial vulnerability scanner that identifies vulnerabilities in operating systems, applications, and devices. It offers extensive coverage and advanced features. Nessus is the de-facto standard in Vulnerability Scanning.
Nuclei
Open Source
Vulnerability scanner that excels at identifying vulnerabilities in web applications through a unique templating system.
reNgine
Open Source
Vulnerability scanner focused on network infrastructure devices.
OpenVAS
Open Source
Vulnerability scanner addresses a broader range of targets like operating systems and applications, similar to commercial scanners.
Data Lifecycle Protection & MLOps Security
Data security requires a multifaceted approach to safeguarding sensitive information throughout the data lifecycle. DLP acts as a first line of defense, employing data discovery, classification, and access control mechanisms to prevent unauthorized exfiltration of sensitive data. DSPM complements DLP with a broader perspective. It utilizes automated tools to continuously monitor data storage, access patterns, and user activity across the organization's cloud infrastructure, identifying and mitigating potential security risks, to ensure comprehensive data protection.
Data-Leak Prevention (DLP)
Monitors and controls data movement across your network, endpoints, and cloud environments. By setting DLP policies, you can identify and prevent unauthorized data exfiltration through activities like emailing customer records, copying trade secrets to USB drives, or uploading sensitive data to unauthorized cloud storage.
PA Prisma Cloud
Offers DLP as part of its broad CSPM platform. It focuses on cloud data security, preventing sensitive information leakage from cloud storage and applications.
Cyera
Varonis
Specialize in DLP. They monitor and control data movement across your entire IT infrastructure, including cloud, endpoints, and on-premises systems. They offer features like data encryption, access controls, and anomaly detection to prevent unauthorized data exfiltration.
CrowdStrike Falcon
Couples endpoint security with DLP capabilities. It focuses on preventing data breaches by monitoring endpoint activity and user behavior for suspicious data exfiltration attempts.
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Takes a holistic approach, analyzing your data landscape to identify sensitive data types, assess data security risks, and ensure compliance with regulations.
PA Prisma Cloud (Dig Security)
Specifically designed for DSPM; integrates seamlessly with the broader Prisma Cloud platform for a unified security posture. Its comprehensive scope encompasses cloud, endpoint, and workload security within one DSPM solution.
Varonis
Excels in user behavior analytics, data access controls, and user behavior analytics. Traditionally focused on on-premise data security, although with a strong Cloud solution.
Tenable Cloud (Eureka)
Mainly endpoint data security and incident response. It mostly focuses on on-premises and endpoint data security.
Machine Learning Security Operations (MLSecOps)
Integrates security measures throughout the process, from data ingestion to model deployment. This includes securing data pipelines to prevent data poisoning, implementing access controls to safeguard models and training data, and continuously monitoring for potential biases or vulnerabilities in deployed models.
Protect AI
Comprehensive MLSecOps system that detects adversarial attacks, data leakage, and integrity breaches in machine learning models. It also monitors model usage and enforces access controls to ensure responsible AI practices; can help in analyzing models to understand their decision-making processes and identify potential biases.
LLM Guard (part of Protect AI platform)
Open Source
Can identify attempts to manipulate LLMs with malicious prompts. It prevents sensitive information from being revealed through LLM outputs and can filter out toxic or inappropriate content generated by LLMs.
ModelScan
Open Source
Focuses on detecting data poisoning and concept drift in machine learning models.
Garak
Open Source
Emphasizes explainability and fairness in machine learning models. It provides tools to analyze models for potential biases and helps improve their explainability.
Compliance
Security compliance necessitates aligning an organization's security posture with established industry standards and regulations. This often involves implementing a comprehensive security framework, such as ISO 27001, which provides a structured approach to managing information security risks. Frameworks like SOC 2 or PCI DSS offer more specific requirements tailored to protecting sensitive data (SOC 2) or payment card information (PCI DSS).
Automated Compliance
Leveraging automation and orchestration tools, automated security compliance establishes a continuous security posture verification framework. This framework employs real-time security assessments and configuration management tools to identify and remediate deviations from predefined security baselines and industry regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
Anecdotes.ai
Offers broad compliance management across various frameworks, with a focus on streamlining evidence collection and demonstrating continuous compliance. It also offers an optional Risk Management Module for a more holistic view of security posture. Automatic evidence collection, compliance status reporting, alerting and continuous monitoring are included.
Drata
Focuses on automating compliance for security and privacy frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR. It offers “Adaptive Automation” for creating custom security control tests. Automatic evidence collection, compliance status reporting, alerting and continuous monitoring are included.
OpenSCAP
Open Source
Offers a technical approach to compliance automation. To achieve compliance according to frameworks including PCI DSS, FEDRAMP, USGCB, and more.
