Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Tools

Acquired by Google. Wiz is the leader in having an all-in-one cloud security platform by expanding into CTEM, ASPM, and Runtime capabilities all within a single dashboard. Their posture and vulnerability capabilities remain the strongest, but their Code and Defend offerings are competitive in their own right.

Aikido provides everything the average startup to mid-market company needs for security in a box - every code and cloud security scanner under the sun without much feature compromise, alongside a surprisingly robust runtime application solution for things like bot prevention. A no-nonsense replacement for a lot of more "specialized" solutions that tend to slow developers down.

Upwind has built CNAPP from the ground-up around runtime insights provided from a network focused endpoint agent. They provide unique features like API security, alongside vulnerability prioritization and scanning, and the more generic CNAPP feature sets.

Ox provides an all-in-one application security solution that provides their own scanners combined with the ability to import third party findings. They also have a robust API for managing the data in the tool.

Orca offers the standard suite of CNAPP features with a focus on agentless scanning. They're a good all around CNAPP offering mostly focused on the posture side.

Stream Security provides real time cloud context for enterprise security operations teams. The solution fills in the missing configuration gaps with most existing EDR and SIEM approaches to cloud security by providing real time information about how the cloud environment is changing to detect and respond to threats faster.

Tenable offers a robust ecosystem of vulnerability scanning solutions, most recently consolidated with their Tenable One Exposure Management platform. Tenable offers scanning from cloud to DAST to network scanning, and is widely deployed across enterprises in order to consolidate different scanners. Their exposure management platform has done a great job bringing together their various data points, creating a more unified experience that the platform had been missing.

Cyscale checks all the boxes for a CNAPP, but their tracking of user identities stands out in the space. They have great visualizations, and have an agent for K8s support. A strong entry in the CNAPP market.

Aqua Security built a lot of the open source projects that power modern cloud security, and can go feature for feature with most other CNAPP platforms. The downside of the CNAPP has been the UI/UX, and the focus has always been on container protection more than holistic cloud security features.

Cortex Cloud is a security operations platform that integrates cloud and application security capabilities into their larger security operations offerings. This provides a single hub for managing first and third party findings across vulnerabilities and runtime events.

Sysdig created the first runtime cloud protection tool with the open source project Falco, and has since built a trusted, enterprise ready, runtime oriented CNAPP platform. The tool is strongest at runtime protection, but offers the standard suite of CNAPP features, and is especially a good choice for regulated industries.

Uptycs biggest strength is its biggest weakness - it undoubtedly has the most features of any CNAPP platform, from ASPM to container runtime. However, that creates a corresponding UI bloat that's as bad as it gets for these platforms. As a certified Kubernetes enjoyer though, their cluster visibility with Kubequery is quite good.

Lacework built on top of an alert based approach rather than more traditional scanning models. That has the benefit of reduced noise and a faster reactive approach, but at the cost of surfacing a lot of alerts to security that they don't have the ability to fix.

Security Hub does a decent job aggregating AWS' security tooling reports into a single dashboard. They also offer a lot of integrations into other tools. That being said, they're not a great CSPM solution on their own and their dashboards have limited usefulness.