CrowdStrike Falcon is a fast, lightweight, and cloud-native platform that provides comprehensive cloud security and compliance solutions. As a CSPM and a CWPP product, it offers real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and workloads, along with automated remediation capabilities. With Falcon, organizations can secure their cloud environments by identifying and mitigating risks, enforcing compliance policies, and protecting against advanced threats. CrowdStrike is a reputable name because it has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for its endpoint detection and response (EDR) several times. For more details, refer to https://www.crowdstrike.com/products/cloud-security/.
Orca CSPM
Orca Security CSPM is an agentless cloud-native security platform that provides comprehensive CSPM. Orca was one of the very first tools that offered agentless solutions and is one of the fastest-growing start-ups. It offers a wide range of features to help organizations maintain their cloud security posture, identify and remediate vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with industry regulations. Orca consolidates cloud workloads, identity and entitlement security, misconfiguration, container security, sensitive data discovery, and detection and response, all in one platform across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). To understand the full context of risks, Orca utilizes this unified data model and recognizes when seemingly unrelated issues can create dangerous attack paths. With these insights, Orca is also able to prioritize risks effectively, reducing alert fatigue and ensuring that security teams stay focused on what matters most. For more details, refer to https://orca.security/.
Prisma Cloud
Prisma Cloud is a cloud-native agentless security platform that provides comprehensive CSPM, threat detection, and compliance management for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. It is a product of Palo Alto Networks, a leading cybersecurity company. To give you a little background, RedLock was a cloud security and compliance platform developed by RedLock, Inc. that provided security and compliance monitoring capabilities for public cloud infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks acquired RedLock, Inc. in 2018 and merged the RedLock platform with its own cloud security product, Prisma Cloud. The merger of RedLock with Prisma Cloud created a more comprehensive cloud security platform that offers not only CSPM capabilities but also other security capabilities such as Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), container security, and application security. This allowed the organization to manage and secure its cloud environments holistically from a single platform. For more details, refer to https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/cloud.
Cloud Guard Dome9
Dome9 Security is a cloud security platform that provides comprehensive CSPM capabilities. It is designed to help organizations secure their cloud infrastructure and applications across multi-cloud environments. Dome9 aims to automate security processes across cloud environments, helping organizations orchestrate security policies and responses. In 2018, Check Point Software Technologies acquired Dome9, which means that Dome9’s technology has been integrated into the Cloud Guard suite of products. For more details, refer to https://docs.cloudguard.dome9.com/docs.