2023 SC Awards Finalists: Best Cloud Security Posture Management Solution

Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform was designed to help organizations reduce attack surfaces in the cloud by combining agentless cloud workload scanning, traditional Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), continuous asset discovery, and correlated risk-based insights. Aqua CSPM+ offers seamless visibility into cloud environments, allowing security teams to efficiently prioritize and remediate risks without installing or maintaining agents. The platform supports major cloud native platforms, offering critical context to prioritize risks and simplify compliance with frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR. Aqua CSPM+ integrates with SIEM and collaboration tools and allows for easy creation of custom plugins for specific cloud services. Built on open source, the platform benefits from frequent updates and a large vulnerability scanning community. Aqua serves more than 500 enterprise customers across 40 countries and secures cloud deployments for 40% of Fortune 100 companies. While market share information is not available, Gartner has named Aqua a representative vendor in the cloud native security space, and the company has received praises from Frost & Sullivan for its innovation.

CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon operates as a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution designed to unify visibility and security enforcement across multi-cloud environments. It aims to prevent misconfigurations, eliminate compliance violations, and detect and prevent cloud control plane and identity-based threats. The product promises to streamlines CSPM and enforces compliance in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, allowing organizations to deploy applications securely and efficiently. It also offers one-click remediation testing and pre-built integrations for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Falcon Horizon provides identity security, integrated cloud infrastructure, and entitlement capabilities for monitoring and securing identities in various environments.Falcon Horizon was designed to minimize customer costs and complexity while reducing the risk of breaches. According to a Forrester study, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform delivers a 316% ROI with potential payback in less than three months. CrowdStrike Falcon Horizon works to help customers meet or surpass budgetary expectations by consolidating management and security tools, improving investigation speed, and reducing containment time and manual labor.

Ermetic uses an identity-first approach to unify and automate cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), cloud workload protection (CWP), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security posture management. The product offers comprehensive end-to-end cloud infrastructure security for organizations using AWS, Azure, and GCP. The agentless platform deploys in minutes, offering actionable insights within hours, and helps to prioritize and remediate security gaps immediately. Ermetic’s identity-first approach promises to significantly reduce the cloud attack surface and enforces least privilege at scale. The platform gets continuously updated to quickly address customer requirements. Ermetic customers report increased efficiency, comparable to adding 2-3 cloud security professionals, and improved cooperation with development and DevOps teams. The company offers a unified and robust solution for both CSPM and CIEM, along with CWP and IaC security posture management, consolidating multiple tools into a single platform and saving significant budget dollars.

Lacework’s Polygraph Data Platform was designed to help organizations maintain secure cloud infrastructure while demonstrating compliance with industry standards such as SOC2 and PCI. The platform offers unified visibility across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, assessing security posture and monitoring for misconfigurations at every stage of the cloud lifecycle. Lacework promises that development, operations, and security teams can prioritize, investigate, and respond to misconfigurations 80% faster with Lacework. The platform offers operational efficiencies for cloud security and compliance, reducing alerts, speeding up investigations, cutting manual efforts, and offering tool consolidation savings. Lacework’s approach combines the ability to see potential risks from an attacker’s perspective with real-time activity monitoring, enabling customers to prioritize the most impactful misconfigurations and detect exploitations. Offering three tiered packages, Lacework promises fast deployment, it’s flexible to integrate, and scales across multicloud environments with minimal overhead. It detects threats without manual configuration and continuously learns customers’ environments. With ongoing updates to the SaaS platform, Lacework aims to help its customers reduce cloud security costs, increase operational efficiencies, and achieve continuous compliance.

Orca Security, a comprehensive Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) platform, offers critical detection for cloud misconfigurations, policy violations, and compliance risks across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, and Oracle Cloud. The platform analyzes cloud configurations against more than 65 regulatory frameworks and CIS benchmarks, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and regulations. Orca consolidates cloud workload, configuration, entitlement, and data security into a single platform, prioritizing risks and identifying dangerous attack paths. Some leading benefits Orca promises include fast time-to-value, full-stack visibility, reduced alert fatigue, and multi-cloud support. Orca’s agentless technology offers insight into both workloads and configurations without the need for additional tools. The platform gets continually updated and has added several major capabilities in the past year, including Attack Path Analysis, Shift Left, Cloud Detection and Response, API Security, Data Security Posture Management, and Cloud Cost Optimization. Orca’s rapid deployment and scalability have helped customers lower cloud security operating costs, reduce licensing costs, and decrease cloud spend waste. The company has experienced significant growth, tripling its revenue and customer count in the past year.