We performed a comparison between Aqua Security Platform and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Users appreciate Aqua Security Platform for its container image security, sandboxing and malware detection features, and ability to patch on-demand. It particularly excels in endpoint protection and its ability to leverage machine learning and AI. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security was lauded for its strong adherence to security best practices. Users say Aqua Security Platform should improve its automated reporting and log forwarding, reduce resource usage, and overhaul its UI. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security could improve its Kubernetes and GCP support.
Service and Support: Aqua Security Platform users have praised its responsive and helpful customer service, but a few encountered situations where they had to resolve problems themselves. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security users are generally content with the support team's assistance and promptness.
Ease of Deployment: Aqua Security Platform's initial setup can be complex and time-consuming, depending on the environment, and may necessitate specialized personnel for maintenance and updates. The setup for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security was also deemed easy, but some users struggled with the Kubernetes implementation.
Pricing: Aqua Security Platform is priced competitively compared to some premium solutions and falls in the middle pricing tier. Users consider the pricing of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security to be fair, but it may be pricier than on-premises alternatives.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security over Aqua Security Platform Users find the initial setup to be simple and direct, with seamless updates through manageable deployment and automation. The product is praised for its adherence to security best practices, stability, and helpful technical support. It offers comprehensive security coverage for the platform, including features like endpoint protection and real-time monitoring. The pricing is considered fair and reasonable, and customers express contentment with the provided customer service and support.
"The management console is highly intuitive to comprehend and operate."
"PingSafe released a new security graph tool that helps us identify the root issue. Other tools give you a pass/fail type of profile on all misconfigurations, and those will run into the thousands. PingSafe's graphing algorithm connects various components together and tries to identify what is severe and what is not. It can correlate various vulnerabilities and datasets to test them on the back end to pinpoint the real issue."
"PingSafe's most valuable feature is its unified console."
"PingSafe can integrate all your cloud accounts and resources you create in the AWS account, We have set it up to scan the AWS transfer services, EC2, security groups, and GitHub."
"The offensive security where they do a fix is valuable. They go to a misconfiguration and provide detailed alerts on what could be there. They also provide a remediation feature where if we give the permission, they can also go and fix the issue."
"Cloud Native Security has helped us with our risk posture and securing our agenda. It has been tremendous in terms of supporting growth."
"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."
"It is very straightforward. It is not complicated. For the information that it provides, it does a pretty good job."
"The CSPM product is great at securing our cloud accounts and I really like the runtime protection for containers and functions too."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"From what I understand, the initial setup is simple."
"The most helpful feature of Aqua Security is Drift Prevention, which is a feature that allows images to be immutable. In addition, one of the main reasons we went with Aqua Security is because it provides strong protection when it comes to runtime security."
"Their sandboxing service is also really good."
"The DTA, which stands for Dynamic Threat Analysis, allows me to analyze Docker images in a sandbox environment before deployment, helping me anticipate risks."
"The most valuable feature of Aqua Security is the scanner."
"Valuable features include the ability to connect it to our Docker Hub where our images are stored, good integration with Slack, and the connection to the CV, to easily see which CVs are on each image."
"The RTR feature stands out as particularly valuable to me due to its capability to log into machines."
"The initial setup is easy ."
"There is a lot that it can do, but endpoint protection is the main thing about it. The fact that it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor and remediate the issues in real-time is probably the bread and butter of the product."
"The most significant benefit is how quickly malware and other malicious attacks are detected."
"Cloud security is one valuable feature. Spotlight is the other one. There is also vulnerability management and a couple of more features."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The immediate mitigation of potential threats and instant alerts are valuable."
"It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats."
"I would like additional integrations."
"Their search feature could be better."
"There is no break-glass account feature. They should implement this as soon as possible because we can't implement SSO without a break-glass feature."
"When we get a new finding from PingSafe, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the PingSafe platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report."
"I used to work on AWS. At times, I would generate a normal bug in my system, and then I would check PingSafe. The alert used to come after about three and a half hours. It used to take that long to generate the alert about the vulnerability in my system. If a hacker attacks a system and PingSafe takes three to four hours to generate an alert, it will not be beneficial for the company. It would be helpful if we get the alert in five to ten minutes."
"Cloud Native Security's reporting could be better. We are unable to see which images are impacted. Several thousand images have been deployed, so if we can see some application-specific information in the dashboard, we can directly send that report to the team that owns the application. We'd also like the option to download the report from the portal instead of waiting for the report to be sent to our email."
"We are getting reports only in a predefined form. I would like to have customized reports so that I can see how many issues are open or closed today or in two weeks."
"While it is good, I think the solution's console could be improved."
"Aqua Security could improve the forwarding of logging into Splunk and into other tools, it should be easier."
"We would like to see an improvement in the overview visibility that this solution offers."
"I would like Aqua Security to look into is the development of a web security portal."
"Since we are working from home, we would like to have the proper training for Aqua."
"The user interface could be improved, especially in terms of organization and clarity."
"In the next release, Aqua Security should add the ability to automatically send reports to customers."
"Sometimes I got stressed with the UI."
"The integrations on CICD could be improved. If Aqua had more plugins or container images to integrate and automate more easily on CICD, it would be better."
"There should be cloud storage scanning. We would like to have cloud storage vulnerability and threat management on any cloud storage."
"The CrowdStrike dashboard currently lacks a username field."
"The UI part needs to be improved."
"One area for improvement in Falcon Cloud Security is the support portal."
"It would be more convenient if there was an easier way to install CrowdStrike, perhaps through better integration with Active Directory."
"The only challenge lies in token verification."
"It gets the work done, but the main problem with the solution is that if you remediate anything, it takes 45 days for you to get any of the features displayed on the dashboard. This is the real weakness of CrowdStrike. Their customer support is also not ready to help with it. If you remediate any cloud vulnerability that they are giving you, such as removing a host from your organization, it takes around 45 days for them to remove it from their console."
"The only suggestion for improvement would be the pricing."
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Aqua Cloud Security Platform is ranked 7th in Container Security with 16 reviews while CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is ranked 9th in Container Security with 13 reviews. Aqua Cloud Security Platform is rated 8.0, while CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Aqua Cloud Security Platform writes "Reliable with good container scanning and a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security writes "Enhances the overall safety of our company's environment from cyber threats". Aqua Cloud Security Platform is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Snyk, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Fortify WebInspect, whereas CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Qualys VMDR and Sysdig Falco. See our Aqua Cloud Security Platform vs. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security report.
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