We performed a comparison between AWS Security Hub and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Ease of Deployment: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks' initial setup was straightforward and aided by helpful engineers and clear instructions. Deployment time differed but was uncomplicated. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub's setup is simple and straightforward, though policies must be set up. It necessitates minimal upkeep.
Features: Prisma Cloud provides a management console, continuous compliance monitoring, auto-remediation, and identity-based micro-segmentation. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub is commended for its integration capabilities, real-time alerts, and compliance monitoring. Prisma Cloud could benefit from more personalized dashboard options, enhanced automation capabilities, and better integration with ticketing systems. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub might benefit from greater integration possibilities with open-source solutions and upgrades to its user interface and dashboards.
Pricing: Prisma Cloud is perceived as having a complex credit-based pricing system, leading to a general perception of being expensive. However, it provides good value for securing multi-cloud environments. In contrast, AWS Security Hub is considered to have reasonable pricing, but there is some uncertainty surrounding it for those outside of the central team.
Service and Support: Prisma Cloud's customer service has been a bit inconsistent, with some customers appreciating the technical assistance and account managers, while others have encountered slow response times and unhelpful solutions. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub's technical support has been commended by contented customers for being prompt and efficient.
ROI: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks offers benefits such as risk transparency, enhanced compliance and security, and quicker issue resolution, resulting in improved productivity and cost savings. Although the exact ROI is hard to quantify, it reduces risks and enhances resource utilization. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub has been well-received with a positive outcome.
Comparison Results: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is the better option when compared to AWS Security Hub. Its features are more comprehensive and effective in protecting the entire cloud-native stack, including cloud compliance monitoring and alerting, network security, and micro-segmentation. While AWS Security Hub is praised for its integration capabilities, it falls short in terms of comprehensive features and auto-remediation capabilities.
"The best feature of AWS Security Hub is that you can get compliance or your cloud's current security posture."
"Very good at detection and providing real-time alerts."
"I really like the seamless integration with the AWS account structure. It can even be made mandatory as part of the landing zone. These are great features. And there's a single pane of glass for the entire account."
"AWS Security Hub has very good integration features. It allows for AWS native services integration, and it helps us to integrate some of the services outside of AWS. They have partners, such as Amazon Preferred Network Partners (APN). If you have different security tools around APN, we can integrate those findings with AWS Security Hub reducing the need to refer to different portals or different UIs. You can have AWS Security Hub act as a single common go-to dashboard."
"Easily integrates with third-party tools"
"The solution shows us our compliance score."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scanning of all the cloud environments and most of the compliances available in the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to manage...It is a scalable solution."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"The two most valuable features are container security and the capability to discover workloads."
"Prisma Cloud's monitoring features such as the compute compliance dashboard and the vulnerability dashboard, where we can get a clear visualization of their docker, have also been valuable. We can get layer-by-layer information that helps us see exactly where it's noncompliant. They update the dashboards quite frequently."
"The solution will streamline and minimize manual efforts."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"Due to the maturity of most companies, security posture management is the most valuable feature."
"It provides good visibility and control regardless of the complexity."
"Prisma Cloud helped us with compliance. Most of my deployments have been greenfield, so I don't have a benchmark to compare how the security posture has improved. I've always used this from day zero of the configuration. However, I can say that the compliance checks for PCI, DSS, HIPAA, etc., made my life simpler. I don't need to look at each of these standards and compare the rules I have in place."
"Adding SIEM features would be beneficial because of the limited customization of AWS Security Hub."
"The solution should be easier to learn and use"
"The solution lacks self-sufficiency."
"The telemetry doesn't always go into the control center. When you have multiple instances running in AWS, you need a control tower to take feeds from Security Hub and analyze your results. Sometimes exemptions aren't passed between the control tower and Security Hub. The configuration gets mixed up or you don't get the desired results."
"Although AWS Security Hub does a periodic scan of your overall infrastructure, it doesn't do it in real time."
"From an improvement perspective, there is a need to add more compliance since, right now, AWS Security Hub only provides four to five compliances to control the tool."
"The user interface, graphs, and dashboards of the solution could improve in the future. They are not very sophisticated and could use an update."
"AWS Security Hub should improve the time it takes to update. It takes a long period of time when updating. It can take 24 hours sometimes to update. Additionally, when integrating this solution with more security tools, takes time."
"We have discovered that Prisma is not functioning properly with GCP."
"It's not really on par with, or catering to, what other products are looking at in terms of SAST and DAST capabilities. For those, you'd probably go to the market and look at something like Veracode or WhiteHat."
"The access controls for our bank roles were not granular enough. We needed specific people to do particular actions, and we often had to give some people way too much access for them to be able to do what they needed in Prisma. They couldn't do their jobs if they didn't have that level of access, so other people had to do that part for them. It would help to have more granular role-based access controls."
"The first time I looked at Prisma Cloud, it took me a while to understand how to implement the integration or how to enable features by using the interface for integration. That portion can probably be improved."
"The Palo Alto support needs to improve."
"One thing that is missing is Cloud Run runtime security—serverless. That would be great to have in the tool. It's not that easy to have Cloud Run in specific environments."
"It can be too expensive for small companies."
"We face some GUI issues related to new permissions for AWS. So far, we don't have any automation to complete them through the GUI. We have to manually update the permissions. Our customers have faced some issues with that."
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AWS Security Hub is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 17 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 82 reviews. AWS Security Hub is rated 7.6, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS Security Hub writes "A centralized dashboard that enables efficient monitoring and management of possible security issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". AWS Security Hub is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Google Chronicle Suite and Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and AWS GuardDuty. See our AWS Security Hub vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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