Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs Tenable.io Container Security comparison

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Updated on Jul 4, 2023

We performed a comparison between Tenable.io Container Security 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.

  • Features: Tenable.io Container Security excels at identifying vulnerabilities and resolving deployment misconfigurations. Prisma Cloud provides extensive visibility, robust management options, and a diverse set of security functionalities for multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Tenable.io Container Security needs enhancements in auto-remediation, asset visibility, and compliance customization. Prisma Cloud requires improvements in dashboards, query building, correlation, and automation.

  • Service and Support: Customers have experienced difficulties with Tenable's customer service and support. Some customers said Palo Alto provided excellent, helpful, and responsive support. However, a few customers were dissatisfied with slow response times and a lack of satisfactory resolutions.

  • Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Tenable.io Container Security is considered straightforward with the support of helpful guidebooks. Reviewers had varied experiences when setting up Prisma Cloud. They said it can be easy or challenging depending on the organization's requirements. It typically takes users one or two weeks to deploy Tenable.io, while the deployment time for Prisma Cloud depends on the complexity of the environment.

  • Pricing: The cost of Tenable.io Container Security is determined by the number of pages in the application. Some users said that Prisma Cloud is reasonably and competitively priced, while others view it as expensive but essential for the benefits it offers.

  • ROI: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks has demonstrated its effectiveness in preventing breaches, enhancing risk understanding, and decreasing security expenses. Users offered limited feedback on Tenable's ROI.

Comparison Results: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is the preferred choice over Tenable.io Container Security. Prisma Cloud offers extensive visibility and management features. Users like Prisma Cloud's powerful anomaly detection, integration, and coverage of multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Prisma Cloud stands out due to its easy configuration, integration with DevSecOps pipelines, and comprehensive security capabilities.

To learn more, read our detailed Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Tenable.io Container Security Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"It used to guide me about an alert. There is something called an alert guide. I used to click on the alert guide, and I could read everything. I could read about the alert and how to resolve it. I used to love that feature.""With PingSafe, it's easy to onboard new accounts.""It is very straightforward. It is not complicated. For the information that it provides, it does a pretty good job.""The solution is a good alerting tool.""The real-time detection and response capabilities overall are great.""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.""It saves time, makes your environment more secure, and improves compliance. PingSafe helps with audits, ensuring that you are following best practices for cloud security. You don't need to be an expert to use it and improve your security.""PingSafe's most valuable feature is its unified console."

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"The product is quite good for providing multi-clouds or cross-cloud security from a single-pane -of-glass.""Prisma Cloud also provides the visibility and control you need, regardless of how complex or distributed your cloud environments become. It helps to simplify that complexity. Now we know what the best practices are, and if something is missing we know.""It supports the multi-cloud environment beautifully.""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.""We were pleased with Prisma's custom and built-in reports. We could go into the dashboard and see all these notifications telling us which subscriptions didn't have TLS 1.2 enabled. The security controls were the most valuable features.""The most valuable features are vulnerability monitoring, serverless access, container runtime features, and Defender.""Integration is very easy. And because it supports security that spans multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, it's very easy to use.""Prisma Cloud's inventory reporting is pretty good."

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"Nessus scanner is very effective for internal penetration testing.""The strong security provided by the product in the container environment is its most valuable feature.""It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, it is a good solution.""Currently, I haven't implemented the solution due to its deprecation by the site. However, I can highlight some benefits of Tenable Cloud Security, a cybersecurity solution with various features for scanning vulnerabilities in both cloud environments and on-premises container security.""It helps us secure our applications from the build phase and identify the weaknesses from scratch.""Tenable.io detects misconfiguration when you deploy a Docker or Kubernetes container. It's much better to remedy these issues during deployment instead of waiting until the container is already in the production environment.""The tool's most valuable feature is scanning, reporting, and troubleshooting."

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Cons
"I would like PingSafe to add real-time detection of vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations.""With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case.""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.""The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint.""We are experiencing problems with Cloud Native Security reporting.""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.""The could improve their mean time to detect.""There's an array of upcoming versions with numerous features to be incorporated into the roadmap. Customers particularly appreciate the service's emphasis on intensive security, especially the secret scanning aspect. During the proof of concept (POC) phase, the system is required to gather logs from the customer's environment. This process entails obtaining specific permissions, especially in terms of gateway access. While most permissions for POC are manageable, the need for various permissions may need improvement, especially in the context of security."

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"In terms of improvement, there are some small things like hardening and making sure the Linux resources are deployed well but that's more at an operational level.""Prisma is good about compliance, and their support is excellent, but they struggle with automation and integration. They need to stay on top of the newest types of connectors. How can you connect other applications and other tools in order for this to work cohesively? That's a challenge.""The area for improvement is less about the product and more about the upsell. If we've already agreed that we'd like your product x, y, or z, don't try to add fries to my burger. I don't need it.""The pricing for the solution needs improvement.""We identified two things that we felt would be great to have, but they are under NDA. So, I can't disclose them. Other than those two things, we identified a generic bug in the secret key management service on AWS that needs to be fixed. We reported it to them, and we want them to fix it.""It would be ideal if they could somehow reduce the deployment time.""The IM security has room for improvement.""The automation must continue to become much smoother."

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"The initial setup is highly complex.""I feel that in certain areas this product has false positives which the company should work on. They should also try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing. Finally, the vulnerability assessment feature should be increased to other hardware devices, apart from firewalls.""The stability and setup phase of the product are areas with shortcomings where improvements are needed.""They need to work on auto-remediation so it's easier for the security team to act quickly when certain assets or resources are deployed. The latest version has a CIS benchmark that you need to meet for containers in the cloud, but more automation is needed.""Tenable.io Container Security should improve integration modules. It should also improve stability.""The support is tricky to reach, so we would like better-oriented technical support enabled.""I believe integration plays a crucial role for Tenable, particularly in terms of connecting with other products and various container solutions like Docker or Kubernetes. It seems that in future updates, enhanced integration is something I would appreciate. Currently, there is integration with Docker, but when it comes to Kubernetes or other container solutions, it appears to be a challenge, especially with on-prem scanners."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "As a partner, we receive a discount on the licenses."
  • "It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."
  • "I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."
  • "Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."
  • "Singularity Cloud Workload Security's licensing and price were cheaper than the other solutions we looked at."
  • "I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."
  • "It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."
  • "The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"
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  • "The purchasing process was easy and quick. It is a very economical solution."
  • "Our licensing fees are $18,000 USD per year."
  • "One thing we're very pleased about is how the licensing model for Prisma is based on work resources. You buy a certain amount of work resources and then, as they enable new capabilities within Prisma, it just takes those work resource units and applies them to new features. This enables us to test and use the new features without having to go back and ask for and procure a whole new product, which could require going through weeks, and maybe months, of a procurement process."
  • "The pricing and the licensing are both very fair... The biggest advice I would give in terms of costs would be to try to understand what the growth is going to look like. That's really been our biggest struggle, that we don't have an idea of what our future growth is going to be on the platform. We go from X number of licenses to Y number of licenses without a plan on how we're going to get from A to B, and a lot of that comes as a bit of a surprise. It can make budgeting a real challenge for it."
  • "From my exposure so far, they have been really flexible on whatever your current state is, with a view to what the future state might be. There's no hard sell. They "get" the journey that you're on, and they're trying to help you embrace cloud security, governance, and compliance as you go."
  • "If a competitor came along and said, "We'll give you half the price," that doesn't necessarily mean that's the right answer, at all. We wouldn't necessarily entertain it that way. Does it do what we need it to do? Does it work with the things that we want it to work with? That is the important part for us. Pricing wasn't the big consideration it might be in some organizations. We spend millions on public cloud. In that context, it would not make sense to worry about the small price differences that you get between the products."
  • "The pricing and licensing are expensive compared to the other offerings that we considered."
  • "I don't know a better way to do it, but their licensing is a little confusing. That's due to the breadth of different types of technologies they are trying to cover. The way you license depends on where you're securing. When they were Twistlock it was a simple licensing scheme and you could tell what you were doing. Now that they've changed that scheme with Palo Alto, it is quite confusing. It's very difficult to predict what your costs are going to be as you try to expand coverage."
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  • "It's best to be an institutional buyer and directly contact the sales team as they can provide over-the-top discounts for bulk orders."
  • "I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten."
  • "The product does not operate on a pay-per-license model."
  • "I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
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    Overview

    Singularity Cloud Security is SentinelOne’s comprehensive, cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It combines the best of agentless insights with AI-powered threat protection, to secure and protect your multi-cloud infrastructure, services, and containers from build time to runtime. SentinelOne’s CNAPP applies an attacker’s mindset to help security practitioners better prioritize their  remediation tasks with evidence-backed Verified Exploit Paths™. The efficient and scalable runtime protection, proven over 5 years and trusted by many of the world’s leading cloud enterprises, harnesses local, autonomous AI engines to detect and thwart runtime threats in real-time. CNAPP data and workload telemetry is recorded to SentinelOne’s unified security lake, for easy access and investigation.

    Singularity Cloud Security includes both agentless and AI-powered cloud security controls, which represent two halves of our strategy to keep public cloud and container environments safe. Radically reduce your cloud attack surface with Singularity Cloud Native Security, formerly PingSafe, with agentless insights and evidence-based prioritization; protect runtime compute and container with Singularity Cloud Workload Security, SentinelOne’s real-time CWPP, with AI-powered machine-speed blocking of threats.

    Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is a cloud security solution used for cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, container security, and code security. It provides visibility, monitoring, and alerting for security issues in multi-cloud environments. 

    The solution is user-friendly, easy to set up, and integrates with SIEM for generating alerts and reports. Its most valuable features include security features, monitoring capabilities, reporting, compliance monitoring, vulnerability dashboard, data security features, and multi-cloud capabilities. Prisma Cloud has helped organizations by providing comprehensive protection, automating workflows, simplifying troubleshooting, and improving collaboration between SecOps and DevOps.

    Prisma Cloud Features

    Prisma Cloud offers comprehensive security coverage in all areas of the cloud development lifecycle:

    • Code security: Protect configurations, scan code before it enters production, and integrate with other tools.

    • Security posture management: Monitor posture, identify and remove threats, and provide compliance across public clouds.

    • Workload protection: Secure hosts and containers across the application lifecycle.

    • Network security: Gain network visibility and enforce micro segmentation.

    • Identity security: Enforce permissions and secure identities across clouds.

    Benefits of Prisma Cloud

    • Unified management: All users use the same dashboards built via shared onboarding, allowing cloud security to be addressed from a single agent framework.

    • High-speed onboarding: Multiple cloud accounts and users are onboarded within seconds, rapidly activating integrated security capabilities.

    • Multiple integration options: Prisma Cloud can integrate with widely used IDE, SCM, and CI/CD workflows early in development, enabling users to identify and fix vulnerabilities and compliance issues before they enter production. Prisma Cloud supports all major workflows, automation frameworks, and third-party tools.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Prisma Cloud stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its integration capabilities, as well as its visibility, which makes it very easy for users to get a full picture of the cloud environment.

    Alex J., an information security manager at Cobalt.io, writes, “Prisma Cloud has enabled us to take a very strong preventive approach to cloud security. One of the hardest things with cloud is getting visibility into workloads. With Prisma Cloud, you can go in and get that visibility, then set up policies to alert on risky behavior, e.g., if there are security groups or firewall ports open up. So, it is very helpful in preventing configuration errors in the cloud by having visibility. If there are issues, then you can find them and fix them.”

    Luke L., a cloud security specialist for a financial services firm, writes, “You can also integrate with Amazon Managed Services. You can also get a snapshot in time, whether that's over a 24-hour period, seven days, or a month, to determine what the estate might look like at a certain point in time and generate reports from that for vulnerability management forums.”

    Tenable.io Container Security is a container security platform that delivers end-to-end visibility of Docker container images, providing vulnerability assessment, malware detection, and policy enforcement before and after deployment. It also integrates into your DevOps pipeline to eliminate security blind spots without slowing down software development. In addition, Tenable.io Container Security provides proactive visibility and security so your organization can solve the security challenges of containers at the speed of DevOps.

    Tenable.io Container Security Features

    Tenable.io Container Security has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Dashboard visibility: With Tenable.io Container Security, IT security managers gain at-a-glance visibility into container image inventory as well as security. Security teams can view vulnerability, malware, and other security data for all container images, and the distribution of vulnerabilities across images by CVSS score and risk level. The product also shows each image’s OS, OS version, and architecture.
    • Malware protection: The Tenable.io Container Security solution is unique because it is one of the only container security solutions that assesses container image source code for malware. It is designed with a custom-built malware detection engine to help ensure images are malware-free and to analyze container image source code.
    • Policy enforcement: If an image is created that exceeds the organization’s risk threshold, Tenable.io Container Security notifies developers immediately, with layer-specific information provided to help remediate issues rapidly. In addition, when using the solution, policy violations can trigger alerting or can optionally block specific images from being deployed. Policies can be applied globally or only to images in specific repositories.
    • Image syncing from third-party registries: The solution helps your organization gain instant insight into container security risks by synchronizing your existing registry images into Tenable.io Container Security. It integrates with Docker Registry, Docker Trusted Registry, JFrog Artifactory and Amazon EC2 Container Registry.
    • DevOps toolchain integration: In DevOps environments, Tenable.io Container Security can embed security testing into the software development tooling without blocking or disrupting existing software workflows or development processes.

    Tenable.io Container Security Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Tenable.io Container Security. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Accurate, in-depth visibility: The platform helps you understand the individual layers of container images so you can gain an accurate view of cyber risk, reduce false positives, and provide detailed remediation guidance.
    • Securely accelerate DevOps: With Tenable.io Container Security, you can assess container images for vulnerabilities and malware as fast as 30 seconds from within the DevOps toolchain to avoid slowing down code velocity.
    • Enforce security policies: Tenable.io Container Security works to block new container builds that exceed your organizational risk thresholds to ensure containers are compliant with your security policies prior to deployment.
    • Decrease remediation costs: Tenable.io Container Security can help your organization dramatically reduce remediation costs by discovering and fixing software defects during development before application release.
    • Protect running containers: By implementing Tenable.io Container Security, you can gain visibility into running containers, which helps you to detect new vulnerabilities and security issues that may show up after deployment.

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    Buyer's Guide
    Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Tenable.io Container Security
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    Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 82 reviews while Tenable.io Container Security is ranked 21st in Container Security with 7 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Tenable.io Container Security is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable.io Container Security writes "It helps you catch misconfigurations before they go into a production environment where they're harder to deal with". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Tenable.io Container Security is most compared with Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Wiz, Trivy, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Sysdig Secure. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Tenable.io Container Security report.

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