Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes vs Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...
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Ranking in Container Security
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (5th), Cloud and Data Center Security (7th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Compliance Management (4th)
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Se...
Ranking in Container Security
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Threat Stack Cloud Security...
Ranking in Container Security
31st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (27th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (28th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (32nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.7%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is 6.0%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform is 0.1%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Security
Unique Categories:
Vulnerability Management
1.6%
No other categories found
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
0.3%
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
0.2%
 

Featured Reviews

Nilesh Jadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
May 6, 2024
Improves security posture, reduces false positives, and speeds up remediation time
Our infrastructure is on AWS and we integrate PingSafe with our enterprise accounts to identify misconfiguration on the Cloud The offensive security engine helps us visualize any potential attacks. PingSafe helps us maintain and improve our security posture. It has helped reduce the number of…
PK
Nov 10, 2023
A highly stable solution that can be used to perform system-level event monitoring
My company has been using the solution for quite a long time, and it's been working really well. The productivity and visibility of the entire landscape of the registries, the containers, the deployments, and the runtime behavior have been really good. The solution performs system-level event monitoring. It collects and evaluates the system-level events, processes the execution, and monitors the network connection that flows with each container in your Kubernetes environment. The runtime vulnerability in the solution is really good as it uses the Log4j software package to facilitate the redemption efforts in these environments. The run time monitoring immediately identifies the security risks, manages the compliance, evaluates the security risks, and manages the security policies.
SC
Sep 26, 2021
SecOps program for us, as a smaller company, is amazing; they know what to look for
They could give a few more insights into security groups and recommendations on how to be more effective. That's getting more into the AWS environment, specifically. I'm not sure if that's Threat Stack's plan or not, but I would like them to help us be efficient about how we're setting up security groups. They could recommend separation of VPCs and the like - really dig into our architecture. I haven't seen a whole lot of that and I think that's something that, right off the bat, could have made us smarter. Even as part of the SecOps Program, that could be helpful; a quick analysis. They're analyzing our whole infrastructure and saying, "You have one VPC and that doesn't make a lot of sense, that should be multiple VPCs and here's why." The architecture of the servers in whatever cloud-hosting provider you're on could be helpful. Other than that, they should continue to expand on their notifications and on what's a vulnerability. They do a great job of that and we want them to continue to do that. It would be cool, since the agent is already deployed and they know about the server, they know the IP address, and they know what vulnerability is there, for them to test the vulnerability and see if they can actually exploit it. Or, once we patch it, they could double-check that it can't be. I don't know how hard that would be to build. Thinking on it off the top off my head, it could be a little challenging but it could also be highly interesting. It would also be great if we could test a couple of other features like hammering a server with 100 login attempts and see what happens. Real test scenarios could be really helpful. That is probably more something close to what they do with the SOC 2 audit or the report. But more visualization of that, being able to test things out on our infrastructure to make sure we can or can't hit this box could be interesting.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"PingSafe's graph explorer is a valuable tool that lets us visualize all connected services."
"The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best features."
"The most valuable aspect of Singularity Cloud Security is its unified dashboard."
"We use the infrastructure as code scanning, which is good."
"PingSafe offers three key features: vulnerability management notifications, cloud configuration assistance, and security scanning."
"We noted immediate benefits from using the solution."
"The most valuable features of PingSafe are the asset inventory and issue indexing."
"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."
"One of the most valuable features I found was the ability of this solution to map the network and show you the communication between your containers and your different nodes."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to share resources."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its monitoring feature."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"I am impressed with the tool's visibility."
"The benefit of working with the solution is the fact that it's very straightforward...It is a perfectly stable product since the details are very accurate."
"I like virtualization and all those tools that come with OpenShift. I also like Advanced Cluster Management and the built-in security."
"It is easy to install and manage."
"Every other security tool we've looked is good at containers, or at Kubernetes, is good at AWS, or at instance monitoring. But nobody is good at tying all of those things together, and that's really where Threat Stack shines."
"It has been quite helpful to have the daily alerts coming to my email, as well as the Sev 1 Alerts... We just went through a SOX audit and those were pivotal."
"The rules are really great. They give us more visibility and control over what's being triggered. There's a large set of rules that come out-of-the-box. We can customize them and we can create our own rules based on the traffic patterns that we see."
"The most valuable feature is the SecOps because they have our back and they help us with the reports... It's like having an extension of your team. And then, it grows with you."
"It is scalable. It deploys easily with curl and yum."
"Threat Stack has connectivity."
"We like the ability of the host security module to monitor the processes running on our servers to help us monitor activity."
"The number-one feature is the monitoring of interactive sessions on our Linux machines. We run an immutable environment, so that nothing is allowed to be changed in production... We're constantly monitoring to make sure that no one is violating that. Threat Stack is what allows us to do that."
 

Cons

"I would like PingSafe to add real-time detection of vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations."
"PingSafe filtering has some areas that cause problems, and to achieve single sign-on functionality, a break-glass feature, which is currently unavailable, is necessary."
"A beneficial improvement for PingSafe would be integration with Jira, allowing for a more streamlined ticketing system."
"When we request any changes, they must be reflected in the next update."
"Whenever I view the processes and the process aspect, it takes a long time to load."
"They could generally give us better comprehensive rules."
"Currently, we would have to export our vulnerability report to an .xlsx file, and review it in an Excel spreadsheet, and then we sort of compile a list from there. It would be cool if there was a way to actually toggle multiple applications for review and then see those file paths on multiple users rather than only one user at a time or only one application at a time."
"Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky."
"They're trying to convert it to the platform as a source. They are moving in the direction of Cloud Foundry so it can be easier for a developer to deploy it."
"Red Hat is somewhat expensive."
"The solution's price could be better."
"The tool's command line and configuration are hard for us to understand and make deployment complex. It should also include zero trust, access control features and database connectivity."
"The solution's visibility and vulnerability prevention should be improved."
"The initial setup is pretty complex. There's a learning curve, and its cost varies across different environments. It's difficult."
"The solution lacks features when compared to some of the competitors such as Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and has room for improvement."
"The documentation about Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security available online is very limited... So it's very limited to the documentation."
"They could give a few more insights into security groups and recommendations on how to be more effective. That's getting more into the AWS environment, specifically. I'm not sure if that's Threat Stack's plan or not, but I would like them to help us be efficient about how we're setting up security groups. They could recommend separation of VPCs and the like - really dig into our architecture. I haven't seen a whole lot of that and I think that's something that, right off the bat, could have made us smarter."
"The user interface can be a little bit clunky at times... There's a lot of information that needs to be waded through, and the UI just isn't great."
"The compliance and governance need improvement."
"Some features do not work as expected."
"The solution’s ability to consume alerts and data in third-party tools (via APIs and export into S3 buckets) is moderate. They have some work to do in that area... The API does not mimic the features of the UI as far as reporting and pulling data out go. There's a big discrepancy there."
"I would like further support of Windows endpoint agents or the introduction of support for Windows endpoint agents."
"The reports aren't very good. We've automated the report generation via the API and replaced almost all the reports that they generate for us using API calls instead."
"The one thing that we know they're working on, but we don't have through the tool, is the application layer. As we move to a serverless environment, with AWS Fargate or direct Lambda, that's where Threat Stack does not have the capacity to provide feed. Those are areas that it's blind to now..."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PingSafe is affordable."
"The tool is cost-effective."
"PingSafe's primary advantage is its ability to consolidate multiple tools into a single user interface, but, beyond this convenience, it may not offer significant additional benefits to justify its price."
"I am not involved in the pricing, but it is cost-effective."
"The features included in PingSafe justify its price point."
"It was reasonable pricing for me."
"It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."
"For pricing, it currently seems to be in line with market rates."
"We purchase a yearly basis license for the solution."
"The pricing model is moderate, meaning it is not very expensive."
"Red Hat offers two pricing options for their solution: a separate price, and a bundled price under the OpenShift Platform Plus."
"It is a cost-effective choice versus other solutions on the market."
"We find the licensing and pricing very easy to understand and a good value for the services provided."
"Pricing seems to be in line with the market structure. It's fine."
"It is very expensive compared to some other products. The pricing is definitely high."
"It came in cheaper than Trend Micro when we purchased it a few years ago."
"What we're paying now is somewhere around $15 to $20 per agent per month, if I recall correctly. The other cost we have is SecOps."
"I'm happy with the amount that we spend for the product that we get and the overall service that we get. It's not cheap, but I'm still happy with the spend."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
7%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?
The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...
What needs improvement with PingSafe?
When I joined my organization, I saw that PingSafe was already implemented. I started to use the tool's alerting feat...
What do you like most about Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes?
I like virtualization and all those tools that come with OpenShift. I also like Advanced Cluster Management and the b...
What needs improvement with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes?
The solution's visibility and vulnerability prevention should be improved.
What is your primary use case for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes?
Red Hat can be utilized for anything, including OpenShift, Kubernetes, dev environments, automation, banking, and man...
Can we customize the dashboard in Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform? Any recommendations for an alternative solution supporting dashboards?
It is reported that an option exists to customize the dashboard in the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform. You may ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

PingSafe
StackRox
Threat Stack, CSP,
 

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Sample Customers

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City National Bank, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
StatusPage.io, Walkbase, Spanning, DNAnexus, Jobcase, Nextcapital, Smartling, Veracode, 6sense
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