Aqua Cloud Security Platform vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security comparison

Aqua Security and CrowdStrike are both solutions in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category. Aqua Security is ranked #13 with an average rating of 9.0, while CrowdStrike is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1. Aqua Security holds a 3.9% mindshare in CNAP, compared to CrowdStrike’s 5.8% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Aqua Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of CrowdStrike users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Aqua Cloud Security Platform and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security compete in the cloud security category. CrowdStrike appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and advanced capabilities.

Features: Aqua Cloud Security Platform offers robust container security, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security provides advanced threat intelligence, real-time monitoring, and seamless integration capabilities. CrowdStrike is favored for its comprehensive feature set.

Room for Improvement: Aqua Cloud Security Platform could enhance its scalability and expand third-party integrations. Reviewers also mention the need for improved user interface design. CrowdStrike users indicate areas for improvement such as reducing false positives, lowering resource consumption, and enhancing customer service response times.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Aqua Cloud Security Platform is noted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security receives praise for ease of deployment but may require specialized knowledge. CrowdStrike's customer service receives high marks, though Aqua is seen as slightly more accessible.

Pricing and ROI: Aqua Cloud Security Platform is frequently praised for its competitive pricing and strong return on investment. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, while more expensive, delivers significant value through its advanced features, resulting in a favorable ROI for many users. Aqua is cost-effective, but CrowdStrike's ROI justifies its higher price for features-conscious users.

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 3.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Aqua Cloud Security Platform is 3.9%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is 5.8%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

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Burak AKCAGUN

Business Development Manager at Axoft Ukraine

A robust and cost-effective solution, excelling in scalability, on-premises support, and responsive technical support, making it well-suited for enterprises navigating stringent regulatory environment

The most crucial aspect is runtime protection, specifically image scanning before preproduction and deployment. Customers find it invaluable to have the ability to check for vulnerabilities in an image before deployment, similar to a sandbox environment. This feature ensures that customers can identify any potential issues with the image, such as misconfigurations or vulnerabilities, before integrating it into their workloads and infrastructure. In their source pipeline, companies can identify issues before deploying changes. This is crucial because customers prefer resolving any problems or misconfigurations before the deployment process. Software change security, including GSPM Cloud, is a key feature customers seek in their infrastructure.

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Saif Ullah Khan

Security Engineer at ebryx

Boosts security by automatically blocking applications or activities, but query responses have been slower recently

For the past six months, we have been facing some issues. Because it is a cloud-based infrastructure, it has been getting slower. There are no bugs because they release updates continuously. We highly appreciate that, but during hunting or running a query on different logs, the time frame has increased in the past six months. It takes longer to give us the results. Another issue is the lack of proper documentation. During investigations, there is no proper documentation available. This is a problem because many people are saying there should be proper documentation explaining what CrowdStrike captures from the machine and the meaning of it.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cloud Security has provided a single view to observe all workloads, prioritization for handling cloud assets, and reduced noise by distinguishing false positives effectively."

"The solution saves 40% of my time."

"The multi-cloud support is valuable. They are expanding to different clouds. It is not restricted to only AWS. It allows us to have different clouds on one platform."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to gain deep visibility into the workloads inside containers."

"Cloud Native Security offers a valuable tool called an offensive search engine."

"There's real-time threat detection. It can show threats and find issues based on their severity and helps us with real-time monitoring."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers comprehensive security posture management."

"The features that stand out are threat detection using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, helping to identify and respond to threats in real-time."

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"The most valuable feature is the security."

"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 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 of Aqua Security is the scanner."

"We use Aqua Security for the container security features."

"Support is very helpful."

"Aqua Security allowed us to gain visibility into the vulnerabilities that were present in the container images, that were being rolled out, the amount of risk that we were introducing to the platform, and provided us a look into the container environment by introducing access control mechanisms. In addition, when it came to runtime-level policies, we could restrict container access to resources in our environment, such as network-level or other application-level access."

"The solution was very user-friendly."

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"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"Cloud security is one valuable feature. Spotlight is the other one. There is also vulnerability management and a couple of more features."

"I think the overall solution should be rated a ten out of ten."

"I find the easy installation process, quick detection capabilities, and the cloud-based console very useful for this solution."

"It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to invest in third-party agents repeatedly."

"CrowdStrike utilizes signatureless technology, eliminating the need for regular signature updates on endpoint systems."

"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 valuable features are the real-time response, which allows me to log into a machine to pull files and check signatures for malicious activities, and the ability to restrict USB block storage usage on endpoints by policy."

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Cons

"The price is on the higher side. The dashboard can be more detailed."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is an excellent CSPM tool, but its CWPP features need improvement, and there is scope for more application security posture management features."

"If I had to pick a complaint, it would be the way the hosts are listed in the tool. You have different columns separated by endpoint name, Cloud Account, and Cloud Instances ID. I wish there was something where we could change the endpoint name and not use just the IP address. We would like to have custom names or our own names for the instances. If I had a complaint, that would be it, but so far, it meets all the needs that we have."

"There can be a specific type of alert showing that a new type of risk has been identified."

"The could improve their mean time to detect."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security filtering has some areas that cause problems, and to achieve single sign-on functionality, a break-glass feature, which is currently unavailable, is necessary."

"In addition to our telecom and Slack channels, it would be helpful to receive Cloud Native Security security notifications in Microsoft Teams."

"They can add more widgets to its dashboard. A centralized dashboard with numerous metrics would improve user understanding."

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"It's a bit hard to use the user roles. That was a bit confusing."

"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."

"In the next release, Aqua Security should add the ability to automatically send reports to customers."

"The user interface could be improved, especially in terms of organization and clarity."

"We would like to see an improvement in the overview visibility that this solution offers."

"Sometimes I got stressed with the UI."

"The solution could improve user-friendliness."

"Aqua Security could provide more open documentation so that their learning resources can be more easily accessed and searched through online. Right now, a lot of the documentation is closed and not available to the public."

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"The UI part needs to be improved."

"Customers would benefit it CrowdStrike adopted some of SentinelOne's technologies."

"It would be more convenient if there was an easier way to install CrowdStrike, perhaps through better integration with Active Directory."

"The user interface needs improvement as it's sometimes difficult to locate specific dashboards or reports."

"There were some integration issues with this product."

"The tool is expensive."

"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is expensive."

"The tool could give us more templates so that people who are not updated with the platform can easily get acquainted with how to secure and utilize the product more."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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"

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is on the costlier side."

"SentinelOne is quite costly compared to other security platforms."

"The pricing for PingSafe in India was more reasonable than other competitors."

"The licensing is easy to understand and implement, with some flexibility to accommodate dynamic environments."

"For pricing, it currently seems to be in line with market rates."

"PingSafe is less expensive than other options."

"I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."

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"It comes at a reasonable cost."

"The pricing of this solution could be improved."

"They were reasonable with their pricing. They were pretty down-to-earth about the way they pitched their product and the way they tried to close the deal. They were one of the rare companies that approached the whole valuation in a way that made sense for our company, for our needs, and for their own requirements as well... They will accommodate your needs if they are able to understand them and they're stated clearly."

"Dealing with licensing costs isn't my responsibility, but I know that the licenses don't depend on the number of users, but instead are priced according to your workload."

"Aqua Security is not cheap, and it's not very expensive, such as Splunk, they are in the middle."

"I am not the one who handled the pricing. A different team worked on it, but it is pretty expensive."

"It is expensive, but it adds value."

"CrowdStrike Falcon is very expensive."

"It's an expensive package but does what it says it will do."

"The pricing is reasonable, neither overly expensive nor excessively cheap, making it competitive compared to other market options."

"It's an expensive product"

"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is very expensive for us. Last month, we had a big issue that took much time and money to resolve. It slowed down our business and required our management team to get involved. We had a problem similar to the "Blue Screen of Death" issue many US companies faced. This incident used up many of our IT resources in just a few months. That's why we're looking for a replacement tool now."

"The pricing is fair for what you get. I'd rate them a solid nine out of ten in terms of pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I don't handle the price part, but it isn't more expensive than Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. It's not cheap, but it is wor...

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs ...

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What do you think of Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud?

Aqua Security is easy to use and very manageable. Its main focus is on Kubernetes and Docker. Security is a very valu...

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What do you like most about Aqua Security?

Customers find it invaluable to have the ability to check for vulnerabilities in an image before deployment, similar ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aqua Security?

It comes at a reasonable cost. When compared to Prisma Cloud, it is more budget-friendly.

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What do you like most about CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

It's an expensive product. The solution costs around $60 for a single user on a yearly basis. I would rate the pricin...

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What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?

I am not part of the current monitoring team, so I do not know how they feel about the tool. I am sharing information...

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Comparisons

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 7% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 7% of the time

Snyk vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

Compared 2% of the time

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Wiz vs Aqua Cloud Security Platform

Compared 21% of the time

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs Aqua Cloud Security Platform

Compared 21% of the time

SUSE NeuVector vs Aqua Cloud Security Platform

Compared 6% of the time

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes vs Aqua Cloud Security Platform

Compared 5% of the time

Upwind vs Aqua Cloud Security Platform

Compared 2% of the time

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Wiz vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 16% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 13% of the time

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 10% of the time

Sysdig Falco vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 5% of the time

Snyk vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

PingSafe

Aqua Security Platform, CloudSploit, Argon

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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security protects cloud workloads, offering advanced threat detection and automated response. It integrates seamlessly with cloud environments and secures containerized applications and virtual machines against vulnerabilities.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is renowned for its efficiency in mitigating threats in real-time. The platform integrates effortlessly with existing cloud environments, ensuring robust cloud security management with minimal manual intervention. Securing containerized applications and virtual machines, it excels in threat intelligence and endpoint protection. However, improvements are needed in performance during high workload periods, and more integrations with third-party tools and better documentation would be beneficial. Users often find the installation process complex, support response times slow, and the dashboard's navigation unintuitive.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Real-time Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats as they occur.
Automated Response: Automatically responds to threats to minimize impact.
Ease of Deployment: Simple setup process with scalable options.
Machine Learning Insights: AI-driven insights enhance threat prevention.
Seamless Integration: Integrates with cloud environments for unified security management.

What are the primary benefits or ROI to expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Threat Mitigation: Improved security against real-time threats.
Reduced Manual Intervention: Automated processes save time and resources.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing security requirements.
Centralized Management: Manage security across platforms from a single console.
Advanced Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth analysis and protection.

In specific industries, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is implemented to safeguard critical data and infrastructure. Organizations in finance, healthcare, and technology depend on its real-time threat detection and automated response to protect sensitive information. Its ability to secure containerized applications and virtual machines is particularly valuable in dynamic environments where rapid scaling is necessary.

SentinelOne

Aqua Security stops cloud native attacks, preventing them before they happen and stopping them when they happen. Dedicated cloud native threat research and the most loved cloud native security open source community in the world put innovation at your fingertips so you can transform your business. Born cloud native, The Aqua Platform is the most integrated Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), securing from day one and protecting in real-time. Aqua has been stopping real cloud native attacks on hundreds of thousands of production nodes across the world since 2015.

Aqua Security Features

Aqua Security has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Vulnerability scanning
Dynamic threat analysis
Automates DevSecOps
CI/CD integrations
Cloud security posture management
Kubernetes security
Hybrid and multi-cloud
Container security
Serverless security
VM security
Cloud workloads protection

Aqua Security Benefits

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

Designed for scale and performance: The Aqua Security platform was designed to scale to the largest environments in order to protect huge clusters and massive DevOps pipelines.

Empowers DevOps to detect issues early and fix them fast: The solution was designed to help you solve issues immediately - before they cause greater damage to your organization. It helps you gain insight into your vulnerability posture and prioritize remediation and mitigation according to contextual risk.

Automated compliance and security posture: Aqua Security checks your cloud services, Infrastructure-as-code templates, and Kubernetes setup against best practices and standards. This way, you can ensure the infrastructure you run your applications on is securely configured and in compliance.

Artifact scanning: The Aqua Security platform scans artifacts for vulnerabilities, malware, and other risks during development and staging. It allows you to set flexible and dynamic policies to control deployment into your runtime environments.

Minimizes false positives: Aqua Security relies on a variety of sources and proprietary research to curate and present vulnerabilities in the most accurate way, which helps to minimize false positives and unnecessary noise in the pipeline.

Automated security testing: The Aqua Security platform automates security testing in your CI/CD pipeline, and continuously scans registries and serverless function stores to detect emerging risks. By implementing the platform, you can get actionable feedback within your CI environments to empower your organization’s developers to fix issues rapidly.

Granular controls: The solution provides protection for your VM, container, and serverless workloads using granular controls with instant visibility and real-time detection and response.

Sandboxed environment: With Aqua Security, you can run images in a secure sandboxed environment that traces indicators of compromise (IOCs) such as container escapes, reverse shell backdoors, malware drops, code injection backdoors, and network anomalies.

Reviews from Real Users

Lizeth Z., Cloud Security Specialist at Telstra, says, “Aqua Security is the most advanced solution in the market for container security. Aqua Security allows us to check for vulnerabilities in the CI/CD pipeline, so application teams can remediate issues before going into production. Aqua Security helps us to check the vulnerability of image assurance and check for malware.”

Aqua Security

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is a platform of cloud security solutions aimed at protecting organizations from breaches while simplifying cloud security management. The unified platform combines several cloud security functionalities for comprehensive protection. Built on the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform, it leverages the powerful agent and technology used in CrowdStrike's renowned endpoint protection solutions, extending its capabilities seamlessly to cloud environments.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is designed to be a shield for the cloud infrastructure. One of its key strengths is its ability to monitor cloud workloads for potential breaches and attacks. It doesn't matter if you're running virtual machines, containers, or a combination of both across different cloud providers – Falcon Cloud Security offers visibility and protection. Additionally, it works tirelessly to pinpoint misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in your cloud setup, proactively stopping issues before they become full-blown security incidents. Compliance becomes easier too, as it can check if your deployments meet the requirements of various industry standards and regulations.

If you heavily utilize containers and Kubernetes, Falcon Cloud Security has you covered. It delves deep into container images and running containers to spot weaknesses and potential threats, helping you secure your containerized applications from the moment they're developed to when they're up and running. Finally, it tackles the often messy world of permissions in the cloud. Falcon Cloud Security analyzes identities and their attached permissions, ensuring that the principle of least privilege is followed and sensitive data isn't exposed due to overly broad access rights.

In essence, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security aims to simplify the complexities of cloud security by consolidating tools, providing a centralized view of your risks and threats, and delivering advanced protection that blends seamlessly with your development processes.

Based on the interviews we conducted with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security users, overall, the sentiment is positive. Users praise the solution's efficacy in detecting and preventing threats, its ease of use, scalability, stability, and integration with existing systems. There were also mentions of areas for improvement, such as the pricing, the user interface, and customer support.

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