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Pros
"New users don't have too many problems with the product. They have a lot of training documentation around it.""In cases where they have automatic remediations, you can click a button and it'll just fix the configuration for you."

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"Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invaluable. When such issues arise, we promptly acknowledge and take action, effectively collaborating with our teams and the responsible parties for those assets. This enables us to promptly manage problems as soon as they arise.""For the most part, out-of-the-box, it tells you right away about the things you need to work on. I like the fact that it prioritizes alerts based on severity, so that you can focus your efforts on anything that would be critical/high first, moderate second, and work your way down, trying to continue to improve your security posture.""There are many valuable features that I use in my daily work. The first are alerts and the event dossier that it generates, based on the severity. That is very insightful and helps me to have a security cap in our infrastructure. The second thing I like is the agent-based vulnerability management, which is the most accurate information.""The most valuable aspects are identifying vulnerabilities—things that are out there that we aren't aware of—as well as finding what path of access attackers could use, and being able to see open SSL or S3 buckets and the like.""The best feature, in my opinion, is the ease of use.""Lacework is helping a lot in reducing the noise of the alerts. Usually, whenever you have a tool in place, you have a lot of noise in terms of alerts, but the time for an engineer to look into those alerts is limited. Lacework is helping us to consolidate the information that we are getting from the agents and other sources. We are able to focus only on the things that matter, which is the most valuable thing for us. It saves time, and for investigations, we have the right context to take action.""The most valuable feature, from a compliance perspective, is the ability to use Lacework as a platform for multiple compliance standards. We have to meet multiple standards like PCI, SOC 2, CIS, and whatever else is out there. The ability to have reports generated, per security standard, is one of the best features for me.""The compliance reports are definitely most valuable because they save time and are accurate. So, instead of relying on a human going through and checking or providing me with a report, I could just log into Lacework and see for myself."

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Cons
"We'd like to see better monitoring and the ability to deny certain resources from being scanned.""The biggest issue that I see companies run into is that they immediately think that, "Oh, this solution will be right, simply due to the name." But that's the same issue Splunk runs into. People will immediately jump to Splunk being the best SIEM tool, just because they're the largest. When in reality, QRadar, LogRhythm, and all these other ones are performing similar functions and would actually fit better in some people's environments. Therefore, it's important a company does its homework and does not assume one size fits all."

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"Visibility is lacking, and both compliance-related metrics and IAM security control could be improved.""A feature that I have requested from them is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework.""Its integrations with third-party SIEMs can be better. That is one of the things that we discussed with them.""Lacework has not reduced the number of alerts we get. We've actually had to add resources as a result of using it because the application requires a lot of people to understand it to get the value out of it properly.""There are a couple of the difficulties we encounter in the realm of cybersecurity, or security as a whole, that relate to potentially limited clarity. Having the capacity to perceive the configuration aspect and having the ability to contribute to it holds substantial advantages, in my view. It ranks high, primarily due to its role in guaranteeing compliance and the potential to uncover vulnerabilities, which could infiltrate the system and introduce potential risks. I had been exploring a specific feature that captured my interest. However, just yesterday, I participated in a product update session that announced the imminent arrival of this feature. The feature involves real-time alerting. This was something I had been anticipating, and it seems that this capability is now being integrated, possibly as part of threat intelligence. While anomaly events consistently and promptly appear in the console, certain alerts tend to experience delays before being displayed. Yet, with the recent product update, this issue is expected to be resolved. Currently, a comprehensive view of all policies is available within the console. However, I want a more tailored display of my compliance posture, focusing specifically on policies relevant to me. For instance, if I'm not subject to HIPAA regulations, I'd prefer not to see the HIPAA compliance details. It's worth noting that even with this request, there exists a filtering mechanism to control the type of compliance information visible. This flexibility provides a workaround to my preference, which is why it's challenging for me to definitively state my exact request.""The configuration and setup of alerts should be easier. They should make it easier to integrate with systems like Slack and Datadog. I didn't spend too much time on it, but to me, it wasn't as simple as the alerting that I've seen on other systems.""I would like to see a remote access assistance feature. And the threat-hunting platform could be better.""The biggest thing I would like to see improved is for them to pursue and obtain a FedRAMP moderate authorization... I don't believe they have any immediate plans to get FedRAMP moderate authorized, which is a bit of a challenge for us because we can only use Lacework in our commercial environment."

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  • "The licensing fee was approximately $80,000 USD, per year."
  • "The pricing has gotten better. That scenario was somewhat unstable. They have a rather interesting licensing structure. I believe you get 200 resources per "Lacework unit." It was difficult, in the beginning, to figure out exactly what a "resource" was... That was a problem until about a year or so ago. They have improved it and it has stabilized quite a bit."
  • "It is slightly expensive. It depends on how big your environment is, but it is expensive. Right now, we are spending a lot of money. We have covered all of the cloud providers and most of our colocation facilities as well, so we cannot complain, but it is slightly expensive. It is not super expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:In cases where they have automatic remediations, you can click a button and it'll just fix the configuration for you.
    Top Answer:It's the pre-resource cost. So it's X number of dollars per number of resources, depending on how many VMs you have, how many services are running, how many cloud functions, how many IMs are used, et… more »
    Top Answer:The challenge is that they charge you per resource. We had an issue where Google Cloud was generating secrets for our application configurations by the hundreds, which we would be charged by… more »
    Top Answer:Wiz and Lacework sucks... Buy Orca. 
    Top Answer:Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is… more »
    Top Answer:It is slightly expensive. It depends on how big your environment is, but it is expensive. Right now, we are spending a lot of money. We have covered all of the cloud providers and most of our… more »
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    Overview

    Bridgecrew is a comprehensive cloud security platform that helps organizations automate security and compliance across their cloud infrastructure. With its powerful capabilities, Bridgecrew enables teams to identify and remediate security issues in real-time, ensuring a secure and compliant cloud environment.

    One of Bridgecrew's key features is its ability to continuously scan cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations. It provides a centralized dashboard that displays the security posture of the entire cloud environment, allowing teams to quickly identify and prioritize security issues.

    Bridgecrew also offers automated remediation capabilities, allowing teams to fix security issues with just a few clicks. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to remediate each issue, making it easy for even non-security experts to address vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

    Another notable feature of Bridgecrew is its integration with popular DevOps tools like GitHub, GitLab, and Jira. This allows teams to seamlessly incorporate security into their existing workflows, enabling them to catch and fix security issues early in the development process.

    Bridgecrew also provides detailed reports and compliance documentation, making it easier for organizations to demonstrate their adherence to industry standards and regulations. It also offers continuous monitoring and alerting, ensuring that any new security issues are promptly detected and addressed.

    Bridgecrew is a powerful cloud security platform that automates security and compliance across cloud infrastructure. With its continuous scanning, automated remediation, and integration capabilities, Bridgecrew helps organizations maintain a secure and compliant cloud environment.

    Lacework is a cloud security platform whose Polygraph Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety. Lacework is the only security platform that can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. As a breach detection and investigation tool, Lacework provides information on when and how a breach happened, including the users, machines, and applications involved in the breach. By using machine learning and behavioral analytics, the solution can automatically learn what's normal for your environment and reveal any abnormal behavior. In addition, Lacework gives you continuous visibility to find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malicious activity across your cloud environment.

    Lacework Features

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

    • Dashboards
    • Reports
    • Workflow management
    • Administration console
    • Governance
    • Policy enforcement
    • Auditing
    • Access control
    • Workflow management
    • Compliance monitoring
    • Anomaly detection
    • Data loss prevention
    • Cloud gap analytics
    • Host compliance

    Lacework Benefits

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

    • Security visibility: Get deep observability into your cloud accounts, workloads, and microservices to give you tighter security control.
    • Threat detection: By using Lacework, your organization can identify common security events that target your cloud servers, containers, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) accounts so you can take action on them quickly.
    • Flexible deployment: With Lacework, you have the option to deploy the way you prefer - either agent or agentless - which provides the visibility needed to have maximum security for cloud accounts and systems. Because Lacework offers an easy-to-deploy layered approach, you gain quick time to value.
    • Configuration compliance: With the Lacework solution, you can easily spot IaaS account configurations that are non-compliant and identify opportunities to apply security best practices.
    • Synced teams: Lacework allows your teams to operate smarter and bridge the gap between security, Dev, and Ops regardless of your team's size or experience level.
    • Gain meaningful security insights: Lacework provides meaningful security insights, alerting you of issues before they reach production from your existing workflows. This way you can build apps quickly and confidently.
    • Increased revenue streams: Because the solution has built-in security from the first line of code early on, it helps users unlock higher revenue streams.
    • Helps avoid development delays: The Lacework solution helps you better prioritize security fixes by making security information accessible to DevOps and security teams for earlier risk mitigation that speeds innovation.
    • Increased productivity: Lacework provides alerts with all the context you need and eliminates data silos and costly investigations, enabling you to boost productivity.
    • Correlate and contextualize behaviors: Lacework can take attributes and data points from your unique environment and correlate them together into behaviors.
    • Simplified cloud security posture and compliance: With the Lacework platform, you can get comprehensive visibility and continuous tracking to reduce risks and meet compliance requirements so you can improve your bottom line.
    • Address vulnerabilities before it is too late: Lacework enables you to limit your attack surface so you can address the riskiest vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.
    Sample Customers
    Rapyd, BetterHelp, Brex, People.ai, Globality
    J.Crew, AdRoll, Snowflake, VMWare, Iterable, Pure Storage, TrueCar, NerdWallet, and more.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Insurance Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Healthcare Company5%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise68%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise40%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise55%
    Buyer's Guide
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    Bridgecrew is ranked 21st in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 2 reviews while Lacework is ranked 10th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 9 reviews. Bridgecrew is rated 8.0, while Lacework is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Bridgecrew writes "Multi-cloud, good scanning, and offers extensive guides". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lacework writes "Makes us aware of vulnerabilities and provides a lot of data but it's not easily understood at first look". Bridgecrew is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Lacework is most compared with Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Snyk and Orca Security.

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