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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
March 2024
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Updated on Jul 4, 2023

We performed a comparison between Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Features: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is highly regarded for its extensive visibility and management features, including Cloud Security Posture Management and container security. On the other hand, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes receives acclaim for its excellent resource-sharing and segmentation capabilities. Prisma Cloud could be more customizable and integrate with ticketing solutions better. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes requires enhancements in testing, documentation, usability, and stability.

  • Service and Support: Some Prisma Cloud customers have called Palo Alto support exceptional and prompt, while others have reported sluggish response times. Customers have generally provided positive remarks about the customer service offered by Red Hat, deeming it to be of high quality.

  • Ease of Deployment: Some Prisma Cloud users found the setup process to be simple, but others said it was somewhat complicated. The deployment time varies depending on the customer environment. The setup for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes involves creating multiple customer resource files and deploying the desired image as a container. The setup is considered moderately easy and the deployment time varies based on the customer's needs, with financial institutions typically taking longer.

  • Pricing: Users have differing opinions on the setup cost of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but many find it to be reasonable and competitive. On the other hand, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is moderately priced and offers subscription-based options along with a bundled price.

  • ROI: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks has proven to be highly effective at preventing breaches, enhancing risk visibility, streamlining operations, and mitigating cyberattack threats. Users have provided limited feedback regarding the ROI of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes.

Comparison Results: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is preferred over Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. Prisma Cloud offers comprehensive visibility and management options through a user-friendly web GUI. Users appreciate its anomaly detection abilities, seamless integration with other tools, and the ability to provide security across multi- and hybrid-cloud environments. Compared to Prisma Cloud, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes falls short in terms of usability, documentation, and stability.

To learn more, read our detailed Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Anonymous User
Offers unified monitoring and a complete map of our environment but only the SaaS version includes posture management
Prisma Cloud is a crucial component of our clients' security, particularly for their billing environments. It offers comprehensive security across... Read more →
Ibraheem Ibraheem
A straightforward solution for vulnerability scanning and monitoring containers
The benefit of working with the solution is the fact that it's very straightforward. I felt like, if you are an admin, as I was, then you have... Read more →
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Pros
"It has a feature for customized security policy. I implement it in banking, health insurance, and other sectors, and every organization has its own customized policies and procedures. In Prisma Cloud, you can customize policies, and based on that, you can do monitoring.""The solution gives us a lot of visibility across all of our cloud solutions.""Integrating with a CI/CD pipeline and incorporating a vulnerability assessment process are highly effective features, especially when combined with runtime protection.""One of the most valuable features is the compliance of RedLock, which we are using for any issues with security. It flags them and that's the primary objective of that feature.""What I like most about Prisma Cloud is its zero-day signatures, maximum security, minimal downtime, cloud visibility, control, and ease of deployment.""CSPM is the most valuable feature.""The most valuable feature is the closed VPN connection, which provides better performance than traditional VPN boxes. For example, let's say a user in New York State normally connects in the East, but if they travel to the UK, they can connect to the same portal, which automatically redirects to any VPN gateway. We can control traffic based on Active Directory groups instead of the user's IP. That means a user in New York can access his application based on his user ID and AD group access when he travels to the UK or anywhere else.""The two most valuable features are container security and the capability to discover workloads."

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"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.""The technical support is good.""I like virtualization and all those tools that come with OpenShift. I also like Advanced Cluster Management and the built-in security.""Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.""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."

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Cons
"This solution is more AWS and Azure-centric. It needs to be more specific on the GCP side, which they are working on.""The dashboard can be created at the user level instead of the cloud account level, which will help save time.""Based on my experience, the customization—especially the interface and some of the product identification components—is not as customizable as it could be. But it makes up for that with the fact that we can access the API and then build our own systems to read the data and then process and parse it and hand it to our teams.""We had some teething issues with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but overall, it did what we expected.""The IM security has room for improvement.""More documentation with real-world use cases would be helpful.""The licensing is a bit confusing.""They are missing some compatibility details in their documentation."

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"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 lacks features when compared to some of the competitors such as Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and has room for improvement.""The initial setup is pretty complex. There's a learning curve, and its cost varies across different environments. It's difficult.""The documentation about Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security available online is very limited... So it's very limited to the documentation.""The deprecation of APIs is a concern since the deprecation of APIs will cause issues for us every time we upgrade.""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.""The testing process could be improved.""The solution's price could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "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."
  • "We purchase a yearly basis license for the solution."

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    Overview

    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.”

    Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes-native container security solution that enables your organization to more securely build, deploy, and run cloud-native applications from anywhere. With its built-in security across the entire software development life cycle, you can lower your operational costs, reduce operational risk, and increase developer productivity while improving your security posture immediately. In addition, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security integrates with security tools and DevOps in an effort to help you mitigate threats and enforce security policies that minimize operational risk to your applications. It also enables you to provide developers with actionable, context-rich guidelines integrated into existing workflows, along with tooling to support developer productivity. The solution is suitable for small, medium, and large-sized companies.

    Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes Features

    Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Vulnerability management: With the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes solution, you gain full visibility into your entire cloud-native landscape. The solution makes it possible for your organization to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in Kubernetes configurations and container images, as well as running applications. It also enables you to provide developers with clear and prioritized guidance on fixable vulnerabilities.
    • Configuration management: The solution makes configuration management easy. To identify missed best practices, you can understand how images, containers, and deployments are configured prior to running. It also allows you to leverage Kubernetes-native capabilities - like admission controllers - to prevent misconfigured workloads from deploying or running.
    • Compliance: Using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes helps you manage compliance with standard-specific checks across CIS Benchmarks, NIST, PCI, and HIPAA, with more than 300 controls and continuous compliance assessments and one-click audit reporting.
    • Network segmentation: The solution enables you to enforce network policies by using the native capabilities in Kubernetes. You can simulate new policies, visualize existing ones, generate updated YAML files, and apply them directly to Kubernetes.
    • Multifactor risk profiling: With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, you can use risk rankings by combining vulnerability (CVE) details with rich Kubernetes context and artifact data. This allows you to assess and prioritize risk across your entire environment. In turn, you can accelerate remediation times and productivity.
    • Threat detection and incident response: By combining custom policies, process allow lists, application and network baselines, and behavioral modeling to identify anomalous behavior, the solution enables you to protect your applications at runtime. You can then leverage Kubernetes-native enforcement capabilities to respond.

    Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Increases protection, scalability, and portability.
    • Eliminates blind spots.
    • Reduces time and costs.
    • Reduces the effort needed to implement security.
    • Streamlines security analysis, investigation, and remediation by using the rich context Kubernetes provides.
    • Provides scalability and resiliency native to Kubernetes

    Reviews from Real Users

    PeerSpot user Igor K., Owner/Full Stack Software Engineer at Maraphonic, Inc., says, “The solution allows teams to create their own virtual spaces and share resources. The most valuable feature is the ability to share resources.”

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    Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 81 reviews while Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is ranked 16th in Container Security with 10 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is rated 8.4. 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 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes writes "Provides network mapping feature for visualizing container communication but complex setup ". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and Orca Security, whereas Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is most compared with Aqua Cloud Security Platform, SUSE NeuVector, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Sysdig Secure and Qualys VMDR. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes report.

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