Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud

Aqua's Image Assurance policy gates Kubernetes deployments via admission controller, blocking any image with critical CVEs or detected secrets before the pod starts.

Prisma Cloud image scanning identifies which Dockerfile layer introduced a vulnerable package, cutting remediation investigation from 30 minutes to under 5 for containerized workloads.

Aqua DTA sandboxes container images and executes them in an isolated environment, detecting malicious behaviors like data exfiltration or persistence mechanisms not visible in static scans.

Prisma Cloud's runtime defense captures process execution chains in containers, flagging anomalous child processes spawned from a web server that indicate active exploitation.

Aqua's secrets detection scans source code, config files, and env variables in CI pipelines, catching hardcoded API keys before they reach a container registry.

Prisma Cloud's Checkov integration scans Terraform and CloudFormation templates in the PR pipeline, blocking misconfigured infrastructure before it deploys rather than finding it in production.