Prisma CloudvsLacework
- ✦ CIEM
- ✦ Serverless Security
- ✦ IaC Scanning (Checkov)
- ✦ Behavioral Analytics (Polygraph)
- ✦ Anomaly Detection
- ✦ Vulnerability Management
Real-World Scenarios: When to Choose Which
The question that matters: “In what situation will I regret choosing A over B after 3 months?”
Prisma Cloud's runtime defense captures process execution chains in containers, flagging anomalous child processes spawned from a web server that indicate active exploitation.
Lacework's Polygraph technology builds a normal behavior baseline for every cloud account and workload, alerting on deviations without requiring any manual rule configuration.
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.
Prisma Cloud image scanning identifies which Dockerfile layer introduced a vulnerable package, cutting remediation investigation from 30 minutes to under 5 for containerized workloads.
Lacework correlates user API calls, network connections, and process events into a single composite alert, reducing hundreds of low-confidence signals to a handful of high-confidence incidents per day.
Lacework's compliance monitoring detects configuration drift from SOC 2 and CIS benchmarks within minutes of a change, flagging issues before the next scheduled audit scan.
Pricing Intelligence
Prisma Cloud Plans
Paid plans only
- • Full CNAPP suite
- • Credit-based licensing
- • 24/7 support
Lacework Plans
Paid plans only
- • CNAPP
- • Behavioral analytics
- • Custom pricing
Feature Matrix
9 differences found across 20 standardized features
Pros & Cons Face-Off
Evaluative strengths and weaknesses — not feature lists
- +Broadest CNAPP feature set — covers every cloud security use case
- +Deep PANW ecosystem integration
- +Strong WAF and network security integration
- +Checkov open-source IaC scanner drives community adoption
- −Complex UI due to feature breadth
- −Credit-based licensing difficult to forecast
- +Polygraph behavioral analytics reduces false positive fatigue
- +Strong anomaly detection for dynamic cloud environments
- +Now backed by Fortinet's enterprise distribution
- +Good compliance framework automation
- −Acquired by Fortinet — product roadmap uncertainty
- −Less brand recognition than Wiz/CrowdStrike