AccuKnox vs Tetragon

AccuKnox is a Zero Trust Security platform covering AI, API, application, cloud, and supply chain security. It provides visibility, inline enforcement, and automated policy discovery across kernel, data, API, and application layers. For runtime security, eBPF telemetry reports processes, system calls, and traffic, while Linux Security Modules enforce kernel-level denies. Deployment options include agentless, customer-hosted cloud, on-premise, and fully air-gapped models. Listed environments include AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware, and Nutanix, with additional cloud platforms also listed. AccuKnox says it supports continuous compliance across more than 45 frameworks, including SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, GDPR, and FedRAMP. Integrations include tools for service management, logging, code hosting, messaging, and incident response, such as Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, GitHub, Slack, and PagerDuty. Linux, self-hosted, and web are listed platforms. The pricing note lists a free plan and 30-day trial, while pricing is on request; custom pricing depends on the customer’s environment.

Tetragon is a Kubernetes-aware security observability and runtime enforcement tool for Linux, container, and Kubernetes workloads. It uses eBPF to monitor activity, filter events, and enforce policies in the kernel in real time. Process reports can include executed binaries, command-line arguments, user IDs, parent processes, and start times. Tetragon also monitors file access and changes, and can block unauthorized file operations at the kernel level. Kubernetes policies can filter activity by namespace, pod labels, and container fields, with support for containerd and CRI-O. Network visibility ties events to processes and workloads and tracks connections, socket lifecycle, and bytes sent or received. The tool also monitors credential changes, kernel module activity, and eBPF program loads and interactions. Findings are available as JSON logs or through gRPC. Installation options include Helm on Kubernetes, released Linux packages, and a container image. Tetragon is a Cilium sub-project and a CNCF project, and is available as an open-source project with no paid plans listed.