Armor vs Sysdig Secure

Armor is a cloud security and compliance service for organizations, with managed detection and response among its offerings. Armor Agent plans cover malware protection, file integrity monitoring, intrusion prevention, vulnerability scanning, and patch monitoring. Its MDR service includes round-the-clock monitoring and triage, threat hunting, and response that can include containment and remediation guidance. The Nexus portal shows investigated threats and actions taken by Armor’s team. Platform capabilities include AI-assisted incident investigation, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and response-time tracking. Armor describes integrations with Microsoft and Oracle cloud environments and use with customers’ existing Microsoft security tools. Armor Enterprise Cloud includes controls and audit support for regulated environments, with frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001. Armor Agent Premium costs $99 a month per endpoint, with no endpoint limit. The MDR plan starts at $4,380/month for 500 endpoints, with pricing dependent on coverage and scope.

Sysdig Secure is a cloud-native application protection platform for cloud environments, containers, Kubernetes, hosts, and serverless workloads. It uses runtime insights to prioritize risks that are exploitable in a customer’s environment. Threat detection runs in real time using Falco rules, machine learning, and drift control; vulnerability scanning is available with agent-based or agentless approaches and prioritizes vulnerabilities in use. Cloud Attack Graph connects vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and excessive permissions to map potential attack paths. Sysdig Sage is an AI assistant for security search, vulnerability management, threat investigation, and response. The platform connects to AWS, GCP, and Azure, and documents integrations including Git, Jira, Snyk, Docker Scout, Splunk, Elasticsearch, and Syslog. Sysdig describes support for on-premises, air-gapped, and private cloud environments. Deployment is hybrid, with licensing based on hosts or compute instances for CSPM. The documented agent supports Linux distributions and Windows Server 2019 and later; the vulnerability CLI scanner is available for Linux and macOS. Pricing is by quote rather than displayed.