C3M Cloud Control vs Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks

C3M Cloud Control is an agentless platform for cloud security, identity and entitlement governance, and compliance assurance. It continuously assesses multicloud infrastructure for security and compliance risks and can remediate them. Access Control manages identity entitlements and enforces least privilege, with inventory, access-key monitoring, excessive-permission detection, audit timelines, policy enforcement, and one-click remediation for unused entitlements. Playbooks for AWS, GCP, and Azure can remediate resources, notify administrators, create incident tickets, and send violations to SIEM tools. Customers can add custom actions using cloud functions in languages including Java, Node.js, and Python. Compliance monitoring evaluates resources against PCI, GDPR, NIST, CIS, FedRAMP, HITRUST, and HIPAA, and supports custom packages. Its IaC module scans Terraform templates; support for CloudFormation, ARM, Kubernetes, and other IaC templates is described as coming soon. It offers a free assessment for up to two cloud accounts. The main plan’s price is available on request.

Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management product for finding and reducing identity risks. It scans AWS, Azure, and GCP for lingering administrative privileges, privilege escalation, permission gaps, broad blast radii, and cross-account access. Detections cover users, roles, groups, policies, EC2 instances, and Lambda functions. Access Insights shows which resources an entity can reach and which principals can reach them directly or indirectly. Remediation options include narrower policy suggestions, Datadog Workflows, cloud-console links, Terraform-generated GitHub pull requests, and Jira issues. AWS IAM Access Analyzer can supply unused-access findings for policy recommendations and permission-gap detections. Scanning is agentless, and Datadog says snapshots remain within the customer environment. Standard permission-gap detections cover 90 days; Access Analyzer can use 180- or 360-day periods. CSM Pro costs $10 a month per CSM host, while Enterprise costs $25 a month per host. A 14-day trial covers the product suite.