C3M Cloud Control vs Prisma Cloud SCA

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.

Prisma Cloud SCA scans open-source packages for vulnerabilities and license-compliance issues across code, builds, deployment, and runtime. It analyzes direct and transitive dependencies, including packages deep in dependency trees, and connects application and infrastructure findings to help teams prioritize risk exposed in their codebase. Support covers popular languages and package managers and draws on more than 30 upstream data sources. Teams can set scanning policies across repositories, registries, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime environments. Developers can receive vulnerability feedback in IDEs and version-control pull or merge requests, with CLI extensibility. Its Supply Chain Graph inventories and visualizes pipelines and code; the product can generate SBOMs and IBOMs for export in standard formats. Remediation recommendations include small version updates for direct and transitive dependencies, while allowing developers to choose package versions. License policies can alert on or block builds and deployments. Named sources include GitHub repositories and Docker, Quay, and Artifactory registries. A free 30-day Prisma Cloud trial includes code security, but the trial page does not specify SCA separately. SCA pricing is on request.