Check Point CloudGuard Data Security vs Prisma Cloud SCA

Check Point CloudGuard Data Security adds sensitive-data discovery to cloud security risk assessment. Its data security posture management identifies sensitive information in cloud workloads and uses that context to prioritize higher-risk assets. For AWS S3 buckets, it uses Amazon Macie sensitivity classifications and scores; Microsoft Purview, Cyera, and Sentra are also listed as integrations. Classification categories include PII, PCI, PHI, credentials, and other. Risk analysis can include public exposure, permissions, and best-practice configurations. DSPM can use vulnerability scans and configuration audits, monitor and audit sensitive data, identify excessive permissions, and support incident detection and remediation workflows. CloudGuard also lists registry and CI pipeline scanning, Kubernetes admission, SBOM generation, fix recommendations, exposure and permission analysis, API protection, bot management, and rate limiting. Coverage spans public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The product is web-based, paid with pricing on request, and has no free plan; a free trial is offered without a stated duration.

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.