Cisco Panoptica vs Wallarm API Security

Cisco Panoptica is a cloud native application security solution for finding and addressing risks across multi-cloud environments. Its coverage includes Kubernetes workloads, APIs, serverless functions, virtual machines, and infrastructure-as-code repositories. Graph-based attack path analysis combines security findings, vulnerabilities, and identity risks to map attack paths and remediation options. Workload scans review CVEs by asset or Docker image and prioritize them using environment security and network topology. API security catalogs internal, externally exposed, and third-party APIs, assesses risks, and detects sensitive data in API traffic. Code Security checks connected repositories for misconfigurations, secrets, and code vulnerabilities. Listed source control providers include GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket; several security modules can create Jira tickets. Deployments include AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes, including Kubernetes on-premise. Cloud integrations are agentless and use a secure read-only role. The free plan costs nothing. Integrated repositories are scanned daily when new commits exist, with manual rescans also available.

Wallarm API Security discovers APIs and protects them in real time against attacks, abuse, and account takeover. It covers REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSocket APIs without requiring an API specification, and can identify shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs. The product can generate OpenAPI specifications from live traffic and block attacks such as injection, BOLA, broken authentication, and zero-day exploits. Behavior analysis detects credential stuffing, account takeover, malicious bots, and L7 DDoS. It can surface APIs handling personal, payment, credential, or health data and map that information to compliance scope. API Leak Management scans public sources for keys, tokens, and credentials associated with customer domains. Deployment options include managed Security Edge and self-hosted Kubernetes, cloud VM, and API gateway connector setups. The Security Edge Free Tier allows 500,000 requests per month for three users per company and excludes vulnerability assessment and API Abuse Prevention. Once the monthly quota is exceeded, console access and integrations are disabled. Paid core plans require contacting sales for pricing; listed paid plans include six months of event storage.