Datadog Cloud Security Identity Risks vs Prisma Cloud SCA

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.

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.