OpenSCAP vs Prowler Cloud

OpenSCAP is a free collection of open-source tools for applying and enforcing the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) standard. It provides customizable policies for security compliance and automated vulnerability assessment. OpenSCAP Base includes a library and the oscap command-line tool for parsing and evaluating SCAP content, scanning systems and producing documents. It supports XCCDF benchmarks and OVAL definitions, with SCAP 1.2 support and backward compatibility for SCAP 1.1 and 1.0. SCAP Workbench can tailor content, run local or remote scans, and export results; OpenSCAP Daemon schedules assessments of machines and containers. Policy variables and rules can be changed, and customized policies saved separately for reuse. Integrations listed include Red Hat Satellite, RH Access Insights, Preupgrade Assistant and orcharhino. With Red Hat Satellite 6, the site describes centralized policy management, scheduled audits and audit-result collection and search. OpenSCAP Base is available on Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu; the project also reports Windows support since version 1.3.0. Policies may include automated remediation, but some rules cannot be remediated automatically, and remediation may disrupt infrastructure functionality.

Prowler Cloud is a managed platform for finding, prioritizing, and fixing cloud security risks. It covers cloud infrastructure, SaaS, Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure-as-code providers, with scheduled scans and continuous compliance. Prowler says it runs more than 2,500 checks and maps findings to over 70 compliance frameworks. Findings are ranked by severity and include step-by-step remediation guidance; Lighthouse AI can explain fixes. Integrations include Jira, Slack, email alerts, Power BI, API access, and AWS Security Hub. Connected cloud accounts use a read-only role, and Prowler says it does not write to those environments. The pricing note lists a starting price of $79/mo with annual billing; plan details list Prowler Cloud at $99 a month, billed monthly per provider account, GitHub repository, or Microsoft 365 tenant. Annual billing saves 20%. A 15-day free trial and free Apache-2.0 CLI and self-hosted Local Server options are available. Private Cloud pricing is custom and not listed.