Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud API Security vs Uptycs CNAPP

Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud API Security discovers, ranks, and protects APIs across cloud environments. It can find and validate APIs across gateways, workloads, and cloud environments, including shadow, zombie, and unmanaged APIs. Configuration and traffic context inform risk rankings based on severity and potential business impact. Risk insights cover internet exposure, sensitive data transmission, weak authentication, missing encryption, and specification drift. The product describes real-time protection against OWASP API Top 10 threats, including injection, authentication bypass, and data exposure; teams can use monitor or blocking modes. Agentless integrations are listed for AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM, GCP Apigee, and Kong. Linux workload protection uses an agent and is marked Beta. Teams can import OpenAPI specifications to check live traffic for deviations and scan for misconfigurations or vulnerabilities. Azure APIM integration requires the Data Collection add-on and a running Azure APIM service. Cortex CLI scans require an OpenAPI file and Java 11 or later, while Web and API Security requires the Runtime Security add-on. Pricing is on request; the product page offers a demo request.

Uptycs CNAPP provides risk visibility, protection, and prevention for hybrid cloud workloads from build time through runtime. It combines continuous workload scanning, agentless scans, and eBPF runtime insights to catalog software across assets. Workload risk scores connect attack paths and runtime threats with context such as committed code. Build-time scanning covers AMIs, images, infrastructure as code, and code repositories, including alerts for third-party dependency vulnerabilities. Uptycs says runtime defenses can stop threats such as cryptominers and reverse shells in real time, with customized FIM and YARA policies. Investigations can draw on Attack Path, Ask Uptycs, Unified Threat Hunting, Juno AI Analyst, and historical or real-time queries. Listed out-of-the-box compliance reports cover SOC 2, CIS, PCI DSS, HITRUST, NIST, DISA, ISO, and FedRAMP. It supports AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Pricing starts at $36 a year for Discover — Workload, equivalent to $3.00/month billed annually, but the minimum order is $12K per year. Workload units support up to 8 processing cores; historical raw telemetry retention is 7 days by default.