Top Free Cloud Workload Protection Platforms - Page 2

AccuKnox

AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP cloud security protects public and private clouds, Kubernetes and VMs. AccuKnox is a AI-powered Zero Trust Cloud Native Security Platform that helps organizations comply with various frameworks and over 33+ compliance controls, including MITRE, NIST, STIG, CIS, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and SOC2. AccuKnox enhances InfraSec and DevSecOps teams by enabling them to detect, prioritize, prevent and protect against advanced and sophisticated cloud attacks. Key Benefits 1. Code to Cloud Security 2. Easy Deployment 3. Extensive Coverage. 4. Preemptive Attack Mitigation 5. Open Source and Innovative Key Differentiators - Inline Preemptive Security (as opposed to Post-attack mitigation) - Secures modern workloads (Kubernetes) and traditional workloads (VMs) - Multi-Cloud, Private, Air-gapped, and Hybrid Cloud Security - IaC – Infrastructure As Code scanning - Secures AI/ML workloads like Jupyter Notebooks Features - Automated Zero Trust Cloud Security (Public, Private, Hybrid, Air-gapped) - Vulnerability Management & Prioritization - Run-time security, Micro-segmentation - Application Firewalling, Kernel Hardening - Drift Detection & Audit Trail - Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation - GRC – CIS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2, STIG, MITRE, NIST - Securing Mission-Critical Workloads like Vault - Securing AI workbenches like Jupyter Notebooks - Cryptojacking and TNTBotinger Attacks With over 15+ patents, we're proud to offer an OpenSource, DevSecOps-led delivery model. To top it off, we have an ongoing R&D partnership with the esteemed SRI International. We deliver both Static and Runtime Security, anchored on innovations in Cloud Security and AI/ML-based Anomaly Detection. Static Code Analysis - Deeply analyze your code for vulnerabilities and weaknesses. CI/CD Pipelines Scanning - Continuously scan your pipelines for security flaws and risks. Container Security - Fortify your containers with robust security measures. Kubernetes Orchestration - Seamlessly manage and secure your Kubernetes environments. Secret Scanning - Detect and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access.

Average Rating: 4.4/5.0

Total Reviews: 12

Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK

Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK uses Adaptive AI to continuously learn behavior across your infrastructure, combining NDR, CDR, OT security, ITDR, exposure management, attack path modelling and forensic investigations into a single solution. - Unify visibility - Detect and contain known, novel and insider threats - AI-led triage and investigations - Increase resilience Named a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for NDR and the only Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPS.

Average Rating: 4.4/5.0

Total Reviews: 47

CloudWize

CloudWize is a no-code Cloud Security Center of Excellence that gives you maximum cloud compliance & security. Get 360° Protection from Architecture Design to Runtime. CludWize enforces cloud regulations with over 1K rules running continuously, scans your cloud vulnerabilities, and remediates them automatically. With our unique investigation graph engine, you can detect and fix cloud issues in minutes instead of days and weeks. This holistic solution offers a blackbox web app penetration test, evolved IAM (identity access management), IaC (infrastructure as code) risk scanning, Data Security Posture Management, and more. Why deal with many tools when you can have everything in one place? CNAPP + WAAP + KSPM – CSPM + CWPP + CIEM + CASB + DSPM + CNSP = CloudWize (CSCoE)

Average Rating: 4.7/5.0

Total Reviews: 11

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP® offers a self-managed, unified storage management solution built on NetApp’s industry-leading ONTAP® software—empowering organizations with unmatched control and flexibility across block and file workloads in hybrid and multicloud environments. Seamlessly integrated with all major cloud providers, it runs natively on each cloud platform (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS), allowing you to deploy and manage storage for mission-critical applications, databases, containers, and user files without requiring extra tooling or complex configuration. With support for iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, NFS, SMB/CIFS, and S3, Cloud Volumes ONTAP brings enterprise-class data services to your cloud environment.  

Average Rating: 4.5/5.0

Total Reviews: 26

Sonrai Security

Sonrai Security is a leading cloud privileged access management solutions provider. With a mission to empower enterprises of all sizes to innovate securely and confidently, Sonrai Security delivers identity, access, and privilege security for companies running on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms. The company is renowned for pioneering the Cloud Permissions Firewall, enabling one-click least privilege while supporting developer access needs without disruption. Trusted by Cloud Operations, Development, and Security Teams at leading companies across various industries, Sonrai Security is committed to driving innovation and excellence in cloud security. Sonrai’s Cloud Permissions Firewall, the leading cloud PAM solution, gets cloud access under control, slashes the privileged attack surface, and automates least privilege all without impeding DevOps. The Cloud Permissions Firewall uses privileged permission intelligence and usage monitoring to determine who needs what permissions in your cloud. Then, with one-click, it eliminates all unused sensitive privileges across your entire multi-cloud estate. Just-in-time access and exceptions are granted to roles on the fly as new needs come up so development goes uninterrupted. SecOps teams spend 97% less time achieving least privilege and slash the attack surface by 92%.

Average Rating: 4.5/5.0

Total Reviews: 26

Saviynt

Saviynt helps organizations transform their organization with identity security, enabling them to build and run AI with confidence. Saviynt enables enterprises to secure every identity — human, non-human, and AI — in any application and environment, strengthen their identity security posture, streamline operations, and ensure every user and agent has the right access at the right time. With Saviynt Zuma, enterprises can discover, protect, and manage AI identities from a single control plane, delivering the necessary tools to flag and fix shadow AI, control access at runtime, establish accountability, and empower secure agentic development across the entire organization. In turn, organizations enjoy lower risk, complete visibility and governance, reduced total cost of ownership, and much more throughout their entire identity security program.

Average Rating: 4.3/5.0

Total Reviews: 91

ADEPT Egress Control

ADEPT Egress Control blocks breaches and protects your cloud workloads. Our product essentially zero-trusts your software, protecting against supply chain threats, command and control, and data leaks. Concerned about compliance and certification? See how ADEPT protects data access and privacy, detects intrusions and anomalies, and tracks activity at the server level. Dart Frog Cyber fills cybersecurity gaps for customers using smart software that's easy to manage and very affordable. Contact us today to discuss your particular needs and pain points--we're here to help!

Average Rating: 5.0/5.0

Total Reviews: 1

CimTrak Integrity Suite

Cimcor is the leading provider of System Integrity Assurance with our award-winning CimTrak Integrity Suite that protects a wide range of physical, network, cloud, and virtual IT assets in real time. CimTrak provides detailed analysis, evidence, and automated workflows that enforce an unprecedented security posture, ensures operational availability, stops zero-day attacks, detects unexpected changes, and achieves and maintains continuous compliance in a simple and cost-effective manner.

Average Rating: 4.8/5.0

Total Reviews: 23

Defensia

Defensia is a real-time server security platform for Linux. It detects and blocks brute-force attacks, port scans, web exploits, and malicious bots automatically — without complex configuration. It works through a lightweight open-source agent that installs in a single command (\~30 seconds). The agent monitors SSH authentication, web server logs, and network activity, then takes immediate action: banning malicious IPs, detecting vulnerability scanners, and blocking known attack patterns through its built-in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Everything is managed from a centralized cloud dashboard where teams can monitor all their servers in one place, review security events, configure protection policies per server, and receive real-time alerts via email. Key capabilities: * SSH brute-force protection — Detects failed login attempts and automatically bans repeat offenders with escalating durations (24h → 7 days → 30 days → permanent) * Web Application Firewall (WAF) — Blocks SQL injection, XSS, path traversal, shell injection, and 10+ other web attack categories directly at the log level * Bot management — Identifies 60+ known bots (search engines, AI crawlers, security scanners) with per-server allow/log/block policies * Threat intelligence network — Shares anonymized attack data across all Defensia-protected servers, so a threat detected on one server is blocked everywhere * Monitor mode — New servers start in observation-only mode so teams can review detections before enabling active blocking * Security scanning — On-demand hardening audits (SSH config, file permissions, web server settings) with one-click remediation for common issues * Real-time alerts — Instant email notifications for bans, critical events, server disconnections, and WAF attacks Who uses Defensia? Developers, sysadmins, and small DevOps teams running 1–50 Linux servers on any cloud provider (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH, AWS, Linode) or bare metal. It's built for people who need production-grade server security without dedicating time to configure and maintain complex firewall rules. Deployment: One command installs the agent on any Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, or CloudLinux server. No dependencies, no kernel modules, no Docker required on the server side. Available as a DigitalOcean 1-Click Droplet for instant deployment. Pricing: Free plan (1 server) with a Pro plan at 7 EUR/server/month for unlimited servers, advanced analytics, auto-remediation, and the full threat intelligence network.

Average Rating: 5.0/5.0

Total Reviews: 1

Styra

Styra are the creators and maintainers of Open Policy Agent and leaders in cloud-native authorization. Our mission at Styra is to provide unified authorization and policy across the cloud-native stack. Styra enables enterprises to define, enforce and monitor policy across their cloud-native environments. With a combination of open source (Open Policy Agent) and commercial products (Styra Declarative Authorization Service and Styra Run), Styra provides security, operations and compliance guardrails to protect applications, as well as the infrastructure they run on. Styra policy-as-code approach lets developers, DevOps, and security teams mitigate risks, reduce human error and accelerate application development. Styra is rethinking authorization policy by providing enterprises with context-based policy guardrails to mitigate risk, reduce errors and accelerate development

Average Rating: 4.5/5.0

Total Reviews: 3

Uptycs

Uptycs unified CNAPP and XDR platform is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect the full spectrum of modern attack surfaces in your cloud, data centers, user devices, build pipelines, and containers. With a strong focus on DevSecOps, Uptycs offers a powerful combination of CNAPP capabilities, including Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), and Cloud Detection and Response (CDR). With Uptycs you also get industry-leading eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) across macOS, Windows, and Linux endpoints, ensuring comprehensive protection, detection, and investigation. Uptycs delivers real-time threat detection, context-rich alerts, and maps detections to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for improved security insights. Uptycs performs scanning of containers for vulnerabilities throughout the CI/CD pipeline, promoting agile DevOps workflows, and reducing risk in production environments. Uptycs seamlessly integrates with existing tools and processes, streamlining operations and improving overall efficiency. Customers also benefit from the flexibility to choose between agent-based and agentless scanning options tailored to their unique cloud workload needs. Discover how Uptycs can transform your security posture with a comprehensive, flexible, and powerful security solution designed to meet the needs of today's complex and rapidly evolving cloud environments. Shift up with Uptycs. KEY DIFFERENTIATORS: 1. Unified & Comprehensive Platform: Uptycs offers a holistic security solution with CNAPP capabilities (CWPP, KSPM, CSPM, CIEM, and CDR) across data centers, laptops, build pipelines, containers, and cloud environments, reducing tool sprawl. 2. Advanced XDR: Industry-leading eXtended Detection and Response for endpoint protection across macOS, Windows, and Linux systems. 3. DevSecOps Focus: Enhanced security for container-based workloads and Kubernetes, supporting agile DevOps workflows. 4. Real-Time Threat Detection: Context-rich alerts and threat detection mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for improved insights. 5. CI/CD Integration: Efficiently scan containers for vulnerabilities throughout the CI/CD pipeline, reducing risk in production. 6. Both agent-based and agentless scanning. Deploy agentless scanning for rapid, friction-free coverage to keep your data secure, and gain continuous runtime security, real-time investigations, and remediation with agent-based telemetry. 7. Rich API & Compatibility: Seamless integration with existing security tools and platforms, powered by osquery for broad compatibility. 8. Expert Support & Flexibility: Dedicated support from security experts and the best of both worlds with agent-based and agentless scanning options tailored to your needs.

Average Rating: 4.4/5.0

Total Reviews: 13

Araali Network Security Pro

Araali Networks allows lean security teams to discover their exposure - data, services, and backdoors and prioritize the top 1% of risks that really matter. The security team can use cloud-native controls or Araali's ebpf firewall to create compensating controls to neutralize these risks. In addition, Araali is introducing a new feature that allows teams to patch their CVEs, automatically using Araali - this is a game changer as it allows team to knock off 90% of critical CVEs with little effort. Coverage: VMs, Containers, and Kubernetes across the public and private clouds. How: Araali automatically discovers your apps, their networking, access privileges, and security risks. It also creates and maintains the least privilege policies for all the apps. Your teams can enforce explicit policies for “who can do what” in your virtual private cloud, blocking malicious code from establishing a backdoor or accessing your services. Araali's customers include cloud-native startups, mid-market enterprises, and government agencies. To learn more visit www.araalinetworks.com or create a free trial account by signing up on console.araalinetworks.com Use Cases: 1) SOC-2 compliance: IDS/IPS, vulnerability management, asset management, vulnerability compensation controls, app access control for 2) Egress Filtering: Monitor and control egress to third-party sites, backdoors, supply chain attacks, and ransomware 3) Risk Prioritization: Visibility into the runtime - apps and associated risks 4) Vulnerability Management and Vulnerability Shielding: prevent vuln from getting exploited - especially useful for zero-day or cases where patches are not available as seen in Log4j 5) Enforcement: Proactively or Reactively Neutralize Threats to stop them from moving laterally and exfiltrating your data.

Average Rating: 4.3/5.0

Total Reviews: 3

kaimon

kaimon is a file integrity monitoring (FIM) platform built for Linux infrastructure. It uses an eBPF kernel agent to capture every file lifecycle event - create, modify, move, delete, attribute change and write - with full process, user and device context, across bare-metal servers, virtual machines and containerized workloads. Traditional file integrity monitoring tools push raw filesystem events into a SIEM and expect a security engineer to spend weeks writing suppression rules before the output means anything to an auditor. Most evaluations end before that point, because a tool that reports thousands of routine deployment writes as findings is worse than no tool at all. kaimon replaces that work with AI-powered automatic baselining. On deployment the agent begins learning immediately. Over seven days it runs progressive, time-staggered analysis to capture every layer of operational noise - container startup artifacts, log rotation, package updates, nightly cron and weekly maintenance - and generates narrowly scoped suppression rules for legitimate activity. On day seven the baseline locks and the system becomes deterministic: anything that does not match established patterns is a genuine anomaly worth investigating. The baseliner is security-aware by design. It refuses to suppress changes to credential stores, privilege configuration, service unit definitions, SSH key files or system logs, so an attacker cannot teach it to ignore malicious behavior during the learning window. Built-in detection categories classify anomalies by severity out of the box: unauthorized changes to credential and privilege files, persistence mechanisms including SSH key injection, service backdoors and dynamic linker hijacking, log tampering, kernel module and driver changes, data exfiltration to removable media or via archive creation, permission and ownership manipulation, cron modifications, and package installs outside declared maintenance windows. Container coverage is native. A single kernel agent resolves overlay filesystem paths for Docker, Kubernetes, containerd, Podman, CRI-O and LXC, with no sidecars, no image modifications and no per-container agents. Reports are generated daily and map directly to the controls auditors ask about: SOC 2 CC6 and CC7, HIPAA 164.312(c)(1), PCI DSS 10.5.5 and 11.5, and NIST SP 800-53 SI-7. Each carries an AI-written, framework-specific verdict covering workload profile, anomaly assessment and compliance status. Evidence exports as PDF, HTML or JSON, and delivers by webhook to any SIEM, Slack, Discord or email. An interactive dashboard provides forensic deep search across the entire fleet, filtering by host, user, process and file path, for engineers who need more than an executive summary. Deployment is a single command. The agent detects the distribution and architecture, verifies checksums, installs, and configures itself. Deploy, baseline, report - with no regex, no rule authoring and no security engineer in the loop.

Oasis Defender

Oasis Defender provides comprehensive protection across *multiple* cloud environments. **Multi-dimensional visualization** - **Cloud Map** visualizes the entire network infrastructure across multiple clouds - **Policy Map** visualizes cloud security policies - **Security Map** highlights and helps to remediate security issues **Automated security analysis** - **Network security analysis:** Oasis Defender performs network security analysis based on industry best practices and provides actionable recommendations for remediation - **Data storage security analysis:** Oasis Defender analyzes the security of data stores in cloud environments, checking access controls and permissions **Agentless architecture** - **Instant** onboarding - **Seamless** integration - **Preserves** your existing topology - **Reduces** potential weak points for attackers Designed for organizations of all sizes, it helps protect their cloud environments from potential security breaches with *minimal effort*.
Seamlessly integrating with DigitalOcean's existing infrastructure, Oasis Defender provides a hassle-free way to *increase security* and *ensure compliance*, providing *peace of mind* so customers can focus on growing their business.

Saner Cloud

Saner Cloud is an AI-fortified Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that moves beyond detection. It empowers organizations with intelligent, real-time, and automated attack prevention. Unlike traditional cloud security solutions that overwhelm security teams with alerts but fail to act, Saner Cloud automatically fixes vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity risks, and compliance violations across multicloud environments. Why choose Saner Cloud? - Unified dashboard with real-time updates and interactive visuals for a single source of truth - Complete asset visibility with watchlists, exposure detection, region-based categorization, deprecated services, and cost analysis - AI-driven anomaly detection with confidence levels, severity distribution, whitelisting options, and one-click remediation - Continuous posture management with built-in benchmarks, quick misconfiguration checks, trend tracking, and drift detection - Risk prioritization with scoring, top-risk lists, and context across assets, posture, and anomalies to focus on which risk to remediate first - Identity and entitlement governance with policy maps, RBAC, resource groups, excessive permission detection, and activity logging - Enhanced Remediation with scheduling and approval workflows, Top 10 patches, patch aging, most-impactful-patches charts, and grouped remediation - Multi-cloud coverage across AWS, GCP and Azure with a prevention-first workflow - Smart tagging for fast filtering across thousands of resources and audit logs with tool-specific job codes for full traceability