# Best Cloud Workload Protection Platforms - Page 3

  *By [Lauren Worth](https://research.g2.com/insights/author/lauren-worth)*

   Cloud workload protection platforms help protect servers and cloud infrastructure and virtual machines (VMs) from web-based threats.

To qualify for inclusion in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms category, a product must:

- Protect cloud infrastructure and virtual machines.
- Support container-based application security
- Monitor and protect public, private, or hybrid-cloud environments





## Category Overview

**Total Products under this Category:** 89


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## Best Cloud Workload Protection Platforms At A Glance

- **Leader:** [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews)
- **Highest Performer:** [Plerion](https://www.g2.com/products/plerion/reviews)
- **Easiest to Use:** [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews)
- **Top Trending:** [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews)
- **Best Free Software:** [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews)


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## Top-Rated Products (Ranked by G2 Score)
  ### 1. [Morphisec](https://www.g2.com/products/morphisec/reviews)
  Morphisec fortifies your organization by diminishing the blast radius of attacks, to preemptively reduce the organization’s exposure to cyber risk, pro-actively prevent advanced threats, and ensure optimal anti-ransomware defense. Powered by Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD), this streamlined solution effortlessly integrates with your current endpoint protection array, enhancing existing protection capabilities or standing strong independently when necessary.


  **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 12

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Governance:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Ease of Admin:** 9.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 7.5/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Morphisec](https://www.g2.com/sellers/morphisec)
- **Year Founded:** 2014
- **HQ Location:** Waltham, US
- **Twitter:** @morphisec (2,293 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/morphisec/ (97 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 75% Mid-Market, 17% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Protection (1 reviews)
- Threat Detection (1 reviews)
- Threat Protection (1 reviews)


  ### 2. [Upwind](https://www.g2.com/products/upwind/reviews)
  Upwind is the runtime-first cloud security platform that secures your deployments, configurations, and applications by providing real-time visibility from the inside out. We’ve built a unified fabric that maps your environment as it runs - revealing what’s truly at risk, what’s actively happening, and how to respond quickly and effectively. With Upwind, security, dev, and ops teams move faster, stay focused, and fix risks that matter most.


  **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 8

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Governance:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Ease of Admin:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Upwind](https://www.g2.com/sellers/upwind)
- **Company Website:** https://www.upwind.io
- **Year Founded:** 2022
- **HQ Location:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/upwindsecurity/ (217 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 75% Mid-Market, 25% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (3 reviews)
- Visibility (3 reviews)
- Customer Support (2 reviews)
- Detection Efficiency (2 reviews)
- Implementation Ease (2 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Alert Overload (1 reviews)
- Compliance Issues (1 reviews)
- Data Management (1 reviews)
- Data Overload (1 reviews)
- False Positives (1 reviews)

  ### 3. [Verizon Secure Cloud Interconnect](https://www.g2.com/products/verizon-secure-cloud-interconnect/reviews)
  Secure Cloud Interconnect helps you connect to our global ecosystem of leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) from your Verizon Private IP Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based VPN network—simply, securely and reliably. Combined with the reliability, speed and diversity of our networks, it helps keep your cloud-based applications reliable and responsive to your business demands.


  **Average Rating:** 3.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Verizon Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/sellers/verizon-enterprise)
- **Year Founded:** 1988
- **HQ Location:** Basking Ridge, NJ
- **Twitter:** @VerizonEnterpr (6 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1094/ (15,946 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Enterprise, 50% Small-Business


  ### 4. [Virsec Security Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/virsec-security-platform/reviews)
  Virsec provides Zero Trust cybersecurity for legacy and modern workloads with the Virsec Security Platform (VSP). Using a default-deny, allow-on-trust security compensating control, VSP protects applications and workloads by proactively preventing cyber-attacks in milliseconds. VSP ensures only trusted code is allowed to run and stops everything else. With this proactive approach, workloads are immune to ever-evolving threat actor techniques and are protected against unpatched vulnerabilities.


  **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 7.5/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Virsec Systems](https://www.g2.com/sellers/virsec-systems)
- **Year Founded:** 2015
- **HQ Location:** San Jose, US
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/10408259 (98 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Mid-Market, 50% Enterprise


  ### 5. [ADEPT Egress Control](https://www.g2.com/products/adept-egress-control/reviews)
  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

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Dart Frog Cyber](https://www.g2.com/sellers/dart-frog-cyber)
- **Year Founded:** 2022
- **HQ Location:** Ashburn, US
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/dart-frog-cyber (2 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Enterprise


  ### 6. [Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-enterprise-threat-protector/reviews)
  Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) enables security teams to proactively identify, block, and mitigate targeted threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration that exploit the Domain Name System (DNS). Powered by real-time intelligence from Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence and Akamai's proven, globally distributed recursive DNS platform, Enterprise Threat Protector efficiently delivers security, control, and visibility to the enterprise while easily integrating with your existing network defenses.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Akamai Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/akamai-technologies)
- **Year Founded:** 1998
- **HQ Location:** Cambridge, MA
- **Twitter:** @Akamai (115,399 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/3925/ (10,444 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ:AKAM

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Mid-Market, 50% Small-Business


  ### 7. [Akamai Guardicore Segmentation](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-guardicore-segmentation/reviews)
  Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls.


  **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Akamai Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/akamai-technologies)
- **Year Founded:** 1998
- **HQ Location:** Cambridge, MA
- **Twitter:** @Akamai (115,399 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/3925/ (10,444 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ:AKAM

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Enterprise, 50% Mid-Market


  ### 8. [Alibaba Server Guard](https://www.g2.com/products/alibaba-server-guard/reviews)
  Server Guard is a host security software system. It provides functions such as host vulnerability detection, baseline check, virus scan and removal, and unified asset management


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Governance:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Alibaba](https://www.g2.com/sellers/alibaba)
- **HQ Location:** Hangzhou
- **Twitter:** @alibaba_cloud (1,167,297 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1218665/ (4,817 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** BABA
- **Total Revenue (USD mm):** $509,711

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Enterprise


  ### 9. [Atomic Enterprise OSSEC](https://www.g2.com/products/atomic-enterprise-ossec/reviews)
  Atomic Enterprise OSSEC is the commercially enhanced version of the OSSEC Intrusion Detection System brought to you by the sponsors of the OSSEC project. OSSEC is the world’s most popular open source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) used by tens of thousands of organizations. Atomicorp extends OSSEC with a management console (OSSEC GUI), advanced file integrity management (FIM), compliance auditing and reporting, expert support and more. Intrusion Detection Detect anomalous behaviors on servers and cloud workloads. File Integrity Monitoring Validates integrity of operating systems and application files. Log Management Manage log events and route to SIEMs or other monitoring systems. Active Response Trigger alerts or other actions based on changes to systems or files. OSSEC GUI and Management Centrally manage all OSSEC agents and OSSEC rules in a single console. OSSEC Compliance Reporting Real-time OSSEC compliance reporting for major standards like PCI, HIPAA, and many others. Expert OSSEC Support Get expert support for OSSEC servers and agents as well as help developing OSSEC rules. More info on Atomic Enterprise OSSEC is available at: https://www.atomicorp.com/atomic-enterprise-ossec/


  **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Atomicorp](https://www.g2.com/sellers/atomicorp)
- **Year Founded:** 2015
- **HQ Location:** Chantilly, US
- **Twitter:** @atomicorp (708 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/atomicorp/ (10 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Mid-Market


  ### 10. [AtomicWP Workload Protection](https://www.g2.com/products/atomicwp-workload-protection/reviews)
  AtomicWP Workload Security helps to secure workloads in a variety of environments while enhancing security. Meets virtually all cloud workload protection and compliance requirements in a single lightweight agent. AtomicWP secures workloads running in Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, or in any hybrid environment. AtomicWP secures both VM-based and container-based workloads. For more info: https://www.atomicorp.com/atomic-wp/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Comprehensive Security in a Single Lightweight Agent - Automate Cloud Compliance - Automated Intrusion Prevention and Adaptive Security - Reduce Cloud Security Costs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= AtomicWP Workload Protection Features ======= -- Advanced File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) -- Real-time detection of changes to files and registry entries. -- Compliance Reporting -- Compliance audits and compliance reports on systems and applications for compliance with PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST, GDPR, JSIG and other compliance standards. -- System Hardening -- Automated configuration and continuous monitoring of the kernel, applications, and services to remove, tune, or reconfigure potentially risky functions. -- Vulnerability Shielding / WAF Protection -- Host-based WAF protection against workload attacks, including botnets, SQL injections, CSRF, remote file injection, and watering holes. -- Memory Protection -- Optimizes the Linux kernel to prevent buffer overruns and code reuse. -- Deception -- Creates imitation vulnerabilities, systems, shares, and cookies to uncover indicators of attack. -- Server EDR and Behavioral Monitoring -- Log-based intrusion detection (LIDS) and active response integrated with machine learning identifies anomalous system and user behavior including network communications, processes launched, and files opened. -- Microsegmentation -- Provides flexible and granular control of workloads, network flows, and processes. -- Application Control & Visibility -- Provides self-learning, least-priviledged, role-based access controls on applications. -- Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware -- Real-time scanning and quarantine using CLAM AV or any existing anti-virus or anti-malware software. -- Workload Based Machine Learning -- Models normal system and user behavior to identify anomalies. -- Cloud Based Machine Learning -- Leverages community threat intelligence to identify global attack trends and provide real-time notifications that enable systems to automatically protect workloads against attacks they haven’t yet seen. ================================================== For more info: https://www.atomicorp.com/atomic-wp/ ==================================================


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Atomicorp](https://www.g2.com/sellers/atomicorp)
- **Year Founded:** 2015
- **HQ Location:** Chantilly, US
- **Twitter:** @atomicorp (708 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/atomicorp/ (10 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Enterprise


  ### 11. [CheckRed](https://www.g2.com/products/checkred/reviews)
  CheckRed is a complete cloud security platform (SSPM/CNAPP/CSPM/CIEM/CWPP/Compliance) covering all critical SaaS apps and cloud providers – all in a single, user-friendly, and affordable solution.


  **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 4

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Governance:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [CheckRed](https://www.g2.com/sellers/checkred)
- **HQ Location:** 5220 Spring Valley Rd Suite 604 Dallas,TX 75254
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkred/

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 75% Mid-Market, 25% Small-Business


  ### 12. [CimTrak Integrity Suite](https://www.g2.com/products/cimtrak-integrity-suite/reviews)
  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

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Cimcor](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cimcor)
- **Company Website:** https://www.cimcor.com/
- **Year Founded:** 1997
- **HQ Location:** Merrillville, Indiana, United States
- **Twitter:** @cimtrak (2,211 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cimcor-inc- (28 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Enterprise, 33% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Compliance (3 reviews)
- Compliance Management (3 reviews)
- Ease of Use (3 reviews)
- Customer Support (2 reviews)
- Monitoring (2 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Dashboard Issues (2 reviews)
- Update Issues (2 reviews)
- Compliance Issues (1 reviews)
- Lack of Guidance (1 reviews)
- Poor Customer Support (1 reviews)

  ### 13. [ColorTokens Xtended ZeroTrust Security Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/colortokens-xtended-zerotrust-security-platform/reviews)
  Secure your workloads, users and critical assets from zero-day and advanced persistent threats in minutes


  **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [ColorTokens Inc](https://www.g2.com/sellers/colortokens-inc)
- **Year Founded:** 2015
- **HQ Location:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Twitter:** @ColorTokensInc (429 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/colortokens/ (280 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Mid-Market, 50% Small-Business


  ### 14. [Darktrace / CLOUD](https://www.g2.com/products/darktrace-cloud/reviews)
  Darktrace / CLOUD is a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with advanced real-time Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) to protect runtime environments from active threats. It secures modern hybrid and multi-cloud environments by combining posture management, runtime threat detection, cloud-native response, and automated cloud investigations in a single AI-driven platform. As organizations scale across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, SaaS, containers, and serverless architectures, static posture checks and alert-heavy tools are no longer enough. Darktrace / CLOUD continuously understands how your cloud environment behaves and automatically stops threats as they unfold. 1. Stop Active Cloud Threats in Real Time with AI-Driven CDR Darktrace delivers true Cloud Detection and Response in live production environments. Its Self-Learning AI monitors identity behavior, workload activity, and network connections to detect the most subtle indicators of account compromise, privilege escalation, insider threats, ransomware, and novel attacks. When real threats emerge, it can take precise, proportionate action to contain them immediately, minimizing business disruption. 2. Maintain Continuous Cloud Visibility, Posture Assurance, and Risk Reduction Darktrace combines continuous cloud monitoring with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capabilities to dynamically map architecture, identities (human and non-human), services, containers, and configurations. It identifies misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, toxic combinations of privileges, and exploitable attack paths, not just static compliance gaps. This ensures organizations maintain real-time visibility and awareness of risk as cloud environments evolve. 3. Accelerate Incident Response with Automated Cloud Investigations at Scale Darktrace integrates with any detection source and your existing security stack to perform automated investigations at cloud speed and scale. When suspicious activity is detected, Darktrace automatically collects and analyzes forensic evidence across logs, configurations, disk, memory, and ephemeral workloads. Full attacker timelines are generated in minutes, enabling rapid root-cause analysis, confident remediation, and audit-ready evidence without manual data gathering. While many CNAPP solutions focus primarily on posture or fragmented point capabilities, Darktrace / CLOUD unifies prevention, real-time detection, response, and automated investigation in one continuous AI-driven workflow, delivering protection that adapts as fast as the cloud itself. AI-Driven Automation from Detection to Investigation Self-Learning AI detects known, unknown, and novel threats while autonomous response and automated investigations dramatically reduce analyst workload and stop threats automatically. Unmatched Cloud Coverage with Breadth and Depth Darktrace unifies CSPM, identity analytics, runtime CDR, and forensic depth across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, containers, and serverless environments to deliver protection at cloud speed and scale. True Hybrid, Cross-Domain Protection The platform correlates live activity across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and network environments to uncover and contain lateral, cross-domain attacks. Flexible Deployment for Enterprise Reality With agentless API integrations and optional agent-based telemetry, Darktrace supports SaaS, hosted, and on-prem deployments, delivering rapid time-to-value while meeting regulatory and operational requirements.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Darktrace](https://www.g2.com/sellers/darktrace)
- **Company Website:** https://www.darktrace.com
- **Year Founded:** 2013
- **HQ Location:** Cambridgeshire, England
- **Twitter:** @Darktrace (18,180 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/5013440/ (2,548 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Mid-Market


  ### 15. [Defensia](https://www.g2.com/products/defensia/reviews)
  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

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 5.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Defensia](https://www.g2.com/sellers/defensia)
- **Year Founded:** 2026
- **HQ Location:** N/A
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/defensia-cloud/ (1 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Small-Business


  ### 16. [Fidelis Halo](https://www.g2.com/products/fidelis-halo/reviews)
  CloudPassage is a security and compliance automation platform designed to provide instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds.


  **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 3

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Fidelis Cybersecurity](https://www.g2.com/sellers/fidelis-cybersecurity)
- **Year Founded:** 2023
- **HQ Location:** Riverside, US
- **Twitter:** @FidelisCyber (2,223 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/fideliscybersecurity (163 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 67% Enterprise, 33% Small-Business


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Detection Efficiency (2 reviews)
- Internet Security (2 reviews)
- Protection (2 reviews)
- Real-time Monitoring (2 reviews)
- Security (2 reviews)


  ### 17. [FirstWave Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/firstwave-cloud/reviews)
  FirstWave Cloud is a fully virtualised solution allowing telcos to deliver advanced cloud security solutions.


  **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Governance:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Ease of Admin:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [FirstwaveCloudTech](https://www.g2.com/sellers/firstwavecloudtech)
- **Year Founded:** 2001
- **HQ Location:** North Sydney, AU
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstwave-cloud-technology/ (50 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Enterprise, 50% Small-Business


  ### 18. [HyTrust Cloud Control](https://www.g2.com/products/hytrust-cloud-control/reviews)
  CloudControl helps you protect your virtual infrastructure with authentication, authorization and auditing. Better visibility and control simplify compliance and accelerate further virtualization


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [HyTrust](https://www.g2.com/sellers/hytrust)
- **HQ Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- **Twitter:** @HyTrust (1,583 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/Entrust (3,812 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Mid-Market


  ### 19. [IBM Secure Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-secure-gateway/reviews)
  The Secure Gateway Service provides a quick, easy, and secure solution to connect anything to anything. The solution provides a persistent connection between on-premises or third party cloud environments and the IBM Cloud.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)
- **Year Founded:** 1911
- **HQ Location:** Armonk, NY
- **Twitter:** @IBM (709,023 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/ (324,553 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** SWX:IBM

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Enterprise


  ### 20. [IBM Security zSecure](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-security-zsecure/reviews)
  IBM Security zSecure Admin automates and simplifies IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) security and compliance administration tasks and enhances RACF delegation capabilities and identity governance. By automating many recurring system administration functions and enhancing the native RACF authorization and delegation capabilities, zSecure Admin helps you maximize IT resources, reduce errors, increase efficiency, improve service quality and identify problems quickly to help minimize security risks and demonstrate compliance.


  **Average Rating:** 2.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)
- **Year Founded:** 1911
- **HQ Location:** Armonk, NY
- **Twitter:** @IBM (709,023 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/ (324,553 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** SWX:IBM

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Mid-Market


  ### 21. [ManageEngine Cloud Security Plus](https://www.g2.com/products/manageengine-cloud-security-plus/reviews)
  Cloud Security Plus combats security concerns and protects your cloud. It gives complete visibility into both your AWS and Azure cloud infrastructures.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 1

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Zoho](https://www.g2.com/sellers/zoho-b00ca9d5-bca8-41b5-a8ad-275480841704)
- **Year Founded:** 1996
- **HQ Location:** Austin, TX
- **Twitter:** @Zoho (137,251 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/38373/ (30,531 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Phone:** +1 (888) 900-9646 

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Mid-Market


  ### 22. [Saviynt](https://www.g2.com/products/saviynt-saviynt/reviews)
  Saviynt helps organizations transform their organization with identity security. Our AI-first platform enables enterprises to secure every identity — human, non-human, and AI — within any application and in any environment. With Saviynt, organizations strengthen their identity security posture, streamline operations, and ensure that every user has the right access at the right time. The Saviynt Identity Platform unifies identity governance (IGA), application access, cloud security, and privileged account management into a single, end-to-end platform. And, with our AI-powered recommendation engine, application onboarding, and more, users are empowered to make faster, smarter, data-driven decisions. 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:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 77

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Saviynt](https://www.g2.com/sellers/saviynt)
- **Company Website:** https://www.saviynt.com
- **Year Founded:** 2010
- **HQ Location:** El Segundo, US
- **Twitter:** @saviynt (1,233 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/saviynt (1,579 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Oil & Energy
  - **Company Size:** 80% Enterprise, 5% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (29 reviews)
- Features (23 reviews)
- Easy Setup (13 reviews)
- Customer Support (11 reviews)
- Integrations (11 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Difficult Learning (9 reviews)
- Lack of Features (9 reviews)
- Limited Features (9 reviews)
- Poor Interface Design (9 reviews)
- Complexity (8 reviews)

  ### 23. [Styra](https://www.g2.com/products/styra/reviews)
  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

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Ease of Admin:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Styra](https://www.g2.com/sellers/styra-9c4063d4-2358-493b-91ec-ba0a2d47a466)
- **Year Founded:** 2016
- **HQ Location:** Redwood City, California, United States
- **Twitter:** @styrainc (3,361 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/styra (55 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 67% Enterprise, 33% Small-Business


  ### 24. [Uptycs](https://www.g2.com/products/uptycs-uptycs/reviews)
  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

**User Satisfaction Scores:**

- **Governance:** 5.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10)
- **Ease of Admin:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **API / Integrations:** 3.3/10 (Category avg: 8.6/10)
- **Security Auditing:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Uptycs](https://www.g2.com/sellers/uptycs)
- **Year Founded:** 2016
- **HQ Location:** Waltham, US
- **Twitter:** @uptycs (1,483 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/uptycs/ (129 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Top Industries:** Financial Services
  - **Company Size:** 54% Mid-Market, 38% Enterprise


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Cloud Computing (1 reviews)
- Cloud Security (1 reviews)
- Cloud Technology (1 reviews)
- Compliance (1 reviews)
- Compliance Management (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Expensive (1 reviews)
- Pricing Issues (1 reviews)

  ### 25. [Araali Network Security Pro](https://www.g2.com/products/araali-network-security-pro/reviews)
  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


**Seller Details:**

- **Seller:** [Araali Networks](https://www.g2.com/sellers/araali-networks)
- **Year Founded:** 2018
- **HQ Location:** Fremont, US
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/araali-networks/ (4 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Reviewer Demographics:**
  - **Company Size:** 67% Small-Business, 33% Mid-Market


#### Pros & Cons

**Pros:**

- Alerting (1 reviews)
- API Integration (1 reviews)
- Detection Efficiency (1 reviews)
- Integrations (1 reviews)
- Onboarding (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Complex Coding (1 reviews)
- Delayed Detection (1 reviews)
- Ineffective Alerts (1 reviews)
- Inefficient Alert System (1 reviews)
- Network Issues (1 reviews)



## Parent Category

[Cloud Security Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security)



## Related Categories

- [Container Security Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-security-tools)
- [Cloud Compliance Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-compliance)
- [Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security-posture-management-cspm)



---

## Buyer Guide

### What You Should Know About Cloud Workload Protection Platforms 

### What are Cloud Workload Protection Platforms?

Cloud workload protection is not a very intuitive term and likely sounds alien to people who do not operate cloud infrastructure. However, individuals that work frequently with cloud infrastructure are probably somewhat familiar with cloud workload protection. For context, cloud workload protection is typically described as a family of workload-centric security solutions designed to secure on-premises, physical, and virtual servers along with a range of [infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) and applications. Cloud workload protection platforms are an evolution of endpoint protection solutions designed specifically for server workloads.

Cloud workload protection solutions provide users with automated discovery and broad visibility of workloads deployed across cloud service providers. In addition to providing visibility, these tools protect individual workloads with malware protection, [vulnerability scanning](https://www.g2.com/categories/vulnerability-scanner), access control, and anomaly detection features. Malware and vulnerability scanning are often paired with automated remediation or patching features to simplify and scale workload management. The platforms also provide access control through privilege management and micro-segmentation. However, their most interesting feature might be behavior monitoring powered by [machine learning](https://www.g2.com/categories/machine-learning) that discovers errors or unexpected changes. This makes it harder for threat actors and nefarious insiders to alter workloads, policies, or privileges. Once detected, access can be automatically restricted and reverted to its previous state.

**Key Benefits of Cloud Workload Protection Platforms**

- Complete visibility of workloads in the cloud
- Automated threat detection and response
- Custom protection for unique servers and workloads
- Workload, application, and infrastructure hardening

### Why Use Cloud Workload Protection Platforms?

Cloud workload protection platforms provide numerous benefits, the most important being automated scaling, workload hardening, cross-cloud security management, anomaly detection, and response functionality.

**Automation and efficiency —** Cloud workload protection platforms automate a number of security operations related to the cloud. The first is discovery; after workloads are discovered, these platforms scale to protect large numbers of workloads and identify their unique security requirements. These platforms automatically detect new workloads and scan them for vulnerabilities. They can also automate the detection and response of security incidents.

Automation can save significant time for security teams, especially those that are tasked with protecting DevOps pipelines. These environments are constantly changing and need adaptable security solutions to protect them no matter their state. Some automation features may only be available through APIs and other integrations, but nonetheless simplify numerous tasks for IT professionals, engineers, and security teams.

**Multicloud management —** No two multicloud environments are alike. Multicloud architectures are complex, intricate environments that span across on-premises servers and cloud providers to deliver powerful, scalable, and secure infrastructure. Still, their inherent complexity can [present challenges to security teams](https://research.g2.com/insights/challenges-of-multicloud-solution-management-and-security). Each workload has its own requirements and cloud workload protection platforms provide a single pane of glass and automated discovery to ensure no workload goes unprotected or unnoticed.

Different workloads may run on different operating systems or possess different compliance requirements. Regardless of the countless variations in security needs, these platforms can adapt to changes and enable highly customizable policy enforcement to protect a wide range of workloads.

**Monitoring and detection —** Workload discovery is not the only monitoring feature provided by cloud workload protection platforms. Their most important monitoring capability is behavioral monitoring used to detect changes, misuse, and other anomalies automatically. These platforms can harden workloads by detecting exploits, scanning for vulnerabilities, and providing next-generation firewalls. Still, prevention is only the first phase of cybersecurity. Once protection is in place, baselines must be measured and privileges must be distributed.

Any activity deviating from the established baselines should be detected and administrators should be alerted. Depending on the nature of the threat, various response workflows can be established to remedy the issue. Servers might require endpoint detection and response while applications require processes to be blocked. Regardless of the issue, threats should be modeled and workflows should be designed accordingly.

### What are the Common Features of Cloud Workload Protection Platforms?

Cloud workload protection platforms can provide a wide range of features, but here are a few of the most common found in the market.

**Cloud gap analytics —** This feature analyzes data associated with denied entries and policy enforcement, giving information for better authentication and security protocols.

**Cloud registry —** Cloud registries detail the range of cloud service providers a product can integrate with and provide security for.

**Asset discovery —** Asset discovery features unveil applications in use and trends associated with traffic, access, and usage.

**Governance —** User provisioning and governance features allow users to create, edit, and relinquish user access privileges.

**Logging and reporting —** Log documentation and reporting provides required reports to manage business. Provides adequate logging to troubleshoot and support auditing.

[**Data security**](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-security) **—** Data protection and security features help users manage policies for user data access and data encryption.

[**Data loss prevention (DLP)**](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-loss-prevention-dlp) **—** DLP stores data securely either on-premise or in an adjacent cloud database to prevent loss of data.

**Security auditing —** Auditing helps users analyze data associated with security configurations and infrastructure to provide vulnerability insights and best practices.

**Anomaly detection —** Anomaly detection is conducted by constantly monitoring activity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns.

**Workload diversity —** Diverse workload support would imply a cloud security solution that supports a range of instance types from any number of cloud service providers.

**Analytics and** [**machine learning**](https://www.g2.com/categories/machine-learning) **—** Analytics and machine learning improve security and protection across workloads by automating network segmentation, malware protection, and incident response.

### Software and Services Related to Cloud Workload Protection Platforms

These technology families are either closely related to cloud workload protection platforms or there is a significant overlap between products.

[**Endpoint detection and response (EDR) software**](https://www.g2.com/categories/endpoint-detection-response-edr) **—** EDR software is used to protect devices such as servers, laptops, and mobile devices from threats, discover security incidents, and automate their resolution. This concept is mirrored with cloud workload protection platforms, but those tools are not designed to protect cloud workloads. They may be able to resolve server issues or other minor incidents, but do not provide scalable cloud-based workload protection or policy management functionality.

[**Data center security software**](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-center-security) **—** While data centers are commonly used to power cloud services and applications, data center security software is not designed for managing and securing multicloud environments. These tools have similar workload protection features, but they are limited to individual data centers or groups of servers running on-premises. Securing a multicloud architecture requires significant adaptability and diverse workload support across numerous services and providers.

[**Cloud management platforms**](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-management-platforms) **—** Cloud management platforms are tools used to provide a single pane of glass for multicloud environments. There is some overlap between cloud management and workload protection platforms, but most of them do not provide the same level of protection and incident response functionality as cloud workload protection platforms. Instead, they may integrate with additional security tools or simply monitor their activity without providing the means to resolve issues as they arise.

[**Cloud compliance software**](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-compliance) **—** Cloud compliance software is used to ensure data, workloads, APIs and other cloud services are properly protecting sensitive information and abiding by established regulations. While they can be used to protect workloads and discover services, they don’t have the same runtime-level or workload-centric protection features such as vulnerability scanning, malware protection, virtual firewall, or intrusion detection.