--- title: Google Container Security Reviews meta_title: 'Google Container Security Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Container Security works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: "DevSecOps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t" url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops --- # Google Container Security Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Container Security Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-security-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About Google Container Security Containerization allows development teams to move fast, deploy software efficiently, and operate at an unprecedented scale. ## Google Container Security Pros & Cons Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews. **What users like:** - Users value the **comprehensive security** of Google Container Security, ensuring their containerized applications are well protected. (3 reviews) - Users value the **easy cloud integration** of Google Container Security, enhancing their data management and security. (2 reviews) - Users value the **automated scanning technology** in Google Container Security for proactively identifying vulnerabilities in containers. (2 reviews) - Users value the **enhanced security measures** of Google Container Security, ensuring robust data protection and management. (2 reviews) - Users value the **comprehensive security** of Google Container Security, ensuring safety throughout the entire container lifecycle. (1 reviews) - Easy Integrations (1 reviews) - Features (1 reviews) - Insights (1 reviews) - Management Ease (1 reviews) - Prioritization (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **implementing and managing container security complex** , particularly for those new to containerization and documentation navigation. (2 reviews) - Users find the **implementation complex** , particularly for those unfamiliar with containerization, adding to management challenges. (2 reviews) - Users find **difficult learning** curves with Google Container Security due to its complexity for those new to containerization. (1 reviews) - Users find the **costly pricing model** frustrating, especially when exceeding the usage limits leads to additional charges. (1 reviews) - Users feel the **insufficient information** regarding auditing for GKE managed workloads limits effective security management. (1 reviews) - Integration Issues (1 reviews) - Users face a **steep learning curve** with Google Container Security, especially those unfamiliar with containerization or Kubernetes. (1 reviews) - Poor Documentation (1 reviews) - Pricing Issues (1 reviews) ## Google Container Security Reviews ### 1. Google Container Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tammy O. | COO ACQUISITION CONTRACT SALES, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** It protects your data with added security. Allowing easy management of your data in the cloud. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** None so far. It's easy to use, easy to integrate. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create additional security for users of Google Workspaces online, by allowing easy login with security checks. It provides ease in identity management on login and document access, prompting security codes as needed to access data. And supports two-factor authentication for login. ### 2. Great system with Container Threat Detection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luke I. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Easily integrated with the Google infrastructure **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Nothing, it works great. I can't think of anything. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Container Threat Detection is top notch ### 3. Able to get useful insights related to workloads in the cluster **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Displaying all the concerns and providing an option filter based on requirement and providing recommended actions to overcome the concerns. It is getting for free of cost. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Not providing auditing for GKE managed workloads **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have many workloads in the GKE clusters and regular security auditing meetings occur to check the concerns over the workloads, with the help of this Google container security we are getting the information and recommendations to resolve. ### 4. Google Container Security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** - Google Container Security covers the entire container lifecycle. - Security tools are natively integrated into Google Cloud. - The ability to perform automated scans of container images helps identify and mitigate vulnerabilities before they reach production. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** - Organizations using multiple cloud platforms or on-premises solutions may encounter limitations when integrating with other infrastructures. - Google Cloud costs can escalate rapidly in large-scale environments with many active containers and clusters. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** . ### 5. Could Storage **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** We can store all our data securely in the google container, there are lots of features in the google container **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** The implementation is quite difficult and we need to pay if we cross more than the limited usage **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can store everything there and don't need to panic about it whether it will get deleted or not ### 6. Security at its best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun V. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Different level of security like IAM role based access, monitoring and scanning tools **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Complexity and documentation redirections **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatic scanning of vulnerable things ### 7. Great Google feature **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sehar J. | p, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Google container security employs advanced machine learning algorithms and real-time monitoring to proactively identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities and it reduces the risk of data breaches which is great! **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Given the complexity of container security and the diverse range of features offered by Google container Security, there is a learning curve for users who are new to containerization or kubernetes environments. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is meeting regulatory compliance requirements such as HIPAA, GDPR and doesn't impose stringent security standards on organizations that concern data protection and privacy. ### 8. GCS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** They are protecting containerized applications. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Implementing and managing container security can be complex, especially for organizations new to containerization. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detecting and responding to threats in real-time within a containerized environment can be challenging. ### 9. security for container and compute **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawar S. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** I loved Google Container security offerings like hardened and curated vm images, confidential computing for sensitive data etc. It's features are easy to use and integrated automatically in offerings. Implementation of security of container is easy. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** I don't have anything as such now. I am using it more so later can say about the dislikes **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** protecting sensitive data, and custom and hardened vm images. ### 10. Google Container Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Google Container Security is a great product by team google, It has many advantages such as Image scanning, Runtime security, Network security, and Compliance, and mainly, It is easy to use and affordable. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Google Container Security has certain disadvantages also such as It is not integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services, difficult to configure in an organization, and expensive for the new business. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Container Security solves the issue of Vulnerability scanning, provides Runtime security, and Compliance with Reduced risk and Increasing in the efficiency. ### 11. The most holistic security suite for container deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janne M. | Technical Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Google treats security with a multi-layered solution with regards to containers. There isn't simply one solution in place that's supposed to guarantee secure container run-time environment, but actually a suite of features that together make any potential leak or attack surfaces so diminishingly small, that there really isn't any potential for vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Container security isn't in one place in Google Cloud portal, rather than scattered around in different sections of container management. A centralized reporting view would be very valuable. **Recommendations to others considering Google Container Security:** Remember that Container Security needs to be taken care of multiple layers with multiple features. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Containers are a hyper-efficient way of running virtual workloads, especially compared to virtual machines. However the biggest obstacle for wide introduction of containers have been the security questions, which have been manyfold. With Google Container Security it's possible to ensure that containers are run in safe and secure way in safe and secure environment. ### 12. Google Container Security : Use it to secure your container environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivangi A. | Solution Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** 1. Breadth of services offered 2. Ease to ease 3. Very secure to use 4. User friendly interface 5. Support documentation available **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** Nothing as such. Loving the tool till now. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security was always an issue. Google Container Security helps me securely manage my images, documents etc. ### 13. Good service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Container Security?** Google container security is great for infrastructure security. It keeps our system, and information safe and secure. **What do you dislike about Google Container Security?** There isn’t much we dislike about google products. **What problems is Google Container Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically just security. When you’re dealing with clients and client information, it is important to make sure everything is safe and secure at all times. ## Google Container Security Discussions - [What does Google Container Security do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-google-container-security-do) - [What is anthos security?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-anthos-security) - [What container technology does Google use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-container-technology-does-google-use) - [View Google Container Security pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-container-security/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-09-30+07%3A04%3A10+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7d9041ee-607d-4fd9-aee0-7608937e969c&secure%5Btoken%5D=1ec871a0884b1a7ee88341bdce23d71efcfd179f0c0b1925fc1bcf3e75673583&format=llm_user) ## Google Container Security Features **Administration** - Risk Scoring - Secrets Management - Security Auditing - Configuration Management - Metadata Management - Policy Management - Incident Management - Vulnerability Management - Compliance Management - User Management - Deployment Management - Audit Management - Patch Management - Application Security - Runtime Container Security **Monitoring** - Continuous Image Assurance - Behavior Monitoring - Observability - Continuous Monitoring - Real-Time Monitoring **Protection** - Dynamic Image Scanning - Runtime Protection - Workload Protection - Network Segmentation - Container Scanning - Vulnerability Scanning **Additional Functionality** - Two-Factor Authentication - Third-Party Integrations - Intrusion Detection System - Continuous Integration - Customizable Reports - Continuous Delivery - Activity Dashboard - Security Testing - Audit Trail - Risk Alerts - Access Controls/Permissions - API - AI Copilot - Continuous Deployment - Threat Response - Reporting & Statistics - Authentication - Encryption - Threat Intelligence - Risk Analysis - For DevSecOps - Generative AI - Reporting/Analytics - Container Isolation - Risk Assessment - Search/Filter - Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization ## Top Google Container Security Alternatives - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (841 reviews) - [FortiCNAPP](https://www.g2.com/products/forticnapp/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (383 reviews) - [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (427 reviews)