Learn why businesses searching for a cloud native application protection platform powered by runtime insights choose Sysdig to secure and accelerate innovation in the cloud.
Why Sysdig Is a Better Choice Than
CrowdStrike
360º
Detects and responds to threats in real time anywhere in the cloud with 360-degree visibility and correlation across workloads, identities, cloud services, and third-party applications.
Limited
Strong XDR solution, but limited detection accuracy, context, and correlation for containers/Kubernetes and serverless events.
Layered prevention
Correlates assets, activity, and risks across domains. Prioritize the most critical security risks using context from runtime insights, layered with real-time detections, vulnerabilities tied to in-use packages, and in-use permissions.
Not DevOps friendly
CrowdStrike is not DevOps friendly. It lacks comprehensive posture/permissions management and vulnerability prioritization capabilities, and it cannot correlate findings to provide meaningful risk prioritization advice.
Consolidates security
Consolidates security with an end-to-end detection approach combining Drift Control, ML, and Falco detections, curated by Sysdig Threat Research. Combine agent and agentless for best-in-class detection.
Underperforms
Provides coverage for endpoints and Windows hosts, but underperforms in the Linux-centric Kubernetes world. Its closed policy engine does not allow customer control over rules nor their extensibility outside its boundaries.
Layered enrichment
Multi-layered enrichment that combines hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud metadata.
Lacks metadata
Lacks the rich metadata needed to scope policies, filter events, and assign ownership. Lacks context to correlate events in containers with host-level ones.
Open source
Powered by Falco, a CNCF graduated project and the open source solution for cloud threat detection.
Less control
CrowdStrike is a black box solution with no visibility into or control over its decision logic.
Sysdig allows us to really hone in to see our critical workloads and what's exposed to the internet. And then of the identified vulnerabilities, what is actually in use versus not in use, or a vulnerability that has a fix versus doesn’t have a fix.”
Why choose Sysdig
Powered by runtime insights, Sysdig stops threats instantly and reduces vulnerabilities by up to 95%.
We created Falco, the open source solution for cloud threat detection, and apply runtime insights to help you focus on the vulnerabilities and threats that matter most.
Prevent, detect, and respond at cloud speed with Sysdig.
Real time
Detect threats in real time, rather than seeing them in the rearview mirror. Stop attacks up to 10x faster with Sysdig.
End-to-end detection
Consolidate security with a platform that provides end-to-end coverage, delivering breadth and depth.
Risk prioritization with runtime insights
Know what’s running in production across cloud and containers, so dev and security teams can focus on the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, permissions, and threats that matter most.