ARMO vs Aqua
ARMO is the world’s only dedicated end-to-end Kubernetes-native security platform. As such, it is uniquely focused on providing your security and DevOps teams with noise-free, contextual, and actionable security insights for your Kubernetes environments and cloud-native workloads.
See ARMO in actionFeatures
RBAC
ARMO
- An interactive tool to visualize RBAC
- Pre-built queries to gain insights into your RBAC
- Advanced investigation tool to identify RBAC over-privileged services and entities, identify drift, and enable least privilege.
AQUA
- No RBAC visualization
- Based only on best practices
- No investigation capabilities
Compliance
ARMO
- Full support of all leading industry benchmarks and guidelines dedicated to Kubernetes compliance – CIS, SOC2, Mitre Att&ck, NSA-CISA, PCI, and more.
- Fully automated from scan through detection, and remediation to opening tickets and pull requests (PRs).
AQUA
- Missing key Kubernetes-specific security frameworks
- Not automated, and requires additional manual work
Kubernetes Security Posture
ARMO
- Over 250 Kubernetes-specific security controls are available
- Support for custom frameworks
- Fully configurable controls are available
- dedicated end-to-end Kubernetes-native security platform
AQUA
- limited number of controls, thus limited coverage
- Not Kubernetes focused
Risk based Vulnerability Management and Prioritization
ARMO
- Excels in Kubernetes vulnerability management, by significantly reducing the noise through automatically filtering out false positives based on severity, exploitability, and reachability metrics.
- Combing runtime and workload context with threat intelligence metrics (EPSS, CISA KEV) to provide a holistic multi-dimensional view – workload, CVE, Image, Layers
AQUA
- Focuses on image scanning for containerized applications.
- Limited enrichment of runtime workload context with threat intelligence.
Smart hardening
ARMO
- Fix security issues without breaking applications. Thanks to suggested contextual remediations based on runtime application behavior.
AQUA
- Risk of breaking applications. That’s because remediation is based on best practices and general guidelines without runtime context.
Runtime Agent
ARMO
- Lightweight agent, fully open source, and a CNCF-approved project.
- ARMO agent is minimally intrusive, requiring less resources and configuration complexity to identify attacks on Kubernetes environments in real-time
AQUA
- Highly intrusive agent, with high resource consumption.
- Complex to manage and install.
Network Policies
ARMO
- One-click recommendations for optimal network policies tailored to the specific needs of the running applications, based on runtime behavior captured in eBPF data streams.
AQUA
- N/A
Seccomp Profiles
ARMO
- Simplifies seccomp profile creation by auto-generating them based on application behavior and maintenance, markedly hardening clusters at the kernel level.
AQUA
- N/A
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