Best Cloud Workload Protection Platforms for Startups
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What are Cloud Workload Protection Platforms for Startups?
Cloud workload protection platforms help organizations secure applications, workloads, and data running across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. They continuously monitor workloads for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malicious activities to prevent breaches and data loss. These platforms provide visibility across virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions, offering automated threat detection and compliance enforcement. By integrating with cloud infrastructure and DevOps pipelines, they enable consistent security policies throughout the application lifecycle. Ultimately, cloud workload protection platforms ensure scalable, real-time protection for modern cloud-native environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Cloud Workload Protection platforms for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Orca Security
Orca Security
Designed for organizations operating in the cloud who need complete, centralized visibility of their entire cloud estate and want more time and resources dedicated to remediating the actual risks that matter, Orca Security is an agentless cloud Security Platform that provides security teams with 100% coverage their entire cloud environment. Instead of layering multiple siloed tools together or deploying cumbersome agents, Orca combines two revolutionary approaches - SideScanning, that enables frictionless and complete coverage without the need to maintain agents, and the Unified Data Model, that allows centralized contextual analysis of your entire cloud estate. Together, Orca has created the most comprehensive cloud security platform available on the marketplace. -
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Wiz
Wiz
Wiz is a new approach to cloud security that finds the most critical risks and infiltration vectors with complete coverage across the full stack of multi-cloud environments. Find all lateral movement risks such as private keys used to access both development and production environments. Scan for vulnerable and unpatched operating systems, installed software, and code libraries in your workloads prioritized by risk. Get a complete and up-to-date inventory of all services and software in your cloud environments including the version and package. Identify all keys located on your workloads cross referenced with the privileges they have in your cloud environment. See which resources are publicly exposed to the internet based on a full analysis of your cloud network, even those behind multiple hops. Assess the configuration of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and VM operating systems against your baselines and industry best practices. -
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SentinelOne Singularity
SentinelOne
One intelligent platform. Unprecedented speed. Infinite scale. Singularity™ enables unfettered visibility, industry-leading detection, and autonomous response. Discover the power of AI-powered, enterprise-wide cybersecurity. The world’s leading enterprises use the Singularity platform to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks at machine-speed, greater scale, and higher accuracy across endpoint, cloud, and identity. SentinelOne delivers cutting-edge security with this platform by offering protection against malware, exploits, and scripts. SentinelOne cloud-based platform has been perfected to be innovative compliant with security industry standards, and high-performance whether the work environment is Windows, Mac or Linux. Thanks to constant updating, threat hunting, and behavior AI, the platform is ready for any threat.Starting Price: $45 per user per year -
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Trend Vision One
Trend Micro
Stopping adversaries faster and taking control of your cyber risks starts with a single platform. Manage security holistically with comprehensive prevention, detection, and response capabilities powered by AI, leading threat research and intelligence. Trend Vision One supports diverse hybrid IT environments, automates and orchestrates workflows, and delivers expert cybersecurity services, so you can simplify and converge your security operations. The growing attack surface is challenging. Trend Vision One brings comprehensive security to your environment to monitor, secure, and support. Siloed tools create security gaps. Trend Vision One serves teams with these robust capabilities for prevention, detection, and response. Understanding risk exposure is a priority. Leveraging internal and external data sources across the Trend Vision One ecosystem enables greater command of your attack surface risk. Minimize breaches or attacks with deeper insight across key risk factors. -
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a solution for cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWP) that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and can protect workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats. Get a continuous assessment of the security of your cloud resources running in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Use built-in policies and prioritized recommendations that are aligned to key industry and regulatory standards or build custom requirements that meet your organization's needs. Use actionable insights to automate recommendations and help ensure that resources are configured securely and meet your compliance needs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud enables you to protect against evolving threats across multicloud and hybrid environments.Starting Price: $0.02 per server per hour -
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Cloudaware
Cloudaware
Cloudaware is a cloud management platform with such modules as CMDB, Change Management, Cost Management, Compliance Engine, Vulnerability Scanning, Intrusion Detection, Patching, Log Management, and Backup. Cloudaware is designed for enterprises that deploy workloads across multiple cloud providers and on-premises. Cloudaware integrates out-of-the-box with ServiceNow, New Relic, JIRA, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and over 50 other products. Customers deploy Cloudaware to streamline their cloud-agnostic IT management processes, spending, compliance and security.Starting Price: $0.008/CI/month -
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Fidelis Halo
Fidelis Security
Fidelis Halo is a unified, SaaS-based cloud security platform that automates cloud computing security controls and compliance across servers, containers, and IaaS in any public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment. With over 20,000 pre-configured rules and more than 150 policy templates that cover standards such as PCI, CIS, HIPAA, SOC, and DISA STIGs for IaaS services, Halo’s extensive automation capabilities streamline and accelerate workflows between InfoSec and DevOps. The comprehensive, bi-directional Halo API, developer SDK, and toolkit automate your security and compliance controls into your DevOps toolchain to identify critical vulnerabilities so they can be remediated prior to production. The free edition of Halo Cloud Secure includes full access to the Halo Cloud Secure CSPM service for up to 10 cloud service accounts across any mix of AWS, Azure, and GCP, at no cost to you, ever. Sign up now and start your journey to fully automated cloud security!Starting Price: Free -
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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®. Quickly set up gateways to connect your environments, manage the mapping between your local and remote destinations, and monitor all of your traffic. Monitor all your gateways from the Secure Gateway Service dashboard or monitor individual gateways from the Secure Gateway Service client. Simple access management controls are available from the Secure Gateway Service client to allow or deny access on a per resource basis to prevent any unauthorized access. This list will automatically synchronize to any client connected to the same gateway. With Professional and Enterprise plans, you can connect multiple instances of the Secure Gateway Service client to your gateway to automatically use built-in connection load balancing and connection fail-over.Starting Price: $100 per 5 gateways
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Contrast Security
Contrast Security
Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.Starting Price: $0 -
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Sysdig Secure
Sysdig
Cloud, container, and Kubernetes security that closes the loop from source to run. Find and prioritize vulnerabilities; detect and respond to threats and anomalies; and manage configurations, permissions, and compliance. See all activity across clouds, containers, and hosts. Use runtime intelligence to prioritize security alerts and remove guesswork. Shorten time to resolution using guided remediation through a simple pull request at the source. See any activity within any app or service by any user across clouds, containers, and hosts. Reduce vulnerability noise by up to 95% using runtime context with Risk Spotlight. Prioritize fixes that remediate the greatest number of security violations using ToDo. Map misconfigurations and excessive permissions in production to infrastructure as code (IaC) manifest. Save time with a guided remediation workflow that opens a pull request directly at the source. -
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Uptycs
Uptycs
Uptycs is the first unified CNAPP and XDR platform. Reduce risk by prioritizing responses to threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, sensitive data exposure, and compliance mandates. With Uptycs, you can protect your entire enterprise, from laptops and servers to public and private cloud infrastructure. The platform streamlines your response to threats and offers a single UI and data model for easy management. Uptycs ties together threat activity as it traverses on-prem and cloud boundaries, delivering a more cohesive security posture. If you're looking for a powerful security solution that eliminates silos and tool sprawl, Uptycs is the answer. Looking for acronym coverage? We have you covered, including CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, KSPM, CIEM, CDR, and XDR. Start with your Detection Cloud, Google-like search, and the attack surface coverage you need today. Be ready for what’s next. Shift up with Uptycs. -
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Runecast
Runecast Solutions
Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform that saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers. By proactively using our agentless scanning in real-time admins discover potential risks and remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. It provides continuous audits against vendor best practices, common security standards, and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Detect and assess risks and be fully compliant across your hybrid cloud in minutes. Runecast has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry. -
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Rapid7 InsightVM
Rapid7
Better understand the risk in your modern environment so you can work in lockstep with technical teams. Align traditionally siloed teams and drive impact with the shared view and common language of InsightVM. Take a proactive approach to security with tracking and metrics that create accountability and recognize progress. InsightVM not only provides visibility into the vulnerabilities in your modern IT environment—including local, remote, cloud, containerized, and virtual infrastructure—but also clarity into how those vulnerabilities translate into business risk and which are most likely to be targeted by attackers. InsightVM is not a silver bullet. Instead, it provides the shared view and common language needed to align traditionally siloed teams and drive impact. It also supports a proactive approach to vulnerability management with tracking and metrics that create accountability for remediators, demonstrate impact across teams, and celebrate progress. -
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ARMO
ARMO
ARMO pioneers a new approach to Cloud Security with an open source powered, behavioral driven, Cloud Runtime Security Platform. ARMOs CADR (Cloud App Detection & Response) solution addresses a major unsolved pain point for organizations running on cloud-native architectures: how to continuously protect dynamic workloads during runtime without overwhelming teams with alerts or interrupting operations. ARMO CADR continuously reduces the cloud attack surface using real-time runtime insights, while actively detecting and responding to threats with true risk context. It includes 2 major products that are tightly integrated together and are part of one platform solution - * Kubernetes-First, runtime driven, Cloud Security Posture mgmt (CSPM) - identifying risks, prioritizing them and offering remediation without breaking applications in production * Real-Time Threat Detection & Response - detecting and responding to active threats across the entire cloud and applications stack -
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Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector
Akamai Technologies
Enterprise Threat Protector is a cloud-based secure web gateway (SWG) that enables security teams to ensure that users and devices can safely connect to the Internet, regardless of where they are connecting from, without the complexity associated with legacy, appliance-based approaches. Deployed on the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Enterprise Threat Protector proactively identifies, blocks, and mitigates targeted threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing, DNS data exfiltration, and advanced zero-day attacks. This real-time visualization shows the phishing, malware, and command & control threats that Akamai is blocking (for customers) through its Intelligent Platform and its unprecedented insights into DNS and IP traffic. Protect web traffic at every corporate location and for off-network users quickly and without complexity with a cloud-delivered secure web gateway (SWG). -
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Morphisec
Morphisec
Prevent unknown attacks that can't be predicted and inflict the most damage. Moving Target Defense applies across attack vectors and threat types — no need for indicators, no waiting for patches or updates. Morphisec drives down risk exposure and significantly lowers technology costs. Rethink your security model and improve your ROI by adding Morphisec. Morphisec's patented moving target defense technology is designed to provide end-to-end protection against the most damaging cyberattacks. With the power of moving target defense, attackers are unable to accurately identify the resources they need to leverage in order to evade your current defenses. This proactive cyber defense solution guards your critical systems with a lightweight, easy to install agent that doesn't require any updates to keep securing critical infrastructure. -
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AWS Control Tower
Amazon
If you're a customer with multiple AWS accounts and teams, cloud setup and governance can be complex and time consuming, slowing down the very innovation you’re trying to speed up. AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, called a landing zone. AWS Control Tower creates your landing zone using AWS Organizations, bringing ongoing account management and governance as well as implementation best practices based on AWS’s experience working with thousands of customers as they move to the cloud. With AWS Control Tower, builders can provision new AWS accounts in a few clicks, while you have peace of mind knowing that your accounts conform to company-wide policies. AWS customers can implement AWS Control Tower, extend governance into new or existing accounts, and gain visibility into their compliance status quickly.Starting Price: $0.001 per evaluation -
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Juniper Cloud Workload Protection
Juniper Networks
Juniper Cloud Workload Protection defends application workloads in any cloud or on-premises environment in and against advanced and zero-day exploits, automatically as they happen. It ensures that production applications always have a safety net against vulnerability exploits, keeping business-critical services connected and resilient. Provides real-time protection against attacks and safeguards the application from malicious actions without manual intervention, catching sophisticated attacks that endpoint detection (EDR) and web application firewall (WAF) solutions cannot. Continuously assesses vulnerabilities in applications and containers, detecting serious and critical exploit attempts as they happen. Provides rich, application-level security event generation and reporting, including application connectivity, topology, and detailed information about the attempted attack. Validates the execution of applications and detects attacks without using behavior or signatures. -
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Tigera
Tigera
Kubernetes-native security and observability. Security and observability as code for cloud-native applications. Cloud-native security as code for hosts, VMs, containers, Kubernetes components, workloads, and services to secure north-south and east-west traffic, enable enterprise security controls, and ensure continuous compliance. Kubernetes-native observability as code to collect real-time telemetry, enriched with Kubernetes context, for a live topographical view of interactions between components from hosts to services. Rapid troubleshooting with machine-learning powered anomaly and performance hotspot detection. Single framework to centrally secure, observe, and troubleshoot multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud environments running Linux or Window containers. Update and deploy policies in seconds to enforce security and compliance or resolve issues. -
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Saviynt
Saviynt
Saviynt provides intelligent identity access management and governance for cloud, hybrid and on-premise IT infrastructures to accelerate enterprise digital transformation. Our platform integrates with leading IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS applications including AWS, Azure, Oracle EBS, SAP HANA, SAP, Office 365, SalesForce, Workday, and many others. Our innovative IGA 2.0 advanced risk analytics platform won the Trust Award and was named an industry leader by Gartner. -
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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
NetApp
Enterprise-grade storage wherever your apps are. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security and compliance. Easily calculate your storage costs on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with Cloud Volumes ONTAP using this free, simplified and easy to navigate calculator. -
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Sonrai Security
Sonraí Security
Identity and Data Protection for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. Sonrai’s public cloud security platform provides a complete risk model of all identity and data relationships, including activity and movement across cloud accounts, cloud providers, and 3rd party data stores. Uncover all identity and data relationships between administrators, roles, compute instances, serverless functions, and containers across multi-cloud accounts and 3rd-party data stores. Inside the platform, our critical resource monitor continuously monitors your critical data sitting inside object stores (e.g. AWS S3, Azure Blob) and database services (e.g. CosmosDB, Dynamo DB, RDS). Privacy and compliance controls are monitored across multiple cloud providers and 3rd party data stores. Resolutions are coordinated with relevant DevSecOps teams. -
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Turbot
Turbot
Turbot provides real-time, automated configuration and control of software defined infrastructure for enterprises. App teams achieve agility with direct access to their favorite tools, while your enterprise ensures control with continuous security & compliance. Safely enable self-service & direct AWS, Azure & GCP access for all your applications & developers. With Turbot, Application teams use single sign in to the AWS Console, Azure Portal and Google Cloud Console to manage resources, and develop applications using AWS, Azure & GCP APIs. Leverage the entire Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud Platform ecosystem of knowledge and tools, benefiting immediately from every cloud innovation and improvement. No abstractions, just direct access within automated policy guardrails. -
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Tufin
Tufin
Tufin enables organizations to automate their security policy visibility, risk management, provisioning and compliance across their multi-vendor, hybrid environment. Customers gain visibility and control across their network, ensure continuous compliance with security standards and embed security enforcement into workflows and development pipelines. Eliminate the security bottleneck and increase the business agility of your organization. Existing manual approaches to managing network changes can take weeks and introduce errors resulting in potential security risks. Organizations across the world rely on Tufin’s policy-based automation to automate visibility and provisioning and maximize business agility and security. Maintaining and demonstrating compliance with industry regulations and internal policies is difficult within today’s complex and fragmented networks. Tufin enables enterprises to ensure continuous compliance and maintain audit readiness. -
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Xshield
ColorTokens
Gain comprehensive visibility into deployed assets and traffic via an intuitive user interface. Simplify creation of least-privilege micro-segmentation policies through centralized policy management, eliminating the need for subnets, hypervisors, and internal firewalls. Minimize exposure by automatically extending security controls to new cloud-native workloads and applications on creation. Implement a single solution across bare-metal servers, end-user computers, or cloud-hosted virtual machines, containers, or instances. Deploy across hybrid and multi-vendor heterogeneous networks, whether on-premises or in the cloud — without replacing any hardware or infrastructure. Avoid compliance violations by isolating and controlling all communications within and across segmented groups. Rich, contextual visibility into network flow from largest trend to workload service. -
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Virsec
Virsec
A protection-first cybersecurity model is possible. By making server workloads self-protecting, we offer continuous protection, stopping known and unknown attacks, including zero days. The world runs on software yet, until now, there was never a way to achieve protection at the server workload while it is running. With our patented, revolutionary technology, we protect from the inside at runtime, precisely mapping what the workload can do, and stopping malicious code before it can run. Workloads, components, filesystems, processes, and memory. Stop an attacker’s actions instantly. Patched or unpatched, known or unknown, Virsec detects attacks that bypass endpoint solutions. Map the server workload without harm to your applications and provide full protection. Achieve better protection at the server workload and achieve operational savings. On-demand demos and tutorials of the Virsec platform. Schedule a live demo with a security expert. -
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Trellix Cloud Workload Security
Trellix
A single-pane view helps consolidate management across physical, virtual, and hybrid-cloud environments. Benefit from secure workloads all the way from on-prem to cloud, across the board. Automates the defense of elastic workloads to eliminate blind spots and deliver advanced threat defense. Leverage advanced host-based workload defense optimized specifically for virtual instances to avoid straining overall infrastructure. Avail virtual machine-optimized threat defenses that help deliver multilayer countermeasures. Gain awareness and protect your virtualized environment and network from external malicious sources. Comprehensive countermeasures, including machine learning, application containment, virtual machine-optimized anti-malware, whitelisting, file integrity monitoring, and micro-segmentation, to protect your workloads. Helps assign and manage all workloads automatically with the ability to import AWS and Microsoft Azure tag information into Trellix ePO. -
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HyTrust
HyTrust
In a multi-cloud world where technology moves at lightning speed and security often plays catchup, organizations face the daunting challenge of eliminating the gaps and resolving the inconsistencies in policy enforcement and adherence to compliance mandates. HyTrust CloudControl provides advanced privileged user access control, policy enforcement, forensic and automated compliance for private clouds. HyTrust DataControl provides powerful data-at-rest encryption and integrated key management for workloads running in any cloud environment. Encrypting workloads helps enterprises to ensure their data is protected. One of the challenges of workload encryption is scaling the management of encryption keys. HyTrust’s mission is to make private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure more trustworthy for enterprises, service providers and government agencies. HyTrust provides solutions that automate security controls for software-defined computing, networking and storage workloads. -
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Cisco Secure Workload
Cisco
Achieve the security required for today's heterogeneous multicloud environment with Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration). Protect workloads across any cloud, application, and workload--anywhere. Automate and implement a secure zero-trust model for micro-segmentation based on application behavior and telemetry. Proactively detect and remediate indicators of compromise to minimize the impact to your business. Automate micro-segmentation through customized recommendations based on your environment and applications. Granular visibility and control over application components with automatic detection and enforcement of compliance. Track the security posture of applications across your entire environment. Make informed decisions using automatic NIST vulnerabilities data feed.
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