Best Container Security Software for Linux
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What is Container Security Software for Linux?
Container security software is software designed to protect containerized applications and environments from security vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks. Containers, which are used to deploy and run applications in isolated environments, present unique security challenges due to their dynamic and ephemeral nature. Container security software helps secure containerized environments by providing capabilities such as vulnerability scanning, runtime protection, access control, and image security. These tools monitor container configurations and activity to detect anomalies, ensure compliance with security policies, and mitigate risks like container escapes or unauthorized access. By enhancing the security of containers and container orchestration platforms (like Kubernetes), these solutions enable organizations to securely deploy and manage applications in cloud-native and microservices environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Container Security software for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Aikido Security
Aikido Security
Aikido is a developer-first software security platform. Secure and scan your containers & virtual machines, see which vulnerabilities are important to solve. Protect your app from outdated runtimes that could be vulnerable. Aikido combines scanning capabilities like Container Scanning, SAST, IaC, DAST, SCA, CSPM & Secrets Detection, all in one platform.Starting Price: Free -
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Kasm Workspaces
Kasm Technologies
Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration. -
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Checkmk
Checkmk
Checkmk is a comprehensive IT monitoring system that enables system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps teams to identify issues across their entire IT infrastructure (servers, applications, networks, storage, databases, containers) and act quickly to resolve them More than 2,000 commercial customers and many more open source users worldwide use Checkmk daily. Key product features: • Service state monitoring with almost 2,000 checks 'out of the box' • Log and event-based monitoring • Metrics, dynamic graphing, and long-term storage • Comprehensive reporting incl. availability and SLAs • Flexible notifications and automated alert handling • Monitoring of business processes and complex systems • Hardware and software inventory • Graphical, rule-based configuration, and automated service discovery Top use cases: • Server Monitoring • Network Monitoring • Application Monitoring • Database Monitoring • Storage Monitoring • Cloud Monitoring • Container MonitoringStarting Price: $0/year -
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Telepresence
Ambassador Labs
Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.Starting Price: Free -
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NeuVector
SUSE
NeuVector covers the entire CI/CD pipeline with complete vulnerability management and attack blocking in production with our patented container firewall. NeuVector has you covered with PCI-ready container security. Meet requirements with less time and less work. NeuVector protects your data and IP in public and private cloud environments. Continuously scan throughout the container lifecycle. Remove security roadblocks. Bake in security policies at the start. Comprehensive vulnerability management to establish your risk profile and the only patented container firewall for immediate protection from zero days, known, and unknown threats. Essential for PCI and other mandates, NeuVector creates a virtual wall to keep personal and private information securely isolated on your network. NeuVector is the only kubernetes-native container security platform that delivers complete container security.Starting Price: 1200/node/yr -
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Calico Cloud
Tigera
Pay-as-you-go security and observability SaaS platform for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. Get a live view of dependencies and how all the services are communicating with each other in a multi-cluster, hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Eliminate setup and onboarding steps and troubleshoot your Kubernetes security and observability issues within minutes. Calico Cloud is a next-generation security and observability SaaS platform for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. It enables organizations of all sizes to protect their cloud workloads and containers, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real-time across multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments. Calico Cloud is built on Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Instead of managing a platform for container and Kubernetes security and observability, teams consume it as a managed service for faster analysis, relevant actions, etc.Starting Price: $0.05 per node hour -
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Kubescape
Armo
A Kubernetes open-source platform providing developers and DevOps an end-to-end security solution, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer, and image vulnerabilities scanning. Kubescape scans K8s clusters, Kubernetes manifest files (YAML files, and HELM charts), code repositories, container registries and images, detecting misconfigurations according to multiple frameworks (such as the NSA-CISA, MITRE ATT&CK®), finding software vulnerabilities, and showing RBAC (role-based-access-control) violations at early stages of the CI/CD pipeline. It calculates risk scores instantly and shows risk trends over time. Kubescape has became one of the fastest-growing Kubernetes security compliance tools among developers due to its easy-to-use CLI interface, flexible output formats, and automated scanning capabilities, saving Kubernetes users and admins precious time, effort, and resources.Starting Price: $0/month -
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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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Qualys Container Security
Qualys
Qualys CS features a vulnerability analysis plug-in for CI/CD tool Jenkins, and soon for other CI/CD tools including Bamboo, TeamCity, and CircleCI. You can download the plugins directly from within the container security module. With Qualys CS, security teams can participate in the DevOps process to gate vulnerable images entering the system, while developers get actionable data to remediate vulnerabilities. Configure policies for preventing vulnerable images from entering the repositories. Set policies based on criteria such as vulnerability severity, and specific QIDs. Review from within the plug-in a summary of the build with its vulnerabilities, information on patchable software and fixed versions, and image layers where it is present. Container infrastructure is immutable in nature, which means containers need to be identical to the images they are baked from. -
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Sophos Cloud Native Security
Sophos
Complete multi-cloud security coverage across environments, workloads, and identities. Boost efficiency with a single integrated cloud security platform. Sophos Cloud Native Security unifies security tools across workloads, cloud environments, and entitlements management. Integrated with SIEM, collaboration, workflow, and DevOps tools to increase agility across an organization. Your cloud environments need to be tough, hard to compromise and quick to recover. Our comprehensive and intuitive security and remediation tools can be managed by your security teams, or via Managed Services to fast-track your cyber resilience to best meet the security incidents of today. Leverage our extended detection and response (XDR) tools to identify and stop malware, exploits, misconfigurations, and anomalous behaviors. Hunt for threats, prioritize detections, and automatically connect security events to optimize investigation and response. -
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Anchore
Anchore
DevSecOps at full speed with deep inspection of container images and policy-based compliance. In an environment where application development must be fast and flexible, containers are the future. Adoption is accelerating, but with it comes risk. Anchore makes it possible to manage, secure, and troubleshoot containers continuously, without sacrificing speed. It delivers a process that allows container development and deployment to be secure from the start, by ensuring that the contents of your containers match the standards that you define. The tools are transparent to developers, visible to production, accessible to security, and all designed for the fluid nature of containers. Anchore sets a trusted standard for containers. It empowers you to certify your containers, making them predictable and protectable. So you can deploy containers with confidence. Protect against risks using a complete container image security solution. -
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CrowdSec
CrowdSec
CrowdSec is a free, open-source and collaborative IPS to analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community, outnumbering cybercriminals all together. Set up your own intrusion detection system. Apply behavior scenarios to identify cyber threats. Share and benefit from a crowdsourced and curated cyber threat intelligence system. Define the type of remediation you want to apply and where. Leverage the community’s IP blocklist and automate your security. CrowdSec is designed to run seamlessly on virtual machines, bare-metal servers, containers or to be called directly from your code with our API. Our strength comes from our cybersecurity community that is burning cybercriminals’ anonymity. By sharing IP addresses that aggressed you, you help us curate and redistribute a qualified IP blocklist to protect everyone. CrowdSec is 60x faster than tools like Fail2ban and can parse massive amounts of logs in no time. -
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Edera
Edera
Introducing secure-by-design AI and Kubernetes no matter where you run your infrastructure. Eliminate container escapes and put a security boundary around Kubernetes workloads. Simplify running AI/ML workloads through enhanced GPU device virtualization, driver isolation, and vGPUs. Edera Krata begins a new paradigm of isolation technology, ushering in a new era of security. Edera brings a new era of AI & GPU security and performance, while also integrating seamlessly with Kubernetes. Each container receives its own Linux kernel, eliminating a shared kernel state between containers. Which means goodbye container escapes, costly security tool layering, and long days doom scrolling logs. Run Edera Protect with just a couple lines of YAML and you’re off to the races. It’s written in Rust for enhanced memory safety and has no performance impact. A secure-by-design Kubernetes solution that stops attackers in their tracks. -
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Clair
Clair
Clair is an open-source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in application containers (currently including OCI and docker). Clients use the Clair API to index their container images and can then match it against known vulnerabilities. Our goal is to enable a more transparent view of the security of the container-based infrastructure. Thus, the project was named Clair after the French term which translates to clear, bright, and transparent. Manifests are Clair's representation of a container image. Clair leverages the fact that OCI Manifests and Layers are content-addressed to reduce duplicated work.
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