Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs Rapid7 InsightCloudSec comparison

Palo Alto Networks and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category. Palo Alto Networks is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while Rapid7 is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.0. Palo Alto Networks holds a 12.3% mindshare in CSPM, compared to Rapid7’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Palo Alto Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2025

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Rapid7 InsightCloudSec are competing in the cloud security sector, with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec having an edge due to its robust feature set despite Prisma Cloud's advantages in pricing and customer service satisfaction.

Features:Prisma Cloud provides comprehensive cloud security capabilities with features like threat detection, compliance management, and runtime protection. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec stands out for wide integration support, advanced automation capabilities, and a holistic view of organizational threats.

Room for Improvement:Prisma Cloud could enhance its automation features and expand integration options with third-party security tools. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec can improve customer support service focus and expand its real-time threat detection capabilities to be instantaneous.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Prisma Cloud offers smooth deployment and proactive customer service. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec deployment is satisfactory but with less emphasis on customer service, according to user feedback.

Pricing and ROI:Prisma Cloud is known for cost-effectiveness, balancing price and features well. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec involves higher initial costs but offers substantial ROI due to its advanced feature set and automation benefits, justifying the cost for many.

To learn more, read our detailed Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec Report (Updated: July 2025).

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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 3.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is 12.3%, down from 18.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is 1.5%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

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Mohammad Qaw

Senior Security Consultant at helpag

It gives you one console to see all of your assets, review their configurations, and build your processes

Most customers use Prisma Cloud for visibility and compliance. Prisma has so many features, but many organizations do not use them. They primarily use the visibility part to connect all their cloud accounts and hosts for visibility to see if they are missing any security controls or if they have any misconfigurations. You can connect it to cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba, etc., or to an on-prem data center. Prisma Cloud gives you so many options to automate processes related to your daily operations. When it comes to cybersecurity, you can automate things with their existing APIs. They also have out-of-the-box integrations with many solutions. I have not seen any limitations. Everything is customizable. You can do whatever you want, defining the reporting and custom use cases. They recently updated the UI, so it's much better than before.

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ChennaRao Vemula

Senior Cloud Security Engineer at Pearson Education Inc

Enhances security posture with cost efficiency and powerful APIs

We have been using it for almost four years. We are one of the top first customers who implemented it. It's a cloud security solution With this tool, we have a neat security posture at least in terms of securing our environment. It helps us handle all the misconfigurations, and we do day-to-day…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The GUI is one of the best features. Audit reports and documentation for alerts are also valuable."

"Atlas security graph is pretty cool. It maps out relationships between components on AWS, like load balancers and servers. This helps visualize potential attack paths and even suggests attack paths a malicious actor might take."

"The solution saves 40% of my time."

"You not only get to know about vulnerabilities and misconfigurations but also some of the actual"

"I rate SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security ten out of ten."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to gain deep visibility into the workloads inside containers."

"The most valuable aspects of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security are its alerting system and the remediation guidance it provides."

"Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it."

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"We haven't had an issue with the product for over a year."

"The CSPM and CWPP functionalities are pretty good."

"It is user-friendly. It has a good look and feel and reporting structure. It provides a single pane of glass. These are the things that I like."

"Prisma scans things and shows all the vulnerabilities and packages that are vulnerable, and which layers, by default, have vulnerabilities. So developers can easily go into the package or a particular layer and make changes to their code. It's very transparent."

"We are provided with a single tool to protect all of our cloud resources and applications without having to manage and reconcile compliance reports."

"It is a good solution. Each team should utilize it. Every good organization is now moving towards or trying to be provider agnostic, so if you are using multiple providers, you should at least give Prisma Cloud a try."

"CSPM is very useful because it gives us good policies and violation alerts."

"I've been really pleasantly surprised with how Prisma Cloud is, over time, covering more and more of the topics I care about, and listening to customer feedback and growing the product in the right directions."

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"The tool provides centralized visibility through dashboards and alerts, allowing customers to receive reports on cloud vulnerabilities and security posture. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec provides customers with a robust understanding of cloud security."

"I find the security frameworks and security tools valuable. I think they're good in the infrastructure of the code security. They are also good at threat protection."

"Agentless scanning is a possible use with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec."

"It runs every hour and has been reliable since I started."

"ICSE is cheaper compared to other tools and has a pleasant user experience with good support."

"The tool's most valuable feature is workload protection for Kubernetes and container security. It has agents that identify bugs or lack of security on runtime containers."

"ICSE is cheaper compared to other tools and has a pleasant user experience with good support."

Cons

"The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint."

"I believe the UI/UX updates for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security have room for improvement."

"The integration with Oracle has room for improvement."

"Their search feature could be better."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is an excellent CSSPM tool, but the CSC CWPP features need improvement."

"I export CSV. I cannot export graphs. Restricting it to the CSV format has its own disadvantages. These are all machine IP addresses and information. I cannot change it to the JSON format. The export functionality can be improved."

"There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs attention."

"In version 2, a lot of rules have been deployed for Kubernetes security and CDR, which makes a lot of issues of critical severity, whereas they are not critical or of high severity. There is a mismatch of severities."

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"We would like to have the detections be more contemporaneous. For example, we've seen detections of an overprivileged user or whatever it might be in any of the hundreds of Prisma policies, where there are 50 minutes of latency between the event and the alert."

"It's not really on par with, or catering to, what other products are looking at in terms of SAST and DAST capabilities. For those, you'd probably go to the market and look at something like Veracode or WhiteHat."

"While the code security feature has undergone recent enhancements, there is room for improvement in terms of its cost module."

"These tools have a set of signatures or rules that will alert you whenever something meets the criteria. In the future, they might include some machine learning or AI feature that allows you to ask questions about the context of the alert, and it will provide you answers based on the data that they have. Most vendors are doing it, and I believe they will do it in the future. The reporting bar could also use AI to add context based on the environment."

"I don't have any specific notes for improvement; however, if they could continue to focus more on giving users the ability to create custom policies and configurations, that would be ideal."

"I would like Prisma Cloud to improve its mapping feature to increase usability."

"When it comes to compliance, the issue is that when we are exporting the reports, there is only a single compliance option. If I need to report on multiple compliance requirements, that feature isn't available. For example, I made a single report for ISO 27000 but I can't correlate it with GDPR."

"One definite area for improvement is the auto-remediation or the CWP area. The second one is the RQL language. It is still not very flexible and does not cover a lot of use cases. The RQL language could be dramatically improved to add more options."

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"They didn't have any documentation on how to patch it."

"A couple of modules are missing when compared to other providers, specifically related to some IAM, and the login piece needs improvement."

"Rapid7 InsightCloudSec could be better at showing dashboards for virtual firewalls and appliances. Compared to other solutions like Palo Alto, this area is not as good. So, they should work on improving this for virtual devices."

"Technical support could be better. It could also be easier, more user-friendly, and intuitive. The API keys aren't easy to understand, and the cloud layouts aren't intuitive and user-friendly. We should be able to integrate IM governance and APIs into non-compliant workloads like legacy solutions."

"There are a lot of other solutions in the market, not only providing the features of a CSPM, but also CNAPP."

"The login piece needs improvement."

"The tool needs to improve its documentation."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price depends on the extension of the solution that you want to buy. If you want to buy just EDR, the price is less. XDR is a little bit more expensive. There are going to be different add-ons for Singularity."

"PingSafe is priced reasonably for our workload."

"Pricing is based on modules, which was ideal for us."

"Their pricing appears to be based simply on the number of accounts we have, which is common for cloud-based products."

"Singularity Cloud Security by SentinelOne is cost-efficient."

"Its pricing is constant. It has been constant over the previous year, so I am happy with it. However, price distribution can be better explained. That is the only area I am worried about. Otherwise, the pricing is very reasonable."

"I am personally not taking care of the pricing part, but when we moved from CrowdStrike to PingSafe, there were some savings. The price of CrowdStrike was quite high. Compared to that, the price of PingSafe was low. PingSafe is charging based on the subscription model. If I want to add an AWS subscription, I need to pay more. It should not be based on subscription. It should be based on the number of servers that I am scanning."

"SentinelOne offers excellent pricing and licensing options."

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"I don't know a better way to do it, but their licensing is a little confusing. That's due to the breadth of different types of technologies they are trying to cover. The way you license depends on where you're securing. When they were Twistlock it was a simple licensing scheme and you could tell what you were doing. Now that they've changed that scheme with Palo Alto, it is quite confusing. It's very difficult to predict what your costs are going to be as you try to expand coverage."

"Regarding Prisma Cloud's pricing, we started small, and then we just kept on growing."

"Prisma Cloud Enterprise is a costly solution. You need a license for all the components. At the same time, you have everything under one roof, so I think it's still justified."

"This solution is good for a company with at least 400 people that must be connected remotely. For smaller companies, it can be too expensive."

"Prisma Cloud is quite scalable. In our current licensing model, we're able to heavily extend our cloud workload and onboard a lot of customers. It really helps, and it is on par with other solutions."

"Prisma Cloud's licensing system functions as expected with a solid licensing infrastructure."

"The price for Prisma Cloud is reasonable."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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"We're doing an annual subscription. There are additional expenses, but not within the confines of this platform."

"Companies generally buy this tool because the pricing is not that high."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

11%

Insurance Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I don't handle the price part, but it isn't more expensive than Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. It's not cheap, but it is wor...

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs ...

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What is your primary use case for Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?

Prisma Cloud helps support DevSecOps methodologies, making those responsibilities easier to manage.

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What Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform do you recommend?

We like Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, since it offers us incredible visibility into our entire cloud system. We...

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What do you think of Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud?

Aqua Security is easy to use and very manageable. Its main focus is on Kubernetes and Docker. Security is a very valu...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?

The tool provides centralized visibility through dashboards and alerts, allowing customers to receive reports on clou...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?

The pricing is good when compared to other leaders. It is cheaper.

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What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?

A couple of modules are missing when compared to other providers, specifically related to some IAM, and the login pie...

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Also Known As

PingSafe

Prisma Public Cloud, RedLock Cloud 360, RedLock, Twistlock, Aporeto

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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud-native security solutions. It covers dynamic workload identity, automated forensics, and multi-cloud protection, ensuring robust security across diverse cloud platforms.

Prisma Cloud delivers advanced capabilities for managing cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms. It offers dynamic workload identity creation, real-time monitoring, and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines. With automation, centralized dashboards, and enhanced visibility, users effectively manage security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. While optimizing cloud environments through runtime protection and compliance, Prisma Cloud faces challenges with its navigation, pricing, and limited automation capabilities. Users seek improvements in API security, role-based access controls, and documentation quality, emphasizing the need for enhanced customization and reporting features.

What are the important features of Prisma Cloud?

Dynamic Workload Identity: Enables unique workload identities for security purposes.
Automated Forensics: Offers detailed insights into threats and incidents automatically.
Runtime Protection: Provides ongoing detection and blocking of suspicious activities.
Multi-Cloud Security: Protects environments on AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously.
Compliance Management: Assists in meeting regulatory standards across cloud platforms.

What benefits or ROI should users consider in reviews?

Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens cloud defense lines with proactive monitoring.
Centralized Dashboard: Offers unified oversight of multiple cloud environments.
Efficient Misconfiguration Handling: Quickly identifies and addresses security lapses.
Seamless CI/CD Integration: Integrates security within development workflows.
Improved Visibility: Provides transparent insights into security operations and alerts.

Industries like finance and telecom rely on Prisma Cloud for managing cloud security posture and container security. Teams utilize its capabilities across hybrid and multi-cloud settings to ensure compliance and robust threat protection. Features like misconfiguration detection and runtime monitoring are critical in promoting security objectives in these sectors.

Palo Alto Networks

Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is a comprehensive CSPM tool catering to cloud security across Docker and Kubernetes workloads, ensuring rigorous data classification and protection, focusing on AWS and Azure platforms.

Organizations leverage Rapid7 InsightCloudSec for securing cloud environments, integrating smoothly into Kubernetes settings for extensive security oversight. This tool addresses data protection with governance and access controls, providing centralized visibility and alert mechanisms. Users depend on its threat detection capabilities, easing data security management on AWS and Azure. The platform integrates automated processes and agentless scanning to foster an understanding of cloud security dynamics. Enhancements in CNAPP management and more intuitive interfaces could further streamline its use.

What are the most important features of Rapid7 InsightCloudSec?

Security Frameworks: Offers structured systems to enforce security policies across cloud environments.
Agentless Scanning: Provides insights without deploying agents, simplifying operations.
Automation: Streamlines routine security tasks, enhancing efficiency.
Centralized Visibility: Uses dashboards and alerts for comprehensive monitoring.
Vulnerability Management: Identifies threats with a comprehensive database.

What ROI should users look for in reviews?

Improved Data Security: Enhanced protection across multiple cloud platforms.
Compliance Facilitation: Helps meet regulatory standards effortlessly.
Operational Efficiency: Reduces workload with automation and intuitive tools.
Threat Prevention: Proactively manages vulnerabilities.

In financial sectors, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is critical for safeguarding sensitive information and ensuring compliance. Healthcare industries use it to protect patient data, adhering to strict regulatory standards. E-commerce businesses appreciate its ability to secure transaction data while maintaining service availability through reliable threat detection and mitigation strategies.

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Amgen, Genpact, Western Asset, Zipongo, Proofpoint, NerdWallet, Axfood, 21st Century Fox, Veeva Systems, Reinsurance Group of America

Fannie Mae, 3M, PizzaHut, Spotify, Autodesk, Discovery

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