Compare the Top On-Premises Container Security Software as of June 2025

What is On-Premises Container Security Software?

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 On-Premises Container Security software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Aikido Security

    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 Protect your app from outdated runtimes that could be vulnerable.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 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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    Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition
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    Runecast

    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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    Telepresence

    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
    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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    Tenable Enclave Security
    Identify, understand, and close cyber weaknesses across your modern infrastructure. Built for highly secure environments. Tenable Enclave Security, a unified cyber risk solution, delivers innovative cybersecurity capabilities to highly secure environments while addressing strict data residency and security requirements. Discover and assess IT assets and containers. Bring cyber risk to light and expose where you’re vulnerable. Analyze cyber risk across asset types and pathways. Identify the true exposures threatening your organization. Understand vulnerability severity and asset criticality. Prioritize remediation of high-impact weaknesses. Expose and close critical vulnerabilities in highly secure environments. Ensure compliance with the most stringent cloud security and data residency requirements. Tenable Enclave security can operate in classified and air-gapped environments.
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    Aqua

    Aqua

    Aqua Security

    Full lifecycle security for container-based and serverless applications, from your CI/CD pipeline to runtime production environments. Aqua runs on-prem or in the cloud, at any scale. Prevent them before they happen, stop them when they happen. Aqua Security’s Team Nautilus focuses on uncovering new threats and attacks that target the cloud native stack. By researching emerging cloud threats, we aspire to create methods and tools that enable organizations to stop cloud native attacks. Aqua protects applications from development to production, across VMs, containers, and serverless workloads, up and down the stack. Release and update software at DevOps speed with security automation. Detect vulnerabilities and malware early and fix them fast, and allow only safe artifacts to progress through your CI/CD pipeline. Protect cloud native applications by minimizing their attack surface, detecting vulnerabilities, embedded secrets, and other security issues during the development cycle.
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    Portworx

    Portworx

    Pure Storage

    Run Kubernetes in production with the #1 Kubernetes platform for persistent storage, backup, DR, data security and capacity management. Easily protect, restore and migrate your Kubernetes applications in any cloud or data center. The Portworx Enterprise Storage Platform is your end-to-end storage and data management solution for all your Kubernetes projects, including container-based CaaS, DBaaS, SaaS, and Disaster Recovery initiatives. Your apps will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multi-cloud migrations and more. Easily solve the enterprise requirements needed to run data service on Kubernetes. Effortlessly offer a cloud-like DbaaS to your users without giving up control. Scale the backend data services powering your SaaS app without operational complexity. Add DR to any Kubernetes app with a single command. Easily backup and restore all your Kubernetes applications.
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    IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift
    IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift unifies traditional and container storage, enabling easier deployment of enterprise-class scale-out microservices architectures. Validated with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes and IBM Cloud Pak. Delivering simplified deployment and management for an integrated experience. Enterprise data protection, automated scheduling, and data reuse support for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments. Block, file and object data resources. Quickly deploy what you need when you need it. IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift provides the infrastructure foundation and storage orchestration necessary for building a robust, agile, on-premises hybrid cloud environment. IBM supports CSI for its block and file storage families to improve container utilization in Kubernetes environments.
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    Edera

    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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    Symantec Data Center Security
    Complete server protection, monitoring, and workload micro-segmentation for private cloud and physical on-premises data center environments. Security hardening and monitoring for private cloud and physical data centers with support for Docker containers. Agentless Docker container protection with full application control and integrated management. Block zero-day exploits with application whitelisting, granular intrusion prevention, and real-time file integrity monitoring (RT-FIM). Secure OpenStack deployments with full hardening of Keystone identity service module. Data center security: monitoring. Continuous security monitoring of private cloud and physical on-premises data center environments. Optimize security performance in VMware environments with agentless antimalware protection, network intrusion prevention, and file reputation services.
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    Calico Enterprise
    A self-managed, active security platform with full-stack observability for containers and Kubernetes. Calico Enterprise is the industry’s only active security platform with full-stack observability for containers and Kubernetes. Calico Enterprise extends the declarative nature of Kubernetes to specify security and observability as code. This ensures consistent enforcement of security policies and compliance, and provides observability for troubleshooting across multi-cluster, multi-cloud and hybrid deployments. Implement zero-trust workload access controls for traffic to and from individual pods to external endpoints on a per-pod basis, to protect your Kubernetes cluster. Author DNS policies that implement fine-grained access controls between a workload and the external services it needs to connect to, like Amazon RDS, ElastiCache, and more.
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