Cilium vs Sqreen: What are the differences?

Developers describe Cilium as "API-aware networking and security for containers". Open source software for providing and transparently securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads such as application containers or processes. On the other hand, Sqreen is detailed as "Automated security for developers". Sqreen is a security platform that helps engineering team protect their web applications, API and micro-services in real-time. The solution installs with a simple application library and doesn't require engineering resources to operate. Security anomalies triggered are reported with technical context to help engineers fix the code. Ops team can assess the impact of attacks and monitor suspicious user accounts involved.

Cilium and Sqreen can be primarily classified as "Security" tools.

Some of the features offered by Cilium are:

• Identity Based Security - Cilium visibility and security policies are based on the container orchestrator identity (e.g., Kubernetes labels). Never again worry about network subnets or container IP addresses when writing security policies, auditing, or troubleshooting.
• Blazing Performance - BPF is the underlying Linux superpower to do the heavy lifting on the datapath by providing sandboxed programmability of the Linux kernel with incredible performance.
• API-Protocol Visibility + Security - Traditional firewalls only see and filter packets based on network headers like IP address and ports. Cilium can do this as well, but also understands and filters the individual HTTP, gRPC, and Kafka requests that stitch microservices together.

On the other hand, Sqreen provides the following key features:

• Protection against vulnerabilities
• Monitoring of security anomalies
• Monitoring of suspicious users