Compare the Top Free Container Security Software as of May 2025

What is Free 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 Free 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 Protect your app from outdated runtimes that could be vulnerable.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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    Checkmk

    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 Monitoring
    Starting Price: $0/year
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    Fidelis Halo

    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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    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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    Panoptica
    Panoptica makes it easy to secure your containers, APIs, and serverless functions, and manage software bills of materials. It analyzes internal and external APIs and assigns risk scores. Your policies govern which API calls the gateway permits or disables. New cloud-native architectures allow teams to develop and deploy software more quickly, keeping up with the pace of today’s market. But this speed can come with a cost—security. Panoptica closes the gaps by integrating automated, policy-based security and visibility into every stage of the software-development lifecycle. Decentralized cloud-native architectures have significantly increased the number of attack surfaces. At the same time, changes in the computing landscape have raised the risk of catastrophic security breaches. Here are some of the reasons why comprehensive security is more important than ever before. You need a platform that protects the entire application lifecycle—from development to runtime.
    Starting Price: $0
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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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    Kubescape
    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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    Falco

    Falco

    Sysdig

    Falco is the open source standard for runtime security for hosts, containers, Kubernetes and the cloud. Get real-time visibility into unexpected behaviors, config changes, intrusions, and data theft. Secure containerized applications, no matter what scale, using the power of eBPF. Protect your applications in real time wherever they run, whether bare metal or VMs. Falco is Kubernetes-compatible, helping you instantly detect suspicious activity across the control plane. Detect intrusions in real time across your cloud, from AWS, GCP or Azure, to Okta, Github and beyond. Falco detects threats across containers, Kubernetes, hosts and cloud services. Falco provides streaming detection of unexpected behavior, configuration changes, and attacks. A multi-vendor and broadly supported standard that you can rely on.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Aptible

    Aptible

    Aptible

    Aptible automatically implements the security controls you need to achieve regulatory compliance and pass customer audits. Out-of-the-box compliance. Aptible Deploy enables you to meet and maintain regulatory compliance and customer audit requirements automatically. Aptible provides everything you need to meet encryption requirements so your Databases, traffic, and certificates are secure. You get automatic backups of your data every 24 hours. You can trigger a manual backup at any time, and restore in a few clicks. Logs are generated and backed up for every deploy, config change, database tunnel, and console operation, and session. Aptible monitors the underlying EC2 instances in your stacks for potential intrusions, such as unauthorized SSH access, rootkits, file integrity issues, and privilege escalation. The Aptible Security Team responds on your behalf 24/7 to investigate and resolve issues as they arise.
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    Tigera

    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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    Comodo Dragon Platform
    Our completely cloud-native framework delivers you zero day protection against undetectable threats while defending your endpoints from known threat signatures. Comodo introduced a new approach to endpoint protection, engineered to solve the issue of legacy security solutions. The Dragon platform delivers the foundation principles for complete next-generation endpoint protection. Easily improve your cybersecurity and performance with the Dragon Platform's lightweight agent delivering artificial intelligence (AI) and Auto Containment to stop all threats. Comodo delivers everything cybersecurity you ever needed to activate breach protection immediate value added from day one. 100% trusted verdict within 45 seconds on 92% of signatures via analysis, and 4 hours SLA on the remaining 8% via human experts. Automatic signature updates that simplifies deployment across your entire environment to lower operational costs.
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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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    CrowdSec

    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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