Comparing cloud security platforms
Every vendor on your shortlist claims attack paths, agentless scanning and multi-cloud coverage. The words are identical; the products are not. These are the seven questions that actually separate them — and we answer them for ourselves, in public, including the places where the answer does not flatter us.
These comparisons cover Onam Security. Onam is a platform of four products; comparisons for Onam Estate, Onam FinOps and Onam DRM are not published yet. Each of those pages says plainly what the product does and does not do — or ask us on a demo.
What you will not find on these pages
Claims about what anyone else’s product can or cannot do. Cloud security platforms ship weekly, and a page asserting a competitor’s gap is out of date within a quarter — at which point it is simply wrong, and everyone who checks will know. So we quote each vendor in its own published words, ask the questions and answer only for Onam. Take the same seven to every vendor on your list, including us.
The seven questions
- 1How many clouds get first-class treatment?
- 2Is the analysis cross-cloud, or per-cloud silos side by side?
- 3Agentless — and what does onboarding grant?
- 4How does it prioritise — severity labels or business impact?
- 5Does it connect findings across engines?
- 6Is compliance evidence continuous or point-in-time?
- 7Does coverage span code to runtime?
Head to head
Each page quotes the other vendor in its own words, answers the seven for Onam, then says where we are not the right choice.
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Onam vs Wiz
Wiz is on most cloud security shortlists. If you are evaluating both, here is Wiz in its own published words, and the seven questions worth asking each of us.
Read the comparisonOnam vs Orca
If Orca is on your shortlist alongside us, here is Orca in its own published words, and the seven questions to run against both.
Read the comparisonOnam vs Prisma Cloud
Prisma Cloud often comes up as part of a wider Palo Alto Networks conversation, which changes the evaluation. Here is Palo Alto Networks' cloud platform in its own published words, and the seven questions that apply to both.
Read the comparisonOnam vs Defender for Cloud
Defender for Cloud is a common consideration for Azure-centred estates. Here it is in Microsoft's own documentation, and the seven questions worth asking of both of us.
Read the comparisonCode, data and identity
Specialists, compared on their own ground. Each page quotes the other vendor in its own published words, with the source and the date, answers questions specific to that domain for Onam, and says where we are not the right choice.
The only claim you can check today
We have no public reference customers. Rather than ask you to believe a comparison table, run a scan against a single account and tell us whether the attack paths are real. If they are noise, say so — that is worth more to us than a signature.
Last reviewed 5 October 2026.