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Cisco Panoptica
What it is
Cisco Panoptica is a cloud native application security platform for identifying, prioritizing, and remediating risks across multi-cloud environments. It covers Kubernetes workloads, APIs, serverless functions, virtual machines, and infrastructure-as-code repositories. Its graph-based attack path analysis brings together security findings, vulnerabilities, and identity risks to show possible paths and remediation options. Workload scanning groups CVEs by assets or Docker images and prioritizes them using environment security and network topology. API security catalogs internal, externally exposed, and third-party APIs, assesses risk, and detects sensitive data in API traffic. Code Security checks connected repositories for IaC misconfigurations, secrets, and code vulnerabilities. Listed source control integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket; supported repositories are scanned daily after new commits, with manual rescans also available. Panoptica can create Jira tickets from several security modules. It supports AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes deployments, with Kubernetes available in public cloud or on-premise environments. Cloud integrations are agentless and use a secure read-only role. The free tier is free.
For and against
For
- Covers workloads, APIs, serverless, VMs, and IaC repositories
- Attack path analysis connects findings and identity risks
- Daily repository scans after new commits; manual rescans available
- Free tier listed as free
Against
- Repository scans run once a day when new commits exist
- Cloud integrations use a read-only role
The verdict
Panoptica combines workload, API, code, and cloud posture security functions with attack path analysis. Its free tier and broad deployment coverage may suit teams seeking one platform across development and runtime.
Who it suits
Panoptica suits developers and engineers who need cloud-native security coverage from application development through runtime. It may also fit teams working across the listed cloud environments and source control providers.
Plans and prices
Free tier
Free tier stated by Cisco; a 2023 Cisco brochure says up to 10 nodes · 1 cluster · unlimited pods
Read 8 Oct 2026 · newsroom.cisco.com
On the record
- Agentless onboarding
- The Help Center says cloud integrations use a secure read-only role and are agentless.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- API security
- Panoptica catalogs internal, externally exposed, and third-party APIs, assesses risks, and detects sensitive data in API traffic.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Attack path analysis
- Its graph-based attack path analysis combines security findings, vulnerabilities, and identity risks to show attack paths and remediation options.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Cloud deployment
- The Help Center lists AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes deployments, with Kubernetes available in public cloud or on-premise environments.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Code scanning
- Code Security detects IaC misconfigurations, secrets, and code vulnerabilities in connected repositories.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The Help Center says its compliance frameworks cover GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, CIS, PCI, and more.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Coverage
- The documentation describes coverage for Kubernetes workloads, APIs, serverless functions, virtual machines, and infrastructure-as-code repositories.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Cisco describes Panoptica as helping developers and engineers provide cloud-native security from application development through runtime.newsroom.cisco.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Product purpose
- Panoptica is Cisco’s cloud native application security solution for identifying, prioritizing, and remediating risks and misconfigurations in multi-cloud environments.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Repository scan cadence
- Integrated repositories are scanned once a day when there have been new commits, and users can also initiate a manual rescan.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- For proof-of-concept tenants, the platform security FAQ says data is encrypted, tenant access can be restricted by IP allowlist or mTLS, and tenant data is deleted when the tenant closes.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Source control integrations
- The docs list GitHub, GitLab including self-managed repositories, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket as supported source control providers.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Task integrations
- Panoptica can create Jira tickets from its Attack Path Analysis, Vulnerability Management, Security Posture, Root Cause Analysis, and Code Security modules.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Vulnerability management
- Workload scanning reviews CVEs grouped by assets or Docker images and prioritizes them using environment security and network topology.panoptica.readme.io · read 8 Oct 2026
