What Are the Differences Between SA and HSS?

Service Positioning

• Situation Awareness (SA) is a GUI-based security management platform for threat detection and analysis. SA focuses on the security threat attack posture of all your cloud assets. By aggregating detection results or events from many security products and analyzing threat data and cloud security threats, it helps you build a security system covering all your cloud assets.
• Host Security Service (HSS) is designed to protect server workloads in hybrid clouds and multi-cloud data centers. It protects servers and containers and prevents web pages from malicious modifications.

In short, SA presents the comprehensive view of security posture, and HSS secures servers and containers.

Function Differences

• SA aggregates network-wide security data (including alarm data from other security services such as HSS, WAF, and Anti-DDoS) and uses analysis technologies such as big data, AI, and machine learning to display asset security posture by asset, threat alarm, and baseline inspection.
• HSS uses technologies such as AI, machine learning, and deep algorithms to analyze server risks through agents installed on protected servers. It delivers inspection and protection tasks through the console. Through the HSS console, you can manage the security information reported by the agent.