Runecast - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Runecast Solutions Ltd. is a leading global provider of a patented solution for proactive risk management and mitigation, security compliance, operational efficiency, and mission-critical stability for IT Security and Operations teams. With its agentless scanning capabilities, Runecast offers vulnerability management, security hardening guidelines, best practices, configuration management, container security, security compliance, and hardware compatibility. It provides a simple-to-use method to validate your hardware, BIOS, driver and firmware against the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and can even validate against an upstream release of ESXI – perfect for when you need to plan a vSphere upgrade! It automates your vulnerability management and security standards compliance audits for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and VMware, as well as for Windows and Linux OS.

In a matter of minutes, it scans your configurations and provides you with fit-gap analysis and remediation scripts. Our automated processes remove all the manual work and you can easily filter and sort issues and compare historical configurations at your convenience. Furthermore, Runecast proactively assists with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC).

In addition, it provides continuous audits against vendor best practices and common security standards and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, In a matter of minutes it scans your configurations and provides you with fit-gap analysis and remediation scripts. Our automated processes remove all the manual work and you can easily filter and sort issues and compare historical configurations at your convenience. Furthermore, Runecast proactively assists with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC).

In addition, it provides continuous audits against other common security standards such as: NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DISA STIG, BSI IT-Grundschutz, ISO 27001, GDPR, KVKK, Cyber Essentials (UK), Essential 8 (Australia), and the CISA KEVs catalog.

Our AI knowledge parser, known as Runecast AI Knowledge Automation (RAIKA), does the heavy lifting providing your teams with regular knowledge definition updates. It’s built with the hybrid and multi-cloud in mind, enabling your security and operations teams to save time and money while they secure every workload.

Designed to provide organizations with insights on risks that will disrupt mission-critical systems and result in anything from performance issues to system outages, Runecast has fully customizable reporting capabilities. For example, reporting based on specific patterns in VMware logs, audit reports for security standards and much more. Each finding highlights both where the exposure lies and comes with step-by-step remediation guidance.

Users can also manage audits and perform automated security checks to ensure legal compliance. Enterprises can scan their infrastructure to discover potential risks and receive ways to mitigate issues through the system’s knowledge base.

The Runecast platform operates fully on-premises to analyze your AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and VMware, as well as for Windows and Linux OS, with no data ever leaving your control. It features a fully customizable, transparent rules engine. The patented Runecast engine has full offline capabilities and can even upgrade offline, for when an internet connection to the update repository is not an option.

Runecast is certified by VMware for VMware Cloud on AWS, and CIS certified for VMware, AWS and Windows Server. Runecast was designated a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner in its 2020 Performance Analysis for Cloud-Native Architectures report.

SUPPORTED SERVICES: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware, Windows and Linux OS.