Oligo vs. Upwind

TL;DR

Upwind is a runtime-first CNAPP, built on eBPF sensors that watch workloads, network flows, and syscalls to detect threats and prioritize vulnerabilities by real-world exploitability. Oligo specializes in runtime protection across code, apps, AI, and cloud, seeing what's actually executing inside a live application as it happens.

The difference is depth, and how consistently it's applied. Upwind observes primarily from the kernel boundary: network flows, process behavior, and workload identity. Since acquiring Nyx Security in April 2025, it also reaches function level in targeted cases, most notably confirming whether a known CVE's vulnerable function executes. Oligo works at the function level everywhere, continuously, across the whole application. Customers often run both: Upwind for estate-wide posture and network visibility, Oligo for continuous, function-level protection across everything the application runs.

Upwind answers "what's happening across my workloads, network, and cloud identities, and is any of it exploitable." Oligo answers "what is this specific application doing right now, down to the function, and is any of it being exploited."

Both approaches lean on runtime evidence over static scans, which is a real point in Upwind's favor, and its Nyx acquisition has added function-level checks for known CVEs. But its core sensor still works at the workload and syscall level, outside the application process. Oligo's Deep App Inspection goes inside that process, instrumenting function calls, libraries, and model invocations directly, so it can confirm exploitability with call-stack evidence and block an exploit without touching the container around it.