Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud Falco vs Tetragon: Detection vs Enforcement for Container Runtime Security Here's an uncomfortable truth about container security: most teams deploy Falco, get a firehose of alerts, ignore 90% of them, and call it "runtime security." Meanwhile, the actual attack -- a reverse shell spawned from a compromised Node.js dependency -- fires an alert that sits in a Slack channel for 47 minutes before anyone notices. Detection without enforcement is just expensive logging. Cilium Tetragon changes the equation. Instead of alerting you that something bad happened, it kills the process before the bad thing completes. That's a fundamentally different security model, and after deploying both tools across dozens of production clusters, I have strong opinions about when each one belongs in your stack. How They Actually Work Both tools use eBPF, but in very different ways.…