ShieldX Reviews

Name: ShieldX
Brand: Fortinet
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

4.6 out of 5

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The ShieldX Elastic Security Platform dynamically scales to deliver comprehensive and consistent controls to protect data centers, cloud infrastructure, applications and data no matter where they are or where they go to make the cloud more secure than on-premise deployments. Our frictionless approach leverages agentless technology as well as the ShieldX Adaptive Intention Engine which autonomously translates and enforces intention into a set of comprehensive controls - microsegmentation, firewall, IPS and more - making security the easiest thing you do in the cloud.

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ShieldX is the #10 ranked solution in top Microsegmentation Software solutions, #19 ranked solution in best Cloud Security companies, and #47 ranked solution in best firewalls. PeerSpot users give ShieldX an average rating of 9.2 out of 10. ShieldX is most commonly compared to Fortinet FortiGate: ShieldX vs Fortinet FortiGate. ShieldX is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 18% of all views.

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Featured reviews

MichaelProcyshyn

IT Director at Park Holidays

Oct 10, 2019

The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput. The traffic through our website depends on holiday bookings. It's very quiet in November through January, and then our traffic picks up quite rapidly and, at our peak, we will take in excess of a million pounds of business a day through our website. The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides. Uptime on the system has been 648 days and we do very little to it because it self-updates and alerts. It does everything that we need it to do, so the administration side of it is zero. One of the beauties about ShieldX is that it's such a good "fire-and-forget" product.

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Branden Emia

Senior Systems Engineer at Larry H. Miller Group of Companies

Apr 18, 2019

Since we are just rolling it out i cant really say much of what needs to be improved or not at this time. However, I do know that they have made improvements since we have first rolled out the product which has been great. One of the improvements has been its own distributed switch creation group where now all VLANs that is micro-segmented are in instead of having it in your DS/standard switch groups. We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up. I have been working with the ShieldX technical support on this, but I would like a better way to set this up. When I put in any credentials, it fails. This is possibly due to how our tiering is set up for our protective groups. However, we tried to do this process through the API and still received the same error. I don't feel like I am using the product to its fullest extent. I think one feature that I would like to see in the near future is having the application integrate with a SAML identity provider like Okta.

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reviewer965748

Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 25, 2018

The primary features are being able to isolate and segment workloads, both within our data center and in the cloud, and to get visibility into what the applications are doing. The application visibility is the most important feature for us at the moment. The reason that it is so important is that we are migrating a lot of workloads from a legacy data center to a new data center, and that ability to have visibility into the application flows allows us to build the rules and policies for the newer data center. The Adaptive Intention Engine is fantastic. It allows us to develop security policies using the language of our internal customers. It's machine-learning applied to security workflows. That allows us to much more easily construct the policies that will protect those workflows. ShieldX also enables us to migrate to cloud environments faster. That is an important part of it for sure because it takes the exact same policies that we would apply to our on-premise environment and enables us to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud. It gives us a lower dollar-per-protected-megabyte than a traditional firewall, but it's also consuming fewer resources in our network environment because we're not having to send our traffic out of the virtual environment just to send it back in. It also helps with lower maintenance costs.

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Valuable Features

"The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput."
"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."

Room for Improvement

"There should be a bit more customer care, with regular review meetings on it or regular reports. It would be nice to have a quarterly or biannual review of what ShieldX has blocked."
"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."
"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."

Pricing

"For a three-year deal we paid £55,000 plus tax... But, and this is a big "but," this was over two years ago. ShieldX had only just hit the market. We were the first company in Europe to buy ShieldX."
"For other security professions who are looking for something which is low in cost that does microsegmentation, they should look at ShieldX. It might not be the big name out there, but it does everything that you are looking for in microsegmentation at a very low price."
"ShieldX also enables us to migrate to cloud environments faster. That is an important part of it for sure because it takes the exact same policies that we would apply to our on-premise environment and enables us to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud."

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