We compared Trend Micro Deep Security and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Trend Micro Deep Security offers extensive security measures and safeguards for data centers and servers, including convenient virtual patching. Nevertheless, it is deemed difficult to handle and has limitations concerning integration and pricing. Conversely, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation allows for the easy establishment of network security zones and boasts robust customer support. However, it may encounter difficulties in larger organizations and lacks support for certain technologies.
"The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature."
"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."
"The tool is a complete package that offers many features like visibility. You can get a graph with real-time workflows and visibility into server-to-server communication. We get visibility into many things happening within our environment."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the maps and ring fencing that help monitor events."
"The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."
"Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems."
"For server security purposes, I like the product's firewall."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's initial setup was straightforward."
"It helps with virtual patching and IDS fetching."
"They release timely updates and have efficient prediction features for threat detection."
"We like the Smart protection and the Virtual patching."
"The solution is quite secure."
"The integration options of Trend Micro Deep Security have been particularly valuable."
"It provides security and protection. The endpoint firewall is valuable."
"Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow."
"The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see."
"Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it."
"They can maybe improve their customer service just because they are kind of a small organization, and customer service isn't as big as others such as VMware."
"Guardicore Centra should incorporate automation so that we don't require to write custom scripts and APIs. The tool also has limitations on rules where it allows only sixty thousand rules. Our clients have also commented that there are too many manual clicks and effort to do changes. I think that the incorporation of automation can help our clients make changes with confidence and without the possibility of human error."
"The long-term management of the security policies could be improved with some kind of automation platform, something like Chef or Puppet or Ansible, to help you manage the policies after day-one... to then manage the policies and changes to those policies, going forward, through some type of automation process is not turning out to be really easy."
"Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked."
"Supports become difficult when it's for a big organization. For a small organization, medium organization, it still makes sense, however, for a big organization, it makes life difficult."
"The working interface and the reports for non-technical people could use improvement. They are a bit scary."
"The solution should focus on the EDR part and probably have an integrated data leak prevention module."
"Their automation needs improvement."
"Enhancements in agent performance are needed, specifically in reducing server utilization during scanning."
"Pricing is on the expensive side and could be more affordable. The technical support for Trend Micro Deep Security also needs improvement."
"We have had some issues when it drains some of the resources of the server."
"The situation with the currency in Turkey makes this solution a little bit on the expensive side, and if it were lowered then it would be more competitive."
"The cost is very high."
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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 6th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 81 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation writes "Allowed us to build out a data center topology without worrying about placement of physical or virtual firewalls that can create bottlenecks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Deep Security writes "High availability, effective VPM, and responsive support". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and Darktrace, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security and Bitdefender GravityZone EDR. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Trend Micro Deep Security report.
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