We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and GuardDuty based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation offers sophisticated monitoring capability, automatic policy creation, log management, and visibility into application communication. AWS GuardDuty provides a unified platform for data collection and advanced threat detection. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has room for improvement in terms of OS support and agents for OT environments. AWS GuardDuty users suggest adding a mobile version and improving dashboard analytics. Users would also like to see improved threat intelligence and integration with new AWS services.
Service and Support: Some reviewers commended Illumio's support for their round-the-clock assistance and responsiveness. Other users said they were disappointed with unhelpful answers and delayed responses. AWS GuardDuty generally received praise for its outstanding support, which users characterized as fast and knowledgeable. A few users reported long wait times for phone support.
Ease of Deployment: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has a lengthy deployment process that can potentially take up to six months, including testing. AWS GuardDuty is a cloud-based solution with a quick and painless setup process.
Pricing: Users have mentioned that Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is expensive overall, while AWS GuardDuty has a competitive pay-as-you-use pricing model.
ROI: AWS GuardDuty users said it enhanced security and raised customer confidence, helping them to win new business. Our users have not yet provided ROI information about Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation.
Comparison Results: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is preferred over AWS GuardDuty. Illumio is praised for its micro-segmenting and monitoring abilities. The solution also provides solid visibility into application communication and network protocols.
"Since our environment is cloud based and accessible from the internet, we like the ability to check where the user has logged in from and what kind of API calls that user is doing."
"The solution will detect abnormalities in the AWS workload and alert us so that we can monitor and take action."
"It is a highly scalable solution since it is a service by AWS. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product has automated protection powered by AI/ML, which is now far more powerful than before. It uses AI/ML in its detection algorithm, providing fast and quick results."
"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"What we found most valuable in Amazon GuardDuty is its threat detection feature, especially because we were monitoring a huge number of AWS accounts, so we needed a solution that would monitor for any kind of malicious activity. The monitoring aspect of the solution was great because it gave us timely notifications if and when anything happened, and Amazon GuardDuty helped keep us on our toes to make sure we took action right away."
"The solution provides AWS GuardDuty S3 protection, EKS runtime protection, and malware protection."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"Cost changes. It's very expensive. If you turn on every feature, it's more than most commercial vendors. For smaller orgs, that doesn't make sense."
"While sending the alerts to the email, they are not being patched. we have to do the patching and mapping manually. If GuardDuty could include a feature to do this automatically, it will make our job easier. That is something I believe can be improved."
"One improvement I would suggest for AWS GuardDuty is the ability to assign findings to specific users or groups, facilitating better communication and follow-up actions."
"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."
"I work in a bank, and it would be good if AWS GuardDuty could be integrated with other monitoring and detection tools we use."
"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."
"There is currently no consolidated dashboard for AWS GuardDuty. It would be helpful if they could provide a dashboard based on severity levels (high, medium, low) and offer insights account-wise, especially for users utilizing automation structures."
"For the next release, they could provide IPS features as well."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 19 reviews while Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.2, while Illumio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz and Trellix Cloud Workload Security , whereas Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. Illumio report.
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