We performed a comparison between AWS GuardDuty and SUSE NeuVector based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AWS GuardDuty offers consolidated data collection and alerts. Users like GuardDuty's ability to monitor AWS accounts without extra costs and analyze logs from various sources. SUSE NeuVector is commended for its integration with CI/CD pipelines and automation. AWS GuardDuty users requested a mobile version for remote workers, more dashboard analytics, and improvements to GuardDuty's threat intelligence platform. SUSE NeuVector could add support for scanning IaaS and virtual machines and improve integration with other security tools.
Service and Support: Customers of AWS GuardDuty have praised the Amazon team for their exceptional customer service, describing support as fast and responsive. SUSE NeuVector users find the support process to be complex, but they describe the support team as knowledgeable and helpful.
Ease of Deployment: AWS GuardDuty's initial setup process has been praised for its simplicity and efficiency. Some SUSE NeuVector users thought the setup was easy, while others perceive it as complex and challenging. Users noted that technical expertise is required to integrate NeuVector with pipelines.
Pricing: AWS GuardDuty has a competitive pay-go pricing model with different tiers, and the total cost depends on data usage. SUSE NeuVector is generally considered affordable, and customers can negotiate discounts based on the number of users. Reviewers noted that customers must pay for support separately.
ROI: AWS GuardDuty delivers value by enhancing overall security and building trust, potentially opening up new business prospects. SUSE NeuVector yields the greatest returns for high-risk sectors such as financial services, but its ROI may be limited for other sectors, such as retail.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer AWS GuardDuty over SUSE NeuVector. AWS GuardDuty offers a single cloud-based solution for data collection and alerts, allowing users to monitor their AWS accounts without any additional costs. Users find the setup process for AWS GuardDuty to be simple and easy, while SUSE NeuVector can be tricky to deploy without expertise.
"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."
"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."
"One of the advantages of cloud services is the ability to use them on demand. There's minimal installation involved; you can check the latest offerings and make new deployments while dismantling the previous ones. This approach keeps you ahead of potential services, showcasing the agility of AWS."
"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."
"The way it monitors accounts is definitely a very important feature."
"With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavior or traffic patterns right away, which is great for staying on top of potential security risks."
"It kinda just gives us another layer of security. So it does provide some sort of comfort that we do have something that is monitoring for abnormal behavior."
"We use the tool for threat detection. AWS includes AI features as well. AWS GuardDuty gives us reports."
"The tool's deployment is simple. Also, I am impressed with its risk capabilities."
"The initial setup is quite good, it's straightforward."
"When it comes to the price, we got a really good deal from the vendor instantly."
"The features of image scanning and anti-malware are really valuable."
"The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security."
"The UI has a lot of features."
"The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is the performance, deployment, and cost."
"An improvement would be to have a mobile version where remote workers can log in and monitor and fix issues."
"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."
"We currently find Lacework to be much better at detecting vulnerabilities than AWS GuardDuty. The engines of AWS GuardDuty have to be improved."
"It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities."
"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."
"AWS GuardDuty needs to be more customer-oriented."
"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."
"The tool should offer seamless integration of other security tools while in a hybrid environment."
"I would say that this solution should improve monitoring and reporting. I would also like to see more integrations so that we could essentially make it a part of a developing pipeline."
"The documentation needs to improve a bit."
"SUSE NeuVector should provide more security protection rules and better container image scanning."
"SUSE NeuVector could improve by increasing its visibility into other elements of the DevSecOps pipeline. Additionally, scanning around infrastructure would be helpful."
"The image-scanning features need improvement."
"We are also working with IaaS VMS, but NeuVector doesn't support virtual machines."
AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 20 reviews while SUSE NeuVector is ranked 15th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 7 reviews. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.0, while SUSE NeuVector is rated 7.8. 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 SUSE NeuVector writes "Good value for money; great for policy management". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and Wiz, whereas SUSE NeuVector is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Sysdig Falco and Sysdig Secure. See our AWS GuardDuty vs. SUSE NeuVector report.
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