Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Cisco Sourcefire SNORT comparison

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We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The real bonus is the fact that we can secure applications, all the way down to the individual services, on each host. It's actually more granular security than we can get out of a traditional firewall.""I found the solution to be stable.""The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature.""Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy.""The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources.""Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.""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.""Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, which is basically like a honeypot, are pretty useful features."

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"I like most of Cisco's features, like malware detection and URL filtering.""The most valuable feature is the visibility that we have across the virtual environment.""The solution can be integrated with some network electors like Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ISE, and Active Directory to provide the client with authentication certificates.""Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is easy to configure and the reporting is great. It's also very user-friendly.""The solution is rather easy to use.""The solution is stable.""It has a huge rate of protection. It's has a low level of positives and a huge rate of threat protection. It's easy to deploy and easy to implement. It has an incredible price rate compared to similar solutions.""The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically learn the traffic in our environment, and change the merit recommendations based on that."

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Cons
"Customers would want to see the cost improved.""The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see.""Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have.""It would be very helpful for beginners if the solution had more windows to help with the terms inside instead of going to the documentation.""Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked.""It doesn't support a PAAC solution (Platforma as a service) in the cloud.""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.""The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering."

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"With the next release, I would like to see some PBR, so that you can do the configuration with the features.""The customization of the rules can be simplified.""The main dashboard of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT could improve.""The pricing needs to be improved. We have lots of low-budget clients around us. Budget constraints are always a deterrent in our market.""We are unhappy with technical support for this solution, and it is not as professional as what we typically expect from Cisco.""If the price is brought down then everybody will be happy.""There are problems setting up VPNs for some regions.""The cloud can be improved."

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  • "GuardiCore has made some new changes to the license now. We've seen monthly and annual licenses based on a subscription. We have a few clients that pay anywhere from $25,000 a year."
  • "Compared to the pricing we were seeing from both Illumio and Edgewise, Guardicore was very competitive."
  • "Guardicore Centra provides better value for money than NSX, was the other solution that we looked at, which was too expensive for what it does."
  • "This is not a cheap solution but you have to consider the bigger picture, which is what it is giving you."
  • "The customer would complain about the cost."
  • "The solution is reasonably priced and I would rate it a six out of ten. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
  • "The price is the same as other products in the market. There's no price argument to choose one or the other product, it will cost the customer approximately the same."
  • "Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."
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  • "We have a three-year license for this solution."
  • "Licensing for this solution is paid on a yearly basis."
  • "I don't know the exact amount, but most of the time when I go to a company with a proposition, they will say, "This thing that you are selling is good, but it's expensive. Why don't you propose something like FortiGate, Check Point, or Palo Alto?" Cisco device are expensive compared to other devices."
  • "The cost is per port and can be expensive but it does include training and support for three years."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.
    Top Answer:The pricing is too high. Based on market standards, I'd recommend lowering the price. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, with ten being affordable. The DQE feature increases the license cost… more »
    Top Answer:Customers would want to see the cost improved.
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT are the dashboard for monitoring events.
    Top Answer:The cost is per port and can be expensive but it does include training and support for three years.
    Top Answer:The main dashboard of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT could improve.
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    Also Known As
    Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore
    Sourcefire SNORT
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    Overview

    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a software-based microsegmentation solution that provides the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles. It enables you to prevent malicious lateral movement in your network through precise segmentation policies, visuals of activity within your IT environment, and network security alerts. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation works across your data centers, multicloud environments, and endpoints. It is faster to deploy than infrastructure segmentation approaches and provides you with unparalleled visibility and control of your network.

    Snort is an open-source, rule-based, intrusion detection and prevention system. It combines the benefits of signature-, protocol-, and anomaly-based inspection methods to deliver flexible protection from malware attacks. Snort gained notoriety for being able to accurately detect threats at high speeds.

    Sample Customers
    Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
    CareCore, City of Biel, Dimension Data, LightEdge, Lone Star College System, National Rugby League, Port Aventura, Smart City Networks, Telecom Italia, The Department of Education in Western Australia
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    University20%
    Retailer10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization10%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Individual & Family Service10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise41%
    Large Enterprise35%
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    Large Enterprise64%
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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 6 reviews while Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is ranked 15th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 4 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation writes "Offers granular control and ease of policy creation with features like telemetry and micro-segmentation but incident tagging is missing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT writes "The solution provides visibility across virtual environments, protects internal networks, and is scalable to meet organizational needs". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Check Point IPS, Cisco NGIPS, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Darktrace.

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