Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Picus Security comparison

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Picus Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Picus Security Report (Updated: May 2024).

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Picus Security

May 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Ranking in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud and Data Center Security (2nd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (13th), Microsegmentation Software (2nd)

Picus Security

Ranking in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) category, the market share of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 0.2% and it decreased by 85.8% compared to the previous year. The market share of Picus Security is 15.9% and it increased by 22.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

Unique Categories:

Cloud and Data Center Security

31.7%

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)

7.3%

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Featured Reviews

Uday Varma

Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

Jan 30, 2024

Offers granular control and ease of policy creation with features like telemetry and micro-segmentation but incident tagging is missing

Our customers use the solution for micro-segmentation within the data center or cloud environments. One customer uses it for their on-premises infrastructure, deployed at the code level across their massive network. Another customer uses it in a data center to monitor microsegmentation for their 500-node workload. Moreover, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has helped our customers manage and secure traffic between different applications or workloads. Earlier, they were using VMware NSX-v, which offered good logging for distributed services on an analytical level. However, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides them with better overall visibility and granular control over-segmentation, even for inter-application and inter-routing traffic.

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Kateryna Andrushchenko

Information Security System Manager at CS-Consulting

Jan 30, 2024

A tool with great integration capabilities and a good support team

I have used Picus Security to see what it can do. I use Picus Security for continuous security validation and control effectiveness The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration capabilities with the other security tools. The amount of integrations that the product can handle is…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The interface and dashboard are amazing."

"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."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."

"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."

"I found the solution to be stable."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."

"Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, which is basically like a honeypot, are pretty useful features."

"Initially, I liked the telemetry part. But later, we used the microsegmentation features that we were able to deploy and found that they really stood out from other vendors. It allows us to see microsegmentation as distributed services."

More Akamai Guardicore Segmentation pros

"It's very useful software because the customer mostly configures their IPS and manages their firewalls, WAF, and the DBS according to the latest update, latest news, or according to the situation."

"The most valuable feature of Picus Security is its threat intelligence, providing suggestions to block and prevent attacks by identifying malicious files and providing threat IDs."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration capabilities with the other security tools."

"You have the liberty of physically executing a specific set of rules in your environment."

"One of the most valuable features would be the detection capability, specifically the ability to detect alarms and logs collected from SIEM tools."

Cons

"In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session."

"The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see."

"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 maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow."

"Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there."

"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."

More Akamai Guardicore Segmentation cons

"To improve, Picus Security could consider establishing a data center in India to address trust issues and increase interest from Indian customers."

"According to the attack vectors, you cannot specify which product is failing or which product is working well because there's no agent."

"The reporting and data analysis could be improved. Specifically, the analysis of the results."

"Let's say if a customer's environment has 10 security devices and they need to know that there is an attack that has bypassed their devices, they cannot go and inspect every device and every rule in their security devices."

"The amount of integrations that the product can handle is an area of concern, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."

"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."

"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."

"The customer would complain about the cost."

"The pricing is too high."

"This is not a cheap solution but you have to consider the bigger picture, which is what it is giving you."

"Compared to the pricing we were seeing from both Illumio and Edgewise, Guardicore was very competitive."

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"They have certain price ranges for their products, depending upon the use cases, and the number of applications the customer wants to try."

"There is a yearly license according to the number of vectors. The pricing is moderate."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Guardicore Centra?

Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Guardicore Centra?

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 co...

What needs improvement with Guardicore Centra?

Customers would want to see the cost improved.

What do you like most about Picus Security?

The most valuable feature of Picus Security is its threat intelligence, providing suggestions to block and prevent attacks by identifying malicious files and providing threat IDs.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Picus Security?

Picus Security offers good value for money.

What needs improvement with Picus Security?

To improve, Picus Security could consider establishing a data center in India to address trust issues and increase interest from Indian customers, potentially boosting revenue.

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Also Known As

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

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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.

Independent from any vendor or technology, the unparalleled Picus Platform is designed to continuously measure the effectiveness of security defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments. Created by a team that’s been working together more than 10 years already and has proven their expertise in enterprise cybersecurity, Picus is trusted by many large multinational corporations and government agencies.

Sample Customers

Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE

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