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"From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful.""That is primarily because I've seen increased rules. It's kind of caught us a little off guard. With GuardiCore, I have had to deal with their technical support and engineering team in Israel. They are amazing. They are very quick to adapt.""Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.""The most valuable features of the solution are the maps and ring fencing that help monitor events.""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 interface and dashboard are amazing.""The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility.""Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy."

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"The tool's most useful feature for penetration testing is its automation capabilities. With the professional edition, you can upload the results from Nessus in the Rapid7 Metasploit solution portal.""All of the features are great.""The most valuable features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has.""Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product.""Technical support has been helpful and responsive.""The solution is open source and has many small targetted penetration tests that have been written by many people that are useful. You can choose different subjects for the test, such as Oracle databases or Apache servers.""It allows us to concentrate solely on identified vulnerabilities without the hassle of additional setup.""I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation."

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"In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session.""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.""Customers would want to see the cost improved.""Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow.""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.""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.""Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked.""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."

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"The open-source version has reporting limitations. You need to develop these capabilities yourself. Built-in reporting is an excellent feature for penetration testing, but it isn't a must-have. The solution could also cover more vulnerabilities. Metasploit has around 10,000 exploits in its library, but more is always better.""I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors.""Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration.""It is necessary to add some training materials and a tutorial for beginners.""The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support.""Better automation capabilities would be an improvement.""Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online.""The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."

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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."
  • "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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  • "I use the open-source version of this product. Pricing is not relevant."
  • "It is expensive. Our license expired, and our company is not thinking to renew because of our budget."
  • "The great advantage with Rapid7 Metasploit, of course, is that it's free."
  • "There are two versions available, one of which is the Pro version, and the other is the free version."
  • "Rapid7 Metasploit is cheaper than Tenable.io Vulnerability Management."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product's pricing a six. So it's fairly priced."
  • "The pricing structure involves a one-time purchase cost of approximately twenty thousand dollars or euros for all customers."
  • "We pay monthly. The pricing is reasonable."
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    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:I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation.
    Top Answer:Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn.
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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.

    Attackers are always developing new exploits and attack methods—Metasploit penetration testing software helps you use their own weapons against them. Utilizing an ever-growing database of exploits, you can safely simulate real-world attacks on your network to train your security team to spot and stop the real thing.

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    University20%
    Retailer10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization10%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Comms Service Provider36%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Integrator9%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government7%
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    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Large Enterprise57%
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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 2nd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 13th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. 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 Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Nucleus.

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