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We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud and Data Center Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"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.""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.""The interface and dashboard are amazing.""From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful.""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 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."

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"The product allows us to enhance the security of the implementations we have.""Assets Management as it provide complete visibility of our workload inkling EC2 instance or Serverless""The automatic learning and an AI engine help to find more modern vulnerability problems.""The most valuable feature is the separate environment.""It helps us to analyze vulnerabilities way before they get installed in production and the web. It gives us more security in the production environment.""Its monitoring and alerts are triggered by a failure or non-compliance with policies. It helps us to be able to act effectively and quickly.""This product provides a really nice visualization of the infrastructure, including network topology, firewalls, etc.""The ability to integrate it with Microsoft Azure Sentinel allows us to validate the logs in an even more complex and meaningful way."

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Cons
"The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering.""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.""In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session.""Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it.""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.""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.""Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow."

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"Reporting should have more options.""We want to be able to customize the solution more in order to meet the needs of our company.""The main issue that we found with Dome9 is that we have a default rule set with better recommendations that we want to use. So, you do a clone of that rule set, then you do some tweaks and customizations, but there is a problem. When they activate the default rule set with the recommendations and new security measures, it doesn't apply the new security measures to your clones profile. Therefore, you need to clone the profile again. We are already writing a report to Check Point.""There are opportunities for improvement that can be addressed through a roadmap.""CloudGuard could be more customizable. It has built-in standards for things like GDPR compliance. But depending on your business lane, you might want to build your own controls based on your own standards.""I would like to see Test B functions at the application access level.""Currently, this solution is somewhat expensive.""The reporting has a lot of opportunities to continuously improve so that we can continue to show value."

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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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  • "​They support either annual licensing or hourly. At the time of our last negotiation, it was either one or the other, you could not mix or match. I would have liked to mix/match. ​"
  • "I would advise taking into account the existing number of devices and add a forecast of the number of devices to be added in the coming year or two, to obtain better pricing."
  • "It is a very straightforward licensing model that is based on the number of assets you are discovering and managing with the solution."
  • "The licensing and costs are straightforward, as they have a baseline of 100 workloads (number of instances) within one license with no additional nor hidden charges. If you want to have 200 workloads under Dome9, then you need to take out two licenses for that. Also, it does not have any impact on cloud billing, as data is shared using the API call. This is well within the limit of free API calls provided by the cloud provider."
  • "I suggest that you pay attention to the product pricing because while there are no tricks, and the licensing model is transparent, the final numbers may surprise you."
  • "Right now, we have licenses on 500 machines, and they are not cheap."
  • "The pricing is tremendous and super cheap. It is shockingly cheap for what you get out of it. I am happy with that. I hope that doesn't get reported back and they increase the prices. I love the pricing and the licensing makes sense. It is just assets: The more stuff that you have, the more you pay."
  • "Licensing and costs are straightforward, as they have a baseline of 100 workloads within one license and no additional charges."
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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 visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature.
    Top Answer:We have concerns regarding the pricing and would appreciate seeing some improvements.
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    Also Known As
    Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore
    Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence
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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.

    Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is a robust cloud security solution, offering comprehensive protection for cloud workloads and applications against cyberattacks. This platform encompasses cloud security posture management, threat prevention, and efficient incident response, providing organizations with a unified defense against threats. Key features include continuous visibility and remediation of misconfigurations, threat prevention through various techniques like intrusion prevention and malware detection, and rapid, cost-effective incident response. With CloudGuard CNAPP, you can safeguard cloud-native applications, cloud infrastructure, and sensitive data, enhancing your overall cloud security posture. This solution is a powerful asset for organizations seeking to fortify their cloud environments against a range of cyber threats.

    Sample Customers
    Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
    Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners
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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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    Security Firm22%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Cloud Provider8%
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    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Security Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise62%
    Buyer's Guide
    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 7th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 60 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6. 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 Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, whereas Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP report.

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