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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.
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Pros
"The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources.""The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature.""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.""This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks.""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.""We like the centralized management of the firewalls. Until we installed Guardicore Centra, we managed all our firewalls individually, so making changes was complicated, difficult, and time-consuming.""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.""Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems."

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"One of the most valuable features would be the detection capability, specifically the ability to detect alarms and logs collected from SIEM tools.""You have the liberty of physically executing a specific set of rules in your environment.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration capabilities with the other security tools.""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."

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Cons
"The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering.""The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see.""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.""Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have.""Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow.""In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session.""Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there.""Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it."

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

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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 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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    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 feature of the solution is its integration capabilities with the other security tools.
    Top Answer:Pricing can be subjective, as it depends on the value the software provides to each customer. However, the pricing is in line with competitors in the market, so maybe around seven out of ten, where… more »
    Top Answer:The amount of integrations that the product can handle is an area of concern, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required.
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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
    Akbank, Exclusive Networks, Garanti, ING Bank, QNB Finansbank, Turkcell, Vodafone, Yapı Kredi
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    University20%
    Retailer10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Picus Security
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Picus Security and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 4th in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) with 17 reviews while Picus Security is ranked 3rd in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) with 4 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Picus Security is rated 9.0. 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 Picus Security writes "Breach and attack simulation software that provides network, endpoint, and email vectors". 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 Picus Security is most compared with Pentera, Cymulate, SafeBreach, AttackIQ and XM Cyber. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Picus Security report.

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