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We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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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    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 »
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    Also Known As
    Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore
    Area 1 Horizon, Area 1 Security, Area 1
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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.

    Stop phishing attacks and secure your cloud email

    Don’t trust your inbox: protect your organization from attacks against your #1 business application: email. Cloudflare Area 1 comprehensively defends against sophisticated threats by stopping phish at the earliest stages of the attack cycle.

    Get Zero Trust protection against a broad spectrum of threats: malware-less Business Email Compromise, multichannel phishing, credential harvesting, and other targeted phishing. All in a cloud-native service that can be deployed in minutes to secure your Microsoft 365 and Gmail users.


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    Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
    Icon Ventures, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, Data Collective, First Round Capital, Allegis
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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security is ranked 37th in Email Security. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security is rated 0.0. 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, 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 Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security is most compared with Abnormal Security, Proofpoint Email Protection, Mimecast Email Security, Darktrace and Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

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