BMC Helix Cloud Security vs. Symantec Cloud Workload Protection Comparison

BMC Helix Cloud Security

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

BMC Helix Cloud Security

Read 3 BMC Helix Cloud Security reviews.

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Symantec Cloud Workload Protection

Read 1 Symantec Cloud Workload Protection review.

375 views|229 comparisons

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JaredDean

VP Cloud Operations at VVL systems

Auto-remediate takes care of a vulnerability when it's scanned, allowing us to focus on other things

We're aware of vulnerabilities far sooner than we were previously. The tool scans on-demand or at intervals and then notifies us of the issues and... Read more »

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Pros
"The best feature is time to value. With very minimal effort, you are able to have a cohesive view into your security posture on one or multiple cloud accounts, particularly if you are dealing with multicloud. If you have Azure and AWS deployments, you might have multiple subscriptions in Azure and usually multiple accounts in AWS. You may even be doing some GCP work (around Google Cloud Platform). It's very difficult to manage a common set of policies, even less reporting, across multiple subscriptions, accounts, and cloud environments. What BMC Helix Cloud Security does is provide a unified view or single pane of glass as to your baseline. Then, it also facilitates the ability for Level 1 or 2 operations support to take action and report on security vulnerabilities.""The cool feature of Helix Cloud Security is that you can do all that — understand and remediate issues — in one dashboard, based on the different policies that are available for security, out-of-the-box.""It's also multi-cloud. You can look at several cloud providers: AWS, Azure, or GCP.""The features that I've found most valuable are its container security aspect. I also like its vulnerability management tools." More BMC Helix Cloud Security Pros »	"It will read various logs, diagnose what is wrong, and then alert you." More Symantec Cloud Workload Protection Pros »
Cons
"Every organization out there doesn't rely on just one control body. They use FISMA control. They may use HIPAA, CIS, PCI, or SOX, then blend them. One of the things that is now in big demand for BMC Helix Cloud Security is content. That's the next journey in its lifespan, making it easier for the community to share and collaborate on content for security controls that can be measured and remediated.""We've had some with issues connectors. The connectors have seemed to have caused a little bit of trouble, perhaps with the APIs trying to scan the environment. The only time I've had to reach out to tech support was for that. It seems it may not have been scanning correctly or I wasn't seeing data within a specific time. But we've set up a couple of connectors in the past couple of weeks and they actually scanned the AWS environment and we had data within about 10 minutes. It's working a lot faster and I think they're making improvements as they go.""The UI could be more user-friendly." More BMC Helix Cloud Security Cons »	"In the future, we may need to use features that are only available in one of the competing products." More Symantec Cloud Workload Protection Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a subscription model with term licensing that is usually yearly. This includes, not only the product, but support and maintenance. It is based on cloud assets. Therefore, if you have 100 cloud assets, those cloud assets are measured based on evaluation or transactions. For example, if I'm evaluating that cloud asset for CIS compliance, PCI compliance, and AWS best practices, that asset gets evaluated three times, as those are three transactions. However, the license model is based on peak asset usage. So, over a year, if you deploy 100, 1000, 500, and then 2000 assets, you will be charged for the 2000 peak of assets managed by Helix Cloud Security.""The pricing is based on an annual subscription, upfront, and it's based on cloud assets. Whether your assets are in Azure and AWS combined, the tool tells you how many assets are being scanned and that's the number used for pricing."

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What do you like most about BMC Helix Cloud Security? Top Answer: The features that I've found most valuable are its container security aspect. I also like its vulnerability management tools. Read all 3 answers What needs improvement with BMC Helix Cloud Security? Top Answer: I think its TOA interfaces are still not that comfortable. The UI could be more user-friendly, easier to use. Now, the technical guys don't have that much time. When I'm using it on the cloud it takes… more » Read all 3 answers What is your primary use case for BMC Helix Cloud Security? Top Answer: With BMC Helix Cloud Security I'm looking for the application level security and application firewall level security. I'm also looking for its service, security and incident management tools. I'm… more » Read all 3 answers	Ask a question Earn 20 points
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9th out of 23 in Cloud Workload Security Views 763 Comparisons 437 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 2,461 Rating 8.3	11th out of 23 in Cloud Workload Security Views 375 Comparisons 229 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 309 Rating 8.0
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Also Known As
TrueSight Cloud Security, SecOps Policy Service
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BMC	Broadcom
Overview
BMC Helix Cloud Security (formerly TrueSight Cloud Security) automates cloud resource configuration security checks and remediation across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With Helix Cloud Security, configurations of cloud resources and containers are managed consistently, securely, and with an audit trail. Because it is SaaS, there is nothing to install. You can literally begin automating your cloud security posture management in minutes. • Automated cloud configuration security posture management (CSPM) using Center for Internet Security (CIS) policies for cloud assets on AWS, Azure, and GCP • Automated remediation - no coding or scripting required • Ready-to-use policy packs for CIS, PCI, and GDPR, and support for custom security and compliance policies • Full-stack container configuration security, including Kubernetes pods, host, Docker daemon, image, and Docker container • Integration with incident & change management • Alerts, reports, exception management, RBAC, and multi-tenancy	Symantec Cloud Workload Protection automates security for public cloud workloads, enabling business agility, risk reduction, and cost savings for organizations, while easing DevOps and administrative burdens. Rapid discovery, visibility, and elastic protection of AWS and Azure workloads enable automated security policy enforcement to protect applications from unknown exploits.
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Sample Customers
NHS, Vodafone, Kansas City Life, SKY Italia, Cybera	LifeLock
Top Industries
VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company63% Comms Service Provider14% Healthcare Company6% Government4%	No Data Available

BMC Helix Cloud Security is ranked 9th in Cloud Workload Security with 3 reviews while Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is ranked 11th in Cloud Workload Security with 1 review. BMC Helix Cloud Security is rated 8.4, while Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Cloud Security writes "Gives you a cohesive view into your security posture on cloud accounts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Cloud Workload Protection writes "Protects cloud-based workloads with antivirus and traffic analysis". BMC Helix Cloud Security is most compared with Turbonomic, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) and Dome9, whereas Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Check Point CloudGuard SaaS.

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