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We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cymulate 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
"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.""The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources.""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.""I found the solution to be stable.""The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections.""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 tool's most valuable feature is its visibility.""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."

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"The most valuable feature for us is the zero-day.""The reporting capabilities are very good."

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Cons
"Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked.""In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session.""The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow.""The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering.""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.""The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see.""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.""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."

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"The product must provide consultancy for initial setup.""The reporting process requires significant improvement as it often takes longer than expected and the quality is lacking."

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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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  • "The product is affordable."
  • "Cymulate's services are expensive."
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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 for us is the zero-day.
    Top Answer:Cymulate's services are expensive for CE EU region . In some cases, it may be more cost-effective to hire a local competitor or ethical hacker for a year to perform frequent testing rather than… more »
    Top Answer:The management at Cymulate is inconsistent and unreliable, particularly in the sales process. Changes happen abruptly, with sudden shifts in personnel and strategy. The turnover rate for key… more »
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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.

    For companies that want to manage their security posture against the evolving threat landscape: Cymulate SaaS-based Extended Security Posture Management (XSPM) deploys within an hour, enabling security professionals to continuously challenge, validate and optimize their cyber-security posture end-to-end across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

    The platform provides out-of-the-box, expert and threat intelligence-led risk assessments that are simple to deploy and use for all maturity levels, and constantly updated. It also provides an open framework to create and automate red and purple teaming by generating penetration scenarious and advanced attack campaigns tailored to their unique environments and security politices. Cymulate allowes professionals to manage, know and control their dynamic environment. 

    Sample Customers
    Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
    Euronext, YMCA, Telit, Nemours 
    Top Industries
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    University20%
    Retailer10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization10%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Government5%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    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 Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%
    Buyer's Guide
    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Cymulate
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Cymulate 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 Cymulate is ranked 2nd in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) with 2 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Cymulate 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 Cymulate writes "An affordable solution that improves an organization’s security posture and provides excellent reporting capabilities". 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 Cymulate is most compared with Pentera, Picus Security, XM Cyber, SafeBreach and Rapid7 Penetration Testing Services. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Cymulate report.

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