They provide really good documentation on agent deployment. They told me through the setup that the thing that most organizations usually struggle with the most is getting the agents deployed. But we found that—probably because we were already doing some automation—was really quite simple.

Overall, it was really easy to get up and going. We installed the on-prem aggregator that bridges the agents on the servers to the SaaS instance, and then you just install the agents. We were actually able to deploy 50 to 100 agents within a day. And once we could deploy 10, since we are already automating a lot of our package management on our servers, we could've done 1,000 or 2,000 in a day. We could have done it on as many servers as we have. 

They provide you all the tools. If you're already automating your servers, it's a super-easy solution to implement. If you aren't doing automation and are still manually managing all your servers, one at a time, I can see that it wouldn't be quite as easy as it was for us.

We are still in the process of deploying it across our company, but to get it up and running, it took less than a couple of days. Right now we're at about 200 servers, but we expect to grow to around 1,200.

To initially get it up and running and have everything working, took only me, in my role as a manager of network and security engineering, and one member of the server team. You could really do this with one or two people, as long as you have a network guy and a server guy. But now that we're deploying it more widely, there are six or seven main players in our company who are involved in writing the scripts and doing the automation work to get it deployed and to manage it.

My team was in charge of the initial setup and getting the policies built and the rule sets created. And the server engineering team is handling the agent installs and making sure they're checking in with the SaaS instance, and they are also putting the Guardicore labels on the agents. They say, "This is a Windows Server, this is an application server." And then we maintain the rule set that controls traffic, based on those labels. It's a two-prong management solution.

The initial setup is very easy. It's a safe solution, so you can actually install it in five minutes. So it's very easy to install.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation's deployment is smooth. The deployment team promised us that the implementation would be completed in three weeks, but the product was available within two weeks. 

I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy. 

It was pretty straightforward. It didn't take too long to deploy. And it was roughly done within an hour. So implementation isn't overly complex.

Its approach to implementing segmentation was very simple and straightforward. You can basically use it out-of-the-box.

It tooks us probably three months to secure the development environments, then another three months to do the production environments. It was probably faster than how we did it. It was just a matter of us gaining confidence in the software to switch it on and have it do everything it was supposed to do, and it took a bit longer for that to happen.

Guardicore Centra's setup was straightforward and I would rate it a seven out of ten. The tool's setup is straightforward as long as you identify the servers and establish the right processes. The tool came with an installation guide and setup took about four to five hours to complete. The deployment depends on the solution size and if the POC is small, the setup is easier and quicker. If you plan for enterprise-wide deployment, then you need to do capacity sizing and planning.

The initial setup was straightforward in terms of time to deploy. With knowledge transfer, four hours was a good timeframe, it was complete in less than a day. For reporting and analytics, there's a lot of features and functionality, but within a day the clients were able to get acclimated quickly. They're satisfied with that.

The learning curve on deploying security policies was very low. Those are easy to deploy. Within an hour they were deploying security policies. The ability of GuardiCore to learn the East-West traffic is excellent, within an hour, it was reporting.

I tested the first deployment of GuardiCore four years ago. I left it automated for a full week and it learned everything. Today it's 500% faster, within hours it sees everything.

The ideal implementation strategy that we found that works would be for the client to be initially engaged in a proof of concept demonstration. This allows GuardiCore to set up the system on the client side before purchase. 

That allows the client and the team to see the benefits of it, learn how to use the product, get the reporting, get the analytics, etc. Those clients that did that, once they decided to buy it, it was literally like flipping a switch. Those were the easiest ones. 

The best use case is to engage GuardiCore for a POC before to justify and quantify the purchase, then activate and deploy. It takes less than a day. 

The solution's initial setup is not hard. However, you have to learn it because it's not plug-and-play.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward and quite simple to do.

It is pretty simple overall to get a template and apply segmentation. You still need to think about how to apply it yourself to suit your needs, but it provides all the tools useful for that as well. The maps are useful. Using the templates to create rules gives you an easy start, then you can go in and refine it to suit your processes. Also, the Guardicore staff has been very helpful in helping us walk through the process and get what we needed out of the software.

It is very quick to secure applications and systems. You can get an agent installed very quickly. We started with 149 agents and will be adding another 100 agents over the next few weeks, as we move on to securing desktops as well as servers.

You can get results as soon as you have your aggregators up. You can get them in a day.

The initial deployment was done within a few days. Going through the process of segmentation and everything else takes months, but that is to be expected because it is not just about installing and running it. You have to walk through the process and logic of what you need, such as, thinking of and trying to improve the way that we are doing things at the same time, which this solution gives us the option to do.

Guardicore helped us plan strategies of how they thought we should roll it out. That helped us focus our minds a bit on how we should then do things.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was not complex.

In terms of the initial setup, it is of medium complexity. It's not complex but not simple. You need to understand your network. You cannot do it without understanding what you want and what your strategy is. When you understand the policy and the strategy that you want to implement on the network, it's very easy.

Our implementation strategy was to start with machine learning. Our plan was to run this for one or two days, get it working, and then understand what kind of information they're getting from me and then to continue on from that. The initial deployment will take a maximum of two days.

Implementing segmentation is not difficult but it is more from our side. First, you need to understand the strategy that you want to implement on the network. Then, you need to complete it step-by-step, so that you do not harm anything or block things improperly. You have to give the software time to learn about the connections that you have. Overall, it is very easy to do. 

In terms of how long it took us to implement, we have approximately 200 servers and it took a couple of months to implement. This is what I expected because I wanted to take it slowly and make sure that I understand which systems I needed to block, or not.

It is very easy to set up the agents. You have a script, and you run that script and install it on the system. Once you open the port that it needs for reporting to the cloud, then you have visibility right away.

Guardicore Centra's approach to implementing segmentation is a six or seven out of 10. It is not super easy. You need to take at least one course in preparation. Then, once you are familiar with the platform or where to find the tools, it is very easy. You can replicate those tools over other agents, which is very easy.

It was like the setup of a typical IT solution.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The only thing that matters is that the customers have a strong plan, a good strategy, and a high-level and low-level design. The most exhausting part will be labeling all of your systems. And if the customer in this situation has around 1000 servers, that may be time-consuming.

The installation and setup are pretty straightforward.  

The installation of the solution was easy. Deployment took about two to three weeks.