Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security comparison

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Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...
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Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (5th), Cloud and Data Center Security (7th), Container Security (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Compliance Management (4th)
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Cloud and Data Center Security (2nd), Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) (4th), Microsegmentation Software (2nd)
CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Se...
Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (9th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (8th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (7th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 1.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 6.7%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is 5.9%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
Unique Categories:
Vulnerability Management
1.6%
Cloud and Data Center Security
31.7%
Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)
0.2%
Container Security
9.0%
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
5.5%
 

Featured Reviews

PRATHAMESH SHASHIKANT MOHITE - PeerSpot reviewer
May 13, 2024
Provides automated security responses, is effective for threat management, and saves us costs
Singularity Cloud Security was convenient and effective for threat management. In the past, we relied on daily information gathering and alerts, requiring us to manually address the findings. Now, Singularity Cloud Security provides continuous threat detection and simplifies our work, significantly improving our security posture. The automated security responses have significantly improved our overall security posture. Singularity Cloud Security is easy to use as it gives us the proper step-by-step methods to solve that vulnerability. I would rate the evidence-based reporting for helping prioritize and solve important cloud security issues nine out of ten. It is helpful that Singularity Cloud Security includes proof of exploitability in the evidence-based reporting. Although it isn't perfect, it gives us the right solution to mitigate vulnerability. Our infrastructure configuration is defined using an Infrastructure as Code template. This template allows us to scan our entire infrastructure for potential issues, including pre-production problems within templates or container configuration files. Previously, we stored infrastructure details in a format that required manual data retrieval via CSV files. Now, with IaC, we have a centralized control system that manages multiple accounts and provides vulnerability listings based on severity for each account. Our previous default AWS security tool wasn't sufficient, so we adopted Singularity Cloud Security based on a client recommendation. It's been a huge improvement. Whereas our old tool took three months to gather data, Singularity Cloud Security provides a daily updated dashboard with vulnerability information. This allows us to prioritize and address security risks based on criticality, saving us significant time and effort compared to the past. Singularity Cloud Security has helped reduce the number of false positives by 70 percent. Singularity Cloud Security streamlines manual work by providing insightful information on security vulnerabilities. It not only identifies issues we might miss but also offers in-depth analysis, including potential future costs and the severity of the threat. Additionally, it presents basic details tailored for users with less security expertise, empowering them to understand and address vulnerabilities effectively. Singularity Cloud Security has improved our risk posture by 80 percent and has reduced our mean time to detection by 85 percent. Singularity Cloud Security has reduced our mean time to remediation by 70 percent. It has streamlined collaboration between our cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams. This tool automates manual tasks, reducing our team size from ten to five. It provides us with the information we need to effectively identify and address vulnerabilities, making our cloud environment more secure. It has been a huge time-saver for our engineering team, saving them weeks of work. We have saved around 70 percent of our overall time with Singularity Cloud Security. Singularity Cloud Security has positively impacted our operational costs. The time saved by reducing manual work and resource requirements translates directly into cost savings. Singularity Cloud Security's AI empowers us with improved security solutions. When faced with uncertainty, the tool can quickly provide insights to help us gain a clear understanding of the situation.
Uday Varma - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 30, 2024
Offers granular control and ease of policy creation with features like telemetry and micro-segmentation but incident tagging is missing
Our customers use the solution for micro-segmentation within the data center or cloud environments. One customer uses it for their on-premises infrastructure, deployed at the code level across their massive network. Another customer uses it in a data center to monitor microsegmentation for their 500-node workload. Moreover, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has helped our customers manage and secure traffic between different applications or workloads. Earlier, they were using VMware NSX-v, which offered good logging for distributed services on an analytical level. However, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides them with better overall visibility and granular control over-segmentation, even for inter-application and inter-routing traffic.
Arunachalam S. - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 12, 2023
Lightweight agent and easy to use
Sometimes clients seek security solutions, and we sell those solutions as a partner from India. I take care of POCs and demos for CrowdStrike Falcon Falcon is a lightweight agent that works fully with the cloud, which is a major boost for security. It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The multi-cloud support is valuable. They are expanding to different clouds. It is not restricted to only AWS. It allows us to have different clouds on one platform."
"Cloud Native Security's best feature is its ability to identify hard-coded secrets during pull request reviews."
"The offensive security where they do a fix is valuable. They go to a misconfiguration and provide detailed alerts on what could be there. They also provide a remediation feature where if we give the permission, they can also go and fix the issue."
"We noted immediate benefits from using the solution."
"The UI is very good."
"When creating cloud infrastructure, Cloud Native Security evaluates the cloud security parameters and how they will impact the organization's risk. It lets us know whether our security parameter conforms to international industry standards. It alerts us about anything that increases our risk, so we can address those vulnerabilities and prevent attacks."
"PingSafe's graph explorer is a valuable tool that lets us visualize all connected services."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to detect vulnerabilities inside AWS resources and its ability to rescan after a specific duration set by the administrator."
"I found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."
"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."
"Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems."
"The interface and dashboard are amazing."
"From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful."
"The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources."
"Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy."
"The RTR feature stands out as particularly valuable to me due to its capability to log into machines."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is its lightweight sensor, taking minimal space and not impacting server performance."
"It is fully cloud-based, so we don't need to invest in third-party agents repeatedly."
"There is a lot that it can do, but endpoint protection is the main thing about it. The fact that it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor and remediate the issues in real-time is probably the bread and butter of the product."
"CrowdStrike utilizes signatureless technology, eliminating the need for regular signature updates on endpoint systems."
"Cloud security is one valuable feature. Spotlight is the other one. There is also vulnerability management and a couple of more features."
"The initial setup is easy ."
"Technical support is helpful."
 

Cons

"A vulnerability alert would appear, and we'd fix it, but then the same alert would return the next day."
"We've found a lot of false positives."
"We can customize security policies but lack auditing capabilities."
"When we get a new finding from PingSafe, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the PingSafe platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report."
"Bugs need to be disclosed quickly."
"PingSafe is an excellent CSPM tool, but the CWPP features need to improve, and there is a scope for more application security posture management features. There aren't many ASPM solutions on the market, and existing ones are costly. I would like to see PingSafe develop into a single pane of glass for ASPM, CSPM, and CWPP. Another feature I'd like to see is runtime protection."
"PingSafe filtering has some areas that cause problems, and to achieve single sign-on functionality, a break-glass feature, which is currently unavailable, is necessary."
"They can work on policies based on different compliance standards."
"The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow."
"It would be very helpful for beginners if the solution had more windows to help with the terms inside instead of going to the documentation."
"The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see."
"Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked."
"Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have."
"The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering."
"Customers would want to see the cost improved."
"Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there."
"Incorporating threat intelligence into the system would be a valuable addition."
"The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive."
"It would be more convenient if there was an easier way to install CrowdStrike, perhaps through better integration with Active Directory."
"The only suggestion for improvement would be the pricing."
"The CrowdStrike partner portal documentation could be improved to provide proper instructions for integrating their products."
"There should be cloud storage scanning. We would like to have cloud storage vulnerability and threat management on any cloud storage."
"The CrowdStrike dashboard currently lacks a username field."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is cost-effective."
"Pricing is based on modules, which was ideal for us."
"I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."
"PingSafe is affordable."
"It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."
"For pricing, it currently seems to be in line with market rates."
"It was reasonable pricing for me."
"The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"
"The customer would complain about the cost."
"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."
"Compared to the pricing we were seeing from both Illumio and Edgewise, Guardicore was very competitive."
"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."
"This is not a cheap solution but you have to consider the bigger picture, which is what it is giving you."
"The pricing is too high."
"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."
"The solution is reasonably priced and I would rate it a six out of ten. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
"Its price is moderate."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is pricy."
"CrowdStrike Falcon is very expensive."
"I am not the one who handled the pricing. A different team worked on it, but it is pretty expensive."
"The pricing is fair for what you get. I'd rate them a solid nine out of ten in terms of pricing."
"The pricing is reasonable, neither overly expensive nor excessively cheap, making it competitive compared to other market options."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?
The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...
What needs improvement with PingSafe?
When I joined my organization, I saw that PingSafe was already implemented. I started to use the tool's alerting feat...
What do you like most about Guardicore Centra?
Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Guardicore Centra?
The pricing is too high. Based on market standards, I'd recommend lowering the price. I would rate the pricing a five...
What needs improvement with Guardicore Centra?
Customers would want to see the cost improved.
What do you like most about CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?
It's easy to gather insights and conduct analysis about existing threats.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?
You can't get a fixed price for these tools. If you subscribe to something and need to deploy it to another team, the...
What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security?
The threat intelligence and user behavioral analysis could be more comprehensive.
 

Also Known As

PingSafe
Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore
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Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
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