Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Qualys VMDR comparison

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud and Data Center Security (2nd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (13th), Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) (4th), Microsegmentation Software (2nd)

Qualys VMDR

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Asset Management (7th), Configuration Management Databases (3rd), Container Security (11th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 31.7%, up from 20.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys VMDR is 0.5%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud and Data Center Security

Unique Categories:

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)

6.7%

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

0.2%

IT Asset Management

4.0%

Configuration Management Databases

1.9%

Featured Reviews

Uday Varma

Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

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.

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ManojKumar37

Information Security Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Jun 12, 2023

Efficient automation feature and provides us with a comprehensive security solution

Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives. We receive a lot of false positives in there. VMDR can be considered a complex solution, especially for enterprises with limited resources or organizations. It requires extensive knowledge as an engineer. So, when using this tool, you need to utilize other tools to remediate the false security issues. So maybe it should also have the ability to automatically identify and address false positives. In additional features, an automated process for remediating false positives. We might be looking for new types of signatures that can help us identify and address specific issues.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources."

"We like the centralized management of the firewalls. Until we installed Guardicore Centra, we managed all our firewalls individually, so making changes was complicated, difficult, and time-consuming."

"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."

"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."

"From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful."

"The interface and dashboard are amazing."

"Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, which is basically like a honeypot, are pretty useful features."

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"Qualys VM had a recent upgrade and the newer version is supporting the cloud."

"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."

"It is quite easy to implement."

"Qualys VM's best feature is vulnerability management."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to run different capabilities with the same agent. With only one agent, we can have EDR, vulnerability management, compliance and some basic SaaS security capabilities."

"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."

"The prioritization feature is great. I think it has all of the advanced features that we need."

"The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."

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Cons

"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."

"Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there."

"Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it."

"Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow."

"The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow."

"Customers would want to see the cost improved."

"Supports become difficult when it's for a big organization. For a small organization, medium organization, it still makes sense, however, for a big organization, it makes life difficult."

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"Qualys Container Security can improve the interface. It could be easier to navigate and be enriched."

"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."

"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."

"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."

"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."

"It's quite complex on the way it is set up, so it takes a fair bit of time in order to get your head around it in order to deploy it. Once you've deployed it, then you're never confident on the versions of the browsers and the SSL certificates, etc. You have to always go back into Qualys and check."

"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."

"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 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."

"The solution is reasonably priced and I would rate it a six out of ten. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"The pricing is too high."

"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."

"The customer would complain about the cost."

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"The solution is expensive."

"It is more expensive than other products on the market."

"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."

"The pricing and licensing for Qualys could be improved."

"There is a license for the use of this solution. We pay annually instead of monthly to receive a better discount on the price."

"The pricing is very competitive."

"We do see over $100,000 in terms of price, for mid-size programs. You likely will pay more than $100,000 without any discount. It is a bit pricey."

"It is a high cost product. Compared to the other solutions, it is around 15 to 20% higher in cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Educational Organization

33%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Guardicore Centra?

Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.

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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 out of ten, with ten being affordable. The DQE feature increases the license co...

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What needs improvement with Guardicore Centra?

Customers would want to see the cost improved.

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What is your primary use case for Qualys VM?

Qualys VM is used for vulnerability scans for the internet and applications using application exchange. There are many applications. We also use the solution for asset management per team, and the ...

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What do you like most about Qualys VMDR?

I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging system is good for tagging. We can still use QualysAgent task ID tools even ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys VMDR?

We have an annual contract for Qualys VMDR. I believe it's for either two years or five years.

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Also Known As

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

Qualys VM, QualysGuard VM, Qualys Asset Inventory, Qualys Container Security, Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance

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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.

Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response (VMDR) is a cornerstone product of the Qualys TruRisk Platform and a global leader in the enterprise-grade vulnerability management (VM) vendor space. With VMDR, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure their actual risk exposure over time.

Qualys VMDR offers an all-inclusive risk-based vulnerability management solution to prioritize vulnerabilities and assets based on risk and business criticality. VMDR seamlessly integrates with configuration management databases (CMDB), Qualys Patch Management, Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR), Qualys TotalCloud and other Qualys and non-Qualys solutions to facilitate vulnerability detection and remediation across the entire enterprise.

With VMDR, users are empowered with actionable risk insights that translate vulnerabilities and exploits into optimized remediation actions based on business impact. Qualys customers can now aggregate and orchestrate data from the Qualys Threat Library, 25+ threat intelligence feeds, and third-party security and IT solutions, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate risk across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Sample Customers

Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE

Agrokor Group, American Specialty Health, American State Bank, Arval, Life:), Axway, Bank of the West, Blueport Commerce, BSkyB, Brinks, CaixaBank, Cartagena, Catholic Health System, CEC Bank, Cegedim, CIGNA, Clickability, Colby-Sawyer College, Commercial Bank of Dubai, University of Utah, eBay Inc., ING Singapore, National Theatre, OTP Bank, Sodexo, WebEx

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