Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Bridgecrew comparison

Akamai and Palo Alto Networks are both solutions in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category. Akamai is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.7, while Palo Alto Networks is ranked #28. Akamai holds a 7.7% mindshare in CWPP, compared to Palo Alto Networks’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Palo Alto Networks users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Bridgecrew are network security solutions. Akamai is noted for its pricing and user support, while Bridgecrew stands out for advanced features.

Features: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides robust micro-segmentation, visibility across hybrid cloud environments, and strong network control. Bridgecrew offers exceptional infrastructure-as-code security, seamless DevOps automation, and a comprehensive feature set.

Room for Improvement: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation users seek enhanced scalability, better interoperability with third-party tools, and improved adaptability. Bridgecrew users recommend expanding policy granularity, integrating better with CI/CD pipelines, and increasing integration depth.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is appreciated for its straightforward deployment and responsive support. Bridgecrew, although slightly complex to deploy, is supported by comprehensive documentation and community help.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is recognized for competitive setup costs and favorable ROI due to effective savings. Bridgecrew, while more costly upfront, offers high ROI with increased productivity and enhanced security.

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As of June 2025, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.9%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 7.7%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bridgecrew is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

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Matthias Kropf

Senior Expert Enterprise Architecture at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The tool's most valuable feature is visibility but needs improvement in Kubernetes

We use the product in the production environment of server infrastructure. The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility. Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it. I have been using the product since October. We faced some minor issues, but overall, the product is stable. I…

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DanielSieradski

DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Multi-cloud, good scanning, and offers extensive guides

The challenge is that they charge you per resource. We had an issue where Google Cloud was generating secrets for our application configurations by the hundreds, which we would be charged by Bridgecloud. Our price would have surged to an insane amount due to the automatically generated secrets that we don't even use for anything, which isn't part of our security concern. What we would like to know is if there is a way that we could exclude those from our resources so that we're not billed for that. We don't monitor that. They ignored me for a month through four emails asking about that. They were just totally unresponsive. Then after a month, I said, "I guess you don't want our business." And they responded, "Oh, we're sorry to hear that." I'd say "You're sorry to hear that? Why didn't you respond to any of my emails?" If you're trying to pay them less money, then they want to get rid of you. They don't want to talk to you. That's what it came across as. It's not like we weren't looking at spending thousands of dollars a month with them. We just weren't looking at spending $8,000 versus $2,000. That was a bit frustrating. Generally, I do like their product. It's a useful product. It's good. We wanted to use it. However, since they blew us off, it left a bad taste in our mouths. Their sales team needs a little bit of a jostle to get themselves together. We'd like to see better monitoring and the ability to deny certain resources from being scanned.

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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

"I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security a nine out of ten."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security has saved up to 50 percent in engineering time."

"There's real-time threat detection. It can show threats and find issues based on their severity and helps us with real-time monitoring."

"Our previous product took a lot of man hours to manage. Once we got Singularity Cloud Workload Security, it freed up our time to work on other tasks."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its storyline, which helps trace an event back to its source, like an email or someone clicking on a link."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is excellent, and I highly recommend it."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's graph explorer is a valuable tool that lets us visualize all connected services."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"Guardicore makes its own rule set automatically, so we can work fast when creating a rule set."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."

"The interface and dashboard are amazing."

"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."

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"In cases where they have automatic remediations, you can click a button and it'll just fix the configuration for you."

"New users don't have too many problems with the product. They have a lot of training documentation around it."

Cons

"Crafting customized policies can be tricky."

"From my personal experience, the alerting system needs to be faster. If something happens in our infrastructure, the alert appears on the dashboard, but I have to log in to the dashboard and refresh it."

"The integration with Oracle has room for improvement."

"There's room for improvement in the graphic explorer."

"It took us a while to configure the software to work well in this type of environment, as the support documents were not always clear."

"To enhance the notification system's efficiency, resolved issues should be promptly removed from the portal."

"In version 2, a lot of rules have been deployed for Kubernetes security and CDR, which makes a lot of issues of critical severity, whereas they are not critical or of high severity. There is a mismatch of severities. They need to work on severity management."

"For vulnerabilities, they are showing CVE ID. The naming convention should be better so that it indicates the container where a vulnerability is present. Currently, they are only showing CVE ID, but the same CVE ID might be present in multiple containers. We would like to have the container name so that we can easily fix the issue."

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"I would rate the stability a six out of ten, where one is low and ten is high stability."

"It doesn't support a PAAC solution (Platforma as a service) in the cloud."

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

"Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have."

"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."

"In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session."

"Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked."

"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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"We'd like to see better monitoring and the ability to deny certain resources from being scanned."

"The biggest issue that I see companies run into is that they immediately think that, "Oh, this solution will be right, simply due to the name." But that's the same issue Splunk runs into. People will immediately jump to Splunk being the best SIEM tool, just because they're the largest. When in reality, QRadar, LogRhythm, and all these other ones are performing similar functions and would actually fit better in some people's environments. Therefore, it's important a company does its homework and does not assume one size fits all."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is cost-effective."

"PingSafe falls within the typical price range for cloud security platforms."

"PingSafe is not very expensive compared to Prisma Cloud, but it's also not that cheap. However, because of its features, it makes sense to us as a company. It's fairly priced."

"It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."

"Its pricing is okay. It is in line with what other providers were providing. It is not cheap. It is not expensive."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."

"While SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers robust protection, its high cost may be prohibitive for small and medium-sized businesses."

"It is a little expensive. I would rate it a four out of ten for pricing."

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"The customer would complain about the cost."

"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."

"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."

"Compared to the pricing we were seeing from both Illumio and Edgewise, Guardicore was very competitive."

"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."

"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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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

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Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Performing Arts

12%

Retailer

10%

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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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I don't handle the price part, but it isn't more expensive than Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. It's not cheap, but it is wor...

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Guardicore Centra?

I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. I know other micro-segmentation t...

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What do you like most about Guardicore Infection Monkey?

Initially, I liked the telemetry part. But later, we used the microsegmentation features that we were able to deploy ...

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What needs improvement with Guardicore Infection Monkey?

When we have more than one interface, we can only have one policy for both interfaces. Normally, you have assets with...

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Comparisons

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 43% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

PingSafe

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security protects cloud workloads, offering advanced threat detection and automated response. It integrates seamlessly with cloud environments and secures containerized applications and virtual machines against vulnerabilities.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is renowned for its efficiency in mitigating threats in real-time. The platform integrates effortlessly with existing cloud environments, ensuring robust cloud security management with minimal manual intervention. Securing containerized applications and virtual machines, it excels in threat intelligence and endpoint protection. However, improvements are needed in performance during high workload periods, and more integrations with third-party tools and better documentation would be beneficial. Users often find the installation process complex, support response times slow, and the dashboard's navigation unintuitive.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Real-time Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats as they occur.
Automated Response: Automatically responds to threats to minimize impact.
Ease of Deployment: Simple setup process with scalable options.
Machine Learning Insights: AI-driven insights enhance threat prevention.
Seamless Integration: Integrates with cloud environments for unified security management.

What are the primary benefits or ROI to expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Threat Mitigation: Improved security against real-time threats.
Reduced Manual Intervention: Automated processes save time and resources.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing security requirements.
Centralized Management: Manage security across platforms from a single console.
Advanced Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth analysis and protection.

In specific industries, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is implemented to safeguard critical data and infrastructure. Organizations in finance, healthcare, and technology depend on its real-time threat detection and automated response to protect sensitive information. Its ability to secure containerized applications and virtual machines is particularly valuable in dynamic environments where rapid scaling is necessary.

SentinelOne

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.

Akamai

Bridgecrew is a comprehensive cloud security platform that helps organizations automate security and compliance across their cloud infrastructure. With its powerful capabilities, Bridgecrew enables teams to identify and remediate security issues in real-time, ensuring a secure and compliant cloud environment.

One of Bridgecrew's key features is its ability to continuously scan cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations. It provides a centralized dashboard that displays the security posture of the entire cloud environment, allowing teams to quickly identify and prioritize security issues.

Bridgecrew also offers automated remediation capabilities, allowing teams to fix security issues with just a few clicks. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to remediate each issue, making it easy for even non-security experts to address vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Another notable feature of Bridgecrew is its integration with popular DevOps tools like GitHub, GitLab, and Jira. This allows teams to seamlessly incorporate security into their existing workflows, enabling them to catch and fix security issues early in the development process.

Bridgecrew also provides detailed reports and compliance documentation, making it easier for organizations to demonstrate their adherence to industry standards and regulations. It also offers continuous monitoring and alerting, ensuring that any new security issues are promptly detected and addressed.

Bridgecrew is a powerful cloud security platform that automates security and compliance across cloud infrastructure. With its continuous scanning, automated remediation, and integration capabilities, Bridgecrew helps organizations maintain a secure and compliant cloud environment.

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

Rapyd, BetterHelp, Brex, People.ai, Globality

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