Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP comparison

Akamai and Check Point Software Technologies are both solutions in the Cloud and Data Center Security category. Akamai is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0, while Check Point Software Technologies is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.5. Akamai holds a 23.2% mindshare in CDCS, compared to Check Point Software Technologies’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Check Point Software Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation compete in the network security solutions category. While users are generally satisfied with the pricing and support of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is often viewed as a superior choice due to its robust features, with users finding it worth the investment.

Features: Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is praised for its comprehensive security features, particularly in its threat prevention capabilities and seamless cloud integration. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is highly valued for its application-level segmentation and adaptive security policies. Users favor Akamai for its ability to provide deep network visibility and control.

Room for Improvement: Users of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP suggest enhancing integration capabilities and better user experience for complex policies. They also mention the need for user-friendly interfaces. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation users recommend improvements in documentation and the need for more straightforward configuration processes. They also see room for enhancement in its initial setup process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is noted for a straightforward deployment process, but some reviewers point out that customer service could be more responsive. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is seen as slightly more complicated to deploy but receives higher marks for customer support reliability.

Pricing and ROI: Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers competitive pricing, providing a quick return on investment, particularly for smaller enterprises. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, though more costly, is viewed as providing long-term ROI advantages due to its advanced features and scalability. Users acknowledge Check Point's affordability, but many consider Akamai's higher cost justified by the comprehensive benefits.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 23.2%, down from 23.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is 1.3%, up from 0.4% 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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KlavsThaarup

Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense

Offers micro segmentation capabilities and easy to setup

It's micro-segmentation The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature. There are always areas for improvement. It doesn't support a PAAC solution (Platforma as a service) in the cloud. So that could be improved. In future releases, I would like to see more integration with other…

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Bart Coddens

Cloud Engineer at Cloudar

Evolved cloud security with active monitoring but needs interface consistency

The user interface needs work. Sometimes, it is a transition from the old tool to the new CNAPP Two that I currently have, and remnants of the old environment can still be detected. I require consistency in the user interface to ensure everything is streamlined into the same look and feel. More work is needed in fine-tuning the threat data towards your CSPM and activity logs, aligning them with business intelligence, which requires a cohesive console interface. My assessment of CloudGuard CDRs in intrusion detection and threat hunting capabilities is that it still needs some work. All the threat data that comes in, you need to fine tune it a bit.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I would definitely recommend this product to other members, vendors, or users, as it covers security posture management, auditing, documentation, and compliance management."

"SentinelOne stands out with its responsiveness to feature requests for Singularity Cloud Security."

"Cloud Native Security's evidence-based reporting allows us to prioritize issues by understanding their impact, helping us resolve the most important problems first."

"The most valuable features are automated threat response, AI detection, and static and dynamic detection."

"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."

"The UI is responsive and user-friendly."

"I recommend SentinelOne due to its high-security capabilities, which are essential to safeguard data and systems from potential threats."

"Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it."

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

"The most valuable features of the solution are the maps and ring fencing that help monitor events."

"Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy."

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."

"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."

"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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"I value the comfort and the ability to receive proper insights almost hands-off."

"The reporting against compliance is an important feature that helps you comply with policies and standards within your organization."

"Gives us centralized firewall management for both Windows and Linux distros. Also provides a clear view of the security configurations and connections across environments (DMZ, external and internal networks)."

"Assets Management as it provide complete visibility of our workload inkling EC2 instance or Serverless"

"The rulesets and the findings are valuable. The actual core functionality of it and the efficacy of events are great."

"The ability to drill down to individual hosts on an account and see which ones are affected is valuable."

"It provides complete visibility of workload hosted on different cloud platforms including AWS and Azure, along with multiple tenants."

"The solution is scalable."

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Cons

"We use SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security and also SentinelOne. If SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security integrated some of the endpoint security features of SentinelOne, it would be the perfect one-stop solution for everything. We wouldn't need to switch between the products. At my organization, I am responsible for endpoint security and vulnerability management. Integrating both functions into one application would be ideal because I could see all the alerts, heat maps, and reports in one console."

"The Infrastructure as Code service available in SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security and the services available in AWS cloud security can be merged so that we can get the security data directly from AWS cloud in SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security. This way, all the data related to security will be in one single place. Currently, we have to check a couple of things on SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, and we have to validate that same data on the AWS Cloud to be sure. If they can collaborate like that, it will be great."

"Some of the navigation and some aspects of the portal may be a little bit confusing."

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

"In the Analytics section, there is a tab for showing the severity of open issues by day. There are three options: by week, by month, and for more than thirty days. However, despite being aware of many issues open for more than thirty days, it shows no data available."

"I would like to see the map feature improve. It's good, but it isn't fully developed. It lets us use custom resources and policies but does not allow us to perform some actions. I would also like more custom integration and runtime security for Kubernetes."

"The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint."

"If I had to pick a complaint, it would be the way the hosts are listed in the tool. You have different columns separated by endpoint name, Cloud Account, and Cloud Instances ID. I wish there was something where we could change the endpoint name and not use just the IP address. We would like to have custom names or our own names for the instances. If I had a complaint, that would be it, but so far, it meets all the needs that we have."

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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering."

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

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"The user interface needs work."

"They take time to respond or coordinate a meeting since they maintain a schedule that does not fit Latin America very well."

"The reporting has a lot of opportunities to continuously improve so that we can continue to show value."

"The rules are not well-tuned, and many of them generate false positives or nonsensical results."

"The user interface needs work. Sometimes, it is a transition from the old tool to the new CNAPP Two that I currently have, and remnants of the old environment can still be detected."

"Reporting should have more options."

"I would like to see tighter integration with other compliance tools, like Chef Compliance, in addition to Inspector."

"The tool should incorporate more use cases like improving security scores. It should also improve documentation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

"I am personally not taking care of the pricing part, but when we moved from CrowdStrike to PingSafe, there were some savings. The price of CrowdStrike was quite high. Compared to that, the price of PingSafe was low. PingSafe is charging based on the subscription model. If I want to add an AWS subscription, I need to pay more. It should not be based on subscription. It should be based on the number of servers that I am scanning."

"It is not that expensive. There are some tools that are double the cost of PingSafe. It is good on the pricing side."

"PingSafe is fairly priced."

"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."

"The features included in PingSafe justify its price point."

"The tool is cost-effective."

"PingSafe's pricing is good because it provides us with a solution."

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"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 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 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."

"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."

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"It is difficult to contextualize the pricing because we are used to Indian pricing and licensing."

"From a pricing perspective, they are pretty expensive."

"The license for CloudGuard Posture Management is about $80 a year, and it's based on your cloud footprint, not the number of users. So you could have a million users, and it doesn't matter."

"Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management is expensive."

"The price is on the higher end."

"The pricing is tremendous and super cheap. It is shockingly cheap for what you get out of it. I am happy with that. I hope that doesn't get reported back and they increase the prices. I love the pricing and the licensing makes sense. It is just assets: The more stuff that you have, the more you pay."

"The license fee is high."

"It is a very straightforward licensing model that is based on the number of assets you are discovering and managing with the solution."

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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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What do you like most about Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management?

The visibility in our cloud environment is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management?

The price is on the higher end.

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What needs improvement with Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management?

We have concerns regarding the pricing and would appreciate seeing some improvements.

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Comparisons

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Compared 6% of the time

Orca Security vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security

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Compared 43% of the time

VMware NSX vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

AWS GuardDuty vs Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

Compared 6% of the time

Cloudflare vs Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP

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Also Known As

PingSafe

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence

Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

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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.

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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers comprehensive cloud security with features like dynamic access control, asset protection, and compliance checks, tailored for organizations seeking enhanced governance across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP provides robust capabilities, including centralized firewall management, IAM scanning, and real-time visibility. Its strengths lie in predictive visualization, threat intelligence, and auto-remediation, making it a valuable tool for risk mitigation and compliance management. The platform's integration and responsiveness enhance cloud security, ensuring alignment with industry standards and effective threat protection.

What are the key features of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP?

Dynamic Access Control: Enables granular security permissions for cloud resources.
Asset Protection: Safeguards cloud assets from unauthorized access and threats.
Compliance Checks: Ensures alignment with industry regulations like PCI DSS and SOC 2.
Centralized Firewall Management: Simplifies firewall rule configuration across cloud environments.
IAM Scanning: Audits and secures identity and access management configurations.
Real-Time Visibility: Provides insights into cloud environments for proactive threat detection.

What benefits and ROI should you expect from Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP?

Threat Intelligence: Identifies and mitigates potential risks before exploitation.
Auto-Remediation: Automates responses to security incidents, reducing manual intervention.
Intuitive Interface: Simplifies management and enhances operational efficiency.
Posture Management: Maintains strong security posture through continuous assessment.

Organizations in finance, healthcare, and retail frequently implement Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP for compliance and security across cloud environments. It assists with workload protection, threat detection, and regulatory obligation fulfillment, proving effective for securing applications and monitoring API interactions.

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

Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners

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