Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Sweet Security comparison

Akamai and Sweet Security are both solutions in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category. Akamai is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.8, while Sweet Security is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0. Akamai holds a 5.6% mindshare in CWPP, compared to Sweet Security’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sweet Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Sweet Security are competing products in the field of cybersecurity. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has the upper hand in terms of pricing and support based on user feedback, but Sweet Security is perceived as superior due to its comprehensive features, which are considered worth the cost.

Features: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides robust network segmentation and real-time threat detection, offering extensive customization for protection against cyber threats. Sweet Security features proactive threat prevention and cloud-native security, suitable for dynamic environments, and provides a simpler, more intuitive setup.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation supports flexible deployment options with strong customer support for ease of integration into existing infrastructures. Sweet Security is recognized for its straightforward deployment model and responsive customer service that simplifies onboarding processes, highlighting Akamai's flexibility versus Sweet Security's ease of use.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation presents competitive pricing with a strong ROI for larger enterprises focusing on comprehensive security needs. Sweet Security, although slightly more expensive, offers tangible ROI through its feature set, attracting organizations seeking cutting-edge security innovations.

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 3.8%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 5.6%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sweet Security is 1.0%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security	3.8%
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation	5.6%
Sweet Security	1.0%
Other	89.6%

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Satyavijay Chavan

Information Security Engineer at DataVigilant Infotech

Enables us to prioritize and effectively address critical security issues

Evidence-based reporting helps us to prioritize and solve critical security issues. The new visualization feature demonstrates how an attacker can enter the system, highlighting the potential path that can be exploited and outlining all the steps the attacker could take. With that visibility, we can ensure the perimeter is strong and attackers cannot enter, thus reducing the risk. It has helped us prioritize issues. The visibility into how an attack could happen is valuable. For example, it highlights the system vulnerability and outlines where an attack could propagate. The visualization helps me to prioritize remediation, and if I don't know where to start, I can check to see the score that enables me to prioritize issues. I am using infrastructure-as-code scanning, and it's one of the useful features. In pre-production, it identifies embedded secrets and misconfigurations, including issues with Kubernetes or some privileged containers. This feature allows us to pass the audit and secure IaC code so that it isn't easily exploitable by attackers. We can more proactively work to identify and resolve vulnerabilities by using the dashboard and the alerting system that SentinelOne provides. It helps us with audits and compliance. We can show the compliance in percentage. We can confidently say that our company or infrastructure is very secure. It has improved our security posture by 30% to 35%. It has reduced our false positives by 30%. It has helped teams collaborate better. The security team manages SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, and when it flags vulnerabilities, they are forwarded to DevOps for remediation. Previously, we needed to identify and report the issues, but there would be lapses in communication. Now, there is a centralized dashboard that anyone can look at and see the open issues and work on them.

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Ken Bauer

Senior Security Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Segmentation of legacy systems has protected outdated endpoints and reduces network risk

The best features Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers make it simple to see all of the connections that are being made to each of the endpoints, and they can be controlled by process and port. The ability to control by process and port helps my team day-to-day because, since there are hundreds of thousands of connections to some of these endpoints, looking at the Reveal Map makes it simple to audit and create rules for what we want to allow. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has impacted my organization positively because we find it difficult to remove the legacy systems, so it was very important to segment them from the rest of the network to protect them and protect the rest of our network.

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Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Has reduced investigation time by correlating application and infrastructure events

Sweet Security has room for improvement in two areas. One is for robust integration with automations and playbooks. We have our internally developed platform that operates around security incident playbooks, so the connection between those two systems would be great. The option to run specific playbooks through the Sweet Security platform would help us a lot, but these must be fully customizable. We prefer not to block the business from progressing unless we are fully sure that it is an incident. Most of the actions I would take would revolve around containment or notification on a specific platform and not via email or similar communications. The second area is around the code perspective. I know it's just the start of a long journey that Sweet Security is going to go through to become a platform that also handles code, but I would expect options for a complete analysis and writing policies for infrastructure as code. The next great thing that Sweet Security can do is to turn toward IAC, how it is handled and enforced, to tackle potential breaches of policy before they really happen.

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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 GUI is one of the best features. Audit reports and documentation for alerts are also valuable."

"The visibility is the best part of the solution."

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

"The agentless vulnerability scanning is great."

"It is advantageous in terms of time-saving and cost reduction."

"We're monitoring several cloud accounts with Singularity. It is convenient to identify issues or security failures in any account. It's nice to have all the details we need to solve these issues."

"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."

"I like CSPM the most. It captures a lot of alerts within a short period of time. When an alert gets triggered on the cloud, it throws an alert within half an hour, which is very reasonable. It is a plus point for us."

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"The interface and dashboard are amazing."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"I found the solution to be stable."

"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."

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

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"The value we see from having real-time visibility into our cloud environment is significant, as Sweet Security serves as our eyes and ears inside AWS, telling us what we are doing wrong so we can fix it."

"The value of having real-time visibility in our cloud environment with Sweet Security changes everything because it differentiates between identifying and reacting to something that is not really a risk and something that is truly a risk that needs to be treated."

"Before we had Sweet Security, upon any type of detection of activity, we needed to conduct lots of investigations in different platforms and logs until we could build the larger picture, but once we inserted Sweet Security, we are able to actually see each and every request being made from the application level towards the infrastructure, making it much easier and reducing the time for an analyst to understand what's really happening."

Cons

"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."

"Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security can be improved by developing a comprehensive set of features that allow for automated workflows."

"A vulnerability alert would appear, and we'd fix it, but then the same alert would return the next day."

"When you find a vulnerability and resolve it, the same issue will not occur again. I want SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security to block the same vulnerability from appearing again. I want something like a playbook where the steps that we take to resolve an issue are repeated when that issue happens again."

"They can add more widgets to its dashboard. A centralized dashboard with numerous metrics would improve user understanding."

"In terms of ease of use, initially, it is a bit confusing to navigate around, but once you get used to it, it becomes easier."

"They need more experienced support personnel."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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"One area for improvement could be the alerts, as we have an issue with the alert time, the time it takes for the system to send the alert, but besides that, there is nothing special."

"The option to run specific playbooks through Sweet Security platform would help us a lot, but these must be fully customizable."

"There was something a year ago that caused a production issue in my company, but they fixed it within an hour."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is easy to understand and implement, with some flexibility to accommodate dynamic environments."

"For pricing, it currently seems to be in line with market rates."

"It is cost-effective compared to other solutions in the market."

"The tool is cost-effective."

"SentinelOne is quite costly compared to other security platforms."

"SentinelOne offers excellent pricing and licensing options."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is on the costlier side."

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

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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."

"This is not a cheap solution but you have to consider the bigger picture, which is what it is giving you."

"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 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 customer would complain about the cost."

"The pricing is too high."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Wellness & Fitness Company

14%

Healthcare Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Non Profit

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	10

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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 needs improvement with PingSafe?

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My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that overall everything worked out really well. The pricing ...

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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?

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can be improved because keeping it up to date is difficult since it is SaaS-based and ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sweet Security?

I'm not really into the specifics of the pricing, but as far as I know, it is cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Sweet Security?

Sweet Security has room for improvement in two areas. One is for robust integration with automations and playbooks. W...

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PingSafe

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

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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.

Akamai

Sweet Security offers a robust cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard sensitive data with advanced monitoring features, enhancing organization-wide security protocols.

The comprehensive features of Sweet Security include real-time threat intelligence, automated incident response, and seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures. Engineered for flexibility and scalability, it effectively adapts to evolving cybersecurity landscapes, delivering actionable insights for proactive security management.

What are the key features of Sweet Security?

Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Continuously monitors network traffic for potential threats.
Automated Incident Response: Rapidly responds to security incidents to minimize impact.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing systems without disruption.
Advanced Analytics: Provides detailed analysis to predict and preempt security breaches.

What benefits can users expect?

Enhanced Security: Strengthens overall data protection and reduces vulnerability.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses with automated processes and efficient resource use.
Improved Compliance: Helps meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive monitoring.
Increased Trust: Builds user confidence by ensuring high standards of data security.

Sweet Security is implemented across industries such as finance and healthcare to guard sensitive information and comply with stringent regulations. Its adaptability allows customization to meet specific industry standards, addressing unique security challenges while maintaining high levels of protection.

Sweet Security

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

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