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We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Symantec Data Center Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud and Data Center Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"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.""I found the solution to be stable.""Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.""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 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.""Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy.""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."

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"The real strength lies in its straightforward approach, offering just two key policies: prevention and detection.""Good file integrity monitoring features.""The monitoring in the management console allows us to find out what is going wrong, and it gets reports even before the user reports it.""The tool will then detect any anomalies, such as an intruder who has breached the network, which can trigger the system lockdown feature if it's enabled and meets the defined threshold.""We use the product to prevent unauthorized access to data, systems, and servers. It provides essential features for data center security.""The most valuable feature is the endpoint protection system.""The most valuable feature is the centralized console, which can handle different products that we have.""The granularity of applying the policies is valuable."

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"Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it.""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.""In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session.""The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow.""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.""Customers would want to see the cost improved.""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."

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"There is room for improvement in enhancing its graphical user interface for a more user-friendly experience.""The support is very bad. They're not fast at all. Trend Micro's support is much better.""Could have better reporting capabilities and better support.""It would be advantageous if Symantec or Broadcom, given the rebranding, could simplify the process, enabling users to leverage the antivirus functionality more easily.""Agent management is a challenging task.""Adding more compatibility with common products like Microsoft would be a plus.""There is plenty of room for improvement with this product, and it could start with platform metrics.""They need to develop a more flexible product that can be scaled such that it fits well into a small business or a bigger, enterprise-level solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "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 customer would complain about the cost."
  • "The solution is reasonably priced and I would rate it a six out of ten. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
  • "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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  • "Compared to some other solutions, such as CrowdStrike, Symantec is more expensive."
  • "The product is a bit costly."
  • "It is notably more expensive when compared to other solutions."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems.
    Top Answer: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 cost… more »
    Top Answer:Customers would want to see the cost improved.
    Top Answer:The granularity of applying the policies is valuable.
    Top Answer:Agent management is a challenging task. We cannot do it from the console. We will have to use other tools.
    Top Answer:One key use case for data center security is protecting files within the data center. This is especially important for Linux systems, where locking down specific files is essential to prevent… more »
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    Also Known As
    Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore
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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.

    Docker containers make it easy to develop, deploy, and deliver applications where containers can be deployed and brought down in a matter of seconds. This flexibility makes it very useful for DevOps to automate deployment of containers. Symantec Data Center Security: Server Advanced provides agentless Docker container protection that allows you to achieve the performance benefits of Docker without sacrificing security. Full application control enables administrator privilege de-escalation, patch mitigation, and protection against zero day threats in today's heterogeneous data centers.

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    Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
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    University20%
    Retailer10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization10%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Manufacturing Company15%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government8%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Symantec Data Center Security
    March 2024
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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while Symantec Data Center Security is ranked 11th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 11 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Symantec Data Center Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation writes "Allowed us to build out a data center topology without worrying about placement of physical or virtual firewalls that can create bottlenecks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Center Security writes "A robust solution that provides comprehensive protection for data centers, offering agentless security, powerful intrusion prevention, and a wide range of security features". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, whereas Symantec Data Center Security is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Symantec Endpoint Security, VMware NSX, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Illumio. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Symantec Data Center Security report.

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