We compared Trend Micro Deep Security and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Trend Micro Deep Security offers extensive security measures and safeguards for data centers and servers, including convenient virtual patching. Nevertheless, it is deemed difficult to handle and has limitations concerning integration and pricing. Conversely, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation allows for the easy establishment of network security zones and boasts robust customer support. However, it may encounter difficulties in larger organizations and lacks support for certain technologies.
"Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy."
"Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems."
"From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the maps and ring fencing that help monitor events."
"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."
"Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, which is basically like a honeypot, are pretty useful features."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."
"It provides security and protection. The endpoint firewall is valuable."
"We've found stability to be great so far."
"Deep Security is a good product for managing a few servers."
"The agentless protection is very nice in Trend Micro."
"Signatures are frequently updated."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's endpoint protection is the most valuable feature."
"The vulnerability scanning reduces false positives by quite a bit."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow."
"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."
"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."
"Requires simplification, a fair amount of trouble shooting required."
"Their automation needs improvement."
"The workloads must be better."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The licensing structure could improve."
"The product isn't very user-friendly."
"The tool should integrate SIM functionality. It should also improve customer support."
"Installation and operations may have issues on some machines owing to their configuration of the network cards as the product is a DPI driver."
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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 6th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 80 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.6. 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 Trend Micro Deep Security writes "Offers excellent endpoint protection and great stability ". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Darktrace, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with Trend Micro Apex One, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security and Bitdefender GravityZone EDR. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Trend Micro Deep Security report.
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