

Find out in this report how the two Microsegmentation Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
I have not seen a return on investment in terms of specific metrics like time saved or reduced risk, but I can say that reduced risk is significant.
There was a specific issue that our other security tooling did not pick up, but XM Cyber did.
It's reduced the timescale to remediate vulnerabilities that are identified as representing a high risk.
The response is very fast.
The customer support is fantastic; it's probably some of the best we've received across all our security vendors.
Customer support for XM Cyber is good, responsive, and it follows up on issues.
It scales very well, and I can keep adding agents and scale as much as needed.
Its scalability is great; it's easy to deploy and fully scalable.
We have not experienced any issues with scalability or reached its limits.
We have quite a complex and large IT estate, and we've certainly experienced no limitations or problems arising from the ability of XM Cyber's product to scale across that estate.
In large environments, understanding all application dependencies and creating the right policies can take time and requires close coordination with application teams.
I think it is really valuable to take a course on Akamai Guardicore Segmentation because many things are not obvious in terms of how to do them correctly.
The price of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is very expensive, but it is important to the enterprise.
We push the boundaries with digital twins; I understand XM Cyber uses a similar concept of graph databases to map environments.
They could improve support because when we need to create a super case and escalate to resolve with technical support, they resolve our ticket in approximately two weeks.
The part that can be improved is the mobile exposure and the IBM i specific equipment.
The pricing was flexible, and it has worked out well with our budget.
We have a large, complicated estate, and in the licensing discussions, we were keen not to have the cost balloon because of the complication, the number of PCs and servers that we have.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation reduced risk because it blocked malicious ransomware and uninspected traffic.
We can create a policy based on labels such as application, environment, or role, allowing only required communication and blocking everything else, which significantly reduces the lateral movement 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.
Our loss exposure amount has reduced significantly, leading to two big wins: our loss exposure amount has gone down, and we have direct savings from focusing our team's time on what's important, allowing them to work on other business benefits and generate value for the company.
By far, the best feature of XM Cyber is being able to map out the way vulnerabilities can be exploited based on what they call the choke points in the network where the path that a bad actor would take comes closest to assets within our environment that are most vulnerable but also most valuable.
XM Cyber allows us to quantify the risk, and we are able to track remediation, so we can quantify the risk at an executive level and also to a technical IT team.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Akamai Guardicore Segmentation | 22.7% |
| Illumio | 26.5% |
| VMware NSX | 15.7% |
| Other | 35.099999999999994% |
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| XM Cyber | 11.6% |
| Pentera | 14.0% |
| Cymulate | 13.3% |
| Other | 61.099999999999994% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 7 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 12 |
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.
XM Cyber is a leading hybrid cloud security company that’s changing the way innovative organizations approach cyber risk. Our attack path management platform continuously uncovers hidden attack paths to your critical assets across cloud and on-prem environments, so you can cut them off at key junctures and eradicate risk with a fraction of the effort. This overcomes the big disconnect that security teams experience when they’re presented with endless alerts, yet can’t see which exposures impact risk the most, how they come together to be exploited by an attacker, or how to efficiently eliminate them. This approach is a complete game-changer, which is why some of the world’s largest, most complex organizations choose XM Cyber to help eradicate risk. Founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, XM Cyber has offices in North America, Europe, and Israel.
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