Cisco Secure Workload vs SUSE NeuVector comparison

Cisco and SUSE are both solutions in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category. Cisco is ranked #13 with an average rating of 9.5, while SUSE is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0. Cisco holds a 2.8% mindshare in CWPP, compared to SUSE’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SUSE users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Cisco Secure Workload and SUSE NeuVector compete in the workload security space, with NeuVector often favored for its functionality due to its comprehensive features, while Cisco Secure Workload is noted for its cost efficiency and support.

Features: Cisco Secure Workload is noted for its robust threat detection, effective segmentation, and accessible customer service. SUSE NeuVector stands out with its automation capabilities, real-time threat assessment, and focus on Kubernetes-native security.

Room for Improvement: Cisco Secure Workload could enhance user support for integration, simplify deployment processes, and expand its feature set. SUSE NeuVector may require improvements in reporting tools, dashboard functionalities, and could benefit from increased customer support responsiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco Secure Workload is characterized by straightforward deployment and reliable support. SUSE NeuVector's deployment is flexible but sometimes hindered by slow customer service response times.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco Secure Workload offers competitive pricing and favorable ROI, while SUSE NeuVector, despite a higher initial cost, provides excellent ROI in Kubernetes environments due to its feature set.

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 3.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Secure Workload is 2.8%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SUSE NeuVector is 1.2%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Raj Metkar

Director, Head of Networks at MUFG, EMEA

Discover internal application dependencies and create a dependency map

We actively seek improvements in integrating the Infoblox DDI platform with Cisco Secure Workload. This integration allows Cisco Secure Workload to learn about our networks and network tags, providing valuable insights into vulnerabilities related to the operating system and various applications installed on our servers. Recently, Cisco announced a new product called HyperShield, an AI-based autonomous micro-segmentation solution. While Cisco has not stated that HyperShield will replace Cisco Secure Workload, it represents a natural evolution for the company. HyperShield features dynamic policy discovery and enforcement; however, once policies are enforced, they do not change until a discovery occurs, requiring a re-enforcement process. This new platform operates autonomously, minimizing the need for user or security engineer intervention. I would have expected Cisco to incorporate more automatic discovery and enforcement features within the existing Cisco Secure Workload product. Instead of enhancing the current product, they have introduced a new solution. Cisco plans to honor existing Tetration licenses, allowing users to transition to HyperShield without additional costs, reflecting the investment enterprises have already made. From Cisco’s perspective, this represents a natural progression in their product line. While the product name changes, it seems more of a rebranding effort. The enhancements are greater autonomy, improved discovery, and automatic enforcement, which are now being introduced in HyperShield. Cisco Secure Workload offers automatic policy enforcement but cannot adjust policies dynamically as the application needs to change. Having used the platform for the past five years, the recent announcement has been reassuring. Cisco has confirmed that our investment in the platform will not go to waste. They will honor our existing licenses, providing a natural migration path to the new solution without any disruption

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Danie Joubert

Managing Director at ProQuanta

Good value for money; great for policy management

Our model of deployment for this solution is on-premises. For people looking into this solution and trying to use it for the first time, I'd say make your life easier by using the SUSE product as well on top of your community scale stack. That makes your integration points a lot easier and smoother. I would also say during your initial setup, make sure that your clusters are already in terms of the capabilities with the version required. I would rate this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. The reason for this rating is that what they offer is solid, but they could expand their service and add more features just to make more things integrated into an enterprise itself.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security has a dashboard that can detect the criticality of a particular problem, whether it falls under critical, medium, or low vulnerability."

"Cloud Security has provided a single view to observe all workloads, prioritization for handling cloud assets, and reduced noise by distinguishing false positives effectively."

"For Singularity, the task capability is easy to use and it has a very intuitive dashboard, which streamlines the processes."

"It has a user-friendly dashboard that I can access without any difficulty."

"With SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, it's easy to onboard new accounts."

"The features that stand out are threat detection using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, helping to identify and respond to threats in real-time."

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

"The remediation process is good."

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"The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network."

"Generally speaking, Cisco support is considered one of the best in the networking products and stack."

"Secure Workload's best feature is that it's an end-to-end offering from Cisco."

"The product provides multiple-device integration."

"Scalability is its most valuable feature."

"It's stable."

"The product offers great visibility into the network so we can enforce security measures."

"The only use case I can see that makes sense is micro-segmentation. I think there are other use cases for it. The main purpose of the product is to do micro-segmentation by collecting IP. That could be done by installing an agent, and then you have all the communication coming in and out. You could also use some flow sensors installed in the network that receive a copy of the traffic and then report that back to the system."

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"When it comes to the price, we got a really good deal from the vendor instantly."

"The initial setup is quite good, it's straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security."

"The solution includes many features, not only for container and client security but also for scanning nodes, networks, and vulnerabilities."

"The tool's deployment is simple. Also, I am impressed with its risk capabilities."

"The UI has a lot of features."

"The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is the performance, deployment, and cost."

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Cons

"It would be really helpful if the solution improves its agent deployment process."

"When we get a new finding from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report."

"SentinelOne currently lacks a break glass account feature, which is critical for implementing Single Sign-On."

"In addition to our telecom and Slack channels, it would be helpful to receive Cloud Native Security security notifications in Microsoft Teams."

"The cost has the potential for improvement."

"Customized queries should be made easier to improve SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security."

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

"It took us a while to configure the software to work well in this type of environment, as the support documents were not always clear."

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"The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."

"Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it."

"The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions."

"The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved."

"They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes."

"The product must be integrated with the cloud."

"It is not so easy to use and configure. It needs a bunch of further resources to work, which is mainly the biggest downside of it. The deployment is huge."

"There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and I need to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to jump between different tools."

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"The image-scanning features need improvement."

"The tool should offer seamless integration of other security tools while in a hybrid environment."

"SUSE NeuVector should provide more security protection rules and better container image scanning."

"However, I found that the support in Egypt was not very qualified, and there was a need to upgrade to a higher support layer to solve my issues."

"The documentation needs to improve a bit."

"SUSE NeuVector could improve by increasing its visibility into other elements of the DevSecOps pipeline. Additionally, scanning around infrastructure would be helpful."

"Using a node port instead of a cluster IP is less ideal when implementing federation features between two clusters and could be improved."

"I would say that this solution should improve monitoring and reporting. I would also like to see more integrations so that we could essentially make it a part of a developing pipeline."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The pricing is somewhat high compared to other market tools."

"We found it to be fine for us. Its price was competitive. It was something we were happy with. We are not a Fortune 500 company, so I do not know how pricing scales at the top end, but for our cloud environment, it works very well."

"It's not cheap, but it is worth the price."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."

"I am not involved in the pricing, but it is cost-effective."

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

"Its pricing is okay. It is in line with what other providers were providing. It is not cheap. It is not expensive."

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"The cost for the hardware is around 300k."

"Regarding price, Cisco Secure Workload can be expensive if you don't have a budget. If you're not doing micro-segmentation, every extra security measure or enforcement you're putting on top of your existing environment will be an extra cost. It's not a cheap solution at all. But from my point of view, if you need to do micro-segmentation, this is one of the best tools I've seen for it. I can't compare that to Microsoft's solution because I haven't looked into it. I've looked into VMware and Cisco. Those are the only two that I know of. I didn't know that Microsoft could do micro-segmentation at all. Maybe they can, but I haven't heard anything about it."

"It is not cheap and pricing may limit scalability."

"The price is outrageous. If you have money to throw at the product, then do it."

"The price is based on how many computers you're going to install it on."

"The pricing is a bit higher than we anticipated."

"Pricing depends on the scope of the application and the features. Larger installations save more."

"The price of SUSE NeuVector is low. There is an additional cost for support."

"Licensing fees are paid yearly."

"The solution's pricing could be better. The cost of a subscription is calculated on the basis of work."

"SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution."

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Computer Software Company

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15%

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15%

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10%

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Questions from the Community

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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 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 do you like most about Cisco Secure Workload?

The product provides multiple-device integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Workload?

CloudStrike offers antivirus capabilities and firewall features for servers and VDI but lacks automatic policy discov...

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Workload?

We actively seek improvements in integrating the Infoblox DDI platform with Cisco Secure Workload. This integration a...

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What do you like most about NeuVector?

The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NeuVector?

SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution. You have to pay for the support.

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What needs improvement with NeuVector?

One area for improvement is NeuVector's ability to import CVEs from different sources. Additionally, using a node por...

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Also Known As

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Cisco Tetration

NeuVector

Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security protects cloud workloads, offering advanced threat detection and automated response. It integrates seamlessly with cloud environments and secures containerized applications and virtual machines against vulnerabilities.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is renowned for its efficiency in mitigating threats in real-time. The platform integrates effortlessly with existing cloud environments, ensuring robust cloud security management with minimal manual intervention. Securing containerized applications and virtual machines, it excels in threat intelligence and endpoint protection. However, improvements are needed in performance during high workload periods, and more integrations with third-party tools and better documentation would be beneficial. Users often find the installation process complex, support response times slow, and the dashboard's navigation unintuitive.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Real-time Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats as they occur.
Automated Response: Automatically responds to threats to minimize impact.
Ease of Deployment: Simple setup process with scalable options.
Machine Learning Insights: AI-driven insights enhance threat prevention.
Seamless Integration: Integrates with cloud environments for unified security management.

What are the primary benefits or ROI to expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Threat Mitigation: Improved security against real-time threats.
Reduced Manual Intervention: Automated processes save time and resources.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing security requirements.
Centralized Management: Manage security across platforms from a single console.
Advanced Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth analysis and protection.

In specific industries, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is implemented to safeguard critical data and infrastructure. Organizations in finance, healthcare, and technology depend on its real-time threat detection and automated response to protect sensitive information. Its ability to secure containerized applications and virtual machines is particularly valuable in dynamic environments where rapid scaling is necessary.

SentinelOne

Cisco Secure Workload is a cloud and data security solution that offers a zero-trust policy of keeping an organization’s application workloads safe and secure throughout the entire on-premise and cloud data center ecosystems.

Cisco Secure Workload will consistently provide protection by discovering workload process anomalies, stopping threats immediately, minimizing the risk threat surface, and aborting any lateral movement.

Today’s ecosystems are very elastic, and in the application-focused dynamic of today’s aggressive marketplace, Cisco Secure Workload delivers a robust security solution that works effectively with today’s most popular applications. The solution uniquely surrounds each and every workload to ensure organizations are able to keep their data, network, and applications safe and secure at all times. Cisco Secure Workload ensures that enterprise organizations can maintain secure applications by consistently building firewalls around every workload level throughout the entire ecosystem. The solution can manage applications that are deployed on containers, virtual machines, or bare-metal servers.

Cisco Secure workload is able to meet an organization's busy needs and offers flexible options such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises options. Using the Secure Workload SaaS options, users receive all the benefits of Cisco Secure Workload protection without the hassle of having to deploy and maintain the platform on premises. Users are responsible for acquiring the necessary software licensing and deploying software agents. Using SaaS, Secure Workload runs in the cloud and is operated and maintained by Cisco. This option offers the ability to scale easily and is a popular choice for SaaS-first and SaaS-only clients. Many organizations find they get the best TCO and achieve the best productivity and profitability using the SaaS options.

When choosing on-premises options, organizations choose between hardware-based appliance models (large or small form factors). Platform selection is dependent on scalability goals, the desired fidelity level of flow telemetry, and the actual number of workloads. When a user chooses to configure Cisco Secure Workload for a conversation-only flow telemetry for all workloads, each platform has the capability to scale up vertically twice the default platform scale. Additionally, with Secure Workload, it is possible for the platform to be scaled horizontally in order to satisfy the demands of extra large widely distributed enterprise environments using federation capabilities.

Cisco Secure Workload also provides a robust disaster recovery (DR) tool, which helps to make it a complete, comprehensive solution. The DR allows for continuous restore and backup capabilities that enable users to quickly remediate operations and data to a standby cluster in the event of a drastic failure or disaster.

Reviews from Real Users

“The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network. Other valuable features include vast support for annotations, flexible user applications, machine learning, automatic classification, and hierarchical policies.” - CTO at a tech vendor

Cisco

SUSE NeuVector is a full lifecycle container security solution that helps your organization secure its container infrastructures, manage Kubernetes security risks, and block threats. The NeuVector continuous container security and compliance platform simplifies data protection from pipeline to production, enforces compliance, and provides complete visibility and automated controls for protection against known and unknown threats. In addition, NeuVector is the only Kubernetes-native container security solution that offers a comprehensive risk profile of known vulnerabilities and also delivers immediate protection from all vulnerabilities.

SUSE NeuVector Features

SUSE NueVector has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Container incident detection and prevention
Network security
Runtime security
Supply chain security
Container firewall
Host and platform security
Cloud-native automation and integration
Resource monitoring
Visualization and reporting
High availability
Security
Vulnerability management
Compliance and auditing
Alerting
Logging and Response

SUSE NeuVector Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing NeuVector. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Deep packet inspection (DPI): NeuVector applies DPI to identify attacks, detect sensitive data, or verify application access to further reduce the attack surface. Only network layer analysis enables security to detect and verify the allowed protocols, helping security teams enforce business policy.

Real-time protection: NeuVector provides inspection, segmentation, and protection of all traffic into and out of a container. This includes container to container traffic, and ingress from external sources to containers, as well as egress from containers to external applications and the internet. The solution aims to protect your applications from internal application level attacks such as DDoS and DNS.

Capture packets for debugging and threat investigation: WIth NeuVector, you can view summary connection data and drill down into actual packet details for each container, as they scale up and down. When a threat is detected, NeuVector is able to automatically capture and display the packet info, making it easy for you to investigate.

Automated security policies: The NeuVector solution allows you to automate the creation of security policies to protect application workloads in production. The solution also enables you to automate and maintain run-time security policies using Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs), and gives you the option to declare an application security policy at any stage in the pipeline.

Compliance: NeuVector offers detection capabilities and security policy enforcement that prevent PHI and PII exposure, exceed requirements, and simplify reporting for PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and more. The solution helps you track critical vulnerabilities and compliance violations so you can quickly identify any that require immediate patching or followup alerts. It also makes it possible for you to manage vulnerability and compliance scan results, with no required integration to external workflow tools.

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A Platform Solution Architect at a tech services company says, “The solution is feature-rich, easy to set up, and has good support.”

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