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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation pros and cons

Vendor: Akamai
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is highly scalable, especially when connected to cloud resources, offering advanced security capabilities.
It provides excellent network and process visibility, allowing for advanced segmentation and granular security.
The deception features, including Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, are great resources for an active defense strategy.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers comprehensive visibility into processes and connections, enhancing network segmentation and traffic understanding.
Users report significant improvements in change control efficiency and a reduction in incident handling efforts, contributing to strong ROI and operational efficiency.

CONS

Integration with tools could be improved, particularly in terms of speed and map generation, which is slightly slow.
Customization of honeypots and a more extensive catalog of systems to mimic is needed.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation faces challenges with customer service and support, especially for large organizations.
Regular updates are not scheduled, requiring users to manually request updates, complicating maintenance.
Cost and licensing are significant issues for clients, and pricing is considered very high compared to competitors.
 

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation Pros review quotes

FD
Solutions Architect at Alturna-Tech
May 27, 2019
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.
YP
Security Engineer at INTRASYSTEMS LLC
Sep 24, 2019
The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources.
reviewer1336989 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at CS Novidy's
Apr 22, 2020
Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy.
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AR
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 4, 2020
This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks.
JT
Manager Network & Security Engineering at Teleflora
Dec 3, 2020
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.
JG
Cybersecurity Coordinator at MONEX
Dec 17, 2020
In security, there are not many products that can do what Guardicore Centra can do in terms of visibility, seeing what is going on in the server, and using the type of mapping that it gives you with the application.
it_user1537647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Operations Manager at University of Strathclyde
Mar 23, 2021
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.
it_user1547916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst/Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 5, 2021
From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful.
EH
CTO at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 11, 2021
The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections.
reviewer1564818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineering Consultant at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 6, 2021
Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, which is basically like a honeypot, are pretty useful features.
 

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation Cons review quotes

FD
Solutions Architect at Alturna-Tech
May 27, 2019
Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there.
YP
Security Engineer at INTRASYSTEMS LLC
Sep 24, 2019
The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see.
reviewer1336989 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at CS Novidy's
Apr 22, 2020
Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked.
Learn what your peers think about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.
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AR
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 4, 2020
The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering.
JT
Manager Network & Security Engineering at Teleflora
Dec 3, 2020
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.
JG
Cybersecurity Coordinator at MONEX
Dec 17, 2020
The integration with other tools could be improved.
it_user1537647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Operations Manager at University of Strathclyde
Mar 23, 2021
Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow.
it_user1547916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst/Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 5, 2021
The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow.
EH
CTO at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 11, 2021
In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session.
reviewer1564818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineering Consultant at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 6, 2021
They can maybe improve their customer service just because they are kind of a small organization, and customer service isn't as big as others such as VMware.