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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation pros and cons

Vendor: Akamai
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides great scalability, especially when connected to cloud resources.
It offers excellent deception features, providing rich telemetry and enhancing active defense strategies.
GuardiCore provides superior application security with more granular control than traditional firewalls.
The centralized management of firewalls simplifies administrative tasks, making changes less complicated.
The tool's visibility feature is highly valued, offering real-time insights into server-to-server communications.

CONS

Clients seek parity with major firewall players in security policies.
The dashboard requires more flexibility and customization.
There is a need for enhanced user policies and automated management of security policies.
GuardiCore Centra should offer automation to minimize manual scripting and manage high rule limits.
Regular updates are necessary to maintain currency since it is SaaS-based and updates are not scheduled.
 

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.
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.
VC
Senior Principal Consultant Cloud/DevOps/ML/Kubernetes at Opticca
Dec 13, 2021
I found the solution to be stable.
 

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.
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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.
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.
VC
Senior Principal Consultant Cloud/DevOps/ML/Kubernetes at Opticca
Dec 13, 2021
Supports become difficult when it's for a big organization. For a small organization, medium organization, it still makes sense, however, for a big organization, it makes life difficult.