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You can read user reviews for the Top 5 Microsegmentation Software Tools to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on the best Vulnerability Management Tools that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks was ranked as the #1 Microsegmentation Software Tool for 2022. PeerSpot users give Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Luke L., Cloud Security Specialist at a financial services firm, says, “The solution gives me a holistic view of cloud security across multiple clouds or multiple cloud workloads within one cloud provider. You can also integrate with Amazon Managed Services. You can also get a snapshot in time, whether that's over a 24-hour period, seven days, or a month, to determine what the estate might look like at a certain point in time and generate reports from that for vulnerability management forums.”
A Director, Cloud Engineering at a pharma/biotech company, mentions, “It gives us security control gates and automated notifications in container orchestrator, but deploy is API-driven, not a built-in integration.” He also adds, "The ability to monitor the artifact repository is one of the most valuable features because we have a disparate set of development processes, but everything tends to land in a common set of artifact repositories. The solution gives us a single point where we can apply security control for monitoring. That's really helpful."
A Security Architect at an educational organization explains, "The application visibility is amazing. For example, sometimes we don't know what a particular custom port is for and what is running on it. The visibility enables us to identify applications, what the protocol is, and what service is behind it. Within Azure, it is doing a great job of providing visibility. We know exactly what is passing through our network. If there is an issue of any sort we are able to quickly detect it and fix the problem."
#2 VMware NSX
VMware NSX was ranked as the #2 Microsegmentation Software Tool for 2022. PeerSpot users give VMware NSX an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Kolawole O., Systems Engineer at a tech services company, comments, "NSX's stand-out function is the distributed firewall. The firewall system is just top-notch, and I haven't seen another solution like it. Aside from that, there are numerous other cases where NSX comes in handy. For example, we've done intrusion prevention and implemented some next-generation firewalls for service training. We deployed some next-generation firewalls inside certain servers. Then we could bring all the traffic down that was meant to lead each server to a specific firewall.”
PeerSpot user Roger N., VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Plan IT Virtual, LLC, expresses, "From a security standpoint, the customer was able to better secure critical workloads while routing L2/L3 worked normally, giving them more confidence that they would be ready for any potential security incident mitigation or outage (DR)."
A Head of Business Development and Partners Management at a comms service provider mentions, “The management platform is great. I really like the management dashboard, the tailor-made assurance, the telemetry, and the ease of integration with all other solutions of VMware, such as vSphere. They also integrate well with other third-party security platforms. It's very easy to give an integration of the cloud tenant of NSX. It's very easy to build and migrate a cloud project.”
#3 Guardicore Centra
Guardicore Centra was ranked as the #3 Microsegmentation Software Tool for 2022. PeerSpot users give Guardicore Centra an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Joshua T., Manager Network & Security Engineering at Teleflora explains, “The most valuable feature of this solution is the fact that it's pretty much agnostic to location. Right now we have an on-prem data center that we manage, but if we start to migrate into different cloud locations or multiple different clouds, we can manage all the security between all of the servers and applications, through one platform. And right now, 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.
Ehud H., CTO at a consumer goods company, states, “The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections. In addition to the defense it provides, Guardicore gives us a view of each connection that exists on each server. Using this, we can identify things like unused connections, or processes that are using too much in terms of resources. Knowing this, we have the opportunity to block such connections and in turn, improve server performance.”
PeerSpot user David M., Infrastructure Analyst/Developer at a university, says, “So far, the most valuable feature has been the ability to have an overview of our firewall. As an added bonus, the network can easily look to see what traffic is going in and out, then block that traffic. Its threat intelligence automatically blocks the most dangerous threats, which is quite useful. It gives you an added bonus of protection as well as allows you to sort of centralize and control your firewalls more easily.”
#4 Cisco Secure Workload
Cisco Secure Workload was ranked as the #4 Microsegmentation Software Tool for 2022. PeerSpot users give Cisco Secure Workload an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Kunal P., Solutions Architect at Liberty Global, states, “The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which can be used to deploy endpoint security along with the visibility of application and connection matrix. This product is simple to deploy, and provides visibility of connectivity between the endpoints/application.”
A CTO at a tech vendor comments, “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.”
#5 Appgate SDP
Appgate SDP was ranked as the #5 Microsegmentation Software Tool for 2022. PeerSpot users give Appgate SDP an average rating of 10 out of 10.
A Manager of Network Engineering at an aerospace/defense firm says, “The flexibility of the tool is valuable. It is very robust. It has a very robust configuration capability. It is pretty well documented. It is also good interface-wise. They've made some improvements over the past few patches.”
