Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs SUSE NeuVector comparison

Akamai and SUSE are both solutions in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category. Akamai is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while SUSE is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.5. Akamai holds a 5.2% mindshare in CWPP, compared to SUSE’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Akamai 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

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and SUSE NeuVector are solutions in the network security space. SUSE NeuVector seems to have the upper hand due to its high ratings in layered security features and advanced defense capabilities.

Features: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers centralized management, comprehensive visibility, detailed traffic oversight, and dynamic policy creation for granularity in micro-segmentation. SUSE NeuVector focuses on container security, automatic threat detection, and layered security features, providing a strong defense against threats.

Room for Improvement: Akamai faces challenges with scalability in complex environments, integration in existing systems, and handling large data. SUSE NeuVector could improve its integration with third-party tools, the learning curve for new users, and ecosystem compatibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is noted for a straightforward deployment process and reliable support, but users suggest enhancements for system integration. SUSE NeuVector's deployment in containerized environments is seamless with excellent support, though it has a steeper learning curve than Akamai.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai has higher initial setup costs with appreciated ROI over time due to incident cost reduction. SUSE NeuVector is more cost-effective upfront, but users report a longer time to achieve ROI, valuing its advanced features that justify the investment.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. SUSE NeuVector

December 2025

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 4.2%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 5.2%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SUSE NeuVector is 1.0%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security	4.2%
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation	5.2%
SUSE NeuVector	1.0%
Other	89.6%

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Featured Reviews

Satyavijay Chavan

Information Security Engineer at DataVigilant Infotech

Enables us to prioritize and effectively address critical security issues

Evidence-based reporting helps us to prioritize and solve critical security issues. The new visualization feature demonstrates how an attacker can enter the system, highlighting the potential path that can be exploited and outlining all the steps the attacker could take. With that visibility, we can ensure the perimeter is strong and attackers cannot enter, thus reducing the risk. It has helped us prioritize issues. The visibility into how an attack could happen is valuable. For example, it highlights the system vulnerability and outlines where an attack could propagate. The visualization helps me to prioritize remediation, and if I don't know where to start, I can check to see the score that enables me to prioritize issues. I am using infrastructure-as-code scanning, and it's one of the useful features. In pre-production, it identifies embedded secrets and misconfigurations, including issues with Kubernetes or some privileged containers. This feature allows us to pass the audit and secure IaC code so that it isn't easily exploitable by attackers. We can more proactively work to identify and resolve vulnerabilities by using the dashboard and the alerting system that SentinelOne provides. It helps us with audits and compliance. We can show the compliance in percentage. We can confidently say that our company or infrastructure is very secure. It has improved our security posture by 30% to 35%. It has reduced our false positives by 30%. It has helped teams collaborate better. The security team manages SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, and when it flags vulnerabilities, they are forwarded to DevOps for remediation. Previously, we needed to identify and report the issues, but there would be lapses in communication. Now, there is a centralized dashboard that anyone can look at and see the open issues and work on them.

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Ken Bauer

Senior Security Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Segmentation of legacy systems has protected outdated endpoints and reduces network 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. The ability to control by process and port helps my team day-to-day because, since there are hundreds of thousands of connections to some of these endpoints, looking at the Reveal Map makes it simple to audit and create rules for what we want to allow. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has impacted my organization positively because we find it difficult to remove the legacy systems, so it was very important to segment them from the rest of the network to protect them and protect the rest of our network.

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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Overall, I would rate it a ten on ten for cloud security."

"The agentless vulnerability scanning is great."

"The management console is highly intuitive to comprehend and operate."

"The biggest benefit of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is that it has a good AI-based analytics engine that helps with the detection part by providing full visibility."

"I like CSPM the most. It captures a lot of alerts within a short period of time. When an alert gets triggered on the cloud, it throws an alert within half an hour, which is very reasonable. It is a plus point for us."

"I did a lot of research before signing up and doing the demo. They have a good reputation as far as catching threats early on."

"SentinelOne's behaviour analytics are valuable because they detect anomalies and malicious behaviour that signature-based solutions might miss."

"It is very straightforward. It is not complicated. For the information that it provides, it does a pretty good job."

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"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers us large visibility in all our environments and helps us to understand network segmentation and traffic."

"Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems."

"Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy."

"Guardicore makes its own rule set automatically, so we can work fast when creating a rule set."

"Application Ring-Fencing and Deception Server, which is basically like a honeypot, are pretty useful features."

"The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature."

"I found the solution to be stable."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The features of image scanning and anti-malware are really valuable."

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Cons

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

"To enhance the notification system's efficiency, resolved issues should be promptly removed from the portal."

"The integration with Oracle has room for improvement."

"Bugs need to be disclosed quickly."

"I would like to see the map feature improve. It's good, but it isn't fully developed. It lets us use custom resources and policies but does not allow us to perform some actions. I would also like more custom integration and runtime security for Kubernetes."

"One potential drawback is the cost of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, which may be prohibitive for smaller businesses or startups, particularly those in regions with lower average incomes, such as India."

"If something happens in our infrastructure, the alert appears on the dashboard, but I have to log in to the dashboard and refresh it. I would prefer it to provide better alerting and notifications so that I can resolve issues on priority."

"In version 2, a lot of rules have been deployed for Kubernetes security and CDR, which makes a lot of issues of critical severity, whereas they are not critical or of high severity. There is a mismatch of severities. They need to work on severity management."

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"The dashboard needs improvement. It should be more flexible so that I can easily see what I want or need to see."

"Sometimes, the speed needs improvement, especially when it comes to the generation of maps, where it can be a bit slow."

"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."

"Customers would want to see the cost improved."

"The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow."

"Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there."

"Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked."

"It doesn't support a PAAC solution (Platforma as a service) in the cloud."

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"We are also working with IaaS VMS, but NeuVector doesn't support virtual machines."

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

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

"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 image-scanning features need improvement."

"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."

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

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is cost-effective."

"PingSafe is less expensive than other options."

"The tool is cost-effective."

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

"Its pricing was a little less than other providers."

"PingSafe is not very expensive compared to Prisma Cloud, but it's also not that cheap. However, because of its features, it makes sense to us as a company. It's fairly priced."

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

"I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."

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"GuardiCore has made some new changes to the license now. We've seen monthly and annual licenses based on a subscription. We have a few clients that pay anywhere from $25,000 a year."

"The customer would complain about the cost."

"The pricing is too high."

"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."

"The price is the same as other products in the market. There's no price argument to choose one or the other product, it will cost the customer approximately the same."

"Guardicore Centra provides better value for money than NSX, was the other solution that we looked at, which was too expensive for what it does."

"Compared to the pricing we were seeing from both Illumio and Edgewise, Guardicore was very competitive."

"This is not a cheap solution but you have to consider the bigger picture, which is what it is giving you."

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"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."

"Licensing fees are paid yearly."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	54

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

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?

Regarding the pricing for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, I do not think it is something I can compare.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

Regarding the downsides of cloud security, I do not have much negative to discuss about cloud security, because it is...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Guardicore Centra?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that overall everything worked out really well. The pricing ...

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What do you like most about Guardicore Infection Monkey?

Initially, I liked the telemetry part. But later, we used the microsegmentation features that we were able to deploy ...

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What needs improvement with Guardicore Infection Monkey?

I believe Akamai Guardicore Segmentation could be improved with a feature to filter, and I believe implementing MFA w...

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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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What is your primary use case for NeuVector?

In my company, I am looking to deploy a container security runtime solution.

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What advice do you have for others considering NeuVector?

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Also Known As

PingSafe

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

NeuVector

Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

SentinelOne

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.

Akamai

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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Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE

Figo, Clear Review, Arvato Bertelsmann, Experian, Chime

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