Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Tenable One Exposure Management Platform comparison

The compared Akamai and Tenable solutions aren't in the same category. Akamai is ranked #3 in MS , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 23.5% mindshare in the category. Tenable is ranked #9 in CTEM , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 5.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Tenable One Exposure Management Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Microsegmentation Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud and Data Center Security (1st), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (11th), Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) (8th), Microsegmentation Software (3rd)

Tenable One Exposure Manage...

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (16th), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is designed for Microsegmentation Software and holds a mindshare of 23.5%, down 27.0% compared to last year.
Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), holds 5.6% mindshare, up 1.9% since last year.

Microsegmentation Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation	23.5%
Illumio	26.8%
VMware NSX	15.7%
Other	34.0%

Microsegmentation Software

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tenable One Exposure Management Platform	5.6%
Pentera	15.6%
Cymulate	14.7%
Other	64.1%

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)

Featured Reviews

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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Jaya Shanker

IT Security Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has improved our vulnerability tracking and supports cloud-based monitoring with scheduled scans

We don't have any issues with Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. It works well for us, but the only problem is the licensing aspect. In the license, it becomes problematic because when we go to cloud security for vulnerability management, it will take five licenses instead of the one-on-one license that vulnerability exposure management requires. The license needs to be reviewed.

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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

"The tool is a complete package that offers many features like visibility. You can get a graph with real-time workflows and visibility into server-to-server communication. We get visibility into many things happening within our environment."

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

"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."

"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."

"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."

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

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

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

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"The feature of vulnerability management and discovery is what I use."

"The product gives us a lot of insight."

"We find Tenable One Exposure Management Platform vulnerability prioritization effective overall because, with the scheduled scan running on our set schedule, we can remediate any findings and check on the next schedule if issues are closed, making it much easier for us to monitor vulnerabilities."

"For me, the setup has been an easy process."

"I think it's a good product for risk-based or exposure-based vulnerability management."

"The solution is very easy to set up."

Cons

"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."

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

"It would be very helpful for beginners if the solution had more windows to help with the terms inside instead of going to the documentation."

"Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it."

"In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session."

"The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering."

"Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have."

"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can be improved because keeping it up to date is difficult since it is SaaS-based and updates are not on a regular schedule; I have to reach out to my contact to ask them to update to a newer version, and it would be helpful if updates were on a regular cadence so that I would not have to remember to ask them."

More Akamai Guardicore Segmentation cons

"The license needs to be reviewed."

"The sensor update is a challenge that Tenable needs to address. Sometimes they behave abruptly, requiring me to rework reinstalling the sensors on the endpoints."

"It would be nice if the product provided an agent for enforcing policies."

"The product has limited reporting capabilities and it isn't great at allowing for customization in reports."

"Tenable needs to provide a better way to manage private clouds."

"The sensor update is a challenge that Tenable needs to address."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is too high."

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

"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."

"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 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."

"The customer would complain about the cost."

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

"The solution is reasonably priced and I would rate it a six out of ten. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

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"The pricing is fair."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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Questions from the Community

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 was flexible, and it has worked out well with our budget.

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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 and found that they really stood out from other vendors. It allows us to see mi...

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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 would be very useful and helpful to us.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable.ep?

I think the price of Tenable One Exposure Management Platform is reasonable for us.

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What needs improvement with Tenable.ep?

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What is your primary use case for Tenable.ep?

We use Tenable One Exposure Management Platform for vulnerability management in our internal application and external application, and also for cloud security. We are using the web application feat...

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Comparisons

Illumio vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 37% of the time

VMware NSX vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 10% of the time

Cisco Secure Workload vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 8% of the time

Trend Micro Deep Security vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

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Overview

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

You can now translate technical asset, vulnerability and threat data into clear business insights and actionable intelligence for security executives. Combine broad exposure coverage spanning IT assets, cloud resources, containers, web apps and identity platforms, with threat intelligence and data science from Tenable Research. Focus efforts to prevent likely attacks and accurately communicate cyber risk to support optimal business performance.

Tenable One is an exposure management platform that combines risk-based vulnerability management, web application security, cloud security and identity security.

Tenable

Sample Customers

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

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