Akamai Guardicore Segmentation Reviews

Name: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Brand: Akamai
Rating: 4.1 (18 reviews)

Vendor: Akamai

4.1 out of 5

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What is Akamai Guardicore Segmentation?

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.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is the #1 ranked solution in best Cloud Security companies, #2 ranked solution in top Microsegmentation Software solutions, #4 ranked solution in Breach and Attack Simulation vendors, and #9 ranked solution in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms. PeerSpot users give Akamai Guardicore Segmentation an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most commonly compared to Illumio: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Illumio. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Featured Akamai Guardicore Segmentation reviews

KlavsThaarup

Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense

It's micro-segmentation The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature. There are always areas for improvement. It doesn't support a PAAC solution (Platforma as a service) in the cloud. So that could be improved. In future releases, I would like to see more integration with other…

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Joshua Turner

Manager Network & Security Engineering at Teleflora

They're really good at getting into the environment. But 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. Setting it up initially is really simple and getting going is really easy, but 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 would help if they could either provide some guidance there or adjust the way that the API handles that a little bit, to make that simpler. Their API is clear. It's just proving difficult, from a code perspective, to manage the rule sets. You can build out a rule set really easily. You can deploy agents really easily. You can apply the rules, initially. The issue is then going back and adding a new rule to an old rule set or pulling one out and doing maintenance on it with code. It seems to take a lot of extra logical checks such as making sure we're not duplicating a rule or the like. That's really the only place where, although we're not stuck, we're having to put in more time than we anticipated. Everything else has been super-easy, but the maintenance and management of the rule sets with our automation tools has not proved to be as simple as we would've liked. It seems like it would have been really easy to put it in if we didn't have a lot of changes. But it seems that the long-term maintenance of it is a little bit difficult and could use some improvement.

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Iain Todd

Corporate Operations Manager at University of Strathclyde

Start off with a small deployment and prove that it works. Once you get the benefit of that, then increase the deployment. That is what we did. We used the solution’s AI-powered segmentation, but then we tweaked it, because the rules that it created didn't really match the way that we worked. If you are going to accept the results of the AI, then it will speed things up a lot. In our case, we wanted to double-check everything and find our own way, so it probably didn't save us any time. The AI-powered segmentation is useful for taking a baseline segmentation, but you should check it yourself and tweak it to suit what your company needs. We use it to secure our Linux and Unix environments. We are now looking at adding it to our Windows environments and desktop infrastructure. We are planning to have the solution help cover legacy or end-of-support operating systems, like Win2003, AIX, Solaris, or RHEL, but we haven't done that yet. Guardicore Centra saves a lot of time, approximately three to six months, mainly through hardware. I would rate this solution as 10 out of 10.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation mindshare

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As of April 2025, the mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the Microsegmentation Software category stands at 27.4%, up from 23.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Type	Title	Date
Category	Microsegmentation Software	Apr 3, 2025	Download
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Comparison	Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs VMware NSX	Apr 3, 2025	Download
Comparison	Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Illumio	Apr 3, 2025	Download
Comparison	Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Cisco Secure Workload	Apr 3, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Illumio	4.0	28.9%	88%	11 interviews Add to research
VMware NSX	4.0	17.9%	88%	102 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

The most valuable features of Guardicore Centra include its backward compatibility with legacy operating systems, the query insight module, the ability to create policies at a process level on a server, and integration with Active Directory. It also offers flexibility in creating network security zones, making it easy to manage different production and management interfaces.

"Guardicore makes its own rule set automatically, so we can work fast when creating a rule set."
"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 microsegmentation as distributed services."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the maps and ring fencing that help monitor events."

Room for Improvement

The customers have expressed a desire for enhanced support for big organizations, as well as agentless options and comprehensive support for various Kubernetes and service mesh types.

"I would rate the stability a six out of ten, where one is low and ten is high stability."
"Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have."
"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."

ROI

Users say that Guardicore Centra has proven to be a valuable investment. Users have observed significant returns in terms of improved network security, enhanced visibility, and simplified management. The platform's ability to detect and prevent threats effectively has resulted in a safer network environment. Guardicore Centra's robust security features and efficient management capabilities benefit businesses.

Pricing

Customers have expressed concerns about the expense associated with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.

"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."

Popular Use Cases

Guardicore Centra helps secure vital applications and ensure their uninterrupted operation. It is utilized for Active Directory integration and isolating the jump station with an agent. The main purpose of this solution is to achieve micro-segmentation in order to comply with GDPR regulations.

Service and Support

The customer service and support of Guardicore Centra is highly knowledgeable and responsive. Interactions with technical support were positive, with the support team actively seeking to understand the issue and providing helpful solutions.

Deployment

The setup process for Guardicore Centra was considered relatively easy and not complicated. It requires a strong plan strategy, with a high-level and low-level design. The most time-consuming aspect is labeling all of the systems, especially if there are hundreds of servers involved.

Scalability

The solution of Guardicore Centra is highly flexible and capable of handling increased demands. It provides containers, which contribute to its scalability. Users have never encountered any scalability problems so far.