Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Picus Security comparison

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Picus Security both operate in the network security space. Guardicore holds an advantage with its strong backward compatibility and rapid implementation capabilities, while Picus Security excels in threat intelligence and integration with other tools.

Features: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers micro-segmentation, high process visibility, and AI-powered security policy implementations. Its backward compatibility with legacy systems is significant. Picus Security provides robust threat intelligence, real-world attack simulations, and strong security control validation. It integrates well with other security tools, making it a comprehensive solution for identifying and preventing threats.

Room for Improvement: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation could improve by lowering licensing costs and enhancing integration with major firewall vendors. Flexible policy management and user-level control, especially regarding diverse environments like Kubernetes, are also desired. Picus Security needs to improve its precision in attack identification and offer better automatic patching capabilities via AI. Enhancements in scalability and tool integration would bolster its market competitiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is flexible, supporting both on-premises and cloud environments, and is praised for its responsive customer support. Picus Security supports hybrid and on-premises environments but lacks notable customer service satisfaction levels and could enhance its technical support offerings.

Pricing and ROI: While Guardicore is priced higher, the investment is justified by its ROI through improved security compliance and reduced need for additional resources. Picus Security offers good value for money with its affordable pricing but hasn't significantly realized ROI in new markets. Both solutions encourage evaluators to consider cost against features and deployment needs.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Picus Security

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Ranking in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

8th

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), Microsegmentation Software (3rd)

Picus Security

Ranking in Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) category, the mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 1.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Picus Security is 12.9%, down from 18.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Picus Security	12.9%
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation	1.3%
Other	85.8%

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

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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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erdemerdag

Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Breach and attack simulation software that provides network, endpoint, and email vectors

According to the attack vectors, you cannot specify which product is failing or which product is working well because there's no agent. The best case scenario is to add an agent solution where an agent would have the ability to actually detect which programs aren't working. For the attack software, you put a peer on the cloud site, and you have another peer internal network. There is IPS, firewall, WAF, and DBS amongst these peers. The cloud's peer is trying to send the attack file to the internal network. Maybe the firewall is blocking it, maybe the IP, maybe the WAF, but you cannot see the details. You can say, "Yes, my security product is blocking that attack scenario," or, "I cannot block this attack."

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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

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

"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."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the maps and ring fencing that help monitor events."

"The solution is very scalable, especially when connected to the cloud resources."

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

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

"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."

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

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"It's very useful software because the customer mostly configures their IPS and manages their firewalls, WAF, and the DBS according to the latest update, latest news, or according to the situation."

"One of the most valuable features would be the detection capability, specifically the ability to detect alarms and logs collected from SIEM tools."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration capabilities with the other security tools."

"You have the liberty of physically executing a specific set of rules in your environment."

"It provides good reports and offers signature-based solutions."

"The most valuable feature of Picus Security is its threat intelligence, providing suggestions to block and prevent attacks by identifying malicious files and providing threat IDs."

Cons

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

"Customers would want to see the cost improved."

"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."

"Guardicore Centra should incorporate automation so that we don't require to write custom scripts and APIs. The tool also has limitations on rules where it allows only sixty thousand rules. Our clients have also commented that there are too many manual clicks and effort to do changes. I think that the incorporation of automation can help our clients make changes with confidence and without the possibility of human error."

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

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

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

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"The reporting and data analysis could be improved. Specifically, the analysis of the results."

"To improve, Picus Security could consider establishing a data center in India to address trust issues and increase interest from Indian customers."

"There is room for improvement in the response rate provided by customer support."

"According to the attack vectors, you cannot specify which product is failing or which product is working well because there's no agent."

"Let's say if a customer's environment has 10 security devices and they need to know that there is an attack that has bypassed their devices, they cannot go and inspect every device and every rule in their security devices."

"The amount of integrations that the product can handle is an area of concern, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."

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

More Akamai Guardicore Segmentation pricing and cost advice

"They have certain price ranges for their products, depending upon the use cases, and the number of applications the customer wants to try."

"There is a yearly license according to the number of vectors. The pricing is moderate."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

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.

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...

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.

What do you like most about Picus Security?

The most valuable feature of Picus Security is its threat intelligence, providing suggestions to block and prevent attacks by identifying malicious files and providing threat IDs.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Picus Security?

The pricing of Picus Security is average, and it offers a good value for money.

What needs improvement with Picus Security?

There is room for improvement in the response rate provided by customer support. Picus Security could improve the response time.

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Also Known As

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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

Independent from any vendor or technology, the unparalleled Picus Platform is designed to continuously measure the effectiveness of security defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments. Created by a team that’s been working together more than 10 years already and has proven their expertise in enterprise cybersecurity, Picus is trusted by many large multinational corporations and government agencies.

Sample Customers

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

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