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Microsegmentation Software enhances network security by dividing networks into segments, allowing organizations to implement fine-grained access policies and improve data protection. Key players in the market include Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, and VMware NSX, with Illumio holding the largest market share as of July 2025. The software is particularly beneficial in industries like finance and healthcare, where it helps to secure sensitive data and comply with regulations.
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Microsegmentation Software

Microsegmentation Software

Reviews, Tips and


Advice from Real Users
July 2025

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Microsegmentation Software

Contents

Microsegmentation Software Recap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ‐ 4

Mindshare And Ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Top Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6‐7

Focus On Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ‐ 94

Vendor Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 ‐ 97

About PeerSpot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 ‐ 99

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Microsegmentation
Software Recap

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Microsegmentation Software

Microsegmentation Software recap


Microsegmentation Software is a security solution that divides networks into distinct
segments to minimize risks and improve security controls. By implementing detailed access
policies, organizations protect sensitive data.

Microsegmentation Software plays a critical role in modern network security, allowing


companies to safeguard their data by restricting lateral movement within networks. It
enhances the ability to detect, contain, and respond to breaches swiftly, offering a robust
security posture.

What features should be considered?

• Fine‐grained Policies: Enables precise access control based on roles and needs.
• Real‐time Monitoring: Provides visibility into network traffic for quick threat detection.
• Automated Responses: Implements pre‐set actions in response to suspicious activities.
• Scalability: Adapts to the growing demands of large and complex networks.

What benefits are essential?

• Enhanced Security: Reduces the attack surface by segmenting networks.


• Efficient Compliance: Helps meet industry regulations and standards more easily.
• Cost Reduction: Decreases potential losses associated with data breaches.
• Improved Operational Efficiency: Streamlines security management through automation.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, Microsegmentation Software is employed to


fortify data protection strategies. Financial institutions leverage its capabilities to secure
transaction data, while healthcare providers use it to protect patient information.

Organizations find this software category beneficial for enforcing strict security measures
without compromising network performance. It supports modern infrastructure needs,
helping businesses manage risk effectively.

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Mindshare And Ranking


As of July 2025, in the Microsegmentation Software category, the market share of Illumio is
29.5% and it increased by 26.8% compared to the previous year. The market share of Akamai
Guardicore Segmentation is 27.5% and it increased by 24.4% compared to the previous
[Link] market share of VMware NSX is 16.5% and it decreased by 22.0% compared to
the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Illumio 29.5% Akamai Guardicore Segmentation 27.5%

VMware NSX 16.5% Other 26.5%

Microsegmentatio
n Software

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Answers from the community

Top Solutions
VMware NSX

Illumio

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Cisco Secure Workload

Nutanix Flow Network Security

Appgate SDP

Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise

Zero Networks

View 10 more products

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Focus on solutions

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ VMware NSX

VMware NSX

Executive summary

VMware NSX is a sophisticated solution utilized for micro‐segmentation, network security,


software‐defined networking, and private cloud construction. It aids in the transition from
physical to virtual infrastructure, ensuring efficient network virtualization and security of
production workloads.

VMware NSX empowers organizations to manage network functions, implement distributed


firewalls, and enhance security within virtual environments. Crucial for disaster recovery and
load balancing, it supports cloud‐native application development and enterprise clients. Its
ease of use, scalability, and seamless integration with existing VMware solutions ensure
streamlined network management and swift deployment. Despite its extensive features, areas
like pricing, routing functionality, and compatibility with certain platforms require attention.

What are the key features of VMware NSX?

• Ease of Use: Simplifies network management with an intuitive interface.


• Scalability: Adapts to growing infrastructure needs seamlessly.
• Micro‐Segmentation: Enhances security by dividing networks into smaller, manageable
segments.
• Integration: Seamlessly works with existing VMware solutions and third‐party
applications.
• Dynamic Routing: Optimizes network traffic efficiently.
• Security Options: Offers robust firewall features and security measures.
• Automation: Facilitates quick deployment through comprehensive automation
capabilities.
• High Bandwidth: Ensures high‐performance network operations.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Network Security: Superior protection for virtual environments.


Efficient Disaster Recovery: Reliable support for business continuity.
Reduced Deployment Time: Fast implementation and configuration.
Improved Network Management: Centralized and streamlined control of network resources.

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VMware NSX is widely implemented across industries such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. Organizations
in these sectors utilize it to bolster security, enhance network efficiency, and support cloud‐native applications. By
extending on‐premise networks into provider spaces and managing virtual access networks, VMware NSX
significantly optimizes infrastructure operations.
Sample customers

City of Avondale, Lumeta, Kroll Ontrack, Heartland Payment Systems, Baystate


Heallth, Exostar, Tribune Media, iGATE, NTT Communications, Synergent, California
Natural Resources Agency, Bloomington Public Schools, Columbia Sportswear, Join
Experience S.A, Schuberg Philis

Top comparisons More comparisons

Nutanix Flow Akamai Guardicore


Illumio
Network Security Segmentation

Compared 19% of the time Compared 18% of the time Compared 16% of the time
Learn more Learn more Learn more

Reviewers ‐ Percentages by top Industries

Computer Software Company 23%

Financial Services Firm 21%

Energy/Utilities Company 8%

Manufacturing Company 8%

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Visitors Reading Reviews ‐ Percentages by Top Industries

Computer Software Company 15%

Financial Services Firm 13%

Manufacturing Company 9%

Government 9%

Company size

by reviewers by visitors reading reviews

Small Business Midsize Enterprise Large Enterprise

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

“You're building a scalable solution, a secure solution, and a stable end-to-


end solution; these are the main measurable benefits VMware NSX provides
to the users.”

MagdyRaafat
Services Presales Solutions Architecture ‐ UAE & Gulf at a tech vendor with
10,001+ employees

“VMware NSX has the ability to create networks in software.”

Tomas Barcik
Senior VMware Administrator at Johnson Controls, Inc.

“I can definitely recommend VMware NSX to other users.”

Verified user
Sr . IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 201‐500
employees

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“I value the ability to dynamically configure our network on the fly using
VMware NSX.”

DanielBass
Senior IT Strategy Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001‐5,000
employees

“The most powerful feature of VMware NSX is the micro-segmentation that


allows us to separate the different protocols our application works with.”

Efthymios Bliatis
Joint Staff Officer at Hellenic National Defence General Staff

What users had to say about valuable features:

“The micro-segmentation and security for the product itself and the ease of usage
from the administration point of view are the most valuable features of VMware
NSX.

“Security policies across different environments, such as private and public cloud,
are very helpful because security is crucial. When moving to the cloud, all
customers are asking for security. When you have a solid secure solution between
your on-premises and cloud solution, you are in a safe place..”

MagdyRaafat Read full review


Services Presales Solutions Architecture ‐ UAE & Gulf at a tech vendor with
10,001+ employees

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“VMware NSX has the ability to create networks in software. This feature eases life
by enabling management with one team. It's robust, stable, and easy to use, but we
don't fully utilize its capabilities..”

Tomas Barcik Read full review


Senior VMware Administrator at Johnson Controls, Inc.

“I value the ability to dynamically configure our network on the fly using VMware
NSX. This flexibility is a huge advantage because it allows us to avoid static
configurations that come with traditional hardware setups.

Additionally, the micro-segmentation feature is beneficial for adhering to strict


security regulations from our security department..”

DanielBass Read full review


Senior IT Strategy Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001‐5,000
employees

“The most valuable features are its security aspects, especially the IPS and IDS for
intrusion detection and protection. We've found these features beneficial in
enhancing our network security..”

Nivendran NAir Read full review


Solutions Architect at BCX

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ VMware NSX

“The most valuable feature of NSX is the ease of configuration. It handles


automatic configuration of IP addresses and network settings during VM
migrations between data centers..”

VinayKumar7 Read full review


Manager Data Centre at a consultancy with 51‐200 employees

“Firewall security is one of VMware NSX's vital features. Using the tags and the
solution's security policy is incredibly simple. For instance, I can create a sketch
on paper and redesign it with the tags present on the network segment using
VMware NSX. .”

Ettore Virzi Read full review


Systems and network services admin management at a healthcare company
with 501‐1,000 employees

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Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“The licensing model is expensive and could be more flexible, especially


after Broadcom bought VMware.”

MagdyRaafat
Services Presales Solutions Architecture ‐ UAE & Gulf at a tech vendor with
10,001+ employees

“The reporting functionality could be better, and there could be an easier


way of forwarding events. There's room for improvement in the product.”

Tomas Barcik
Senior VMware Administrator at Johnson Controls, Inc.

“The initial setup for VMware NSX is a bit complex; it's not as simple as it
could be.”

Verified user
Sr . IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 201‐500
employees

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“The initial configuration and integration within our existing environment


were not easy.”

DanielBass
Senior IT Strategy Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001‐5,000
employees

“I have no complaints regarding the user interface or any technical issues.”

Efthymios Bliatis
Joint Staff Officer at Hellenic National Defence General Staff

Room for improvement:

“I would suggest improving the licensing model of VMware NSX.

“The licensing model has become expensive since Broadcom bought VMware,
making it costly with no other options to select specific components from the
license itself. Customers must buy the whole package even if they do not need all
components..”

MagdyRaafat Read full review


Services Presales Solutions Architecture ‐ UAE & Gulf at a tech vendor with
10,001+ employees

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“The reporting functionality could be better, and there could be an easier way of
forwarding events. There's room for improvement in the product. We don't use it
to its full capabilities and much more could be done with it. The pricing for the
product is another area for improvement as I'm not satisfied nowadays..”

Tomas Barcik Read full review


Senior VMware Administrator at Johnson Controls, Inc.

“Based on my experience, I would like to improve VMware NSX, particularly on the


visualization side, aiming for improved visibility in the environment.

“Function-wise, VMware NSX is performing well, and I don't see any major areas
for improvement since most of the functions meet my expectations.

“The response time needs improvement, while the quality of support is


satisfactory..”

Verified user Read full review


Sr . IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 201‐
500 employees

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“The initial configuration and integration within our existing environment were
not easy. The configuration process was a bit complex, specifically during the
initial setup..”

DanielBass Read full review


Senior IT Strategy Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001‐5,000
employees

“I cannot think of something specific that needs improvement since our needs are
currently covered by VMware NSX. I have no complaints regarding the user
interface or any technical issues..”

Efthymios Bliatis Read full review


Joint Staff Officer at Hellenic National Defence General Staff

“If you had asked when it was NSX V, which was dedicated only for Hyper-V and
VMware, I would have said they could open the door for all partners. At the
moment, NSX T is complete. Migrating from V to T is very tricky, complicated, and
there are a lot of parameters to account for. The pricing is also an issue; it's very
expensive and changes all the time. VMware is not easy to negotiate with..”

DieudonnéNsabimana Read full review


Presales Solutions Architect at Freelance

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Pricing

“I would rate the pricing of VMware NSX as seven out of ten”

Ettore Virzi Read full review


Systems and network services admin management at a healthcare company
with 501‐1,000 employees

“The product pricing ranges from medium to expensive. I rate the pricing a seven
out of ten.”

Mohamad Hammouda Read full review


General Manager at Oplee

“VMware NSX is a cheaper product compared to its competitor, Cisco.”

Jay‐P Read full review


Senior VMware NSX Consultant at 27 Virtual

“The price is significantly high and it can be a hurdle for many potential users.”

Vijaykumar Vasoya Read full review


IT Specialist at Systems and Information Technology Ltd

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“The implementation of VMware NSX can be cost-intensive, especially if an


organization is looking for a comprehensive solution. The costs can vary based on
factors like the level of conversation and discounts obtained during negotiations.
Some government organizations, for instance, may find the prices relatively high,
leading to concerns about budget hikes, especially when deploying the solution
across the entire [Link] maintenance and support, they are
typically included in the standard licensing costs for enterprise-level businesses.
While these costs can be significant, many companies opt for standard licensing to
ensure they have access to necessary support and maintenance services.”

Waqar_Ahmad Read full review


Senior Consultant at Arwentech Private Limited

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Illumio

Illumio

Executive summary

Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is a cloud and data center security solution that helps stop
breaches from spreading across hybrid and multi cloud IT environments. The solution is
designed to stop ransomware, contain cyber attacks, and reduce risk. With Illumio Zero Trust
Segmentation, users can understand relationships and communications to map exposure risk
of systems and data, identify the right security posture and secure applications through least‐
privilege policies, and ensure a Zero Trust security posture.

Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Features

Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful
ones include:

• Scalability: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation scales up to 200,000 managed workloads or


over 700,000 unmanaged workloads. These workloads can be in the cloud, on‐premises,
and in hybrid environments.

• Single pane of visibility: The solution’s single pane of visibility improves your security
posture and ability to prevent and respond rapidly to cyberattacks.

• Simplicity: With Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, setting up groups and tags is simple.
The solution is easy to integrate with next‐generation firewalls and can also integrate
with IT service management tools to import workload tags to provide more context to
workloads.

• Ransomware containment: The solution provides enforcement boundaries to contain


attackers from moving laterally across your organization, enabling security architects to
immediately isolate any workload or endpoint compromised in an attack. Enforcement
boundaries can be activated instantly through scripts or by manual control, isolating
workloads and endpoints already infected from spreading across the organization.

Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. Some of the
biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Visibility everywhere: The Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation solution helps ensure that every
interaction on your network is accounted for.

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Least‐privilege access: By implementing Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, your organization


can prevent unexpected breaches from propagating.

• Adaptability and consistency: The solution guarantees consistent network behavior


everywhere.

• Proactive posture: Using the solution enables your organization to always be on the
lookout for an attack.

• Improve breach containment: With the solution, you can prevent unauthorized lateral
movement and reduce your blast radius. Creating micro‐perimeters around specific
assets breaks up your attack surface and gives you the granular control needed to
contain breaches.

• Streamline policy management: The solution enables organizations to decouple


segmentation from the underlying network to define policies based on the language that
IT uses. Illumio's human‐readable labels make policy creation much simpler and faster
than traditional network segmentation approaches like VLANs, IP addresses, and port
numbers.

Reviews from Real Users

Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its
competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it has a good auto policy writing feature,
great mapping, and useful monitoring.

Shashi, Technical Consultant at a financial services firm, explains which features she really
likes. “The auto policy writing is great. The feature will give you the option of inbound‐
outbound traffic. The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination.
The illumination definitely stands out. Mapping is great. The application group mapping is
useful.”

The solution has “helpful support, useful monitoring, and high availability,” according to Edwin
L., Security Architect at MGM.

Sample customers
Plantronics, NTT Innovation Institute Inc.

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Top comparisons More comparisons

Akamai Guardicore
VMware NSX Cisco Secure
Segmentation
Workload
Compared 41% of the time Compared 12% of the time Compared 8% of the time
Learn more Learn more Learn more

Reviewers ‐ Percentages by top Industries

Financial Services Firm 63%

Healthcare Company 13%

Hospitality Company 13%

University 13%

Visitors Reading Reviews ‐ Percentages by Top Industries

Financial Services Firm 18%

Computer Software Company 14%

Manufacturing Company 8%

Government 7%

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Illumio

Company size

by reviewers by visitors reading reviews

Small Business Midsize Enterprise Large Enterprise

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

“The dependency map is most valuable feature.”

Verified user
Technical Associate at a healthcare company with 11‐50 employees

“The strongest aspect of Illumio is the visual traffic interface, which allows
us to see all traffic that communicates with our servers and allied
companies.”

Alark Singh
Senior Technical Analyst at Allianz

“The tool helps with my company's security posture.”

Vincent TOH
Assistant Manager at KPMG S.A.

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Illumio

“The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the
rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've
encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to
devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder
involvement before implementing such policies.”

MICHEL RACT‐MUGNEROT
Personal business manager at La Mairic

“The solution is easy to use.”

Verified user
Executive Director of Cloud Networking at a financial services firm with 10,001+
employees

What users had to say about valuable features:

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“The strongest aspect of Illumio is the visual traffic interface, which allows us to
see all traffic that communicates with our servers and allied companies. We can
write rules that can be embedded into the IP table, making it easy to handle.

Illumio enables us to see network flows, traffic sources, and destinations. The
policy generation and enforcement capabilities are valuable, allowing for selective
enforcement. Illumio helps in audit purposes by saving data and showing blocked
traffic, ensuring no outside traffic is allowed..”

Alark Singh Read full review


Senior Technical Analyst at Allianz

“Visibility is the most valuable feature of the solution. The product provides
visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols
are being used. We can also block protocols such as RDP, NetBIOS, and
ransomware attacks..”

Verified user Read full review


Senior Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11‐50
employees

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“The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with
access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include
files. .”

MalikMunawar Read full review


Cyber Security Analyst at Air University

“Everything is valuable in Illumio. We love the product.

The auto policy writing is great. The feature will give you the option of the
inbound-outbound traffic.

The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination.

We have a feature called parallel coordinates. There, we can see what application is
talking to which application and where a single application is talking to many
applications.

The illumination definitely stands out. Mapping is great. The application group
mapping is useful.

It's straightforward to set up..”

Shashi Read full review


Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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“The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring.


When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block
traffic to build..”

Edwin Leong Read full review


Security Architect at MGM

“The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature.

The ability to operate inside the real technology has been excellent.

The solution's concepts are quite simple..”

Verified user Read full review


Owner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“I have not had the chance to experiment deeply with it.”

Verified user
Technical Associate at a healthcare company with 11‐50 employees

“There should be an option to upgrade from the console to the latest version
instead of performing manual upgrades.”

Alark Singh
Senior Technical Analyst at Allianz

“We need more details on areas where there is an error or a traffic blockage. I
would like the tool to offer a more detailed view.”

Vincent TOH
Assistant Manager at KPMG S.A.

“Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on


creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly
beneficial.”

MICHEL RACT‐MUGNEROT
Personal business manager at La Mairic

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“The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the
orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules.”

Verified user
Executive Director of Cloud Networking at a financial services firm with 10,001+
employees

Room for improvement:

“There should be an option to upgrade from the console to the latest version
instead of performing manual upgrades. This would be more helpful to streamline
processes..”

Alark Singh Read full review


Senior Technical Analyst at Allianz

“The log collection part needs improvement, and the tool should offer more details
about the logs. We need more details on areas where there is an error or a traffic
blockage. I would like the tool to offer a more detailed view..”

Vincent TOH Read full review


Assistant Manager at KPMG S.A.

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“Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on


creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial..”

MICHEL RACT‐MUGNEROT Read full review


Personal business manager at La Mairic

“The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments. It could include
environments with manufacturing sensors or other devices where installing the
agent may not be possible. We don't have the same visibility and flexibility that we
have on our computer or server..”

Verified user Read full review


Senior Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11‐50
employees

“Every month, we're getting new features. It's always improving. I don't see a
place where it is weak or lacking in development.

The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better.

We'd like labeling to be better. For example, if someone, by mistake, if he edits


that labeling part, it should give you a warning pop-up to the effect of "Are sure to
edit this enforced application?" so that person immediately will know that this is
the enforced application and he should not touch that application labeling..”

Shashi Read full review


Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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“The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical
support should be improved.

The solution needs to better integrate before we are able to deploy. It would be
helpful if we could deploy the solution even if there are difficulties with
integrations or other conflicts..”

Verified user Read full review


Owner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Pricing

“The product's pricing is around 10,000-15,000 USD. The pricing is on a yearly


basis.”

MalikMunawar Read full review


Cyber Security Analyst at Air University

“There is a subscription needed to use Illumio Adaptive Security Platform and we


pay every three years. Overall the solution is expensive.”

Edwin Leong Read full review


Security Architect at MGM

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Executive summary

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.

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

Top comparisons More comparisons

Illumio VMware NSX Cisco Secure


Workload
Compared 44% of the time Compared 11% of the time Compared 9% of the time
Learn more Learn more Learn more

Reviewers ‐ Percentages by top Industries

Computer Software Company 18%

University 18%

Consumer Goods Company 9%

Financial Services Firm 9%

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Visitors Reading Reviews ‐ Percentages by Top Industries

Financial Services Firm 17%

Computer Software Company 15%

Manufacturing Company 8%

Insurance Company 7%

Company size

by reviewers by visitors reading reviews

Small Business Midsize Enterprise Large Enterprise

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

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

Verified user
Information Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 11‐50
employees

“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 [Link] allows us to see microsegmentation as
distributed services.”

Uday Varma
Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

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

Ofira Cohen
Analyser at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre

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“The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility.”

Matthias Kropf
Senior Expert Enterprise Architecture at a manufacturing company with 10,001+
employees

“The label-based segmentation is the most valuable feature.”

KlavsThaarup
Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense

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What users had to say about valuable features:

“I like the visibility of the communication, so that we really see which


communications the assets have to the other assets. We don’t need a further
sensor or firewall to see the traffic to these devices. That’s the main reason.

And Guardicore makes its own rule set automatically, so we can work fast when
creating a rule set. We don’t have a long phase of monitoring or whatever, so we
can go straight to rules where we drop unwanted data traffic.

We don’t do micro-segmentation for each asset. We work with the ring-fencing


function, and we have really good visibility on the dashboard with the rings. We
can see which asset is in which segment, zone, or ring. That’s the main thing, that
we can see this really easily.

We can also give this view not only to the administrator of the Guardicore
components but also to the application owner, so they can see where their
application is placed in the ring-fencing and what communication is there. This
makes incident management easier because we get incidents in a more
authenticated way from the application owner. That’s also a big benefit from the
visibility of the Guardicore solution.

In the firewall, only the administrator has a deep look into the architecture, the
logs, and the segmentation. In the Guardicore solution, we can give more visibility
to the application owner on their own application. This makes it easier to manage
incidents and the overall management of the application and network. The
application owner has a view of the actions happening on the network with their
assets or applications..”

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Information Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 11‐50
employees

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“Initially, I liked the telemetry part. But later, we used the micro-segmentation
features that we were able to deploy and found that they really stood out from
other vendors.

It allows us to see microsegmentation as a distributed service.

The ease of policy creation and management in Akamai Guardicore


Segmentation has impacted security operations. No other product offers more
customization. It has some complexity at the initial configuration level, but later
on, it becomes easy. If I were to rate it on a scale of ten, I'd give it at least a nine. It
is highly mature. .”

Uday Varma Read full review


Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

“The tool is easy to use and simple to deploy to achieve segmentation objectives. It
offers a graphical view of real-time workflows and traffic patterns into server-to-
server communications. Also, the amount of process, service level visibility the
agents deployed on the servers provide via network logs is very informative..”

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Specialist Master ‐ Cyber Risk at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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“Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility


with legacy operating systems.

The query insight module is something that our customers found very beneficial.

Creating policies down to a process level on a server is a valuable option.

Integration with Active Directory is good..”

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Senior Security Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001‐5,000
employees

“The limitation of security groups, in terms of the number of services you can open
that you can cover by using these tools, is great.

If you treat your network as a flat, and then you start creating all your, let's say,
network security zones using this tool, it makes life easy. For example, you have
always flexibility in having different production and management interfaces.

With a cloud-native construct, you can do micro-segmentation.

The initial setup is easy.

The solution scales well.

I found the solution to be stable. .”

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Senior Principal Consultant Cloud/DevOps/ML/Kubernetes at Opticca

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“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.

Guardicore supports the operating systems that we require. Primarily, it covers


our Microsoft platform, but we have some Linux systems as well. We also used it to
protect our SAP HANA database.

I have not compared the range of operating systems that it supports to its
competitors because of our use case. We are most interested in LAN segmentation,
in particular between the data center and the users' network, so I compared it with
other solutions in that context.

It is a benefit that Guardicore supports legacy operating systems, and I have used it
with such servers. However, in the long term, it is more important that I have
something protecting my data center and having the visibility of what endpoint is
initiating connections.

We use the AI-powered segmentation functionality and it affects the time required
to design by a lot. It gives us a large number of views and without that, you
cannot design the system properly. The AI helps because it shows you what you
need to do. Without the AI, either you will not be able to implement the system, or
it will take a long time and be very difficult. For us, using this feature saved us a
couple of months in implementation time..”

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CTO at a consumer goods company with 501‐1,000 employees

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Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“I would rate the stability a six out of ten, where one is low and ten is high
stability.”

Verified user
Information Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 11‐50
employees

“Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic


tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have.”

Uday Varma
Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

“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.”

Ofira Cohen
Analyser at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre

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“Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it.”

Matthias Kropf
Senior Expert Enterprise Architecture at a manufacturing company with 10,001+
employees

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

KlavsThaarup
Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense

Room for improvement:

“When we have more than one interface, we can only have one policy for both
interfaces. Normally, you have assets with a production interface and a server
interface that are only for management.

But in the Guardicore architecture, you cannot give the production interface its
own rule set and the management interface another rule set. You have to combine
these rule sets into one. It’s a lack because security standards suggest a different
way to secure management interfaces.

So, I would like to have two separate rule sets for the basis of the device..”

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“Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging,


which Guardicore doesn't yet have.

The rest of the features are already industry standard..”

Uday Varma Read full review


Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

“It's not easy to learn to use this program. 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..”

Ofira Cohen Read full review


Analyser at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre

“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 products. .”

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Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense

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“Guardicore Centra should incorporate automation so that we aren't required to


write custom scripts by leveraging APIs quite often. The tool also has limitations
on overall policy rules that can be configured on the platform (60k rules) which
seems a lot but with big chatty applications and a huge application count to
segment, this limit can turn out to be small if the goal is to segment a lot of
application servers. Operationally there are too many clicks and analyses needed
to do quick and safe changes (for e.g. label replacement) in the production
environment. I think that the incorporation of automation templates for some
standard use cases can help clients make changes with confidence and without the
possibility of human error. .”

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Specialist Master ‐ Cyber Risk at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

“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.

We would like to be able to go agentless.

I'd like support for all types of Kubernetes and service mesh. They say, "Ah, we
support this, we support that." This is not the case. .”

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Senior Principal Consultant Cloud/DevOps/ML/Kubernetes at Opticca

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Pricing

“The pricing is too high.”

Uday Varma Read full review


Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

“Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive.”

Matthias Kropf Read full review


Senior Expert Enterprise Architecture at a manufacturing company with
10,001+ employees

“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.”

KlavsThaarup Read full review


Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense

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“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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Specialist Master ‐ Cyber Risk at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

“The customer would complain about the cost.”

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Senior Security Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001‐5,000
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Cisco Secure Workload

Executive summary

Cisco Secure Workload is a cloud and data security solution that offers a zero‐trust policy of
keeping an organization’s application workloads safe and secure throughout the entire on‐
premise and cloud data center ecosystems.

Cisco Secure Workload will consistently provide protection by discovering workload process
anomalies, stopping threats immediately, minimizing the risk threat surface, and aborting any
lateral movement.

Today’s ecosystems are very elastic, and in the application‐focused dynamic of today’s
aggressive marketplace, Cisco Secure Workload delivers a robust security solution that works
effectively with today’s most popular applications. The solution uniquely surrounds each and
every workload to ensure organizations are able to keep their data, network, and applications
safe and secure at all times. Cisco Secure Workload ensures that enterprise organizations can
maintain secure applications by consistently building firewalls around every workload level
throughout the entire ecosystem. The solution can manage applications that are deployed on
containers, virtual machines, or bare‐metal servers.

Cisco Secure workload is able to meet an organization's busy needs and offers flexible options
such as Software‐as‐a‐Service (SaaS) and on‐premises options. Using the Secure Workload
SaaS options, users receive all the benefits of Cisco Secure Workload protection without the
hassle of having to deploy and maintain the platform on premises. Users are responsible for
acquiring the necessary software licensing and deploying software agents. Using SaaS, Secure
Workload runs in the cloud and is operated and maintained by Cisco. This option offers the
ability to scale easily and is a popular choice for SaaS‐first and SaaS‐only clients. Many
organizations find they get the best TCO and achieve the best productivity and profitability
using the SaaS options.
When choosing on‐premises options, organizations choose between hardware‐based appliance models (large or small
form factors). Platform selection is dependent on scalability goals, the desired fidelity level of flow telemetry, and the
actual number of workloads. When a user chooses to configure Cisco Secure Workload for a conversation‐only flow
telemetry for all workloads, each platform has the capability to scale up vertically twice the default platform scale.
Additionally, with Secure Workload, it is possible for the platform to be scaled horizontally in order to satisfy the
demands of extra large widely distributed enterprise environments using federation capabilities.
Cisco Secure Workload also provides a robust disaster recovery (DR) tool, which helps to make it a complete,
comprehensive solution. The DR allows for continuous restore and backup capabilities that enable users to quickly
remediate operations and data to a standby cluster in the event of a drastic failure or disaster.

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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.” ‐ CTO at a
tech vendor

Sample customers
ADP, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC)

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

“The only use case I can see that makes sense is micro-segmentation. I think
there are other use cases for it. The main purpose of the product is to do
micro-segmentation by collecting IP. That could be done by installing an
agent, and then you have all the communication coming in and out. You
could also use some flow sensors installed in the network that receive a copy
of the traffic and then report that back to the system.”

Torben Nissen Ernst


Technical Solutions Architect ‐ Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure Cloud

“The product provides multiple-device integration.”

Sanjay Gaiswal
Post Sales Manager at Vcom Teachnologies

“Generally speaking, Cisco support is considered one of the best in the


networking products and stack.”

Verified user
Partner at a consultancy with 1‐10 employees

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“Secure Workload's best feature is that it's an end-to-end offering from


Cisco.”

Muhammad Marakkoottathil
Regional Presales Consultant (INS Division) at GBM

“It's stable.”

Boris REYES
Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS

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What users had to say about valuable features:

“The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Workload is its ability to streamline
policy discovery. Once you create the workspace, it automatically identifies
policies at various levels, whether you need finely-tuned micro-level or broader
group policies. As data is gathered from all the agents, the system presents these
policies, significantly reducing the need for multiple engineers who typically take
much longer to create them. My IT risk colleagues utilize a process we call ADM,
where they discover policies over a three to six-month period and present them to
application owners. Once the application owners approve the policies, they can
switch to enforcement mode in Cisco Tetration. This automation in policy
presentation and access is incredibly valuable, as it minimizes manual
intervention and the time required for policy discovery.

Micro-segmentation allows for precise enforcement of policies based on specific


needs. You can implement tight risk postures, defining policies per IP, server, or
port. This enables granular control or broader policies at the group level, grouping
similar types of servers. The system automates this process; you specify your risk
appetite and how detailed or general you want the policies to be. This approach
protects servers that sit next to each other on the same VLAN without requiring
large network firewalls to create multiple dependencies or DMZs. Instead, it
leverages the existing firewalls on each server, allowing you to control policies
centrally..”

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Director, Head of Networks at MUFG, EMEA

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“The only use case I can see that makes sense is micro-segmentation. I think there
are other use cases for it. The main purpose of the product is to do micro-
segmentation by collecting IP. That could be done by installing an agent, and then
you have all the communication coming in and out. You could also use some flow
sensors installed in the network that receive a copy of the traffic and then report
that back to the system.

No matter where you're getting the flow from, the system calculates all those
flows. You know what the front end, the middleware, the back end, the database,
and so on are so that you can group them. The system's strength is actually in
proposing the policy. So, all web servers need to have HTTPS access to it.

Then, you can start building the policy for your application. When you have a
policy, you can push that situation for self-service, which means you're trying out
the policies you created in a real environment. Then, you can spend time trying to
see if you have any escaped traffic, which means you have traffic that does not
match the policy. If you were in enforcement mode, that traffic would be dropped.
So you have a period where you can monitor if you have done the correct mode,
seen all the traffic, and so on. That could be for a couple of weeks, that could be a
month, or it could be half a year, depending on the criticality and how important
your system actually is.

From my point of view, the strength is the policy proposal you're receiving. It's
really good. That's the biggest challenge for everybody - creating a policy you
could use in Cisco Secure Workload itself. You could also export it and use it in your
firewall if you want to do that if you have a Cisco firewall setup. But you could also
use it in every other enforcement part. I'm seeing what people are struggling with
in companies - to actually restructure your CMDB data correctly, then get a policy
that you can use in your network. I think that the tool is good at that..”

Torben Nissen Ernst Read full review


Technical Solutions Architect ‐ Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure
Cloud

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“I used to be a big fan of Cisco Secure Workload and Cisco Tetration Platform. I
used to really like it. However, the product has undergone significant
modifications since then. Certain pieces of it have been moved into Cisco SD-
Access, and the original DVR of the network functionality has been moved. As a
result, the product has changed a lot since I was most familiar with it.

Regarding features, it's quite similar to scanning tools as it catalogs vulnerabilities


and identifies their locations on your endpoints within the network. It operates on
an agent-based system and uses a catalog and scoring function to determine where
known vulnerabilities exist..”

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Partner at a consultancy with 1‐10 employees

“The solution is very user-friendly, which clients appreciate.

The UI and GUI are fine.

It's stable.

We can scale the product.

Technical support is helpful and responsive. .”

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Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS

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“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..”

Verified user Read full review


CTO at a tech vendor with 11‐50 employees

“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..”

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Solutions Architect at Liberty Global

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Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“There's room for improvement when it comes to Cisco Secure Workload. A


couple of internal areas could be refined a little bit. They are trying to solve
it, depending on where you suppose the agent is. Suppose you have the agent
on both the server and the client, which could be the front-end server or web
server connecting to the. In that case, if those two are communicating on
RPC, the server can look into its configuration. It could go down and find the
configuration file on the FTP server and then set the policies to it. But there
are a lot of different FTP servers out there. It's also a complex case for the
tool to support all FTP servers.”

Torben Nissen Ernst


Technical Solutions Architect ‐ Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure Cloud

“The product must be integrated with the cloud.”

Sanjay Gaiswal
Post Sales Manager at Vcom Teachnologies

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“There was a controversy when Cisco reduced the amount of data they kept,
and the solution became quite cost-intensive, which made its adoption
challenging….Although they have modified it now, I preferred the previous
version, and I wish all the functionality were back under the same product.”

Verified user
Partner at a consultancy with 1‐10 employees

“Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't


intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it.”

Muhammad Marakkoottathil
Regional Presales Consultant (INS Division) at GBM

“The integration could be better, especially with different types of


solutions.”

Boris REYES
Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS

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Room for improvement:

“We actively seek improvements in integrating the Infoblox DDI platform with
Cisco Secure Workload. This integration allows Cisco Secure Workload to learn
about our networks and network tags, providing valuable insights into
vulnerabilities related to the operating system and various applications installed
on our servers.

Recently, Cisco announced a new product called HyperShield, an AI-based


autonomous micro-segmentation solution. While Cisco has not stated that
HyperShield will replace Cisco Secure Workload, it represents a natural evolution
for the company. HyperShield features dynamic policy discovery and enforcement;
however, once policies are enforced, they do not change until a discovery occurs,
requiring a re-enforcement process. This new platform operates autonomously,
minimizing the need for user or security engineer intervention.

I would have expected Cisco to incorporate more automatic discovery and


enforcement features within the existing Cisco Secure Workload product. Instead
of enhancing the current product, they have introduced a new solution. Cisco plans
to honor existing Tetration licenses, allowing users to transition to HyperShield
without additional costs, reflecting the investment enterprises have already made.

From Cisco’s perspective, this represents a natural progression in their product


line. While the product name changes, it seems more of a rebranding effort. The
enhancements are greater autonomy, improved discovery, and automatic
enforcement, which are now being introduced in HyperShield.

Cisco Secure Workload offers automatic policy enforcement but cannot adjust
policies dynamically as the application needs to change. Having used the platform
for the past five years, the recent announcement has been reassuring. Cisco has
confirmed that our investment in the platform will not go to waste. They will
honor our existing licenses, providing a natural migration path to the new solution
without any disruption.”

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“There's room for improvement when it comes to Cisco Secure Workload. A couple
of internal areas could be refined a little bit. They are trying to solve it, depending
on where you suppose the agent is. Suppose you have the agent on both the server
and the client, which could be the front-end server or web server connecting to
the. In that case, if those two are communicating on RPC, the server can look into
its configuration. It could go down and find the configuration file on the FTP server
and then set the policies to it. But there are a lot of different FTP servers out there.
It's also a complex case for the tool to support all FTP servers.

Some things are related to Windows, Unix, Linux, and IBM AIX. We have been
working on all platforms, but the support for IBM AIX isn't that good compared to
normal operating systems. Support is much better for Windows compared to IBM
AIX..”

Torben Nissen Ernst Read full review


Technical Solutions Architect ‐ Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure
Cloud

“On the client side, Cisco Secure Workload orchestrates host firewalls for micro-
segmentation, which is crucial for zero trust security for whitelisting in
networking. Before speaking of areas for improvement, I would like to say that I
have always been fond of Cisco Tetration Platform and Cisco Secure Workload.
There was a controversy when Cisco reduced the amount of data they kept, and the
solution became quite cost-intensive, which made its adoption challenging.
Although they have modified it now, I preferred the previous version, and I wish all
the functionality were back under the same product. Currently, it is integrated into
Cisco SD-Access, but not all customers want access to this product..”

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Partner at a consultancy with 1‐10 employees

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“I'm in pre-sales. I have no technical complaints in regard to the product.

The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions..”

Boris REYES Read full review


Sales Manager at Compuequip DOS

“The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as


the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers
virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring. Example include: The
onboard features do not allow remote detection of simple hardware failures. There
is no backup option for the data lake. The cluster cannot be deployed in a geo-
redundant setup. There is no hardware upgrade path..”

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CTO at a tech vendor with 11‐50 employees

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“There is some overlap between Cisco Tetration and AppDynamics and there are
few DC tools, It would be great to have a single pane of glass, rather than have to
jump between different tools..”

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Pricing

“Regarding price, Cisco Secure Workload can be expensive if you don't have a
budget. If you're not doing micro-segmentation, every extra security measure or
enforcement you're putting on top of your existing environment will be an extra
cost. It's not a cheap solution at all. But from my point of view, if you need to do
micro-segmentation, this is one of the best tools I've seen for it. I can't compare
that to Microsoft's solution because I haven't looked into it. I've looked into
VMware and Cisco. Those are the only two that I know of. I didn't know that
Microsoft could do micro-segmentation at all. Maybe they can, but I haven't heard
anything about it.”

Torben Nissen Ernst Read full review


Technical Solutions Architect ‐ Cyber & Cloud Security Expert at Secure
Cloud

“The cost for the hardware is around 300k.”

Muhammad Marakkoottathil Read full review


Regional Presales Consultant (INS Division) at GBM

“The price is based on how many computers you're going to install it on.”

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“It is not cheap and pricing may limit scalability.”

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Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001‐5,000 employees

“Pricing depends on the scope of the application and the features. Larger
installations save more.”

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Sr. Regional Director, US East at a tech services company with 11‐50
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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Nutanix Flow Network Security

Nutanix Flow Network Security

Executive summary

Flow Network Security is a stateful, distributed, microsegmentation firewall. It is provided as


part of NCI Ultimate or as part of the optional Security Add‐On package for NCI Pro.

Sample customers
JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove
City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

“They also introduced that they develop API first and the rest follows.”

Verified user
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11‐50 employees

“It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of
ten.”

Gus Thompson
IT Principal Analyst at Pima Community College

“Nutanix Flow Network Security is a simple solution that is usable, easy to


understand, and easy to deploy.”

Lipaz Hessel
Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

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“The network view was excellent as it allowed us to expand the server view
and visualize all connections it made within the environment. This was
particularly useful in identifying the path of our data and not just its location
within the data center.”

Jason‐Taylor
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001‐5,000 employees

“Flow Network Security's most valuable features are user-friendliness, the


console, and policy creation.”

SuchitPatel
Technical Solutions Architect for Cloud and Data Center Group at Hitachi Systems,
Ltd.

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Nutanix Flow Network Security

What users had to say about valuable features:

“Nutanix Flow solution has updated the ability to control everything through API.
They also introduced that they develop API first and the rest follows.

I don't use it very often because the implementation isn't huge enough to
necessitate automating things. But I think it could be very solid since the API of
Nutanix and the rest of the components is very good. So, I think it can be quite
useful and helpful.

It has a lot of features. There is probably some confusion with the name or with the
product because there is Flow micro-segmentation and also Flow networking. It's
both network-related, but it's not the same product. What I know and speak about
is micro-segmentation, and I think it's quite nice. It's easy, and it does what it
needs to do..”

Verified user Read full review


Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11‐50 employees

“Nutanix Flow Network Security is a simple solution that is usable, easy to


understand, and easy to deploy. The solution gives us a lot of visibility about what
happens between the VMs and exactly what it's supposed to do..”

Lipaz Hessel Read full review


Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

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“Nutanix Flow has a lot of data protection features. It's also valuable
for operations and management. It's a big solution that works well with different
solutions and is suitable for most business cases..”

Hamada Farag Read full review


Technology Consultant at Beta Information Technology

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Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“Last time I used it, it was not handy to see or to analyze traffic logs.”

Verified user
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11‐50 employees

“The documentation offered by the product is an area with certain


shortcomings where improvements are required.”

Gus Thompson
IT Principal Analyst at Pima Community College

“The solution’s pricing could be improved.”

Lipaz Hessel
Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Nutanix Flow Network Security

“While the graphical interface of Nutanix Flow Network Security could have
been improved, and some of the reporting features needed extra work, the
product's features were similar to VMware's NSX. The difference lay more in
the presentation and user interface.”

Jason‐Taylor
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001‐5,000 employees

“I would rate Flow Network Security's stability seven out of ten - it could be
improved.”

SuchitPatel
Technical Solutions Architect for Cloud and Data Center Group at Hitachi Systems,
Ltd.

Room for improvement:

“Last time I used it, it was not handy to see or to analyze traffic logs. As a Check
Point partner as well, we have some more expectations to log in. Probably, it's
possible to forward all the traffic logs to a log system, but I'm not very into it. It is
not very intuitive. A lot of manual tasks are needed to achieve that. But it's
possible, and it would be nice to maybe have better examples in the guides or to
have another integrated log system to analyze the traffic logs..”

Verified user Read full review


Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11‐50 employees

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“The documentation offered by the product is an area with certain shortcomings


where improvements are required. Nutanix does have a documentation issue.
Nutanix offers a lot of documentation, but none of them are relevant, pertinent, or
easy to understand. The documentation does not cater to the needs of what most
people expect. Nutanix needs better scenario-based documentation..”

Gus Thompson Read full review


IT Principal Analyst at Pima Community College

“While the graphical interface of Nutanix Flow Network Security could have been
improved, and some of the reporting features needed extra work, the product's
features were similar to VMware's NSX. The difference lay more in the
presentation and user interface.

I am not able to recall the specifics, but I vaguely remember encountering a minor
issue with the product's graphical interface.

My sales engineer was helpful in identifying that I was using a different approach
than what was anticipated when expanding the object to view the communication
protocols. However, I don't have any further information about the issue..”

Jason‐Taylor Read full review


Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001‐5,000 employees

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Nutanix Flow Network Security

“For customers who are running Nutanix Flow and AHV, the largest area for
improvement is in the disaster recovery environments. To automate the populate
of rules from one side to the other side in case of disaster you report everything on
the disaster recovery site, and you have all the rules automatically applied. This
was something that was being built when I left Nutanix. It might already be
available. Additionally, the usability of the rules editor could improve..”

Eduardo‐Penedos Read full review


Telcommunications expert at a tech vendor with 5,001‐10,000 employees

“Nutanix Flow's networking features could use some improvement. Also, I don't
know if it's currently supporting load balancing or not. Lately, we've been
working a bit more with Nutanix Calm. We're trying to invest more in Calm and
deliver solutions based on that platform. But it is still a new software. It's a new
solution for automation and helping customers develop a private cloud. We are
still facing a lot of challenges in Calm, but in the future, we will focus on Calm and
Era our customers benefit a lot from these products. Era is a database-as-a-service
(DBaaS) solution that we plan to promote to the customer along with Calm because
Calm minimizes the time and operations efforts of the customer..”

Hamada Farag Read full review


Technology Consultant at Beta Information Technology

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Pricing

“There are different licensing models.”

Verified user Read full review


Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11‐50 employees

“The product is available for free use.”

Gus Thompson Read full review


IT Principal Analyst at Pima Community College

“On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the
solution's pricing a seven out of ten.”

Lipaz Hessel Read full review


Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

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“In comparison to other options available in the market, I would rate their pricing
as very competitive, probably a two or three out of ten for cost.”

Jason‐Taylor Read full review


Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001‐5,000 employees

“Flow Network Security is available on a three-year license, with annual renewals


of the maintenance fee.”

SuchitPatel Read full review


Technical Solutions Architect for Cloud and Data Center Group at Hitachi
Systems, Ltd.

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Appgate SDP

Appgate SDP

Executive summary

Appgate SDP is a network access control tool for local and remote access, multifactor
authentication, and micro‐segmentation. It is a flexible, robust, and configurable tool with
good documentation, interface improvements, and ease of deployment.

It helps organizations prevent lateral movement across networks and servers and provides a
more granular access control structure than traditional VPNs. Appgate SDP's valuable
features include the ability to hide servers, good support, stability, scalability, and stopping
lateral movement. It is currently being used as the main VPN solution for many companies.

Sample customers
United States Air Force
FINRA
Weight Watchers
Rackspace
DataDog
SageNet
Verdant
Norwegian Cruise Line
VoiceBase
The Third Floor

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Top comparisons More comparisons

Prisma Access by Palo Cato SASE Cloud


Zscaler Internet
Alto Networks Platform
Access
Compared 9% of the time Compared 7% of the time Compared 7% of the time
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Visitors Reading Reviews ‐ Percentages by Top Industries

Computer Software Company 15%

Manufacturing Company 10%

Government 8%

Financial Services Firm 7%

Company size

by reviewers by visitors reading reviews

Small Business Midsize Enterprise Large Enterprise

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

“The simplicity of the SDP platform is a standout feature; instead of


navigating through intricate details, users can seamlessly connect to the
company's network or switch to the internet with minimal effort.”

IgnitiusMolepo
Senior IP Network Defense at MTN

“It is a scalable solution...The support answers your questions very fast.”

Verified user
Country Manager at a tech services company with 1‐10 employees

“One of the most important features is stopping lateral movement across


our network.”

Abubakar Babah
Payment Officer at Central Bank of Nigeria

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Appgate SDP

“The interface is really friendly. It's simple to understand.”

Haricharan Gokul
Software engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

“It is pretty stable.”

Omar_Jaimes
Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

What users had to say about valuable features:

“Firstly, the granularity feature of the solution allows it to build granular rules to
access different applications. Secondly, the capacity to view the connection is
another valuable feature of the solution. .”

Verified user Read full review


Country Manager at a tech services company with 1‐10 employees

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“It's easy to deploy and implement the product.

You can hide the servers, and you can avoid lateral movement if you pick up any
ransomware, for example.

The solution offers good support.

It is pretty stable.

We can scale the solution. .”

Omar_Jaimes Read full review


Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

“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..”

Verified user Read full review


Manager of Network Engineering at a aerospace/defense firm with 201‐500
employees

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Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“They could provide a single-box solution to manage tools for 4000 users.
Additionally, they could add extra features to enhance remote micro
connection.”

IgnitiusMolepo
Senior IP Network Defense at MTN

“The user interface should be improved as it is not very easy to work with the
updates.”

Verified user
Country Manager at a tech services company with 1‐10 employees

“It would be better to connect to an application portal from any device.


Documentation and support could be better.”

Abubakar Babah
Payment Officer at Central Bank of Nigeria

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“One limitation is that it's harder to provide access to multiple applications


in the company with Appgate, but that's probably because of poor
management.”

Haricharan Gokul
Software engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

“On the cloud, when you make some changes, it may be difficult.”

Omar_Jaimes
Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

Room for improvement:

“They could provide a single-box solution to manage tools for 4000 users.
Additionally, they could add extra features to enhance remote micro connection..”

IgnitiusMolepo Read full review


Senior IP Network Defense at MTN

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“One limitation is that it's harder to provide access to multiple applications in the
company with Appgate, but that's probably because of poor management.

The solution is fine as it is, but it would be better if it could help us access general
public sites. It would be better to not create a separate policy for that..”

Haricharan Gokul Read full review


Software engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

“On the cloud, when you make some changes, it may be difficult. However, on-
premises is very good, and I like it.

We'd like to be able to change the VPN connection for different areas. For example,
if finance wants to connect to SAP, you could grant access to certain people for
that, on a specific server..”

Omar_Jaimes Read full review


Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

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“It comes down to cost. It is a pretty expensive tool.

One thing that kind of sticks out to me is the ability to do a proper non-split
tunnel. VPN tunnel-wise, it is not really a true unsplit tunnel, but I think that's
just because of the way it's designed. A split VPN basically allows your system to
talk to other systems without being forced down the tunnel. A VPN running in a
non-split tunnel mode forces all the traffic down the tunnel to wherever you're
VPNing to. It forces the traffic down so that the traffic is subject to the firewall and
rules that you have in your corporate environment and such. It helps to prevent
remote malicious folks that may be talking directly to that box from piggybacking
into the corporate environment through it. They do it partially, but it would be nice
to see more of an enterprise-level solution there..”

Verified user Read full review


Manager of Network Engineering at a aerospace/defense firm with 201‐500
employees

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Pricing

“The pricing is according to the market price. It is not a very cheap solution. They
have some very aggressive promotions to sell the product in the market.”

Verified user Read full review


Country Manager at a tech services company with 1‐10 employees

“We pay $100 per user per month. One license for the site is around $17.”

Omar_Jaimes Read full review


Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

“It is a pretty expensive tool. It is maybe about $20,000 per year for a hundred
users or so.”

Verified user Read full review


Manager of Network Engineering at a aerospace/defense firm with 201‐500
employees

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise

Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise

Executive summary

Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise is a comprehensive security solution designed for various
applications, including secure remote access, protection against unauthorized data breaches,
and enforcement of least‐privilege access controls. It features a Ransomware Kill Switch, easy
deployment, granular control over network access, and strong support for remote work
environments. Users appreciate its enhancement of operational efficiency, streamlined
workflows, and improved productivity, alongside cost‐saving benefits. Its user‐friendly
interface facilitates quick integration, making it a valuable asset for optimizing organizational
performance.

Top comparisons More comparisons

Akamai Guardicore
Illumio
Segmentation

Compared 54% of the time Compared 46% of the time


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Company size by visitors reading reviews

Small Business Midsize Enterprise Large Enterprise

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Valuable features

Excerpts from real customer reviews on PeerSpot:

“The return on investment has been significant, as Airgap Zero Trust


Enterprise has proved to be cost-effective.”

Atul‐Yadav
Enterprise Cloud and AI Security Architect at a security firm with 10,001+
employees

What users had to say about valuable features:

“The most valuable feature is the runtime protection and dynamic Zero Trust
monitoring, which helps me catch threats in real time, especially in production
environments. Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise effectively reduces false positives and
distinguishes between genuine and false attacks, providing automated guidance
for remediation and minimizing production impact..”

Atul‐Yadav Read full review


Enterprise Cloud and AI Security Architect at a security firm with 10,001+
employees

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise

Pain Points

The main pain points mentioned:

“Sometimes, Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise hangs, requiring a process


restart.”

Atul‐Yadav
Enterprise Cloud and AI Security Architect at a security firm with 10,001+
employees

Room for improvement:

“An area for improvement is in integrating AGentic architectures for retrieval-


intensive applications in cloud infrastructures. Ensuring that Airgap Zero Trust
Enterprise can work with AI agents and protect applications managed by them
would be a significant enhancement. In addition, addressing the issue of the
occasional hang could improve the product..”

Atul‐Yadav Read full review


Enterprise Cloud and AI Security Architect at a security firm with 10,001+
employees

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Microsegmentation Software ▪ Focus on solutions ▪ Zero Networks

Zero Networks

Executive summary

Zero Networks offers a cybersecurity solution designed to automate network security by


implementing a zero‐trust model. It focuses on ensuring that every network connection is
authenticated and authorized, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and lateral movement
within an organization’s network.

Zero Networks leverages machine learning and behavioral analytics to create and enforce
adaptive security policies that automatically adjust to changing network conditions and user
behaviors. The solution continuously monitors network traffic and user activities, creating a
dynamic and secure environment where access is strictly controlled based on real‐time risk
assessments. By automating the zero‐trust model, Zero Networks eliminates the need for
manual configuration and reduces the complexity of network security management.

What are the key features of Zero Networks?

• Automated Policy Creation: Utilizes machine learning to generate security policies


automatically, reducing manual effort.
• Behavioral Analytics: Monitors and analyzes user and device behavior to detect
anomalies and potential threats.
• Dynamic Access Control: Adjusts access permissions in real‐time based on ongoing risk
assessments.
• Microsegmentation: Divides the network into smaller segments to limit the spread of
potential breaches.
• Zero Trust Enforcement: Ensures that every connection is authenticated and authorized,
preventing unauthorized access.

What benefits should users look for in reviews when evaluating Zero Networks?

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• Improved Security Posture: Enhanced protection against unauthorized access and lateral
movement within the network.
• Reduced Complexity: Simplifies network security management by automating policy
creation and enforcement.
• Operational Efficiency: Saves time and resources with automated processes and real‐
time adjustments.
• Scalability: Easily adapts to changing network conditions and growing organizational
needs.
• Cost Savings: Potential reduction in security‐related costs due to automation and
efficient threat management.

Zero Networks is implemented across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and
manufacturing, providing tailored security solutions to meet specific regulatory and
operational requirements. Its automated and adaptive approach is particularly beneficial in
sectors with complex and dynamic network environments.

Pricing for Zero Networks solutions typically involves a subscription model based on the
number of users and devices. The company offers robust customer support, including
deployment assistance, training, and ongoing technical support to ensure optimal
performance and security.

In summary, Zero Networks provides an automated, adaptive zero‐trust security solution that
enhances network protection, simplifies management, and reduces costs.

Sample customers
Sani Marc, Great Clips, MIO Partners, ACT Commodities, Evercore, Atlantic
Constructors

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Top comparisons More comparisons

Akamai Guardicore
Illumio Elisity
Segmentation

Compared 59% of the time Compared 30% of the time Compared 11% of the time
Learn more Learn more Learn more

Visitors Reading Reviews ‐ Percentages by Top Industries

Financial Services Firm 23%

Manufacturing Company 8%

Computer Software Company 8%

Healthcare Company 6%

Company size by visitors reading reviews

Small Business Midsize Enterprise Large Enterprise

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Vendor Directory

The Vendors The Products

12Port Inc 12Port

Airgap Networks Airgap Zero Trust Enterprise

Akamai Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Appgate Appgate SDP

Cisco Cisco Secure Workload

ColorTokens Xshield

Elisity Elisity

Fortinet ShieldX

Hillstone Networks Hillstone CloudHive

Illumio Illumio

Nutanix Nutanix Flow Network Security

Onclave Networks Onclave TrustedPlatform

Ridge Security Technology RidgeShield

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Microsegmentation Software

SideChannel Enclave

TrueFort Truefort

Unisys Unisys Stealth

VMware VMware NSX

Zero Networks Zero Networks

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