Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. Cisco Secure Workload
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Akamai Guardicore Segmentation | Score9.3 out of 10 | N/A | Guardicore is a segmentation company, now part of Akamai since the late 2021 acquisition, aiming to displace legacy firewalls. The Guardiocre software-only approach is decoupled from the physical network to provide a faster alternative to firewalls. It is built for the agile enterprise that offers greater security and visibility in the cloud, data-center and endpoint. | N/A |
 Cisco Secure Workload | Score8.5 out of 10 | N/A | The Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) platform offers holistic workload protection for multicloud data centers by enabling a zero-trust model using segmentation. This approach allows users to identify security incidents faster, contain lateral movement, and reduce the attack surface. Tetration's infrastructure-agnostic approach supports both on-premises and public cloud workloads. | N/A |
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| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | ||||||||||||||
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | — | Cisco Secure Workload software is licensed based on the number of workload equivalents or devices (endpoints) depending on the agent or sensor type being used. Telemetry data can be collected using agents, supported by other supported sensors or collectors, in any combination. Policy enforcement is enabled through agents with enforcement capability with infrastructure enforcement delivered through Cisco Secure Firewall Integration, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), and Security Groups in public cloud infrastructure or orchestrated via streamed Kafka policy. Workload is defined as a virtual machine, bare-metal server, or container host and includes server and desktop operating systems. | ||||||||||||||
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| Akamai Guardicore Segmentation | Cisco Secure Workload | |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 7.3 |
| Usability | 9.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.0 | - |