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Cloud workload visibility, micro-segmentation, multi-method breach detection
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The Akamai Guardicore Security Platform provides the five critical capabilities needed to secure workloads in modern data centers and clouds: flow visualization, micro-segmentation, breach detection, automated analysis and response.
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- Flow Visibility and Micro-Segmentation: Visualize all applications and workloads and quickly define, monitor and enforce process-level, application-aware micro-segmentation policies
- Cloud Migrations (quickly migrate workloads with full visibility and security)
- Detect lateral movement
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months | Cost savings % |
|---|---|---|---|
200 Instance Bundle | Price per bundle of 200 protected workloads | $99,000.00 | 0% |
200 workloads visibility | Price per Bundle 200 workloads visibility | $44,000.00 | 0% |
200 workloads enforcement | price per bundle of 200 workloads of enforcement | $88,000.00 | 90% |
100 legacy workload enforcement | price per bundle of 100 workloads of enforcement for legacy systems | $88,000.00 | 0% |
1000 Endpoint Enforcement | price per bundle of 1000 endpoints enforcement | $44,000.00 | 0% |
50 kubernetes protection | price per bundle 50 Kubernetes protection | $85,000.00 | 0% |
200 workloads hunt | price per bundle of 200 hunt workloads | $30,000.00 | 0% |
1000 Enpoints Hunt | price per bundle of 1000 hunt endpoints | $24,000.00 | 0% |
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Customer reviews
SachinShelar
Micro-segmentation has strengthened zero trust security and reduces lateral movement risks
Reviewed on Mar 26, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is for micro-segmentation and east-west traffic control across data center and cloud workloads, which helps ensure zero trust policies, isolate critical applications, and prevent lateral movement, improving security posture in multi-customer environments.
For example, using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation , we segmented a three-tier application by allowing only required ports between tiers and blocking all other east-west traffic, which prevented lateral movement from compromised web servers to databases, significantly reducing attack surface and improving security compliance.
How has it helped my organization?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has significantly improved our security posture by preventing lateral movement through effective micro-segmentation, and it also enhanced operational efficiency with better visibility and faster policy deployment, reducing risk and improving compliance across customer environments.
With Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, we have observed a 60 to 70 percent reduction in lateral movement risk due to strict micro-segmentation policies, along with 40 to 50 percent faster incident containment and troubleshooting, improved compliance visibility, and fewer security exceptions.
What is most valuable?
Some of the best features of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation are its granular micro-segmentation and deep visibility, allowing control to process, service level, and full east-west traffic mapping, while it also stands out for AI-assisted policy creation, real-time threat detection, and software-based enforcement.
The feature I rely on most in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is application dependency mapping and visibility, which gives real-time insight into east-west traffic flows, helping us design accurate policies quickly and troubleshoot issues without impacting production environments.
Additionally, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers a policy simulation test mode, which is very useful to validate rules before enforcement and avoid outages.
What needs improvement?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation could improve in policy management at scale, as large environments can become complex to manage and tune, and enhanced cloud-native integrations and more intuitive reporting would help improve visibility and simplify operations for service delivery teams.
It can be improved with integration with SIEM or SOAR tools, and more granular role-based access control would enhance operational efficiency and governance.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for three and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is highly scalable, designed to support large distributed environments across data, cloud, and hybrid setups.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is good, but the documentation is not up to the mark.
I would rate the customer support a nine on a scale of 1 to 10.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used traditional network firewalls and VLAN-based segmentations before switching.
We switched to Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for granular micro-segmentations, better east-west visibility, and zero-trust enforcement, which were not achievable with legacy network-based approaches.
How was the initial setup?
Overall, it is expensive but high value, especially for large-scale, security-critical environments, with pricing on the premium side, a moderate setup cost, and a subscription-based licensing per agent.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a strong ROI both in cost savings and operational efficiency, having reduced 70 percent in incident handling effort and a 30 to 40 percent reduction in security resources, which delivers measurable value through reduced risk, lower operational cost, and faster breach containment.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, I evaluated other options.
We evaluated VMware NSX and Cisco Secure Workload ; while those offered segmentation capabilities, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation stood out for its deep visibility, process-level control, and easier deployment without changing the network.
What other advice do I have?
For Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, I would suggest fellow buyers to start with application dependency mapping first to clearly understand traffic flows before enforcing policies, and to implement it in a phase-wise manner, such as monitor, simulate, and enforce. I would rate this product a nine on a scale of 1 to 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Irton Medina
Microsegmentation has protected critical environments and now blocks lateral ransomware movement
Reviewed on Mar 03, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
I use Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to block lateral movement of malicious software like ransomware. This is very important to protect my business and my corporation.
I create labels for any assets to create rule sets in Guardicore Center with the configuration.
The logs and network logs provide visibility that is very important for my business and my corporate entity. We use microsegmentation by environment. I do segmentation for production, homologation, and development. It is very important.
Today, I have segmentation for Kubernetes in Guardicore, but I have problems with Guardicore with segmentation for Kubernetes because it is connected to SaaS. This is very important because we have projects starting in Kubernetes in my enterprise.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is deployed in my organization on a hybrid cloud because 99% is on a private cloud computer.
What is most valuable?
The best features of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation are maps and network logs. I think the analysis of logs and hits in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is fantastic.
The impact of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is very important because it reduced risk for my corporation and organization. It is very important.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation reduced risk because it blocked malicious ransomware and uninspected traffic. I appreciate this. It is very good.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation reduces risk, and the configuration is very easy, among other things.
What needs improvement?
I think the pricing is very high. It is a big cost. The price of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is very expensive, but it is important to the enterprise. I think it is more or less.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for approximately five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is very scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I like the Akamai support very much. The response is very fast. The attention is very good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not evaluate other options. I am happy with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
What about the implementation team?
We have a relationship with this vendor. We are a partner and an experienced user.
What was our ROI?
The investment is necessary for enterprises to reduce risk, protect the enterprise, and have visibility of the network.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
What other advice do I have?
I gave this product a review rating of 10.
reviewer2790663
Network visibility has transformed segmentation in our kubernetes environments and improves security
Reviewed on Dec 23, 2025
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is the implementation in Kubernetes AWS .
How has it helped my organization?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has positively impacted our organization. We implemented Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and shared all our directory with the team, who are very happy about the security environment we implemented.
What is most valuable?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation offers us large visibility in all our environments and helps us to understand network segmentation and traffic.
The visibility from Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has helped our team by addressing the challenge of a shadow network in traffic across all environments, providing us with more insight into this network traffic.
In my experience with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, the best feature is visibility. The segmentation is excellent, but the visibility of all network traffic is extremely helpful.
The segmentation feature of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is very easy to set up across all environments. The Akamai team supports all our questions, and the tool is very easy to use, making it extremely helpful.
Regarding the features of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, the integration with Active Directory is excellent and very positive.
One specific outcome from using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is that we noticed addressing network threats, which are a very significant problem in any company. This feature, along with visibility, has brought us more peace of mind.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for more than three years, and I had the opportunity to get certified. I liked the tool so much that I had the opportunity to earn the GCSA and GCSE certifications.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is that visibility is crucial. If you are not seeing your network clearly, your job is challenging. Visibility is the main word in Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. Our company has a business relationship with Akamai as we are a partner or reseller. I rate this product a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ken Bauer
Segmentation of legacy systems has protected outdated endpoints and reduces network risk
Reviewed on Dec 11, 2025
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is segmenting legacy operating systems.
I use Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to segment legacy operating systems because they do not support our EDR tools due to their age, and I chose Akamai Guardicore because its agents support very old systems that need to be segmented from the rest of the network.
We are mainly using it for legacy systems.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can be improved because keeping it up to date is difficult since it is SaaS-based and updates are not on a regular schedule; I have to reach out to my contact to ask them to update to a newer version, and it would be helpful if updates were on a regular cadence so that I would not have to remember to ask them.
I think it is really valuable to take a course on Akamai Guardicore Segmentation because many things are not obvious in terms of how to do them correctly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is stable and very reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is very good. It scales very well, and I can keep adding agents and scale as much as needed.
How are customer service and support?
I have not had to reach out to customer support for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment in terms of specific metrics like time saved or reduced risk, but I can say that reduced risk is significant.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
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.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, I evaluated other options, but I cannot recall them off the top of my head.
What other advice do I have?
Since I started using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, we have not had any situations that demonstrate specific results or metrics such as fewer incidents or improved compliance.
My advice to others looking into using Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is to work with professional services during setup because it is not intuitive at the beginning and to take the administrator course to understand the Reveal Maps, as the Reveal Maps are the most useful way to control the segmentation.
I give this product a rating of 8.
Sunil K.
One of the best Segmentation Tool that using Labelling
Reviewed on Jul 29, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Guardicore is Labelling base segmentation tool which provide huge flexbility to perform the segmentation using verious different attributes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Frequent releases of major version is very time consuming task and disturb the whole operation flow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Guardicore segmentation is helping us to restrict or control the east west traffic which is usually not intercepted by the gateway level firewall like north south traffic.