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    Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AGuardicore 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

    HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager provides role- and device-based network access control for employees, contractors and guests across multi-vendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructures.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Akamai Guardicore SegmentationHPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    9.5
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Akamai Guardicore SegmentationHPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    This is the best possible solution for enterprise-level organizations where server counts will be in the thousands. To manage these and understand the communication can be very cumbersome without this tool. Ease of creation map zone and application-wise can be relaxing to OS teams and support teams as well. There is no limit to labeling schema of servers and it gives the freedom to do so.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Aruba ClearPass is suited well for large enterprise networks with many connecting buildings and branches. Aruba ClearPass protects your endpoints from unauthorized or unknown devices accessing your network. You can apply policies that prevent devices from meeting the required policies in ClearPass. ClearPass will allow only authorized access for devices that are using the policies.
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Network traffic flow within environment of organization.
    • Creating maps for visibility and drill down is a key feature.
    • Labelling of servers can be done via running script.
    • Alerts can be sensitized for the traffic not seen.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • You can use ClearPass authenticate using wired and wireless network devices. This is helpful that you don't have to have multiple systems to accomplish this.
    • Because devices can have different purposes Clearpass can configure groups that will specify what access they have. You can use parameters such as vendor or mac address so clearpass know what group to push them to.
    • It is very easy to view device logs. This is really helpful to troubleshoot auth issues. Once you find the device Clearpass provides more than enough info to know what the issue is and to fix it.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • Limited support to legacy infrastructure.
    • Integration with third party is a bit tedious.
    • Awaiting support for Kubernetes in the next version.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Going to the end of the page to edit the rules and save them later causes problems.
    • An AND operation can be performed within a rule, but an OR operation cannot. therefore having to write too many rules
    • The license structure seems very complex at first.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akamai
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It's a great product, does what we expect from it however it's not easy to set up. You'll likely need an integrator to assist
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    Usability
    Akamai
    The solution is deployed throughout the organization. Teams are working and integrating it with the help desk tool wherever required. Helps in identifying the network traffic flows in lateral movement and east and west as well. Allows policies by default and later fine-tuning to be done to narrow it and enforce blocking action. Exporting reports from the tool is easy and can be observed for any issues.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Though Aruba ClearPass offers a lot of insight and features, it is not the easiest to navigate. A lot of other systems can be figured out as you go, but Aruba ClearPass often requires a lot of research in order to set something up correctly. It's not always easy to find what you're looking for. Once you learn the basics, it becomes a lot more manageable, but it's definitely worth investing in some sort of training.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Akamai
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We have it as a cluster
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    Performance
    Akamai
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It’s very responsive
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    Support Rating
    Akamai
    Support has been available 24*7. It also depends on criticality but support is available. Also, the right expertise from the team helps in identifying the issue quickly and this helps in less production downtime if required. The ticket is resolved with RCA.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    This product has consistently provided the results needed from it and when issues arose, Aruba TAC was able to provide support effectively. In the previous question, I stated that Aruba Wireless is used as well. With those systems in place with ClearPass troubleshooting becomes much easier. I am sure other issues may arise if calling support while using another vendor for wireless such as Cisco, Juniper, etc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    1) No limit to labeling schema. 2) Ease of creating maps with respect to zone, environment, subnets, etc. 3) Ease of creating policies and publishing the same. 4) Deception 5) Integration with monitoring tool (grafana) 6) Changes in the agent can be considered if there are legacy systems, time-consuming but can be achieved with the right information.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    From my experience, ClearPass has been the best NAC server of all I've seen. Even though configuration is somewhat hard and it's hard to get training, once you learn how to configure it it works very well. The policies are very granular and scalable and the interface is a well-done web GUI that does not need any extra plugins installed, as some of Cisco's product require. There are many more options than with FortiNAC, and many more integration options. Also, troubleshooting and logging is good.
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    Scalability
    Akamai
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It’s very reliable
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    Professional Services
    Akamai
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Got the job done
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Blocking unwarranted traffic can really boost security of organization.
    • Alerts can be triggered to SIEM servers and help in timely action.
    • Need to be very careful before configuring and publishing block policies in the production environment.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • ClearPass has streamlined everything so we don't have to have as many people managing our device auth systems.
    • Our Security team loves that ClearPass can deny unauthorized users and devices from the network. This alone has probably saved us a lot of money and headaches.
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