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AWS IoT Device Defender vs. Symantec Critical System Protection

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    AWS IoT Device Defender

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAWS IoT Device Defender is a fully managed service that helps users secure fleets of IoT devices. AWS IoT Device Defender continuously audits IoT configurations to make sure that they aren’t deviating from security best practices. A configuration is a set of technical controls that help keep information secure when devices are communicating with each other and the cloud. AWS IoT Device Defender helps maintain and enforce IoT configurations, such as ensuring device identity, authenticating and…N/A

    Symantec Critical System Protection

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Critical System Protection is a lightweight behavioral hardening engine purpose-built to protect legacy, EOL systems and embedded devices, by adding layers of defense at the kernel level to prevent unhygenic operations on IoT devices and machines.N/A
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    AWS IoT Device DefenderSymantec Critical System Protection
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    AWS IoT Device DefenderSymantec Critical System Protection
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    User Testimonials
    AWS IoT Device DefenderSymantec Critical System Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    We have used AWS IoT Device Defender to safeguard our client's IoT senors placed in a manufacturing unit for implementing Industry 4.0 solutions. Its machine learning and automation capabilities have ensured that we get alerts whenever something abnormal or spike in a particular metric is detected which lets us sleep at night. Didn't find any scenario where it is less suited.
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    Broadcom
    Symantec Critical System Protection (CSP) is very well suited for environments that do not change such as point of sale systems and critical servers. This product is spectacular at protecting end of life operating systems when supporting legacy software prevents upgrades. When security updates are no longer available, CSP will prevent exploits and other malware from taking advantage. This product is not well suited for systems that require a lot of changes. For one, it does not notify when a change has been blocked by CSP, causing some server administrators to waste many hours chasing a phantom technical problem when turning off CSP could have solved it right away. Also, profiling takes time so systems that constantly change would need hundreds of exceptions made.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • software is having an easy interface
    • prevents malicious data inflow/outflow from the AWS resources
    • collect data from different devices
    • generating alerts in case of any threshold.
    • Unique identity per device
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    Broadcom
    • Data Center Security 6.0 and higher allows you to easily build out policies to deploy to monitor/block what is required/needed.
    • The agent that is installed on the hosts has a small footprint in terms of CPU and memory usage.
    • The ability to customize it anyway you need to as well as utilize out of the box policies to monitor critical OS functionality.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Support to more range of Application vulnerabilities
    • Data Management can be richer
    • Limited Computing Power at times
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    Broadcom
    • Tuning takes a very long time
    • Turning the product on or off can take time
    • When an action is prevented by CSP, there is no pop up or notification, making this a burden for server administrators
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Broadcom
    They respond quickly and efficiently without the need to reiterate the actual issue. Their backline support is amazing and always there for us when it is needed. They explain the troubleshooting steps taken and what they did to help us resolve the issue just incase it creeps up again we have the information to correct it ourselves.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Broadcom
    We evaluated Bit 9 and you have more flexibility with the rule set and do not rely on the cloud to tell you what is approved and not approved. You build out the policies the way you need them to be and who better knows the environment that the people that work it daily.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It's ML part which is already trained and on the top of that we can add our own model to define device behaviors to monitor traffic and set the upmost security.
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    Broadcom
    • Great protection for unchanging systems
    • We have comfort that the protected systems are safe from intrusion
    • Excellent price
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