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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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What is Akamai Guardicore Segmentation?

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.

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Drone for visibility of servers

Incentivized
Harmesh Trivedi
Project Lead in Customer Service at Doyen Infosolutions (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Limited support to legacy infrastructure.
  • Integration with third party is a bit tedious.
  • Awaiting support for Kubernetes in the next version.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Usability

Other Software Used

Netskope CASB, Fortinet FortiGate, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator