Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. FortiDeceptor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
FortiDeceptor
Score 9.4 out of 10
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FortiDeceptor is a deception-based breach protection that helps users deceive, expose and eliminate external and internal threats.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
NinjaOne
NinjaOne
Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Nmap
Nmap
Score 8.8 out of 10
InsightIDR
InsightIDR
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Nmap
Nmap
Score 8.8 out of 10
InsightIDR
InsightIDR
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Akamai Guardicore SegmentationFortiDeceptor
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.7
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Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.0
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User Testimonials
Akamai Guardicore SegmentationFortiDeceptor
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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Fortinet
To help the Infosec Team Scale & create a seamless consolidated threat response. FortiDeceptor all the Security analysts to manually investigate & manual remediation or automatically block these attacks based on severity before actual damage occurs via integration with Fortigate to quarantine the IP address of the threat actor, FortiNAC to isolate devices within an organization with FortiSOAR to trigger appropriate playbooks for an orchestrated response and with 3rd party solutions to trigger a response action via built-in fabric connector API. FortiDeceptor needs other FortiFabric Devices to respond well, however, FortiDeceptor also connects with other solutions via built-in fabric connector API, but you may miss the real-time data flow or may be delayed in response.
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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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Fortinet
  • Protects against all types of malware.
  • Provides visibility to potential attacks to your network.
  • Blocks access to inappropriate websites.
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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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Fortinet
  • FortiSandbox integration has limited/basic Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) capabilities.
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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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Fortinet
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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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Fortinet
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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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Fortinet
Since we have other Fortinet solutions like Fortigate NGFW & FortiSIEM in place, they share the threat intelligence with each other, and FortiDeceptor works very well in FortiFabric environments, We decided to go with FortiDeceptor for Deception technology. In the case of Rapid7 & Smokescreen, we had to counter the integration issue with existing IT infra, Security solutions should not work in silos, they need to share intelligence with each other to get the best from the existing Solution & to get the best ROI.
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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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Fortinet
  • Internet security is a gamble. It's hard to know the cost of a "would-be" attack. FortiDeceptor is basically an insurance policy and for that, it is a great investment.
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