Competitive Advantages

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 Who Are Our Competitors?
Micro-segmentation Vendors

Firewall Vendors

Cloud Native Vendors

And Many More...

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 Illumio
Guardicore Advantages
Agent is a host-based firewall
while Illumio leverages OS
Firewall (Windows and IP Tables only)
Visibility
Labeling
Blacklist Rules
Integrated Breach Detection
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Why it is Important
▪ Guardicore can control applications regardless of OS
▪ More granular security policy & provides consistency across OSs
▪ Allows for broader coverage of OSs, including legacy
▪ Easier to understand what is going on in the environment
▪ Stored historically
▪ Rules can be modeled against historical data to make informed
decisions
▪ Guardicore has no limit on the type of label, Illumio offers 4 types
▪ Broader use case support
▪ More efficient
▪ Reduce number of rules required to accomplish some use cases
▪ Better ROI, simplified compliance
 Cisco Tetration
Guardicore Advantages
Agent is a host-based firewall
while Cisco leverages OS
Firewall
Visibility
Blacklist Rules
Scalability
Integrated Breach Detection
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Why it is Important
▪ Guardicore can control applications regardless of OS
▪ More granular security policy & provides consistency across OSs
▪ Allows for broader coverage of OSs, including legacy
▪ Guardicore provides more granular details
▪ Easier to understand what is going on in the environment
▪ Rules can be modeled against historical data to make informed
decisions
▪ More efficient
▪ Reduce number of rules required to accomplish some use cases
▪ Beyond 25,000 workloads, Cisco requires a complex hardware
configuration
▪ Cisco offers breach detection but separate consoles and licensing
 NSX (NSX-V, NSX-T, NSX-Cloud, VRNI, AppDefense)

Guardicore Advantages Why it is Important

Better coverage within same tool ▪ Additional risk reduction, one tool to all environment
▪ Cloud, containers, bare metal even with NSX-T case.
▪ Much better coverage than NSX-T for OSes

L7 policies ▪ Easier to create, tighter policies, better security posture & more
risk reduction
▪ No need to buy NGFW on top

Better visibility ▪ Faster segmentation, more use-cases – ROI

▪ More flexible filtering, historical data with high resolution and L7
context.

Integrated breach detection ▪ Better ROI, simplified compliance

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 Edgewise
Guardicore Advantages Why it is Important

Visibility ▪ Guardicore offers visibility in a way that helps understand the whole
environment, Edgewise only shows small segments
▪ Guardicore stores data historically (Used for modeling rules &
making informed decisions

Agent Support ▪ Guardicore offers support for legacy OSs and UNIX

Policy Granularity ▪ Guardicore policy can include device, process, user identity, port,
protocol, DNS, etc., Edgewise offers just device and process

User Experience ▪ Guardicore UI is much more user friendly

▪ Guardicore includes RBAC for creating different user experiences,
Edgewise is just Admin/Guest

Proven process for ▪ Guardicore Process = Model > Alert > Block
successfully implementing ▪ Guardicore offers the customer the ability to model the impact of
segmentation projects new rules against historical data.

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 Cloud Native Security Groups (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Guardicore Advantages Why it is Important

Infrastructure agnostic, ▪ Security Groups are per cloud provider

single-pane-of-glass ▪ In multi-cloud, requires management of rules in separate cloud
provider consoles
▪ In hybrid environment, requires managing a different solution for on-
prem workloads

Visibility ▪ Guardicore provides visibility across the environment

▪ Most clouds offer limited visibility, but only for their cloud

Scalable ▪ Security groups have many limitations around scale

Consistent Security Policy ▪ Guardicore allows for managing security policy across the whole
environment.

More granular rules ▪ Guardicore can control by application, user identity, DNS, etc

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 Firewalls & NGFW
Micro Segmentation NGFW

▪ Granular Policies ▪ Course Policies

▪ Virtual or Overlay Network ▪ Physical network

▪ East-west traffic ▪ North-south traffic

▪ Identity based/workload level ▪ Address bases/network level

▪ Software ▪ Hardware

▪ Metadata ▪ DPI

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