Guardicore Advantages over Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
WE PROVIDE COMPLETE VISIBILITY
Guardicore builds and displays an end-to-end map with both real-time and historical information. Prisma Cloud’s mapping capabilities are limited and do not assist with segmentation policy creation.
WE PROVIDE FLEXIBLE LABELING
Guardicore’s integration with orchestration tools streamlines labeling based on your specific needs, supporting innovation and aligning seamlessly with modern DevOps processes.
WE REDUCE RISK FASTER
Prisma Cloud features a whitelist-only model Guardicore supports a flexible whitelist and blacklist model. This means faster risk reduction with fewer required rules.
WE DESIGNED FOR ENTERPRISE SCALE
Prisma Cloud’s two-tier architecture is 100% reliant on agents for visibility and is limited in its deployment flexibility and ability to collect, store, and analyze data at scale than Guardicore’s three-tier architecture.
WE OFFER ALL-IN-ONE PROTECTION
Breach detection is an integral component of the Guardicore solution, including deception, reputation, and a threat intelligence firewall. Prisma Cloud’s feature set is limited in scope.
WE SIMPLIFY AND ACCELERATE SEGMENTATION
Guardicores templates and AI-based segmentation allows customers to create and manage effective policies in just a few clicks. Prisma Cloud’s time-to-policy is significantly slower.
VISIBILITY DEPTH & BREADTH |  |  |
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Agent-based activity discovery |  | |
Agentless activity discovery | |  |
Real-time & historical visualization of all communication | |  |
Granular, live view of app components & communications | | |
Automatic application dependency map generation | | |
Visibility insights to aid policy development | | |
Built-in tag synchronization with orchestration tools | | |
POLICY CREATION AND ENFORCEMENT | ||
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Whitelist “Zero Trust” policy model | | |
Blacklist policy model | | |
Hybrid policy model | |  |
Automatic policy generation | | |
Build and test policies before enforcement | | |
Policy template library (e.g., Domain Controller, SharePoint, etc.) | | |
Enforcement independent OS firewall | | |
New workloads automatically inherit policies | | |
Incorporates user identity in the security policy | | |
Role-based views with policies scoped to application and location | | |
SEGMENTATION GRANULARITY | ||
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Basic segmentation (geo, environment, zone) | | |
Micro-segmentation (application by port, application tier, workload) | | |
Container-level segmentation | | |
BREACH DETECTION AND RESPONSE | ||
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Built-in reputation analysis for files, IP addresses, domains, and DNS | | |
Deception/Honeypot capabilities | | |
Incident response integration | | |
Built-in threat intelligence firewall | | |
Asset security history | | |
ENVIRONMENT/OS SUPPORT | ||
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Support for legacy OSs (e.g. Win2003, CentOS 6, RHEL5) | | |
Support for systems where agents cannot be deployed | | |
Support for Windows XP, 7, 10 | | |
Why Guardicore
“Our previous standard firewall policy had a five-day SLA for change requests. If you’re a developer working on a one week sprint and you’re waiting five days for a firewall to be opened up, that doesn’t align.””
Martijn Lohmeijer
HEAD OF INFRASTRUCTURE AT STAPLES SOLUTIONS
“Guardicore enables us to enhance our overall data center security strategy and help our IT security team to avoid today’s advanced threats.”
Marino Aguiar
CIO, Santander Brasil
“Guardicore gives me the ability to immediately isolate process or connection-based anomalies and view them with unprecedented clarity.”
Michael Lamberg
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
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