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Executive Summary
Updated on Jul 4, 2023

We performed a comparison between Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation and SUSE NeuVector based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Features: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation provides useful functionalities like advanced monitoring capabilities, automated policy creation, and robust visibility into application communication. SUSE NeuVector stands out with its informative dashboard and sophisticated automation. Reviewers say Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation could expand its operating system support and improve the effectiveness of its agents in OT environments. SUSE NeuVector users want support for IaaS and virtual machine scanning and better integration with other security tools in hybrid environments.

  • Service and Support: Some customers were pleased with Illumio's quick response and round-the-clock assistance. However, others complained about unhelpful replies and response delays. While SUSE NeuVector's technical support was generally praised as being helpful, responsive, and knowledgeable, some customers found it hard to navigate the process and find a person who could help them. 

  • Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is straightforward and can be completed within a few days. The setup for SUSE NeuVector can vary in difficulty, with some finding it easy and others reporting challenges. NeuVector's integration with pipelines is particularly problematic, as it requires custom scripts. The initial deployment time for NeuVector can range from a couple of days to a few weeks.

  • Pricing: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is considered somewhat expensive. SUSE NeuVector pricing is flexible and negotiable. The cost can vary depending on the size of the customer and the length of the licensing contract. 

  • ROI: SUSE NeuVector has a solid potential return on investment, particularly for high-risk industries such as financial services. However, it may not be as advantageous for other sectors, such as the retail industry. Users have not provided feedback on the ROI of Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation yet. 

Comparison Results: Our users prefer Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation over SUSE NeuVector. Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has an easy setup process and offers advanced features like sophisticated monitoring capabilities and automated policy writing.

To learn more, read our detailed Illumio vs. SUSE NeuVector Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"Cloud Native Security is user-friendly. Everything in the Cloud Native Security tool is straightforward, including detections, integration, reporting, etc. They are constantly improving their UI by adding plugins and other features.""With PingSafe, it's easy to onboard new accounts.""Cloud Native Security's best feature is its ability to identify hard-coded secrets during pull request reviews.""It is scalable, stable, and can detect any threat on a machine. It uses artificial intelligence and can lock down any virus.""PingSafe has a dashboard that can detect the criticality of a particular problem, whether it falls under critical, medium, or low vulnerability.""PingSafe offers three key features: vulnerability management notifications, cloud configuration assistance, and security scanning.""The UI is very good.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its storyline, which helps trace an event back to its source, like an email or someone clicking on a link."

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"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation.""The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature.""The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies.""The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build.""The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used.""The solution is easy to use.""The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files.""The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."

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"When it comes to the price, we got a really good deal from the vendor instantly.""The features of image scanning and anti-malware are really valuable.""The initial setup is quite good, it's straightforward.""The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is the performance, deployment, and cost.""The tool's deployment is simple. Also, I am impressed with its risk capabilities.""The UI has a lot of features.""The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security."

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Cons
"In some cases, the rules are strictly enforced but do not align with real-world use cases.""Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky.""We had a glitch in PingSafe where it fed us false positives in the past.""Bugs need to be disclosed quickly.""One of our use cases was setting up a firewall for our endpoints, specifically for our remote users... We were hoping to utilize SentinelOne's firewall capabilities, but there were limitations on how many URLs we could implement. Because of those limitations on the number of URLs, we weren't able to utilize that feature in the way we had hoped to.""There's room for improvement in the graphic explorer.""When we get a new finding from PingSafe, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the PingSafe platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report.""There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."

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"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances.""It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product.""I would like to see better data security in the product.""Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial.""The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules.""The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments.""The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better.""The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."

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"I would say that this solution should improve monitoring and reporting. I would also like to see more integrations so that we could essentially make it a part of a developing pipeline.""SUSE NeuVector should provide more security protection rules and better container image scanning.""The tool should offer seamless integration of other security tools while in a hybrid environment.""SUSE NeuVector could improve by increasing its visibility into other elements of the DevSecOps pipeline. Additionally, scanning around infrastructure would be helpful.""We are also working with IaaS VMS, but NeuVector doesn't support virtual machines.""The image-scanning features need improvement.""The documentation needs to improve a bit."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "As a partner, we receive a discount on the licenses."
  • "It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."
  • "I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."
  • "Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."
  • "Singularity Cloud Workload Security's licensing and price were cheaper than the other solutions we looked at."
  • "I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."
  • "It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."
  • "The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"
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  • "There is a subscription needed to use Illumio Adaptive Security Platform and we pay every three years. Overall the solution is expensive."
  • "The product's pricing is around 10,000-15,000 USD. The pricing is on a yearly basis."
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  • "Licensing fees are paid yearly."
  • "The solution's pricing could be better. The cost of a subscription is calculated on the basis of work."
  • "The price of SUSE NeuVector is low. There is an additional cost for support."
  • "SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best… more »
    Top Answer:When I joined my organization, I saw that PingSafe was already implemented. I started to use the tool's alerting… more »
    Top Answer:The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across… more »
    Top Answer:The product's pricing is around 10,000-15,000 USD. The pricing is on a yearly basis.
    Top Answer:Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security.
    Top Answer:SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution. You have to pay for the support.
    Top Answer:SUSE NeuVector should provide more security protection rules and better container image scanning.
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    Also Known As
    PingSafe
    Illumio Adaptive Security Platform, Illumio ASP
    NeuVector
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    Overview

    Singularity Cloud Security is SentinelOne’s comprehensive, cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It combines the best of agentless insights with AI-powered threat protection, to secure and protect your multi-cloud infrastructure, services, and containers from build time to runtime. SentinelOne’s CNAPP applies an attacker’s mindset to help security practitioners better prioritize their  remediation tasks with evidence-backed Verified Exploit Paths™. The efficient and scalable runtime protection, proven over 5 years and trusted by many of the world’s leading cloud enterprises, harnesses local, autonomous AI engines to detect and thwart runtime threats in real-time. CNAPP data and workload telemetry is recorded to SentinelOne’s unified security lake, for easy access and investigation.

    Singularity Cloud Security includes both agentless and AI-powered cloud security controls, which represent two halves of our strategy to keep public cloud and container environments safe. Radically reduce your cloud attack surface with Singularity Cloud Native Security, formerly PingSafe, with agentless insights and evidence-based prioritization; protect runtime compute and container with Singularity Cloud Workload Security, SentinelOne’s real-time CWPP, with AI-powered machine-speed blocking of threats.

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is a cloud and data center security solution that helps stop breaches from spreading across hybrid and multi cloud IT environments. The solution is designed to stop ransomware, contain cyber attacks, and reduce risk. With Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, users can understand relationships and communications to map exposure risk of systems and data, identify the right security posture and secure applications through least-privilege policies, and ensure a Zero Trust security posture.

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Features

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Scalability: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation scales up to 200,000 managed workloads or over 700,000 unmanaged workloads. These workloads can be in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments.
    • Single pane of visibility: The solution’s single pane of visibility improves your security posture and ability to prevent and respond rapidly to cyberattacks.
    • Simplicity: With Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, setting up groups and tags is simple. The solution is easy to integrate with next-generation firewalls and can also integrate with IT service management tools to import workload tags to provide more context to workloads.
    • Ransomware containment: The solution provides enforcement boundaries to contain attackers from moving laterally across your organization, enabling security architects to immediately isolate any workload or endpoint compromised in an attack. Enforcement boundaries can be activated instantly through scripts or by manual control, isolating workloads and endpoints already infected from spreading across the organization.

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Visibility everywhere: The Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation solution helps ensure that every interaction on your network is accounted for. 
    • Least-privilege access: By implementing Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, your organization can prevent unexpected breaches from propagating.
    • Adaptability and consistency: The solution guarantees consistent network behavior everywhere. 
    • Proactive posture: Using the solution enables your organization to always be on the lookout for an attack. 
    • Improve breach containment: With the solution, you can prevent unauthorized lateral movement and reduce your blast radius. Creating micro-perimeters around specific assets breaks up your attack surface and gives you the granular control needed to contain breaches.
    • Streamline policy management: The solution enables organizations to decouple segmentation from the underlying network to define policies based on the language that IT uses. Illumio's human-readable labels make policy creation much simpler and faster than traditional network segmentation approaches like VLANs, IP addresses, and port numbers.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it has a good auto policy writing feature, great mapping, and useful monitoring. 

    Shashi, Technical Consultant at a financial services firm, explains which features she really likes. “The auto policy writing is great. The feature will give you the option of inbound-outbound traffic. The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination. The illumination definitely stands out. Mapping is great. The application group mapping is useful.”

    The solution has “helpful support, useful monitoring, and high availability,” according to Edwin L., Security Architect at MGM.

    SUSE NeuVector is a full lifecycle container security solution that helps your organization secure its container infrastructures, manage Kubernetes security risks, and block threats. The NeuVector continuous container security and compliance platform simplifies data protection from pipeline to production, enforces compliance, and provides complete visibility and automated controls for protection against known and unknown threats. In addition, NeuVector is the only Kubernetes-native container security solution that offers a comprehensive risk profile of known vulnerabilities and also delivers immediate protection from all vulnerabilities.

    SUSE NeuVector Features

    SUSE NueVector has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Container incident detection and prevention
    • Network security
    • Runtime security
    • Supply chain security
    • Container firewall
    • Host and platform security
    • Cloud-native automation and integration
    • Resource monitoring
    • Visualization and reporting
    • High availability
    • Security
    • Vulnerability management
    • Compliance and auditing
    • Alerting
    • Logging and Response

    SUSE NeuVector Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing NeuVector. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Deep packet inspection (DPI): NeuVector applies DPI to identify attacks, detect sensitive data, or verify application access to further reduce the attack surface. Only network layer analysis enables security to detect and verify the allowed protocols, helping security teams enforce business policy.
    • Real-time protection: NeuVector provides inspection, segmentation, and protection of all traffic into and out of a container. This includes container to container traffic, and ingress from external sources to containers, as well as egress from containers to external applications and the internet. The solution aims to protect your applications from internal application level attacks such as DDoS and DNS.
    • Capture packets for debugging and threat investigation: WIth NeuVector, you can view summary connection data and drill down into actual packet details for each container, as they scale up and down. When a threat is detected, NeuVector is able to automatically capture and display the packet info, making it easy for you to investigate.
    • Automated security policies: The NeuVector solution allows you to automate the creation of security policies to protect application workloads in production. The solution also enables you to automate and maintain run-time security policies using Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs), and gives you the option to declare an application security policy at any stage in the pipeline.
    • Compliance: NeuVector offers detection capabilities and security policy enforcement that prevent PHI and PII exposure, exceed requirements, and simplify reporting for PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and more. The solution helps you track critical vulnerabilities and compliance violations so you can quickly identify any that require immediate patching or followup alerts. It also makes it possible for you to manage vulnerability and compliance scan results, with no required integration to external workflow tools.

    Reviews from Real Users

    A Platform Solution Architect at a tech services company says, “The solution is feature-rich, easy to set up, and has good support.”

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    Plantronics, NTT Innovation Institute Inc.
    Figo, Clear Review, Arvato Bertelsmann, Experian, Chime
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Construction Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Media Company8%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government6%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business57%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Illumio vs. SUSE NeuVector
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Illumio vs. SUSE NeuVector and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Illumio is ranked 14th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 8 reviews while SUSE NeuVector is ranked 15th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 7 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while SUSE NeuVector is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE NeuVector writes "Good value for money; great for policy management". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Zero Networks Microsegmentation, whereas SUSE NeuVector is most compared with Sysdig Falco, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Sysdig Secure. See our Illumio vs. SUSE NeuVector report.

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