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4.4/5 Cloudflare

Bought for WAF, kept for everything else

We came for DDoS and WAF and ended up moving DNS, Zero Trust access and tunnels there too. The dashboard is fast, the docs are excellent, and changes take effect in seconds rather...

David Okafor Sample · 251-1000 people · Logistics · deployed 2023 · 9 found this helpful
4.2/5 Delinea

Easier to live with than the enterprise alternative

We wanted PAM without a two-quarter implementation. Secret Server got us vaulting and rotation in weeks rather than months, and the admin experience is much lighter. It does less t...

Karthik Subramanian Sample · 51-250 people · Education · deployed 2024 · 6 found this helpful
3.4/5 CyberArk

The serious PAM answer, with a serious implementation

If you need vaulting, session isolation and recording that survives a regulator asking questions, CyberArk is the mature answer. Implementation is a project measured in quarters an...

Arjun Mehra Sample · 1001-5000 people · Banking & finance · deployed 2023 · 6 found this helpful
3.6/5 KnowBe4

Content library is the reason to buy it

The library is the differentiator: enough variety that people do not see the same three templates every quarter, and localisation that works for a multi-country business. Reporting...

Neha Kulkarni Sample · 1001-5000 people · Insurance · deployed 2022 · 10 found this helpful

Caught the invoice fraud attempt everything else missed

We layered Abnormal on top of Microsoft 365 rather than replacing anything, and within the first month it flagged a supplier invoice change that had already passed the gateway. The...

Meera Pillai Sample · 51-250 people · Retail & e-commerce · deployed 2025 · 4 found this helpful
3.8/5 Proofpoint

Email security that measurably reduced our incidents

Phishing was our top incident category and it no longer is. The URL rewriting and attachment sandboxing catch things that got through our previous gateway, and the reporting is goo...

Ritu Sharma Sample · 251-1000 people · Healthcare & pharma · deployed 2024 · 5 found this helpful

Great if you have the engineering to run it

We already ran Elastic for logs so extending into security was a small step and the cost model is much kinder than per-GB SIEMs. Detection rules are open and readable, which our de...

Chen Wei Sample · 5000+ people · Telecom · deployed 2024
3.2/5 Splunk

Still the most capable, still the most expensive

Nothing else we tested handles our data volume and query complexity the way Splunk does, and the app ecosystem means most sources are solved problems. The cost is the entire conver...

Elena Vasquez Sample · 5000+ people · Energy & utilities · deployed 2019 · 9 found this helpful

Quietly excellent detection at a fair price

Consistently strong in independent tests and our own experience matches: very low false positive rate, which for a small team is worth more than headline detection numbers. Console...

Ankit Bhargava Sample · 1-50 people · IT services & SaaS · deployed 2024 · 8 found this helpful

Sensible product, excellent for a small team

Central makes a two-person team feel bigger than it is. Policy is comprehensible, the ransomware protection has held up in tests, and the MDR add-on gave us cover overnight without...

Vikram Nair Sample · 1-50 people · IT services & SaaS · deployed 2024 · 4 found this helpful
4.2/5 Seqrite

Good regional support and honest pricing for our size

We are a 900-endpoint operation in India and the calculus is different: response time from local support matters more to us than a marginally better detection benchmark. Seqrite an...

Gaurav Malhotra Sample · 51-250 people · Professional services · deployed 2023 · 6 found this helpful
3.2/5 Qualys

Reliable workhorse, integration takes effort

Been running Qualys for years across a distributed logistics estate. The scanning is dependable and the agent is light. The modules stack up and getting data out into our own repor...

Omar Haddad Sample · 251-1000 people · Government & public sector · deployed 2020 · 11 found this helpful
3.4/5 Tenable

The scanning standard, priced like the standard

Tenable is what auditors expect to see and the plugin coverage is comprehensive, particularly for OT-adjacent equipment where the alternatives were guessing. It is not cheap and th...

Jonas Lindqvist Sample · 5000+ people · Manufacturing · deployed 2021 · 11 found this helpful

Scanning is fine, the remediation workflow is why we stayed

Every scanner finds vulnerabilities. What we needed was a way to hand IT a list they would actually work through, and the remediation projects plus the goals view did that better t...

Aisha Bello Sample · 251-1000 people · Banking & finance · deployed 2023 · 1 found this helpful

The firewall is excellent, the licence stack is the cost

PAN-OS does what we need and App-ID is still the best in class for policy that survives an audit. Budget honestly though: the appliance is a fraction of the total once you add subs...

Tom Whitfield Sample · 5000+ people · Retail & e-commerce · deployed 2022 · 12 found this helpful