Unify and Protect Enterprise IT with Zero Trust Segmentation
Stop lateral movement, prevent ransomware, and secure hybrid IT environments with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
Reinventing Enterprise Security
Akamai Guardicore is a micro-segmentation and Zero Trust security platform designed to protect critical assets across data centres and cloud environments. It provides deep visibility into network traffic, enabling organisations to isolate workloads, prevent lateral movement, and reduce attack surfaces. Guardicore enforces granular, identity-based security policies without relying on traditional firewalls. With real-time traffic mapping, threat detection, and policy automation, it helps enterprises secure hybrid infrastructures and meet compliance requirements efficiently while supporting modern application architectures.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation allows you to contain attacks on applications and workloads in hybrid cloud and K8s environments, with the same visibility and policy controls provisioned in on-prem environments. Map your assets and flows across environments, virtual machines, servers, and containers, all from a single pane of glass.
Take control of your hybrid infrastructure with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
What is Akamai Guardicore Segmentation?
A Zero Trust microsegmentation platform built to protect critical assets across data centers, clouds, and endpoints. Guardicore delivers deep visibility, enforces granular policies, and stops breaches before they spread.
Granular AI-powered segmentation
Quickly build and enforce segmentation policies with AI-driven recommendations, workload attributes, and ready-made templates for common security use cases.
Real-time & historical visibility
Visualise application flows and dependencies down to the user and process level — in real time or historically — for precise context and faster incident response.
Broad platform support
Secure workloads everywhere, from legacy bare-metal and virtual machines to modern containers, IoT, and multi-cloud environments.
Flexible asset labeling
Automate and streamline enforcement with customisable labels integrated into orchestration systems and configuration management tools.
Multiple protection methods
Reduce breach impact with integrated threat intelligence, deception, and detection capabilities to accelerate response and containment.
Safeguard your hybrid infrastructure with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
Why Akamai Guardicore?
Stop Lateral Movement
Prevent ransomware spread with granular microsegmentation that ringfences critical apps and workloads.
Real-Time, Deep Visibility
See dependencies and flows down to user and process level for faster, more accurate policy decisions.
Consistent Zero Trust Everywhere
Apply the same segmentation policies across data centers, clouds, containers, and endpoints—no network redesigns.
Simplified Security, Faster Compliance
AI-guided policies, automated labeling, and built-in detection streamline operations and help meet regulatory requirements.
Take control of hybrid risk with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
Proven Across Industries in South Africa
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation delivers measurable value across banking, retail, telecoms, and healthcare — stopping lateral movement, protecting critical systems, and ensuring compliance.
Banking & Financial Services
- Ringfence core banking applications and payment systems.
- Detect and contain threats before they reach customer data.
- Meet PCI DSS and regulatory segmentation requirements.
Retail & E-commerce
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Isolate POS systems and back-end inventory databases.
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Secure customer loyalty platforms from attacks.
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Minimise downtime and protect revenue during breaches.
Telecommunications
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Protect subscriber management and billing systems.
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Segment 5G network slices and OSS/BSS environments.
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Reduce risk to core infrastructure with Zero Trust enforcement.
Healthcare
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Protect patient data across EMR/EHR systems.
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Enforce HIPAA and POPIA compliance controls.
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Stop ransomware propagation within hospital networks.
Strengthen security and compliance across your industry with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation.
