Unified visibility has improved security monitoring and simplifies compliance across environments
What is our primary use case?
I use Armor Anywhere to monitor and secure our workloads running across cloud and hybrid environments.
I use Armor Anywhere to review security posture, alerts, and compliance stages in my day-to-day work. It gives us continuous visibility into vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential threats. The main use case is around cloud workload protection, compliance, and security monitoring.
What is most valuable?
The best features Armor Anywhere offers are definitely the centralized visibility and managed security layer. Having a single dashboard to see security posture across environments is a big advantage.
The centralized dashboard enables us to get better visibility in a UI form. It also helps with compliance reporting for audits and reviews. Overall, it improves the security posture and reduces operational overhead for the team.
We've seen faster incident response times and fewer false alerts because of the automation and integration. From a compliance standpoint, it has helped us maintain consistent controls and simplified reporting for audits because of the automation.
Overall, Armor Anywhere has helped us improve our overall security posture. It provides a solid, reliable cloud security solution which works across our hybrid environments and on-premises as well. It has provided us a good balance of compliance and monitoring, simplified our security across environments, while giving us great visibility on all things.
What needs improvement?
There is not much to dislike about Armor Anywhere, but the dashboard could be more customizable for different team roles.
The customizable nature is missing to some extent for different team roles. Additionally, more granular reporting filters would have been great for investigation purposes.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Armor Anywhere for about a year now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Armor Anywhere is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Armor Anywhere's scalability is good.
How are customer service and support?
Armor Anywhere's customer support is good. I have not really needed to reach out to them.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I do not think we used any other solution before Armor Anywhere. In the first place, we were just looking for some alternatives.
How was the initial setup?
We did evaluate other options before choosing Armor Anywhere. One was Prisma Cloud or something similar. There were also some other native AWS security services. However, these tools have strong individual features, but Armor Anywhere stood out because it combines many other features into a single platform. That is why we went with this.
What about the implementation team?
We did purchase Armor Anywhere through the AWS Marketplace. It was implemented by a team first. I am not entirely sure about all the details because it is handled by some people in my team. Overall, it was good and pretty worth it.
What was our ROI?
We have had a lot of savings in terms of time, efforts, and faster response times because of better visibility with Armor Anywhere. I do not have any specific metrics, but overall efforts were reduced by approximately 25%. Overall, it has made our lives simpler.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are just a customer of Armor Anywhere.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend Armor Anywhere for anyone who is going for it because overall it is a solid, secure, reliable cloud security solution that works across all hybrid environments or on-premises environments as well. I would recommend it to organizations looking for unified security visibility with managed support. This review has a rating of 9.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Best Vulnerability tracking and Support
What do you like best about the product?
The support and the dashboard list the vulnerabilities with solutions and proper links to the articles to vulnerability and its resolution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Login always needs two-factor authentication even when logging in from the same machine, and malware update fails frequently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Patching vulnerabilities introduced by different software running on the VM and to prevent malware installation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Armor has the best support, and its agent vulnerability scanner is the best out there.
Armor Anywhere review
What do you like best about the product?
Armor is good product considering security. Armor works well against vulnerabilities, Malware, and intrusion. It is working very well for all kinds of operating systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
When we resolved the vulnerabilities given by Armor, and check against it, it is not reflecting immediately. It is taking more time than expected. This time has to be decreased.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It give OS updates report accurately, which keeps our server up to date against all the vulnerabilities.
In case of any malware attacks, it is immediately detected and responds, which makes our environment more secure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent security Product. I recommend it.
Best IaaS
What do you like best about the product?
Support is vital in any Iaas platform. We feel the support is what keeps our company running.
What do you dislike about the product?
I sometimes feel the cost of spinning up any server should not have to include a 600.00 a month surcharge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benefits are the support we get with our servers and security subscriptions.
Always fantastic to work with!
What do you like best about the product?
We've been working with Armor for many years now and they've always acted as a true business partner, helping us ensure we can meeting our clients' needs. For both technical and business issues, Armor has always been quick to come to the table and collaborate on solutions to ensure we can offer what our clients need on terms that work for everyone. If you're looking for someone who will stand beside you and act as a true partner, Armor is a great choice!
What do you dislike about the product?
While you're paying a premium over commodity hosting, unless you have the internal expertise and scale to do it all on your own, the price is well worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When we first engaged with Armor we had been hosting our customers servers in our office. We didn't have the expertise required to viably scale our business this way and Armor helped immensely by allowing us to dramatically scale our business while offering the level of security and compliance that our customers demanded.
Armor Anywhere - Peace of mind
What do you like best about the product?
Armor is a great set it and forget it security product. It runs perfectly in our cloud installation. Requires very little resources and has all the necessary KPI's available when you need them. Dashboard is very user intuitive and easy to understand. Armor is a huge help with viewing logs and patch management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime the Multi-factor authentication is bothersome. But hey, it is a security product. That is what you would expect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Armor has help greatly with updating our severs with all necessary patches.
Doing weekly, monthly, and quarterly security reviews.
Identify, Tracking, and investigating security events.
Simple and easy!
What do you like best about the product?
The dashboard is very user friendly! Within seconds of logging in, you can view an overall health score up to the minute.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of anything I dislike about Amor!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to effectively monitor our system with Armor.
Armor service has kept me comliant
What do you like best about the product?
The ability for the service to wrap over my current setup and keep my HIPAA compliant.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside is an upside because they require proper authentication and provide many alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has resolved the compliance requirement in my industry with out needing major technical oversight. It also has benefited my budget because initially the cost to secure my platform was prohibitive until I found this produce
Provides security and peace of mind
What do you like best about the product?
We've been an Armor customer for years and have appreciated the top notch security services and customer support that is always responsive and helpful. Moving to their Armor Anywhere service was pretty much plug and play and we haven't had to think much about it since getting started.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web interface has been much improved in recent years, but can still feel clunky at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're a small team and it's nice to not need to dedicate resources for the services that Armor provides. We have peace of mind knowing that they're on the lookout for vulnerabilities and patching any that may arise.
Great Affordable Service for Our Startup
What do you like best about the product?
They helped us understand the security issues we are facing and the most affordable ways to solve them. They were up front about what their products could and couldn't do and they helped us onboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
When we started with them they had just created a new product, in partnership with Palo Alto Networks, and the kinks of how it would work and how we would get up and running were not worked out, so it took much longer than it should have. I'm sure those are worked out now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We enables companies to collect video from anyone, anywhere on any device. The videos and their accompanying data are important and sometimes confidential. We want to make sure our server environment is secure, which is what the Armor solution is part of.
