AlgoSec Reviews

My organisation has used Firewall Analyser for many years to simplify and automate rule set management across an estate of hundreds of Checkpoint firewalls. Key functionality provided covers compliance reporting and identification of duplicate and unused, as well as risky rules.

Algosec is a game changer for our environment due to core functionality provided by Firewall Analyser. It has simplified rule optimisation and compliance. We are now building on this by deploying AlgoSec FireFlow which we expect to massively reduced the time and complexity around firewall change requests and approval. 

Compliance and risk reporting are the most valuable features of the product, closely followed by FireFlow, which builds on the analysis engine. I have also found the team to be engaging and customer focused.

I look forward to cloud service integration, which is coming in future releases and this should help make the product more of a complete solution. I would also like to see AlgoBot integrate with other communication systems such as Rocket Chat.

Implemented in a Managed Security Service Provider and had every managed customer firewalls integrated as part of the service. The tops were used to generate baseline reports and compliance views suiting all kinds of businesses.

The solution greatly improved the value delivered to the customer, generating reports and providing suggestions for improvements.

AlgoSec Firewall Analyser (AFA): Providing reports and security improvements actually added value to the services provided to our customers. This was a key feature provided as a service allowing us to be proactive anticipating possible flaws and vulnerabilities.

• Support more and more vendors, like minor ones: WatchGuard and others. 
• Also, it would be interesting if it could analyse iptables and IPFW rules and support migration.
• Windows Firewall and Forefront would also be nice since we often need to migrate from those platforms and prove the value of the newly installed solutions.

Very stable, I've had minimal problems using it, and the solution feels really mature.

Not that great, they are improving though.

Great support. Always available.

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Completely straightforward except with the configuration of Check Point devices which requires additional steps.

In-house.

Great return since the firewall analysis was sold as a service to our customer.

Setup is really straightforward, and their professional services are available for your every need. About costs, I don't see much difference from its competitors.

Yes. Tufin and FireMon.

It's not a solution to install and forget. To bring out the best of its value you must always keep generating reports and applying corrections. It's a great tool to have especially if you have too many juniors operators.

Check Point platform with over 14 clusters. 

It is very useful for PCI DSS compliance. 

FireFlow has been a winning product, as it helped with documenting all the processes in our rule implementations.

Rule optimization is one of the features that we have used the most, as firewalls were running for a while with no prior process rules created for them and no follow up being done.

• The reporting could be a bit better. 
• FireFlow was a bit tricky to configure with its customized flows. Maybe the latest release will resolve this.

Deployment was fairly easy. There were no issues. 

Everything was done using in-house resources.

The majority of customer use cases are around rule optimisation, workflow management, and risk/compliance. 

Our customers are able to optimise and clean the rule sets on our FW estate and streamline the change management process whilst adhering to compliance, governance, and risk requirements.

• Firewall Analyser due to its initial ability to cleanse and provide efficiencies to legacy estates. 
• FireFlow continues to drive customer efficiencies, allowing an organisation to keep up with the pace of change.  
• We see the value of BusinessFlow for organisations involved in digital transformation projects migrating to public/private/hybrid cloud models.

Further integration with ACI and NSX will be key to our customers' requirements moving forward, as customers adopt new, innovative environments.

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Our customers are receiving quick ROI using the AlgoSec platform when compared to the FTE costs for using legacy manual processes.

Licensing is offered as a subscription and as a perpetual model.

Pricing is easy to grasp.

We looked at Tufin and Skybox. AlgoSec was the only vendor who had the full suite of products which met the customer and business demands. BusinessFlow was (still is) the game changer.

We use it for global firewall rules management to ensure global policies are applied to all regional firewalls, provide auditing and compliance.

• Central firewall management
• Security policy change management
• Firewall auditing
• Compliance
• Firewall policy optimization

AlgoSec FireFlow:

• Eliminates mistakes and optimizes firewall rules.
• Firewall rule compliance with global security policies.
• Eliminates redundant and unused firewall rules.
• Reporting.
  

• It needs better API integration with its third-party firewall management.
• It needs support for its cloud-based solution.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

We have had no complaints about their support.

We did not previously use a different solution.

It is somewhat complex to initially setup.

We implemented it in-house.

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I work at a multi-vendor firewall environment. AlgoSec is primarily used to see what firewall policies are in place, as well as PCI compliance levels.

AlgoSec has helped us save time by having one central location to view firewall policies, especially when crossing multiple vendors.

The PCI compliance feature has been helpful in preparing for audits. The Firewall Analyzer has been very helpful.

We are still waiting to implement FireFlow, and getting it into place will hopefully speed up our implementation time and help with policy standardization. There have been some difficulties in getting this portion set up in our environment.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

Orchestrating a big network environment with 2600 Layer 3 devices for different brands. The environment spans several hundreds locations across all continents.

It gives control and visibility to the end users. It also lowers the burden of the security department.

• Its ability to describe the business, getting firewall rules as a result. 
  
• Creates the possibility for security engineers to obtain visibility on the complete environment.

Needs better integration between modules and also a better troubleshooting methodology. There are still a few improvements to be done in the user interface.

The HA solution is not good.

The HA solution is not good.

They provide good support, but sometimes lack the knowledge on a specific use case. It has improved in the last six months

No previous solution was used.

The initial setup was extremely complex due to our large environment.

As a partner of the vendor, we do the implementation at the customer site.

Use the entire suite for its best benefits.

Tufin was also evaluated.

Firewall Analyzer (AFA) to analyze configs from production firewalls of various types.

AFA has helped us to spot risky rules, overlapping rules and helps prioritize remediation efforts. We have a variety of firewalls and look forward to expanding services such as FireFlow.

In AFA, the ability to trend rule usage and drill into traffic seen hitting that rule is powerful for cleanup of overly permissive rules.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Customer service has been helpful and responsive.

Skybox Security. However, Skybox is has less actionable output than Algosec. 

Setup does take some time to customize to your environment.