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I have witnessed a return on investment with AlgoSec by reducing the manual efforts involved in policy reviews and enabling faster operations, ultimately enhancing our security posture.
We have seen a return on investment with reduced audit costs, less time spent preparing evidence manually, and reduced breach risk.
It also helps to simulate the traffic query to see where the traffic is blocked and automates policy creation, saving a significant amount of time, approximately eighty percent.
After implementing FireMon Security Manager, policy risk reports, compliance reports, and anomalies are generated automatically, which reduces audit preparation down to 15 to 18 hours per cycle, saving about 40 to 50% of time just on audit-related efforts.
It significantly reduced the time spent on manual firewall policy review and audit preparation.
There is a dedicated engineer program that provides consistent support.
AlgoSec's customer support is highly responsive and specialized for security operation teams managing complex environments.
The customer support is very great, with dedicated 24/7 assistance.
An eight signifies they are doing a good job.
The customer support for FireMon Security Manager has been outstanding in our experience.
The technical support is good, but sometimes it takes some time.
The technical support from Palo Alto is rated around nine out of ten.
The technical support by Palo Alto Networks is great because the response time is solid.
The tech support I've encountered has been good, prompt, and fast.
I rate the scalability at nine out of ten, demonstrating a robust ability to expand and cater to large enterprises.
Managing varying device numbers based on requirements, from small setups of about 20 devices to large enterprises supporting over 1,000.
It grows with our organization's needs and can handle large data sets of our organization.
If it can see and interpret everything correctly, it would do exactly what I want, and it would be very helpful.
It offers extensive scalability options, providing more flexibility than other vendors.
As the environment grew, FireMon Security Manager continued to handle policy analysis, reporting, and change tracking reliably without performance issues.
Scalability is primarily enhanced by Strata Cloud Manager as it is much easier to scale in the cloud than in an on-premises installation.
Scalability depends on whether it's a hardware or virtual machine model.
AlgoSec is generally stable, though I have heard about some glitches or latency issues.
We have not experienced any major crashes, data losses, or serious outages.
If we have many devices added or if the firewall complexity is huge, we might experience some lag in processing.
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is very stable.
AlgoSec should support in identifying most hit rules and re-ordering existing firewall rules - this is a very key to manage firewall CPU.
A cloud offering as a SaaS would relieve the burden of managing hardware, applying numerous patches, and monitoring the health state of the solution.
Establishing a quarterly or bi-annual certification process and automating aspects of the change process can enhance utilization and operational efficiency, pushing for automatic approvals where the risk is minimal.
FireMon can see everything much better and provides me with a fuller report when using Meraki as a firewall system.
Simplifying some workflows and dashboards would help teams get value more quickly, especially in large environments.
A basic understanding of cloud computing and firewall principles is necessary for successful implementation.
In terms of operation, it is quite important that the staff managing the Panorama should be technically sound enough, and they should know exactly what they are doing.
The AI module should be on-premises, not in the cloud.
I would like to improve the dashboards on Palo Alto Networks Panorama, especially because I work in an environment where my managers are not really that technical.
Estimated range of $50,000 to $100,000 for smaller deployments.
It is cost-effective.
Pricing for AlgoSec is fairly competitive.
Comparatively, FireMon has a very good price and is below the general competition in cost.
Compared to others, it is not so expensive.
Our experience with FireMon Security Manager's pricing and licensing is that it is on the higher side, but justified for a large, regulated environment.
Virtual Panorama is well-priced and is sold every time there's a solution.
Commercially, compared to Fortinet, Palo Alto is more expensive.
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is expensive but provides good value for money.
Over time, firewalls can accumulate risky configurations, leading to increased overhead and troubleshooting time, but with AlgoSec, we simplify our rule sets, improve firewall performance, and facilitate faster change implementations.
Through OpEx savings, we have been able to reduce firewall rule analysis and rule change handling time by 60 to 90 percent.
AlgoSec also provides firewall policy overview and optimization by rule with reordering and suggestions to delete unused rules, network map overview, and implementation of topology changes based on source, destination, and port.
By eliminating loopholes between policies, it simplifies review and analysis, while also automating policy changes and supporting multiple vendors.
It provides a single view across all firewalls, helps quickly identify risks and unused rules, and generates audit-ready reports, which is extremely useful in large, regulated environments.
The risk and rule analysis feature highlights risky, unused, shadow, duplicate, and overly permissive rules automatically, saving huge time on manual audits and helping reduce the attack surface.
I find this solution valuable for full monitoring, centralized control for reporting, and centralized management.
We do not currently have a SIEM solution, so we are heavily relying on the monitoring features of Palo Alto Networks Panorama to conduct our investigations and log reviews.
Palo Alto Networks Panorama has positively impacted our organization by allowing a couple of network engineers to use Panorama simultaneously with different templates or device groups, which helps us save time and reduce the complexity of the network.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| AlgoSec | 20.3% |
| FireMon Security Manager | 17.7% |
| Palo Alto Networks Panorama | 7.7% |
| Other | 54.3% |


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| Small Business | 57 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 31 |
| Large Enterprise | 180 |
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| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 9 |
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| Small Business | 33 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 15 |
| Large Enterprise | 46 |
AlgoSec enables organizations to accelerate application delivery significantly by automating application connectivity and security policy management across hybrid networks.
As a leader in cybersecurity, AlgoSec is trusted by over 2200 complex organizations for securing critical workloads. Its Horizon platform utilizes AI to discover business applications across multi-cloud environments while providing visibility into security compliance. Users can leverage intelligent change automation for streamlined security processes, enhancing both security and agility.
What are the most important features of AlgoSec?Organizations primarily utilize AlgoSec for firewall management and compliance, automating rule optimization, audits, and change management in multi-vendor environments. This enhances policy management and risk analysis while improving operational efficiency. AlgoSec's capabilities are particularly beneficial in industries with complex network infrastructures, allowing teams to clean up redundant rules and maintain a robust security posture.
The increasing complexity of networks, driven by the constant influx of new devices, applications, and cloud services, presents a daunting challenge for managing firewall policies and rules. A typical enterprise environment has millions of rules, and just one simple misconfiguration can lead to devastating consequences like compliance violations, outages, and data breaches.
FireMon’s Security Manager is a purpose-built network security policy management (NSPM) platform that automates the management of firewall and cloud security policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately and quickly change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.
Panorama network security management provides static rules and dynamic security updates in an ever-changing threat landscape. Reduce administrator workload and improve your overall security posture with a single rule base for firewall, threat prevention, URL filtering, application awareness, user identification, file blocking and data filtering.