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AlgoSec vs FireMon Security Manager vs RedSeal comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

Firewall Security Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AlgoSec17.7%
Tufin Orchestration Suite17.3%
FireMon Security Manager15.3%
Other49.7%
Firewall Security Management
Firewall Security Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FireMon Security Manager15.3%
AlgoSec17.7%
Tufin Orchestration Suite17.3%
Other49.7%
Firewall Security Management
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RedSeal1.6%
Qualys VMDR9.8%
Rapid7 InsightVM8.1%
Other80.5%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Prasad Boddu - PeerSpot reviewer
project manager at FedEx
Automation has transformed firewall changes and has reduced audit effort and breach risk
The best features AlgoSec offers include automation of firewall rule changes, centralized security policy management, and improved compliance and audit readiness. AlgoSec has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to see faster change management, reduced audit costs, and reduced breach risk. I can share specific metrics indicating that through OpEx savings, we have been able to reduce firewall rule analysis and rule change handling time by 60 to 90 percent. This has led to fewer manual tasks and a smaller workload on our network and security teams. We have seen a return on investment with reduced audit costs, less time spent preparing evidence manually, and reduced breach risk. I would like to add that on centralized security policy management, it reduces complexity in multi-vendor environments.
SurajYadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at NTT DATA
Centralized policy governance has reduced audit effort and continuously improves risk visibility
I wish to see deeper and more customizable reporting and dashboards, as while the standard reports are useful for audits, operational teams sometimes need real-time, flexible views without exporting data. Tighter integrations with ticketing and change management tools would also enhance the workflow from request to implementation. FireMon Security Manager is excellent for policy governance and risk reduction, but better real-time dashboards and stronger workflow integrations would make it even more powerful for daily operations. There are one or two areas where FireMon Security Manager could be improved to make it even stronger. While FireMon Security Manager overall delivers solid governance and risk insight, it would benefit from more flexible dashboards and deeper integrations to reduce manual steps and improve visibility without relying on external tools. I rate FireMon Security Manager an 8 out of 10. It is a strong tool for firewall policy management, risk analysis, and compliance, clearly improving our audit process and policy governance. The reason I do not give it a 9 out of 10 is mainly because the dashboard could be more flexible and integration with the firewalls could be smoother. FireMon Security Manager is a reliable and high-value platform for managing and governing firewall policies, especially in a multi-vendor environment, though a few areas can still be improved.
reviewer1339494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Enhancing network visibility with competitive pricing but needs better OT and 5G integration
The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas RedSeal helps in optimizing the cost for the customer based on different use cases. If the solution caters to a particular use case,…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The AFA provides some good nifty features which ultimately yields better optimization of firewall policies."
"Algosec AFA is useful for policy optimization and clean-up and can measure capacity management."
"AlgoSec has given us the confidence to remove unused rules, consolidate where appropriate, and prove reachability prior to searching a rule base to check access for an application or user."
"Through OpEx savings, we have been able to reduce firewall rule analysis and rule change handling time by 60 to 90 percent, leading to fewer manual tasks and a smaller workload on our network and security teams."
"We see the value of BusinessFlow for organisations involved in digital transformation projects migrating to public/private/hybrid cloud models."
"AlgoSec has a feature that provides intelligence on which rules are correct. It was crucial in helping us understand which rules were important and which ones could be turned off or removed, simplifying the structure. It helps prioritize actions and performance needs. The performance boost we had was huge. We were considering buying new firewall structures, but with AlgoSec, we just organized the rules and avoided spending more money on the environment."
"It is expensive, but it's worth it."
"Since implementing AlgoSec, we have seen a noticeable reduction in the time required for firewall rule reviews and audit preparation, with tasks that previously took hours of manual verification now completed much faster through automated analysis and reporting."
"I like the Security Manager console where we can see any changes that have been made or pull the results of an assessment and control the policies that we implement."
"The most valuable feature for me is its capability for cleanup and managing the complexity of security products."
"The SQL language is convenient to use. It allows us to process a bunch of criteria very quickly and narrows things down if there is an issue with the firewall. It's easy to do that with SQL queries."
"Policy test, access path analysis, and change reports."
"FireMon Security Manager positively impacts our organization by improving visibility, reducing risk, and simplifying compliance."
"FireMon has been helpful because we have been able to meet our compliance risk management targets."
"The firewall administrators have gained time back by using this tool, simplifying the firewall rule set."
"Going back to the complex rules, it has literally prevented devices from falling over and dying; it's maintained uptime, which is invaluable when you're dealing with millions of customers connecting through one firewall."
"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."
"The most valuable feature of the product to me is being able to ask what-if questions about traffic flows, which is a great ability to have for security and incident response."
"RedSeal helps you prioritize and allocate your scarce human and capital resources where they have the biggest impact to protect your most-valuable digital assets."
"Overall, I am very happy with the way the product is working."
"If you want to understand your network environment as it relates to configuration issues, host/node vulnerabilities and firewall configurations, then I highly recommend that RedSeal be considered."
"This solution is amazing! The most important part is the way it gives access information to the entire infrastructure, the network most importantly."
"The most valuable feature I enjoy that is provided by this security analytics platform is the ability to measure resilience."
"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."
 

Cons

"AlgoSec can improve by enhancing its user interface and reporting customization because some workflows still feel complex for new administrators."
"Not that great, they are improving though."
"AlgoSec could be improved by their support not being available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, which is a concern, especially when working remotely and needing support in different countries."
"The customer service for this solution is ok."
"Introducing greater flexibility in editing alerts would be a highly appreciated improvement."
"However, I would like to give feedback about addressing zero-day vulnerabilities at an equal pace with the emerging AI-driven threats."
"The tech support and ticketing system could use some improvement and need more of a personal touch."
"In a complex landscape, with several nodes/equipment, it can be somewhat more difficult to properly visualize the network map."
"They should add SMB firewall support and not only the big players."
"I ran a report and FireMon suggested that certain tools were not used. When I removed them, while it didn't bring our environment down completely, a lot of our environment started malfunctioning. Our backup system did not work, nor did other things that involve internal and external communication. We are not comfortable with what it did."
"To my knowledge, there's no cloud component to FireMon whatsoever. We're on the hook for any updates to versioning of the operating system or the application that runs on the operating system. It would be nice if it was a little bit more automated."
"FireMon could be easier to use and flexibility regarding reporting could be improved."
"Overall, the product seems pretty good, but the fact that we've taken the CSV out now, that seems to me to be like a step backwards."
"Per-device license is little costly, but with such good features it’s understandable."
"The AWS integration is still not mature for us to use. It is just not ready for our use case for AWS connectivity. Therefore, it does not provide us with a single pane of glass for our cloud environments, because we can't manage our cloud environment with the tool."
"The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious."
"Although we are talking about a very robust platform, I would like to see the Windows compatible VM version come back."
"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."
"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."
"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."
"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."
"There is room for improvement regarding customization and automation of reports."
"Initially their level one support was very frustrating to work with."
"Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For cloud environments, it can be expensive. The model adopted to use as licensing for the cloud environment should be reviewed since it sometimes can increase the value of the service/product in an unexpected way. For example, they should instead use the amount of instances, which should just take into consideration the number of Security Groups and ACLs."
"Quality has a price."
"Licensing is offered as a subscription and as a perpetual model."
"The cost is kind of high but I really did not check any other vendors."
"When I have active and standby firewalls, if I do an analysis of the active firewall and by mistake, I also do an analysis of the secondary or standby firewall, it'll consume two licenses from the total number of licenses I have. So, I need to change the license and make the active firewall secondary. They need to improve how they are counting the number of licenses."
"Pricing is okay and the licensing can be a little tricky with the initial setup."
"It is worth spending the cost for visibility on security. Of course, security is not cheap."
"The price came in where we really didn't even need to have much of a discussion. That was very good. There are also options regarding what you want to pay for. It wasn't really pushed on me that I have to get all of it or else I can't be an AlgoSec customer."
"Regarding additional costs, if you want things like Policy Optimizer, extra features, that's extra."
"This is an expensive solution. The cost of three modules for three years was approximately one million."
"We pay for it yearly."
"Relative to what it offers, the price is fair."
"The pricing is very good, very straightforward. It also came in cheaper than AlgoSec and Tufin."
"Pricing model seems fair."
"We don't license all of the devices in our network, so it does not provide us with a comprehensive visibility of all devices in a hybrid network at this time."
"Pricing is reasonable."
"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
9%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Performing Arts
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business125
Midsize Enterprise38
Large Enterprise209
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise45
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?
I do not have information about pricing, setup cost, and licensing; I am only a technical person.
What needs improvement with AlgoSec?
From the product perspective, AlgoSec is performing very well as a firewall analyzer. However, as part of FireFlow, a...
What is your primary use case for AlgoSec?
AlgoSec serves as our main solution for firewall policy management, automating firewall change requests, compliance a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireMon?
My experience with pricing and licensing for FireMon Security Manager was generally positive, but on the higher side....
What needs improvement with FireMon?
The UI of FireMon Security Manager can be improved, and while existing features are working as expected based on the ...
What is your primary use case for FireMon?
The main case of FireMon Security Manager is firewall policy management and compliance. For an example, an applicatio...
What needs improvement with RedSeal?
There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal.
What is your primary use case for RedSeal?
The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might l...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Maersk, Delta Airlines, Chevron, General Motors, T-Mobile, Chevron, AT&T, BP, Bell Canada, HCA Healthcare, Morgan Stanley, Unilever, Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, US Bank, Microsoft 
Convey, MGM Resorts International, Southwest Airlines, Alkami, Costco, Aetna, IBM, Verizon, Wells Fargo
United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International
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