We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiPortal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Setup is easy. Just run the script and all seems fine."
"It gives us 100% visibility into our network security policies. It has given us a couple of surprises. Over the years, the network that we are administrating has been subject to people who have an idea of how a network should be set up. That differs from technician to technician or engineer to engineer. So, we are finding little pockets of hidden little self-engineered configurations and the way things were done that nobody knew about. Once the engineer left, the knowledge of that setup disappeared. You don't know about those until something either goes wrong, or you get something like AlgoSec to discover it for you, and it says, "Hey, there is this going on over here.""
"The training provided by AlgoSec helps a lot in the development of employees who work with the tool."
"The Firewall Analyzer component has excellent compatibility with the solution, and it's highly useful and easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, including the policy report and regulatory compliance reports."
"Security ratings and security rules analysis are valuable features."
"For us, as well as for our customers, firewall management and change management are the most important features."
"The solution provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. This is very important for us because we are regulated according to the FDA. It shows us which changes have been made and why. So, it has worked very well for our compliance needs."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"Since COVID-19, a number of the technical support team members have been working from home or remotely. So, we haven't gotten support people right when we need them. Sometimes, it takes a couple of hours or even days for us to get that instant support that we used to get."
"AlgoSec can probably do better at introducing features for the cloud firewall scenarios. This is something that will probably help customers. It needs a hybrid scenario that includes private cloud, public cloud, and on-prem things. If a feature could cover all three different types of deployment, that could probably make it even more desirable for clients."
"There is huge scope for improvement in the level of support, especially around the issue of resolution time. That is the only negative point I find in the solution."
"It would be nice if it was more variable when checking virtual domain baseline in the same way as Fortigate's firewalls do."
"My only concern is related to how they count the number of licenses. We have active and standby devices. If someone adds the standby device by mistake and does an analysis, it consumes two licenses. They need to improve the way they are counting the number of licenses because someone can do analysis on a standby device by mistake. We need a way to fix or solve this issue."
"The pricing for smaller installations should be lowered because sometimes there is just no ROI to add AlgoSec to the small branch offices with only 10 rules."
"There are sometimes issues with the Risky Rules reports where the number of hits is registering zero, but we know that this is incorrect because we have checked the rules and see that they are indeed registering traffic."
"A vulnerability management module might be interesting, though not integrated with a third-party vendor. It should be an AlgoSec VM module."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Gives us the ability to dig down into details and work at a level above the skills that we already have". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer, whereas Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack. See our AlgoSec vs. Fortinet FortiPortal report.
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