AlgoSec vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs Skybox Security Suite comparison

AlgoSec and Palo Alto Networks are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. AlgoSec is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9, while Palo Alto Networks is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0. AlgoSec holds a 22.8% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Palo Alto Networks’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of AlgoSec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Palo Alto Networks users who would recommend it.

AlgoSec

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96% willing to recommend

Palo Alto Networks Panorama

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1,780 Comparison Views

97% willing to recommend

Skybox Security Suite

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2,019 Comparison Views

83% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 22.8%, up from 20.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is 7.9%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skybox Security Suite is 10.8%, up from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Shameerudheen Kp

Manager, MS Operations at NTT Security

Easy to setup with good auto-implementation and good rule reviews

AlgoSec is slow when it is loaded with too many firewalls and policies. A plan to take care of heavy usage is to be considered. Support of all firewalls and policy features to be enabled. AlgoSec should support in identifying most hit rules and re-ordering existing firewall rules - this is a very key to manage firewall CPU. A clustering of AlgoSec can also be considered. A group of AlgoSec servers managing large client bases geographically or datacenter-wise or function-wise. A head reporting unit and child processing units.

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Kim Ejby Lorentzen

Senior Principal Solutions Architect, HPE Aruba Networking - Full Stack Platform Expert at Danoffice IT ApS

Unified firewall management streamlines operations across branches with prompt support services

The primary use case for this solution is the management of the entire firewall portfolio across various branches Palo Alto Networks Panorama has simplified management by providing a unified interface for firewall management and configuration. One of the key advantages of Palo Alto Networks…

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NenadMijatovic

Director of Sales at S4E Serbia

Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use

Vulnerability management is the most valuable feature because it lets you focus on the most critical vulnerabilities. That's the important thing. Here in Serbia, there are not so many companies that have too many firewalls inside one company. So, they usually don't buy this model for Firewall Assurance unless there is some compliance. So you can prove that your firewalls are compliant. So, that model is not so important here in Serbia. It's for bigger companies. So, they usually buy network assurance to build the model of the network and vulnerability management to focus on the most important vulnerabilities. Moreover, Skybox can collect data for many vendors. From the endpoint protection vendors to the network equipment vendors to other security vendors. So, it supports more than one hundred vendors to collect data from them.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"AFA provides project teams with a simplified way to obtain the status on their current rule set."

"One of the features that I like about AlgoSec is the topology table. It helps us understand where the traffic flows through, where it gets interconnected, and how the traffic flows from our device to the other device."

"With the solution, we can uncover bottlenecks, streamline, and clean up our firewall rules."

"Implementing firewall rules within our organization has been significantly expedited thanks to AlgoSec."

"FireFlow continues to drive customer efficiencies, allowing an organisation to keep up with the pace of change."

"Audit-ready reporting is an awesome feature."

"The most valuable feature is the unused rule optimization, where it clears the policy when appropriate."

"We now have baseline and rules checking."

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"Our team has the option to make configuration changes at any given time."

"The management and the deployment features are most valuable. We can easily deploy and manage the devices. We can do fast deployments without moving from our office and by just providing a short description to the end-user about how to install the physical device."

"Variable creation and template stack functionalities make Palo Alto Networks Panorama a brilliant solution. It is a completely scalable system, with good technical support."

"Networks Panorama has improved our organizational security"

"Panorama has the capacity for SD-WAN configuration, which is appreciated alongside its capabilities for firewall management and firmware upgrades."

"The reporting is great."

"The main value of Palo Alto Networks Panorama lies in its ability to centralize management, similar to FortiManager."

"The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls."

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"The most impressive feature is optimization and clean-up."

"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."

"Robust modules can be used for different parts of network security."

"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."

"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."

"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"

"It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."

"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."

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Cons

"In terms of integrations, we would like to see a greater number with the upcoming and next-generation tools (i.e. SOAR and a selection of other SIEMs)."

"The product is severely lacking in vendor support."

"The HA solution is not good."

"There could be improvements in the analysis between internal zones, such as internal to DMZ or guest to DMZ."

"They can make some improvements to the user interface because it can be slow at times."

"We needs object level permissions and application level recertifications."

"AlgoSec is slow when it is loaded with too many firewalls and policies."

"Algosec should also be exploring the integration with the open source firewalls as well."

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"It is very hard to understand the platform. It is not easy and user-friendly. You need a lot of experience to use Panorama. It is very complex, and you must know exactly what to do. I would like to have a more user-friendly product. FortiManager is comparatively very easy to use. It would be good if Panorama improves in terms of user-friendliness. It is also harder to use than Palo Alto Firewalls."

"We found a vulnerability where when we have a low flow, like 2.7K, it is not getting fired by the threat prevention. That's something important to improve on. They should have a proxy or some solution to solve the issue. We also found some issues around decrypting the flow. When we have more flow than expected to decrypt, the performance goes down."

"There is room for improvement in response time for tech support."

"Lacking in speed and reliability."

"Palo Alto Networks Panorama could improve by making the solution less expensive."

"Palo Alto needs to improve deployment by making it easier to deploy an agent to a desktop."

"The current documentation is not detailed enough."

"The pricing of the solution could be considered an area of improvement, as it is a comprehensive and feature-rich product that may include features that are not needed by some companies."

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"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."

"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."

"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."

"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."

"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."

"The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about aspects of the solution and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything."

"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."

"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Setup cost and pricing were reasonable and the licensing was straightforward."

"I compared the prices of AlgoSec with Tufin and FireMon. I don't recall the exact cost, but it was within budget and not very expensive. In addition to standard licensing fees, we didn't have any significant additional costs. We did hire new people for the change management process, but that's not a technology issue."

"Pricing is okay and the licensing can be a little tricky with the initial setup."

"My advice is that you must do a POC and show value."

"The pricing for this solution seems to be reasonable for the functionality."

"It is worth spending the cost for visibility on security. Of course, security is not cheap."

"The pricing is flexible with a low cost setup."

"It seems we have recovered our money on this appliance, so it is money well spent."

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"The solution is priced a bit higher than competitors."

"The pricing could be lower."

"Its licensing is yearly and multi-yearly. It is not expensive."

"The price of Panorama is expensive."

"Sometimes the company prefers to give a license to test the product in our environment before we go to the customer. But the customer should buy his own license, and that's the system here. The system is different between one country and another. Some countries say that the IT solutions provider should provide the license."

"Its cost is quite high."

"With the URL filtering, we probably went down from around four hours in response time to about five minutes."

"If I were to rate the pricing of Palo on a scale of one to five, with one being really high and five being a good, reasonable price, I would rate Palo as a three."

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"I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The product's pricing is excellent value. In terms of licensing, make sure you understand your network components, all your hops through your network, thoroughly, before you decide on the total cost. If you want to do point-to-point flow analysis and such, you need to have the configuration of all the devices in between point A and point B. A lot of people don't realize all their network components until they start using this product."

"With licensing, the number of network nodes becomes very expensive to the point where you have to rationalize if the tools are warranted anymore."

"The software is expensive. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."

"It's expensive."

"Pricing is on the higher side. In terms of licensing, you should buy the complete suite rather than buying only the Change Manager. I think Change Manager with Vulnerability Control is something that would be interesting to look at."

"Skybox Security Suite has indeed helped us reduce costs. The prices of AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite are approximately 50 percent different. The tool may require special vendor support from abroad, resulting in slightly higher costs. Its pricing is in the middle."

"The solution is based on a subscription model for annual licenses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlgoSec?

AlgoSec's ability to integrate with various security and networking solutions enhances its overall value.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?

Pricing for AlgoSec is fairly competitive. Rating the pricing on a scale from one being high to ten being low, the pr...

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What needs improvement with AlgoSec?

The user interface for AlgoSec has remained unchanged for the last ten years and could benefit from being more intera...

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What do you like most about Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

The setup cost is too high.

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What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

The solution requires more flexibility and quicker response times. High-speed replies are crucial. Additionally, the ...

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What do you like most about Skybox Security Suite?

Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identif...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Skybox Security Suite?

From a commercial perspective, AlgoSec is more expensive compared to Skybox Security Suite. Skybox Security Suite is ...

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What needs improvement with Skybox Security Suite?

The dashboard's UI is not interesting; it is quite normal. It would be better if something more attractive or similar...

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Comparisons

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Compared 26% of the time

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer vs AlgoSec

Compared 5% of the time

Fortinet FortiManager vs AlgoSec

Compared 5% of the time

RedSeal vs AlgoSec

Compared 2% of the time

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Tufin Orchestration Suite vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Compared 18% of the time

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Compared 13% of the time

AWS Firewall Manager vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Compared 10% of the time

FireMon Security Manager vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Compared 10% of the time

Azure Firewall Manager vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Compared 5% of the time

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Tufin Orchestration Suite vs Skybox Security Suite

Compared 30% of the time

FireMon Security Manager vs Skybox Security Suite

Compared 14% of the time

RedSeal vs Skybox Security Suite

Compared 5% of the time

Qualys VMDR vs Skybox Security Suite

Compared 4% of the time

ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer vs Skybox Security Suite

Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

AlgoSec enhances application delivery speed and security by automating connectivity and policy management across hybrid networks.

With 20 years of experience, AlgoSec is trusted by over 2200 organizations for securing critical workloads. Its Horizon platform leverages AI to discover and manage business applications, offering comprehensive visibility into security and compliance issues across hybrid environments. Intelligent change automation improves both agility and security, ensuring conformity to internet security standards and regulatory requirements.

What key features does AlgoSec offer?

Firewall Analyzer: Optimizes firewall rules, managing risk and compliance effectively.
FireFlow: Automates change management processes, reducing manual errors and boosting efficiency.
Traffic Simulation: Assists in troubleshooting by simulating traffic scenarios.
Vendor Compatibility: Works with multi-vendor devices, ideal for complex networks.
Compliance Reporting: Simplifies audits with templates for standards like PCI-DSS and ISO 27001.

What benefits should users consider?

Enhanced Security: Streamlines security policy management, reducing redundant rules.
Operational Efficiency: Automates processes, leading to faster and more accurate changes.
Regulatory Compliance: Provides tools for easy alignment with industry standards.
Centralized Control: Offers centralized management over firewalls and application connectivity.

In complex industries, AlgoSec aids in risk analysis, firewall policy management, and compliance auditing. Organizations optimize firewall rules and automate policy changes, achieving improved security and operational efficiency across multiple vendor environments. AlgoSec's tools are integral to streamlining change management and enhancing security posture in large network structures.

AlgoSec

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.

Palo Alto Networks

Skybox Security Suite provides comprehensive tools for network and firewall compliance, vulnerability management, and change management, with a focus on risk reduction and network optimization.

Skybox Security Suite supports over 130 vendors with massive scalability and seamless integration, notably with Nessus and Qualys. Its features include network path analysis and offline attack simulation, which enhance management effectiveness. Despite its robust offering, improvements are needed in its UI, web interface, reporting detail, and customization. Automation, orchestration, and device policy provisioning require better support, and integration with tools like Rapid7 could be improved. Enhancements in firewall configuration checks, cloud connectivity, pricing, and marketing awareness are also called for, alongside a transition from Java GUI to a consistent web-based system.

What Are Key Features of Skybox Security Suite?

Network Assurance: Enhances visibility and optimization of network paths.
Firewall Assurance: Facilitates firewall rule set audits for compliance.
Vulnerability Management: Offers path detection and risk prioritization.
Compliance Management: Ensures adherence to standards like PCI.
Change Management: Simplifies management across extensive infrastructures.

What Benefits and ROI Can Users Expect?

Scalability: Supports numerous vendors and large-scale deployments.
Integration: Seamlessly connects with tools like Nessus and Qualys.
Risk Reduction: Improves security across network infrastructures.
Simplified Management: User-friendly interface and reporting tools enhance usability.
Network Optimization: Streamlines processes and improves performance.

Skybox Security Suite is commonly used in industries requiring strict compliance like finance and healthcare. Firms employ it for firewall audits, enhancing network visibility, and managing configurations against standards such as PCI, ensuring security and policy compliance across expansive networks.

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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

University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia

ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BT, USAID, Delta Dental, EDF Energy, EMC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson

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