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AlgoSec vs RedSeal comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AlgoSec
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
249
Ranking in other categories
Firewall Security Management (1st)
RedSeal
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (21st), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

AlgoSec and RedSeal aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. AlgoSec is designed for Firewall Security Management and holds a mindshare of 15.7%, down 22.1% compared to last year.
RedSeal, on the other hand, focuses on Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, holds 1.6% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.
Firewall Security Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AlgoSec15.7%
Tufin Orchestration Suite14.3%
FireMon Security Manager12.6%
Other57.4%
Firewall Security Management
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RedSeal1.6%
Qualys Exposure Management9.7%
Tenable Security Center6.6%
Other82.1%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Konstantinos Apostolopoulos - PeerSpot reviewer
Firewall Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Centralized firewall workflows have accelerated rule implementation and provide clear app visibility
AlgoSec can be improved by putting AppViz more at the center. Specifically, I suggest customizing AppViz more, including features such as input validation that is not available in AppViz but is in FireFlow, or the ability to copy the AppViz object to the policy. Thus, AppViz should be at the center of their operations, not just as an endpoint in the implementation logic. One area that AlgoSec could do better is in the pricing. For example, mobile providers have different plans, but their plans are not based on a per-license model, and they usually offer an unlimited option. Therefore, I would expect AlgoSec to have a maximum payment cap per client while allowing unrestricted use of its resources. Application context is extremely important to us. Going forward, I'd love to see AlgoSec leverage AI to enhance this even further—specifically by scanning our application documentation to automatically draft identified connections and perform risk evaluations per connection before an application owner even submits a request.
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 Compliance module is one of the best features which can help anyone to perform security review with predefined security matrix configurations. The compliance module can save a lot of time for security reviews and provide full visibility of the risk required in firewall change requests."
"Automation capabilities within AlgoSec help to reduce manual work and manual errors in security management."
"Troubleshooting time has definitely gone down, and efficiency has gone up, so I would definitely recommend using AlgoSec as it is a very efficient tool."
"For us, as well as for our customers, firewall management and change management are the most important features."
"Today, this tool is very stable and permits us to improve the efficiency of the day to day work by our technical teams."
"I have seen a return on investment with AlgoSec, including money saved, time saved, and more efficient operations."
"Before using AlgoSec, some firewall rule review and audit tasks used to take days of manual checking, but now most of those reviews are completed in a few hours with much better visibility and tracking."
"AlgoSec is better than Skybox and Tufin; we have a lot of AlgoSec licenses and it offers the ability to do optimization and varied tasks, including diagrams about different pieces of equipment and control over external IPs so we can see the configuration and log that traffic to have control over the flow."
"The most valuable feature I enjoy that is provided by this security analytics platform is the ability to measure resilience."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."
"Overall, I am very happy with the way the product is working."
"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."
"RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged."
"The Vulnerability and Risk Management feature is valuable to us for keeping the security posture up-to-date and conducting regular continuous audits."
 

Cons

"The accuracy and reliability of AlgoSec's AI output are still a work in progress."
"AlgoSec could improve UI responsiveness and reporting speed, especially in large enterprise environments with substantial policy data and connected devices."
"Sometimes due to server database size, the disk gets exhausted and then there is slowness over the internet."
"AlgoSec can probably do better at introducing features for the cloud firewall scenarios."
"The maps are a little clunky and could be made easier with some automatic layout technology which assists in spacing out the devices for easier viewing."
"The product needs improvement in all areas, but I don't use the product deep enough to say anything more specific."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like to suggest that cloud visibility feature is provided in the next release."
"Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved."
"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."
"The network mapping/visualization could be improved significantly."
"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."
"Integration with other security tools. Have the ability to create custom reports: Currently, within RedSeal you only have the option to run the canned reports."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is high but the support is extremely poor, so keep that in mind before choosing this product."
"Price is not my concern. If a tool does its job, it is not my concern to obtain a good price for it. If a tool is needed, we are going to buy it."
"The pricing could be better."
"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."
"Pricing is okay and the licensing can be a little tricky with the initial setup."
"Setup cost and pricing were reasonable and the licensing was straightforward."
"Pricing is easy to grasp."
"It is worth spending the cost for visibility on security. Of course, security is not cheap."
"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
Outsourcing Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business129
Midsize Enterprise43
Large Enterprise231
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, I do not get too involved, but it seemed acceptable, and they do try to ensure the best for the customer through discounts and vari...
What needs improvement with AlgoSec?
I believe AlgoSec can be improved through a continual dialogue between us, understanding where the roadmap is headed, and aligning our organization's challenges with it, ensuring responsiveness abo...
What is your primary use case for AlgoSec?
I use AlgoSec for automation, audit and compliance, policy optimization, and rule recertification. For automation, we use AlgoSec for firewall changes to simplify, speed up, and make the process mo...
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 look up or use these solutions for these areas.
 

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 
United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International
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