We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite 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."We need less time to identify any risks in our firewalls, as we can detect changes in real-time."
"R&D patches to address issues that I have encountered have been timely and effective."
"In my opinion, the most valuable features are the network map, unused rules reports (IPT), and active change."
"It now takes less than half of the time it took before we had this tool to deploy the flows requested by the business."
"The technical services personnel are very confident and provide good assistance."
"Rather than logging in on separate firewalls, AlgoSec enables you to make changes on all firewalls from one pane of glass."
"With the solution, we can uncover bottlenecks, streamline, and clean up our firewall rules."
"AlgoBot is a brilliantly, simple idea that lets us give our IT internal customers a way to check if rules are already in place before asking for more."
"This type of tool does a great job of reaching into those other devices producing risk recommendations, compliance recommendations, and a single plane of glass to do your queries, so you can find where these rules might exist."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"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."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"Algosec does not support vendors like Sophos, SonicWall, Forecepoint, and so on."
"The risk matrix implementation is not easy from an Excel file, so it would be nice to have a solution for creating it directly within the web interface."
"It needs support for its cloud-based solution."
"In terms of additional features in the next release, more integration with SD-WAN would be valuable."
"It needs better API integration with its third-party firewall management."
"FireFlow was a bit tricky to configure with its customized flows."
"We have a complaint about the compliance check, in that sometimes we want to keep rules rather than merge them."
"The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use."
"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"It's expensive."
"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."
"Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"The solution needs improvement in firewall configuration checks. I would also like to see more configuration checks for Forcepoint and for other non-supported firewalls."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Skybox Security Suite 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, RedSeal and Balbix BreachControl. See our AlgoSec vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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