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Vulnerability Management
April 2024
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Featured Review
César Ibáñez
A highly scalable and easy-to-use solution that helps identify vulnerabilities
The product helps us to identify vulnerabilities.
NenadMijatovic
Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use
When you import all the assets that you have, like desktops, servers, networks, devices, routers, and then firewalls, and other products, then... Read more →
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Pros
"The solution is very easy to use."

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"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability.""It's very supportive and very user-friendly.""Key features for us include the firewall change audit every week. Also, being able to track firewall ACL usage, so that we can produce semiannual reports on ACL usage and shadowed and redundant rules on the firewall.""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 solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface.""We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting.""The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management.""The most valuable features of Skybox Security Suite are all the modules that are provided, such as vulnerability assessments and network, and firewall assessments."

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Cons
"The reports must be more specific to help us understand what we should do to mitigate the problem."

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"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.""Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement.""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.""There is room for improvement in the technical support.""Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use.""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.""The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The product is free."

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  • "I think for the cost, what we got definitely is worth it. The only caution I would give is that whenever you license for Firewall Assurance at the same time, for some weird reason, you have to get one Network Assurance license, just to manage one firewall. That's a little bit of overkill. But otherwise, in general, the pricing is fairly okay."
  • "The pricing is high, and the licensing model needs more flexibility."
  • "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."
  • "I've seen the pricing of every solution on the market. When you compare apples to apples, where Skybox becomes exceedingly expensive is if you look at it compared to something like FireMon that only does a fraction of what Skybox does. But if you include everything that Skybox does, it becomes way more expensive than the competition, but you're also not comparing apples to apples. If you look at FireMon, and you look at like just the firewall assurance piece, they are fairly comparable and, actually, Skybox comes in a little bit cheaper in some cases, depending on which product you're looking at."
  • "The pricing has increased exorbitantly in the last few years, so now it is questionable. Now, it makes me want to review other products."
  • "With licensing, the number of network nodes becomes very expensive to the point where you have to rationalize if the tools are warranted anymore."
  • "Fully understand the total cost of ownership. They have gone to a new model where you have to replace the hardware every X amount of years at a very substantial cost and fully understand your intended number of nodes. To operate a firewall, you have to pay two licenses, a firewall node and a network node. If you are a reasonable-sized organization, this gets expensive very quickly."
  • "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."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager?
    Top Answer:The solution is very easy to use.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Vulnera...
    Top Answer:The product is free.
    What needs improvement with Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager?
    Top Answer:The time taken for a scan is too long. I tried to scan a website, and it took me ten hours. The report was sent to me two days later. The reports must be more specific to help us understand what we… more »
    What do you like most about Skybox Security Suite?
    Top Answer:When you import all the assets that you have, like desktops, servers, networks, devices, routers, and then firewalls, and other products, then Skybox makes like, a model of the network, but with… more »
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Skybox Security S...
    Top Answer:You always negotiate a little bit when the price is in question. But, the price could be a little bit smaller. Maybe it could offer additional discounts when you buy all the modules. Because end users… more »
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    What needs improvement with Skybox Security Suite?
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules.
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    Ranking
    31st
    out of 112 in Vulnerability Management
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    19th
    out of 112 in Vulnerability Management
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    591
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    459
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    7.5
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    Barracuda Networks
    Skybox Security
    Overview

    Identify and fix website vulnerabilities—before hackers exploit them.
    Vulnerabilities in your websites and other public-facing applications can lead to costly data breaches that disrupt your business operations and erode customer trust. There are hundreds of ways to bring down a website, hack into your data, and introduce malware into your network. In fact, more than 80 percent of websites have vulnerabilities that put businesses and data at risk.

    Don’t wait until it’s too late. Barracuda Vulnerability Manager is a free service that scans sites and applications in a single click. Just enter your website URL, and you’ll soon receive a report detailing all discovered vulnerabilities. You can then address the issues yourself, or you can load the report into a Barracuda WAF solution and use our Vulnerability Remediation Service to automatically remediate them.

    The Skybox Security Suite platform combines firewall and network device data with vulnerability and threat intelligence, prioritizing security issues in the context of your unique environment. Powerful attack vector analytics reduce response times and risks, bringing firewall, vulnerability and threat management processes for complex networks under control.

    Firewall Assurance brings all firewalls into one normalized view, continuously monitoring policy compliance, optimizing firewall rulesets and finding attack vectors that others miss. Skybox covers the most comprehensive list of firewall vendors, complex rulesets, even virtual and cloud-based firewalls. With proven scalability in 1,500+ firewall deployments, Firewall Assurance keeps rules optimized and ensures changes don’t introduce new risk. 

    Gain total visibility of the vulnerabilities in your attack surface without waiting for a scan. Leverage Skybox Research Lab's vulnerability and threat intelligence, and automatically correlate it to your unique environment. With network modeling and advanced simulations, pinpoint exposed vulnerabilities and other attack vectors. And use context to prioritize vulnerabilities in terms of actual risk and respond to threats with accuracy and efficiency.

    For more information or to view a demo, visit www.skyboxsecurity.com.

    Sample Customers
    Ikea, Pizza Hut, Hilton
    ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BT, USAID, Delta Dental, EDF Energy, EMC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson
    Top Industries
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Outsourcing Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Insurance Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government6%
    Company Size
    No Data Available
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager is ranked 31st in Vulnerability Management with 1 review while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager is rated 9.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager writes "A highly scalable and easy-to-use solution that helps identify vulnerabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager is most compared with Tenable Nessus, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal.

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