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FireMon Security Manager vs RedSeal vs Tufin Orchestration Suite comparison

 

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

Mindshare comparison

Firewall Security Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FireMon Security Manager15.3%
AlgoSec17.7%
Tufin Orchestration Suite17.3%
Other49.7%
Firewall Security Management
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RedSeal1.6%
Qualys VMDR9.8%
Rapid7 InsightVM8.1%
Other80.5%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Firewall Security Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tufin Orchestration Suite17.3%
AlgoSec17.7%
FireMon Security Manager15.3%
Other49.7%
Firewall Security Management
 

Featured Reviews

SurajYadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at NTT DATA
Centralized policy governance has reduced audit effort and continuously improves risk visibility
I wish to see deeper and more customizable reporting and dashboards, as while the standard reports are useful for audits, operational teams sometimes need real-time, flexible views without exporting data. Tighter integrations with ticketing and change management tools would also enhance the workflow from request to implementation. FireMon Security Manager is excellent for policy governance and risk reduction, but better real-time dashboards and stronger workflow integrations would make it even more powerful for daily operations. There are one or two areas where FireMon Security Manager could be improved to make it even stronger. While FireMon Security Manager overall delivers solid governance and risk insight, it would benefit from more flexible dashboards and deeper integrations to reduce manual steps and improve visibility without relying on external tools. I rate FireMon Security Manager an 8 out of 10. It is a strong tool for firewall policy management, risk analysis, and compliance, clearly improving our audit process and policy governance. The reason I do not give it a 9 out of 10 is mainly because the dashboard could be more flexible and integration with the firewalls could be smoother. FireMon Security Manager is a reliable and high-value platform for managing and governing firewall policies, especially in a multi-vendor environment, though a few areas can still be improved.
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,…
Vulnerability control saves audit costs and reduces expenses for organizations
Tufin Orchestration Suite is not commonly used in Thailand due to a lack of local support, and many customers are switching to AlgoSec or other vendors. The analytics features of Tufin Orchestration Suite are challenging to use and require technical expertise, which is a concern as there is not much knowledge in this field in Thailand. The issue of technical knowledge, especially regarding English language proficiency, is significant for government and some companies, making Tufin Orchestration Suite harder to use.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most effective feature is the general reporting on compliance."
"It streamlined the firewall policy change management process by having all firewalls managed in one tool, and a workflow customized to our needs."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting capability because everything that we do is a result of our being able to query a report, based on our environment and our PCI compliance efforts."
"The most valuable features are the security assessments and the ability to identify unused rules or objects."
"FireMon Security Manager has improved our organization by reducing risk, saving time, and improving compliance."
"We now have clear visibility of our firewall, clear auditing of each firewall rule and changes, and of course, it helps us comply with governing bodies."
"Going back to the complex rules, it has literally prevented devices from falling over and dying; it's maintained uptime, which is invaluable when you're dealing with millions of customers connecting through one firewall."
"It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance."
"The Vulnerability and Risk Management feature is valuable to us for keeping the security posture up-to-date and conducting regular continuous audits."
"The most valuable feature of the product to me is being able to ask what-if questions about traffic flows, which is a great ability to have for security and incident response."
"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."
"The most valuable feature I enjoy that is provided by this security analytics platform is the ability to measure resilience."
"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."
"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."
"This solution is amazing! The most important part is the way it gives access information to the entire infrastructure, the network most importantly."
"Overall, I am very happy with the way the product is working."
"What I’ve found very useful in a short period of time is the visibility it provides."
"I also have AlgoSec, and it seems to be much more complicated."
"When you're dealing with very large policies (hundreds - thousands of rules) it's a big advantage."
"The most valuable feature of Tufin is rule analysis."
"It provides me great insight into my firewalls across my organization, and we are able to stay compliant with many of the regulations."
"This is a great product and we are doing very well with it."
"Learn it and dig into it, because it's got some great capabilities."
"Before we had Tufin, we had to do firewall policy cleanup and it was pretty painful, but with Tufin, you can generate a report in 20 minutes and start taking action on it right away."
 

Cons

"A phone app would be nice. This is the reason why it is not perfect yet."
"I ran a report and FireMon suggested that certain tools were not used. When I removed them, while it didn't bring our environment down completely, a lot of our environment started malfunctioning. Our backup system did not work, nor did other things that involve internal and external communication. We are not comfortable with what it did."
"I can mention a ton of areas with room for improvement, but from a high-level standpoint, I just don't think version 8 was ready for prime time yet."
"While I like the reporting, I think that has the biggest room for improvement."
"Per-device license is little costly, but with such good features it’s understandable."
"Policy Planner requirements section is good, but could use some improvement to allow flexibility to enter different types of requests (modifying an existing policy, object or service group, for example) in a structured task format that can be auto-verified."
"The capability is there with this product but it has to be refined."
"The review process is an area that needs improvement."
"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."
"Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."
"Although we are talking about a very robust platform, I would like to see the Windows compatible VM version come back."
"There is room for improvement regarding customization and automation of reports."
"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."
"Initially their level one support was very frustrating to work with."
"It's still challenging in some cases to get it integrated with other systems."
"I would like to see the setup of the Unified Security Policy simplified."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of Tufin. It is using so many of my VM resources and yet it is still a bit slow... Even though we are allocating 130 gigs of RAM, we still have to wait for a few minutes for a single report to be generated. Otherwise it would be a perfect tool."
"It's not a very stable product. It doesn't stay up as often as I would like."
"I have not really found any other side benefits."
"There are things that could be explained a little better for somebody brand new to this system, which could be helpful, especially if it was in real-time while you were working in the system. Having the ability in real-time to be able to understand search query suggestions would be helpful."
"I would like more enforcement. Right now. it's a lot of alerting. You see it in Tufin, but you have to go to Check Point or whatever device to make the actual action."
"For implementing the rules of SecureChange, and trying to implement it with all of the software we have on our side, change management, and workflow management, we need better integration with our existing tools that will make these changes a lot faster."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing is good. Compared to others, it is not so expensive."
"FireMon is cheaper than AlgoSec."
"It's a good value. From a licensing standpoint... it's very simple to understand, and gives us a good bang for the buck."
"Relative to what it offers, the price is fair."
"Regarding additional costs, if you want things like Policy Optimizer, extra features, that's extra."
"FireMon is very expensive. I think that they charge a premium. In general, they are very pricey. Compared to their competitors, they cost a little more than the other solutions that we evaluated."
"Pricing model seems fair."
"We don't license all of the devices in our network, so it does not provide us with a comprehensive visibility of all devices in a hybrid network at this time."
"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."
"The solution is more reasonably priced than its competitors."
"This solution helped us to reduce the time it takes to make changes. We used to spend up to an hour to do a change, and now, it's around five minutes."
"The licensing costs are a significant amount of money."
"We are seeing ROI in terms of having SecureApp."
"Tufin reduced the time it takes to solve a problem, which reduces the time of the outage."
"This solution helps us reduce the time it takes us to make changes. We're probably saving time by 25%."
"It is expensive, but as compared to other players, it's more or less okay. Their pricing is not very transparent. This is my biggest point regarding Tufin. I've never seen a price list or something like that. It's always individual, and in many cases, it's very confusing to know what is the base and what is the price."
"Its price is reasonable, but it could be lower. It has been cost-effective for us. We have a contract for three years."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
9%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Performing Arts
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise45
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise153
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireMon?
My experience with pricing and licensing for FireMon Security Manager was generally positive, but on the higher side....
What needs improvement with FireMon?
The UI of FireMon Security Manager can be improved, and while existing features are working as expected based on the ...
What is your primary use case for FireMon?
The main case of FireMon Security Manager is firewall policy management and compliance. For an example, an applicatio...
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 l...
What needs improvement with Tufin SecureCloud?
Tufin Orchestration Suite ( /products/tufin-orchestration-suite-reviews ) is not commonly used in Thailand due to a l...
What is your primary use case for Tufin SecureCloud?
I have primarily used Skybox and AlgoSec ( /products/algosec-reviews ). I have also interacted with FireMon for compi...
What advice do you have for others considering Tufin SecureCloud?
There is potential for improvement in explaining the analytics in the dashboard for Tufin Orchestration Suite. Tufin ...
 

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Sample Customers

Convey, MGM Resorts International, Southwest Airlines, Alkami, Costco, Aetna, IBM, Verizon, Wells Fargo
United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International
3M, AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BNP Parabas, ConocoPhillips, Deutsche Bank, GE, IBM, Pfizer, United States Postal Service 
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