We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The firewall configuration has more capabilities than the other firewall management systems that I have worked with."
"The features are good."
"For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."
"The most valuable features are the rule compliance and the OS vulnerability checks."
"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."
"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release."
"When we have a specific configuration pushed it does take some time to be deployed on the actual firewall."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The SD-WAN solution is difficult to manage on FortiManager because you need to share some configurations on the firewall side. Sometimes you lose all connectivity with the firewall, so it is challenging to apply the default configuration to the SD-WAN solution."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"The solution has some bugs."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform."
"The tool does not offer options for customization."
"If anything could be improved it would be staying on top of the collector scripts, but I understand that's a very tough challenge."
"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."
"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."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Rapid7 InsightVM.
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