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Prevasio pros and cons

Vendor: AlgoSec

4.4 out of 5

10 reviews
90% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Prevasio offers a robust suite of features including firewall policy summarization, microsegmentation, and automation, enabling efficient firewall management and policy compliance. The AlgoBot chatbot aids in network traffic verification, enhancing network operations. Despite these strengths, challenges persist with technical support, API integration, and compatibility with certain platforms, such as Oracle cloud and multi-factor authentication. Limitations in AlgoSec integration and risk profiling also exist, affecting its comprehensive security management capabilities.

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PROS

Prevasio provides valuable firewall policy summarization, allowing cross-checking of firewall rulesets and monitoring of policy changes to ensure compliance and resolve rule conflicts.

AlgoBot is a Slack chatbot offered by Prevasio that empowers staff to independently verify network traffic allow/block status, saving administrative time.

Prevasio supports microsegmentation and effective modeling for specific situations, demonstrating strong capabilities compared to competitors.

The automation potential of Prevasio, through scripting, significantly reduces the need for manual intervention in firewall management.

Prevasio excels in optimizing firewall rules, aiding in managing complex networks by identifying configuration gaps and improving rulesets.

CONS

Technical support response time is low, potentially due to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to inadequate support.

Integrating with multiple security vendors is challenging; AlgoSec's setup complexity exacerbates the issue.

API integration capabilities, particularly with ServiceNow and GRC environments, could improve.

Risk profiles in AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer are limited to three zones, with no customization options.

Integration with Oracle on the cloud and multi-factor authentication is not supported.

Prevasio Pros review quotes

Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Apr 22, 2021

Because we get about 60 to 70 rules to deploy a week during the firewall maintenance window, we might create some duplicate rules or open duplicate ports. AlgoSec has become very helpful whenever we need to find out the nodes or subnets that have already been created, then we don't need to create the duplicate subnet of that particular IP address.

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LT

Security Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 28, 2021

The firewall policy summarization is the most valuable feature. It helps us to cross-check the firewall ruleset. That's the main purpose of it. And of course, it monitors changes of the firewall policy. It provides full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. It helps us to check for any integrity issues and conflicts with other rulesets, and of course the compliance.

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JS

IT Security Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 3, 2021

AlgoBot is a Slack chatbot that they've designed to help people identify if the firewalls are going to allow or block specific network traffic. We leveraged this to allow our staff to check themselves if the firewalls are going to be blocking traffic or not. That saves us logging into the firewalls and running the query off the host. We give them the power to use it and it saves us time.

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Cyber Security Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 24, 2021

We have used the solution to implement and manage microsegmentation initiatives. That is the whole point of modeling towards, "Hey, how will this work for a specific situation in the end?" I think it's a great solution because a lot of companies are not just going to the cloud, but microsegmentation and service-delivered products. So, I feel like it is very capable and comparatively better than its peers, if not equal.

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GH

Agile and Architecture at ENGIE

Jun 13, 2021

The workflow and the fact that I can follow up on a request that I've created and clearly see the status it is in are the most valuable features of this solution. When I need things to move on, for example, if the security guys didn't look at the request or the implementation is not going as it should, then I can contact people. There is a mechanism in there that clearly indicates the service level agreement we have for implementation. We can see if it is being attained.

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Sr. Design Architect - Network Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Aug 3, 2021

We have Check Point, Palo Alto, and FortiGate firewalls, and it integrates pretty seamlessly with these firewalls. We have had no issues so far.

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AS

Network Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Aug 23, 2021

AlgoSec has good tools to manage policies and devices. Many administrators like how it helps you monitor and clean up the policy for the on-premise firewall.

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AK

Network Infrastructure Engineer at Cigna/Express Scripts

Oct 21, 2021

The most valuable feature is the automation that can be accomplished by using scripts. If we didn't have AlgoSec, I would have to do everything manually.

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systems security engineer at a tech company with 1-10 employees

Dec 4, 2022

The most unique feature is the ability to help fix any gaps or mismatches in the configuration of the firewall.

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Production Manager at Assertiva S.A.

Jan 24, 2023

The optimizations are the most useful aspect because most customers have a very unmanaged network with a lot of rules. We use a lot of the optimizations in our reports for improving firewall rules.

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Prevasio Cons review quotes

Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Apr 22, 2021

The technical support response time is low. This might be due to the coronavirus pandemic situation, but I am not getting full support when working with them.

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LT

Security Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 28, 2021

Now that we've moved to the VM it is more stable and independent of hardware.

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JS

IT Security Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 3, 2021

We work with multiple security vendors. It's rather difficult to integrate the vendors. AlgoSec is a platform that hasn't really been developed as much as we would like to just because of its complexity to set up. If it was easy to set up and easy to get integrations with other companies, then we would be doing it. But the thought is that we are relatively stretched thin in our team as it is and the complexity of configuring AlgoSec doesn't make it any easier.

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Cyber Security Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 24, 2021

The API integration could potentially improve. I didn't get a chance to look and see how well this solution can integrate with ServiceNow or our GRC environment.

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GH

Agile and Architecture at ENGIE

Jun 13, 2021

The analysis part can be improved when I make a flow request. There should be a clear analysis of which metric part needs to be opened and which firewalls will be opened. It should give you a bit more graphical visibility about these.

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Sr. Design Architect - Network Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Aug 3, 2021

There is a little bit of scope for improvement in the risk profiles that come with the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer module. Currently, AlgoSec provides only three standard zones within a risk profile. These standard zones are external, internal, and DMZ. Everybody's network is divided into different zones within a data center, but AlgoSec only provides three zones. This is a limitation that I see for the risk profile analysis. If there was an option to customize these zones, it would be great.

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AS

Network Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Aug 23, 2021

In the new version H32, there are many, many bugs.

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AK

Network Infrastructure Engineer at Cigna/Express Scripts

Oct 21, 2021

When we send multiple requests across at once, sometimes it causes errors and FireFlow gets stuck. In cases like this, we have to go back in and fix it.

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systems security engineer at a tech company with 1-10 employees

Dec 4, 2022

AlgoSec cannot be integrated with solutions that require two-step or multi-factor authentication. Embedding multi-factor authentication capability into the solution would be a valuable feature.

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Production Manager at Assertiva S.A.

Jan 24, 2023

Integration with Oracle on the cloud is not supported. I would also like to see integrations with network devices in Layer 2.

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