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, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."We look at the traffic to segment the network and it improves and increases the performance. When we have a mobile connection and local laptops are on the same network. We have seen a big performance upgrade."
"Central management system for Fortinet devices that's simple, scalable, and stable, with a straightforward setup."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"Without FortiManager, you cannot manage a complex environment across several sites with multiple firewalls."
"FortiManager enables us to set unified firewall policies from one centralized dashboard, reducing human error. If you do not have a central dashboard, there's a chance you might set a policy on one firewall and forget to do it for another."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"The most valuable features of Skybox Security Suite are all the modules that are provided, such as vulnerability assessments and network, and firewall assessments."
"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 context. So, it is not just a model in VIZIO. Or something like it like that. You get the model with context, and, like, it looks like a real network in a real-time. So you can check your network and the security of your network on that model."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"Skybox deployment is simple, and it's very useful."
"The most impressive feature is optimization and clean-up."
"It shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything."
"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."
"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."
"The solution has some bugs."
"There is a degradation of performance if we activate logs on FortiManager."
"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"The GUI is not ideal."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"The tool does not offer options for customization."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"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."
"The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
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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