We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"This is something that increases business efficiency and helps avoid bottlenecks in our NOC team."
"We were able to improve the security ratings of our firewalls."
"It is very useful for PCI DSS compliance."
"We have all of the information about the firewall devices that we have at risk, either because there is a firewall policy with some open protocol that can give us security problems later, or because long-unused rules present a security hole."
"The product gave us more agility on the process to analyze and resolve tickets by requesting permissions to access services not enabled by default."
"In my opinion, the most valuable features are the network map, unused rules reports (IPT), and active change."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, including the policy report and regulatory compliance reports."
"It saves time by allowing administrators to test network traffic and pinpoint which rules are being triggered for a particular traffic flow."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"Robust modules can be used for different parts of network security."
"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"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 simulation can be improved."
"The risk matrix implementation is not easy from an Excel file, so it would be nice to have a solution for creating it directly within the web interface."
"Needs integration to cloud ITSM tools, such ServiceNow."
"To be more specific, when we tried to add some devices on AlgoSec it seemed to be done but when you checked the monitor section, some device was always red. Finally, we could handle this part by installing a new software fix but AlgoSec support was weak when we tried to handle this process."
"Advanced analytics and reporting capabilities that provide deeper insights into network traffic, security policy effectiveness, compliance, and risk management can be beneficial."
"At the integration point, a manual page could be added to the dashboard where directions about the products are explained in detail."
"More scope for editing alerts would be a welcome change."
"Environments with many devices need a lot of hardware resources to avoid slowdowns."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"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."
"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 setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, RedSeal and Qualys VMDR. See our AlgoSec vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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