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.
"The PCI compliance feature has been helpful in preparing for audits."
"It can be easily integrated with different firewall devices (even different brands and models)."
"Traffic queries are a great help when troubleshooting a problem, especially if the traffic is going through two or more firewalls."
"AlgoBot is a brilliantly, simple idea that lets us give our IT internal customers a way to check if rules are already in place before asking for more."
"The product gave us more agility on the process to analyze and resolve tickets by requesting permissions to access services not enabled by default."
"AlgoSec has improved our organization in terms of improving efficiency within our firewall setup. It has added automation to working process that has helped us achieve our initial goal of reacting faster to incoming requests, which as a result of allows the relevant teams time to focus on other areas of importance."
"The most valuable is helping us determine where our rules are too permissive. Based on previous human review of our rules, they are very cursory. We know why we do something, but we don't get into the details of whether the rule is nice and tight. What Firewall Analyzer lets us do is understand the risks presented by our rules. The tool does a calculation of all the traffic that could be allowed and we can match that to whether it should be allowed."
"Being able to analyze the environment and audit firewall configuration is most valuable. We are working here in the oil sector, and it's a critical environment. Every six months we have auditors coming from the main office and doing auditing for security. We are using AlgoSec Analyzer to help us to do the audit before the auditors come to our office and do the auditing of our security devices. So, it's helping us to do good work and analyze all security devices, including firewalls."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."
"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."
"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."
"They can make some improvements to the user interface because it can be slow at times."
"The FireFlow template does not allow the user to perform external actions like sending an email or triggering a specific action."
"There is room for improvement in the rollback process."
"The customization of dashboards should be simplified and more user-friendly."
"Advanced analytics and reporting capabilities that provide deeper insights into network traffic, security policy effectiveness, compliance, and risk management can be beneficial."
"I would like to see Bi-Directional API support in order to integrate with SOAR platforms that provide SOC automation and IRR."
"A vulnerability management module might be interesting, though not integrated with a third-party vendor. It should be an AlgoSec VM module."
"We are running multiple hybrid cloud solutions, working with cloud providers, and looking for API integrations with cloud and related interoperability. Sometimes, when we are trying to delete or disable any rule, it takes more time than expected."
"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"The support could be improved."
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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