We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."For us, as well as for our customers, firewall management and change management are the most important features."
"AlgoSec has reduced the need for additional manpower and we can now use the time to tackle other security-related issues."
"It detects if the requested network and ports are getting blocked by the network or firewalls by a simple query, which helps to identify the network blocking firewalls in the topology."
"It helps in regulatory compliance metrics and overall firewall security optimization."
"We are currently in a rule base performance improvement process and AlgoSec is an invaluable tool to accomplish this."
"Users utilize this tool to make their change requests."
"The product gave us more agility on the process to analyze and resolve tickets by requesting permissions to access services not enabled by default."
"It improves audibility and security by having instant access to firewall configurations."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"It makes management very easy."
"It needs better API integration with its third-party firewall management."
"It would be interesting if the product could automate the switch configuration and create a dynamic map of the entire network."
"ABF is not very mature compare to AFA and AFF, but the module and concepts are quite good. I would suggest more concentration on ABF, especially on object and application permissions."
"It gives you the capability to make changes to hundreds of your firewalls at the same time, but big enterprises have change management policies. Change managers will never allow you to make changes to more than 10 devices at the same time, which is a feature in AlgoSec. Because, what if something goes wrong, then you have to roll back and figure out what caused the impact, e.g., which firewall did not work well. Doing that post-mortem becomes a difficult thing. So, change automation on a firewall is actually defeating the purpose of the change management policies in any organization. If you run a bank, you will not allow anyone to make changes at the same time from a single click for 10 firewalls. The bank will never allow this."
"It doesn't support all features on our firewalls. For instance, planning changes, which include net rules, doesn't work. It didn't integrate so well with the ACI network."
"I would like an intelligent tuner where it could help update rules with the application ID."
"I would like to see more object-based reports on groups and object usage."
"It would be great if the product could be more simplified when defining the rules."
"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."
"You cannot integrate with other solutions."
"The solution has some bugs."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."
"Setting up FortiManager can be complex because it involves changes from other devices and a lot of configuration."
"Performance issues should be improved. We have problems when we have more mobile connections than local devices. Most of us have two to three devices."
"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."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Fortinet FortiWeb.
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