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."We are currently in a rule base performance improvement process and AlgoSec is an invaluable tool to accomplish this."
"The Firewall Analyzer helps us achieve our various IT compliance requirements, like ISO-27001."
"This is something that increases business efficiency and helps avoid bottlenecks in our NOC team."
"AlgoSec gives organizations the visibility and intelligence needed to make application connectivity changes confidently while managing risk and compliance."
"Multi-vendor feature in a multi-vendor environment is a must. Ensures changes adhere to internal and regulatory standards."
"Users utilize this tool to make their change requests."
"In my opinion, the most valuable features are the network map, unused rules reports (IPT), and active change."
"AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer can detect misconfigurations and unused or permissive rules, as well as rules without logging. Through a single dashboard, I can see all the problematic rules from all the firewalls. It's very simple, with AlgoSec, to get an analysis of all the rules, and that helps with visibility."
"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 is very stable."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized management console."
"The best feature of Fortinet FortiManager is its ease of use. It is easy to manage the firewall from Fortinet FortiManager. Additionally, the interface is very good."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"Central management system for Fortinet devices that's simple, scalable, and stable, with a straightforward setup."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"The interface is more on the complex side."
"To secure SaaS traffic there are a few vendors such as Palo Alto and Zscaler, but AlgoSec is not yet able to push rules onto these clouds."
"The simulation can be improved."
"There could be certain improvements such as supporting secure email."
"I would say that the cases opened with AlgoSec could be solved faster or escalated sooner to the senior engineers/2nd or 3rd tier."
"Further integration with ACI and NSX will be key to our customers' requirements moving forward, as customers adopt new, innovative environments."
"The license rekeying needed for when you need to change a firewall usually takes a bit of time."
"The initial setup can be complex for beginners."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"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."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
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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