We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Azure Firewall Manager 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."AlgoSec has definitely helped to improve the process of auditing all firewall rules and access."
"The solution provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. This is very important for us because we are regulated according to the FDA. It shows us which changes have been made and why. So, it has worked very well for our compliance needs."
"It can be easily integrated with different firewall devices (even different brands and models)."
"The most valuable feature is traffic simulation because, with this function, it has become more practical to know if something is released or blocked in my environment."
"We met our goal by gaining visibility and automating rule creation."
"We have critical security policies. With AlgoSec, we can create a security policy to manage critical applications. I have worked in the bank and they have critical applications. We created some security policies for those applications. Controlling the flow is critical for our customers."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to deploy new rules in all of the firewalls included in the environment at one time."
"The Firewall Analyzer component has excellent compatibility with the solution, and it's highly useful and easy to manage."
"It is easy to install and does not require any plugins for your browser."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Firewall Manager is the testing and configuration."
"The solution is very easy to set up."
"The solution has improved our organization with its firewall."
"The tool's support is good."
"Improve the dashboarding capability for FireFlow which is currently very limited in terms of presentation and customisation."
"The reports are lacking information when they come out. They will not pull the URL or application information from Cisco FTDs. I know this works for Palo Alto Firewalls, which we currently do not have. If they could improve the integration with Cisco FTDs as a whole, that would be immensely helpful."
"There is no visibility for the changes made to the NAT rule policies."
"The FireFlow template does not allow the user to perform external actions like sending an email or triggering a specific action."
"The user interface could be a little more user-friendly."
"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."
"I would like an intelligent tuner where it could help update rules with the application ID."
"This solution would be improved if it were able to compare configurations and provide recommendations."
"The solution can improve the integration with open-source tools."
"The price is okay. This said, the solution is certainly expensive in comparison with other cloud services."
"There should be a simple one-click deployment for a firewall, rather than a set of setup instructions that include steps such as the DNS configuration, et cetera."
"We could do only one-way NAT-ing, where the traffic comes from outside to internal, to Azure, which is fine. However, when we actually do NAT-ed traffic to hit the firewall, that way is not working."
"The tool's security features need to improve. It needs also to include a monitoring system for logs. It is also complicated to find a query on the Azure firewall."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Azure Firewall Manager is ranked 13th in Firewall Security Management with 5 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Azure Firewall Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Gives us the ability to dig down into details and work at a level above the skills that we already have". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Firewall Manager writes "Useful testing, simple configuration, and scales well". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and VMware NSX, whereas Azure Firewall Manager is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, AWS Firewall Manager, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Tufin Orchestration Suite. See our AlgoSec vs. Azure Firewall Manager report.
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