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."Traffic Analyzer provided the centralized view for our IT SOC operations to focus mainly on high-risk firewall rules exposing with explicit any rules."
"With the solution, we can uncover bottlenecks, streamline, and clean up our firewall rules."
"For us, as well as for our customers, firewall management and change management are the most important features."
"Firewall Analyzer is valuable because it makes searching our existing policies so simple."
"It enhanced the complete workflow system within six months of deployment."
"AlgoSec supports a wide range of devices and is constantly working to include support for many other vendor devices."
"FireFlow is great. In a company that gets a large volume of requests to open firewall rules, it's helpful to have one place that summarizes the requests, enabling you to clearly understand why they need to be implemented and also implement them. Firewall Analyzer can help you identify missing routing or check information on the firewall without the need to log into a firewall or router to check the routing. We have all that access in three clicks."
"ABF is a wonderful module where you can keep the footprint for your firewall rules up-to-date, like CMDB."
"Robust modules can be used for different parts of network security."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"The most impressive feature is optimization and clean-up."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"Key features for us include the firewall change audit every week. Also, being able to track firewall ACL usage, so that we can produce semiannual reports on ACL usage and shadowed and redundant rules on the firewall."
"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 am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"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."
"A more granular approach and the possibility to separate data and show relevant data to specific key roles or key users would be a great achievement in future releases."
"The process to replace a decommissioned device with a new device is not straightforward."
"AlgoSec's audit management is not good enough and can be improved."
"At the integration point, a manual page could be added to the dashboard where directions about the products are explained in detail."
"The HA solution is not good."
"I would like to see Bi-Directional API support in order to integrate with SOAR platforms that provide SOC automation and IRR."
"The documentation could be better."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"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."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
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 "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 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 Balbix BreachControl. See our AlgoSec vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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