We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer 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 gives organizations the visibility and intelligence needed to make application connectivity changes confidently while managing risk and compliance."
"The most valuable feature of AlgoSec is integration because it needs the be integrated with vendors' firewalls and other security products. AlgoSec has intelligent policy tuners."
"I like the auto-mapping features and configuration overview. We use this for many things, but primarily for quick reactions to security events, audit, project management, and quick operational efficiencies."
"The features that are most valuable are the interactive topology map and the traffic simulation queries."
"Traffic queries are a great help when troubleshooting a problem, especially if the traffic is going through two or more firewalls."
"AlgoSec is able to provide a consistent view into all of an organization's firewalls, regardless if the management is done by different companies."
"AlgoSec provides full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests as well. It definitely allows us to drill down to the level where we can see the actual policy rule that's affecting the risk ratings. If there are any changes in ratings, it'll show you exactly how to determine what's changed in the network that will affect it. It's been very clear and intuitive as far as that."
"This Appliance gives you the full Network MAP, which is obtainable from the Routing table."
"Firewall Analyzer is easy to work with."
"The most valuable features of the ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer are the monitoring of the full management of the network elements and the inventory of the infrastructure."
"Overall the solution does a good job."
"Firewall Analyzer helps our organization to fulfill the compliance requirement as per ISO 27001, managing the network security effectively."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a very user-friendly tool compared to other solutions."
"I found the reporting to be useful because not only can I go back months, but it lists the individual URLs and the time that a particular person visited."
"There are sometimes issues with the Risky Rules reports where the number of hits is registering zero, but we know that this is incorrect because we have checked the rules and see that they are indeed registering traffic."
"Be able to automatically analyze application traffic with machine learning capabilities and propose simplification for rule set optimization."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like an intelligent tuner where it could help update rules with the application ID."
"We would like to see more features in the GUI so that we don't have to work with the API as extensively."
"The initial setup can be complex for beginners."
"The MAP has a persistent issue with a firewall that is using a double BVI (Bridge virtual interface)."
"I would like to be able to see what objects have the same IP, but different names in different firewalls."
"The solution lacks a lot of features that other products have in the marketplace."
"ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer can improve by having better monitoring of all features from firewalls. We are using Kibana in order to monitor parts that this solution does not record. For example, having more correlation and proactive monitoring in some activity or scenario."
"The stability is so-so. There are always memory issues, but the solution is working great apart from that."
"It would be awesome if the product could monitor services for applications."
"If there is a need to get some customized report or anything, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer takes some time."
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AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is ranked 11th in Firewall Security Management with 7 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer writes "Offers good integration features and is user-friendly". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is most compared with FireMon Security Manager, Tufin Orchestration Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Skybox Security Suite. See our AlgoSec vs. ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer report.
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