We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient."
"Provides good and detailed log management."
"The firmware version upgrades are the most valuable feature."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiManager are the overall management it provides and its ease of use."
"The solution is very stable."
"The integration is quite good."
"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."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"The most valuable feature is firewall management."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"The solution has some bugs."
"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."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"Setting up FortiManager can be complex because it involves changes from other devices and a lot of configuration."
"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform."
"The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations."
"If anything could be improved it would be staying on top of the collector scripts, but I understand that's a very tough challenge."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"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."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Balbix BreachControl.
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