We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Cisco Defense Orchestrator 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."The features that are most valuable are the interactive topology map and the traffic simulation queries."
"AlgoBot is a brilliantly, simple idea that lets us give our IT internal customers a way to check if rules are already in place before asking for more."
"Customizability is AlgoSec's best feature."
"It lowers the burden of the security department."
"ABF is a wonderful module where you can keep the footprint for your firewall rules up-to-date, like CMDB."
"Optimizing the operation making it possible to focus on other improvements."
"It gives control and visibility to the end users."
"AlgoSec contributes more in the security space for our company, especially in automatically finding the high risk and medium risk rules instead of manually reviewing over a few thousand rules."
"If our server is blocked, this solution shows us why it is blocked and allows us to update the network routing."
"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion prevention."
"If we have a firewall go down, I can hop into CDO, pull the latest configuration off and apply it. That's really good. It helps save time."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do centralized upgrades on the ASAs. We can select all of those ASAs, and say, "Upgrade these ASAs at this scheduled time." It will copy down the ASA image, ASDM image, and then do the upgrade and failovers, and then put it all back into service as required at a scheduled time. It automates that process for us."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator has useful guides for the steps that need to follow by users."
"I like the upgrade feature. That is pretty valuable to me because I have dual ASAs and when I go through CDO it does it for me pretty well. It's all done in the back-end and I don't really have to be involved. I just initiate, pick the image, and I pick when I want it done and it just does it, whether I have a single ASA or have a dual ASA."
"For this product, they are very uncharacteristically interested in resolving whatever issue the customer reports. They're really attentive, and they address whatever we bring up as quickly as they can. That's been a very positive aspect of the product."
"The bulk changes feature is definitely the most valuable."
"Needs better integration between modules and also a better troubleshooting methodology."
"At the integration point, a manual page could be added to the dashboard where directions about the products are explained in detail."
"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."
"ABF is not very mature compare to AFA and AFF, but the module and concepts are quite good. I would suggest more concentration on ABF, especially on object and application permissions."
"The HA solution is not good."
"We don't dare push the new policy automatically, We don't have confidence in this feature."
"Algosec does not support vendors like Sophos, SonicWall, Forecepoint, and so on."
"There could be certain improvements such as supporting secure email."
"The main thing that would useful for us would the logging and monitoring. I have to check it out, to get the beta, because I don't have access to them... I wanted CDO to be a central place so where I could do everything but right now I don't think that's possible. I really don't want to go back and forth between this and FMC. Maybe the logging portion, when I look at it, will give me some similarities."
"The dashboard needs to be more customizable to provide better reporting for our network."
"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."
"We had some MX devices that were blocking Windows Update from happening. We found out it was a Meraki issue, but it would have been nice if it had been flagged for us: "Hey, these updates are failing because the MX is blocking it." It wasn't a huge problem, but there was a loss of our time as well as the fact that the updates didn't get pushed out... It would have been nice if CDO had let us know that that was an issue."
"If I make a change locally to the firewall, CDO gives an alarm or an error message and says there's a change in compliance: "The firewall has this configuration but the last time it was compiled it had that configuration." That view of new changes versus the old could be better... I had to log in manually, locally on the firewall, to check which version, which configuration was actually running. I couldn't see it in CDO."
"They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly."
"When logging into the device, we sort of had problems with it staying in sync. If somebody made a change onsite, it wouldn't do an automatic sync. It would have to wait, as you would have to do a manual sync up."
"CDO doesn't have a report, an official report that I can check daily. It has another module called FTD, but it doesn't have that specifically for ASA. In the reporting, there are a lot of things that aren't there. There is also room for improvement in the daily monitoring."
Earn 20 points
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Cisco Defense Orchestrator 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 Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Tufin Orchestration Suite, Azure Firewall Manager and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. See our AlgoSec vs. Cisco Defense Orchestrator report.
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