We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud 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."It has streamlined our process for access and firewall management."
"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."
"Breaking down a rule to specify used objects within groups and protocols has proven invaluable for us because we are able to narrow exposure to potential threats, and more generally, areas in which we are exposed."
"There are some legacy customers still using AlgoSec. The benefit is the ease in management of firewalls and rules."
"Firewall Analyzer is valuable because it makes searching our existing policies so simple."
"It now takes less than half of the time it took before we had this tool to deploy the flows requested by the business."
"The most valuable is helping us determine where our rules are too permissive. Based on previous human review of our rules, they are very cursory. We know why we do something, but we don't get into the details of whether the rule is nice and tight. What Firewall Analyzer lets us do is understand the risks presented by our rules. The tool does a calculation of all the traffic that could be allowed and we can match that to whether it should be allowed."
"AFA provides project teams with a simplified way to obtain the status on their current rule set."
"The Fortianalyzer is the most valuable aspect of this solution"
"I have found centralized administration, cloud UI, and visibility and security on all networks valuable features."
"It covers all needs of our customers and works well. It is also easy to deploy and troubleshoot."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"It is a solid solution for business environments. Investing in this technology can yield significant cost and security enhancements."
"The ability to manage everything from the cloud is going to be the most valuable by far with this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is the logs are stored longer on this cloud version. If you have the on-premise version you will not be able to store the logs for more than one or two months."
"We use the solution as a firewall."
"I would like an intelligent tuner where it could help update rules with the application ID."
"All our firewalls were renamed, and AlgoSec saw these devices as new devices. As a result, all the reports from the same device but with the old hostname were no longer connected. AlgoSec did not clean up the old reports as well. After a few days, it depleted its own storage, and then, the server became inaccessible."
"The risk matrix implementation is not easy from an Excel file, so it would be nice to have a solution for creating it directly within the web interface."
"In terms of additional features in the next release, more integration with SD-WAN would be valuable."
"We needs object level permissions and application level recertifications."
"Algosec should also be exploring the integration with the open source firewalls as well."
"To be more specific, when we tried to add some devices on AlgoSec it seemed to be done but when you checked the monitor section, some device was always red. Finally, we could handle this part by installing a new software fix but AlgoSec support was weak when we tried to handle this process."
"We would like to have a kind of "Time Capsule" to be able to restore to a certain state from a backup."
"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."
"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."
"However, the absence of certain features like CLI is a drawback."
"Improving the platform's intuitiveness and consolidating functionalities, such as reporting and firewall features, could enhance user experience and reduce the need for multiple product purchases."
"Reporting is an area that can be enhanced."
"Some configuration changes would be helpful."
"The command-line interface could definitely be improved in future iterations. It's lacking right now."
"We are seeking a solution that can monitor our network traffic running through 17 firewalls in Malaysia and Indonesia. We want a solution that can record and monitor all the logs from all the firewalls. We want to consolidate all our firewalls into one portal so we can monitor all the activities from all the firewalls."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 57 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud 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 Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite and Palo Alto Networks Panorama, whereas Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our AlgoSec vs. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud report.
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