We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."It has streamlined our process for access and firewall management."
"Firewall Analyzer is valuable because it makes searching our existing policies so simple."
"To be able to monitor all firewalls under one umbrella."
"It detects if the requested network and ports are getting blocked by the network or firewalls by a simple query, which helps to identify the network blocking firewalls in the topology."
"We have all of the information about the firewall devices that we have at risk, either because there is a firewall policy with some open protocol that can give us security problems later, or because long-unused rules present a security hole."
"We can easily and quickly identify all of the rules on the firewall and avoid the individual review and analysis of each rule."
"We have not seen many faults reported from our customers."
"It saves time by allowing administrators to test network traffic and pinpoint which rules are being triggered for a particular traffic flow."
"We are happy with the scalability."
"The stability is great. That's one of the things that we can quantify and leverage through NSX, because it's less complex. We have the availability to manage multiple things at the same time. You can identify problems before they manifest."
"Has a great firewall."
"The ability to scale from different clouds. At the moment, the scalability of the product is the number one thing that I saw."
"The solution is very good at micro-segmentation."
"One significant advantage of VMware NSX is the ability to provide advanced security at the micro-level, focusing on securing applications and workloads rather than just the network structure or virtualization-based network security."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's initial setup process was easy."
"It's a beneficial tool."
"Since COVID-19, a number of the technical support team members have been working from home or remotely. So, we haven't gotten support people right when we need them. Sometimes, it takes a couple of hours or even days for us to get that instant support that we used to get."
"I would like an intelligent tuner where it could help update rules with the application ID."
"Advanced analytics and reporting capabilities that provide deeper insights into network traffic, security policy effectiveness, compliance, and risk management can be beneficial."
"Algosec should also be exploring the integration with the open source firewalls as well."
"We would like to have a kind of "Time Capsule" to be able to restore to a certain state from a backup."
"The license rekeying needed for when you need to change a firewall usually takes a bit of time."
"It would be nice to have a good tool for network map discovery in the GUI to make it more user-friendly."
"This product could be improved in several ways including more device support, an automated rollback process and options in active push, software-defined WAN integration and support, and application-aware policy identification and optimization."
"Its licensing model could be VM based."
"The first time setting it up was difficult."
"Everybody needs a network to connect to, and VMware doesn't readily provide one."
"We would like tenant segmentation available in future releases."
"The tool's setup is complex and we need support to implement it."
"We would to have a reverse proxy. This would add great value to the solution."
"They could do more with cloud management."
"VMware NSX should be able to scale for different customers, even the big ones. Its scalability needs improvement. Stability for it should also be improved."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco Secure Workload.
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