AlgoSec Review

It's a very flexible product, and you can make the most from the available features on the box.

What is most valuable?

  • Audit reports
  • Firewall rule optimization

How has it helped my organization?

There are hundreds of firewall administrators, and each one of them creates rules. Optimizing these rules and being able to make them more logical is a key feature of AlgoSec.

What needs improvement?

The reporting features need to be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for one year.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We did encounter an issue with integrating it with the firewall, but we then found that the firewall was the culprit not AlgoSec.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We need to carefully plan scaling AlgoSec.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

7/10.

Technical Support:

9/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

This is my first implementation.

How was the initial setup?

There were guides available, and the more you read, the easier it becomes.

What about the implementation team?

I am am a vendor. I work at Dimension Data as a network engineer who deploys these solutions.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We also looked at Tufin.

What other advice do I have?

It's a very flexible product, and you can make the most from the available features on the box.

**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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It saves time by allowing administrators to test network traffic and pinpoint which rules are being triggered for a particular traffic flow.
We have not seen many faults reported from our customers.
It assists in provisioning the application rapidly, which increases the organization's revenue.
The features that are most valuable are the interactive topology map and the traffic simulation queries.
It now takes less than half of the time it took before we had this tool to deploy the flows requested by the business.
One of the quick wins is to view our device status easily, with out-of-the-box dashboards and charts.
We are currently in a rule base performance improvement process and AlgoSec is an invaluable tool to accomplish this.
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