AlgoSec Review

The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer was greatly used for firewall analysis, policy tuning, and optimization. The automated change management feature was very useful and integrates seamlessly into the change management process.

This solution helps in maintaining and providing regulatory compliance metrics and to optimize the overall security of the organization. It provides great visibility into your firewall rules, thereby allowing you to eliminate redundant or overlapping rules. It saves time by allowing administrators to test network traffic and pinpoint which rules are being triggered for a particular traffic flow.

The most valuable features to me were the following:

1. Testing network flows and optimizing firewall policies.
2. Obtaining regulatory and compliance metrics for audits.
3. Visualize complex networks using the topology maps.
4. Simple interface and ease of navigation.

The product has a lot of great features already. However, I would like the reporting to be more customizable, as per user and auditing needs.

It is a highly scalable solution as per my experience.

I haven't used any other solutions.

I do not have much information on the pricing, as I wasn't part of the actual procurement process. I was told that the pricing and licensing was comparatively fair.

I did a basic evaluation of FireMon, which had identical features to the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer.