We are very simple. The benefit of AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer right now is to give us skills that we don't already have with our people. Also, when we get into our periodic reviews, AlgoSec enables us to do it without adding additional staff. Something that we are not able to do because that is controlled in the Chilean head office. So, we need to make the best use of the best tools to secure our environment with a minimal number of people.

AlgoSec reduced the time it takes to implement firewall rules in our organization. Before, our firewall rule review was always done manually. When we installed the appliance and ran the report, we quickly found half a dozen areas where we were more exposed than we needed to be. The manual process used to go on for weeks. The AlgoSec process right now, as we develop and become better with it, takes only a matter of two or three days. We can have a good solid review, then we can get into very specific details about any rule or configuration with the objective of ensuring least privilege. Only the things that are needed to support business activities are allowed.

We are a regulated industry: financial services. We are obliged to at least annually review our firewall rules for risk. Are they too permissive? Are they not needed? Because we have this tool, we can now do that once a quarter. Before, we only did it once a year. 

We are a small branch of a much larger organization in Latin America. The rules that were set up allow free flow of information back and forth, i.e., network connections. Right now, with ransomware being what it is, we are starting to review those rules because they are too permissive. Another way that AlgoSec is helping us, internally, is working with our head office to make sure that they are treated with least privilege. Something that is not normal. Something that didn't happen, "Just because."

I have been with this organization for about two years. All the wide-openness of the network communications was just a bad event waiting to happen. AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer has given us the great ability to dig down into the details and work at a level above the skills that we already have, making sure that we are in a process. It started months ago and will continue for seven more months. That network traffic in and out of our perimeter is the least that it should be.

We work with multiple security vendors. For just IT alone, we have three primary vendors and a couple others that pitch in when needed. AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer helps us to make sure that we allow only what they need and that we keep them to the internal assets. They are external third-parties. We have high assurance that they are only able to access network assets that are part of the contract. Another vendor manages our firewall. The reason we have them do it is because we don't have the expertise amongst our people. So, the addition of the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer enables us to have the intelligence of what is good and what is less than good. Thus, we can help keep that third-party on the rails, that they are doing good things for us, and we have the evidence to prove it.

We are getting into using AlgoSec to implement and manage micro-segmentation initiatives. One of our audit concerns was the flat network, and we started to work based on what we already know to create a test segment. However, AlgoSec is helping us to validate the traffic that will be allowed into that new segment, restricted to only that which we need. No sense in creating an isolated network if bad things can still flow back and forth between test and production. So, AlgoSec is a tool that is helping us make sure that we have all the isolation that we need. But, because of the syslog counters, we can also tell over time whether we did a good job in the first place and whether the remaining rules that we configured to be nice and tight are still needed for business purposes.

They have compliance rules built right into the system. Right out-of-the-box, you can run a compliance check against your environment that tells you exactly what needs to be fixed and why. Their compliance check is phenomenal. They even have a base compliance check. So, you can set your own standards to make sure that all your equipment meets those base compliances that you have for internal standards.

AlgoSec has reduced the time it takes to implement firewall rules in our organization. While our usage of it has been fairly limited to what we have tested so far, it has probably reduced the time by about 30%.

It gives us 100% visibility into our network security policies. It has given us a couple of surprises. Over the years, the network that we are administrating has been subject to people who have an idea of how a network should be set up. That differs from technician to technician or engineer to engineer. So, we are finding little pockets of hidden little self-engineered configurations and the way things were done that nobody knew about. Once the engineer left, the knowledge of that setup disappeared. You don't know about those until something either goes wrong, or you get something like AlgoSec to discover it for you, and it says, "Hey, there is this going on over here." 

It has helped us figure out how it was set up and why it was set up that way, then allowed us to engineer it so it fits a little better into our standards. We found a couple of secrets in our network that nobody would have known about. If we had an outage on those, nobody would have been able to figure them out without a tool like AlgoSec. This would have been a complete outage for our organization. Since we are healthcare insurance, that is a significant amount of money.

It has helped to simplify the job of our security engineers. We have a snapshot of where we are at with the correct data that we need to be able to fix the issues that we have. We keep finding little secret pockets of out-of-standard configurations that need to be addressed.

AlgoSec absolutely provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. There is a risk analysis piece of it that allows us to go in and run that risk analysis against it, figuring out what rules we need to be able to change, then make our environment a little more secure. This is incredibly important for compliance and security of our clients. We deal a lot with patient health information that needs to be secure for physicians who are dealing with it and the patients themselves.

AlgoSec made troubleshooting much more manageable. For example, we can quickly determine the cause of routing issues and do traffic simulations to discover if something is open. It helps us perform analysis faster. That's one of the significant advantages. 

AlgoSec simplifies the work of security engineers in two ways. First, it simplifies approvals. Every time a flow is requested, it goes to security for approval. The security team assesses the risk of each request and makes a decision based on that. Second, it made audits easier because analyzing firewalls and permitted traffic is effortless. All these little aspects don't seem like much, but they add up. We have lots of audits. The risk metrics help us to identify specific risks as long as we can define solid risk metrics. If that doesn't work, you can also use the API to gather much of that information.

FireFlow provides multiple ways to create tickets involving numerous teams. Our existing ticketing solutions are not as easily configurable. They have some more restrictions. AlgoSec is a significant improvement. It has considerably reduced the time we spend implementing firewall rules. For example, we had previously implemented some rules manually and others via FireFlow. We started to use FireFlow for all of them. Because even if the network review on FireFlow isn't as accurate, it's still a net reduction compared to the time it would take to implement everything manually. It's worth it to spend a little more time analyzing everything. We can select the firewall and let FireFlow take care of everything. It's not comparable because we can press a few buttons, and everything is done.

AlgoSec reduced human error and misconfigurations, especially in terms of firewall implementation. AlgoSec doesn't make many mistakes. Implementation errors are rare. For example, let's say that we are trying to analyze something. Creating things by hand requires us to look at a file with 25 lines. It's easy to forget something, but AlgoSec doesn't forget anything. 

AlgoSec provides us with all the information, and we have to check to see if it's working correctly. Of course, it's not perfect. Sometimes there's some routing missing. When it doesn't implement something, AlgoSec usually informs people it's not going to. 

My company is a massive enterprise with several DCs globally and various types of environments. In addition to those DCs, they also have several subsidiaries, so it's a giant network. We work on incorporating all these environments into a single pane of glass using AlgoSec. Previously, every DC had its own AlgoSec, but we're currently merging them all into a single global AlgoSec because it's best to have everything in one place managed by the same people. It will enable us to control and standardize everything. It's also better in terms of visibility. 

We have integrated AlgoSec with Cisco ACI, but I wouldn't say it adds much. ACI is replacing our previous architecture, which was also Cisco. It's mostly the same. The way AlgoSec collects information hasn't changed much. ACI is good at organization, but it doesn't add much to AlgoSec's security functions. AlgoSec comes in handy during cloud migration. 

When migrating to the cloud, we typically extract information from old servers and provide that to the migration technicians so they know what they need to open for the new server. If the migration goes well, we aren't usually too involved with it. Afterward, if they find issues, we can help detect them and understand why something is missing.

Before AlgoSec, an analyst had to configure the rules one by one but now, when rules are needed, they are configured automatically.

Another benefit is that it has reduced the time it takes to implement firewall rules. That's why we bought it. We used to have two or three people just configuring rules and now we only have one. It has saved us two FTEs. I'm also completing requests faster. Before, I used to take three, four, or even five days to do one request, but now it's half a day or less.

It helps us maintain compliance very well because everything is automated, meaning that everything should be right. When there are humans doing things, there can be mistakes.

Another reason we chose AlgoSec was that it integrates well with multiple solutions. We have Check Point and Palo Alto, and it's better using AlgoSec to automate things.

While AlgoSec already provides substantial capabilities around managing security policies and compliance, there is an opportunity to further enhance its intelligence to take a more proactive security posture. Specifically, AlgoSec could look to incorporate advanced machine learning techniques to analyze network traffic, application logs, and user behavior to detect anomalies and identify emerging threats. 

Going beyond just mapping the authorized connectivity, AlgoSec could leverage unsupervised ML clustering algorithms and deep learning models to find high-risk anomalies and subtle attacks.

Implementing firewall rules within our organization has been significantly expedited thanks to AlgoSec. 

This product plays a crucial role in preparing us for audits and ensuring firewall compliance. With its assistance, we are able to assess security and firewall rating points, offering valuable advice to our customers regarding the optimization of their firewall and security rules.

One of the key benefits of AlgoSec is its ability to simplify the tasks of our security engineers. By providing essential guidance to administrators responsible for managing firewalls, streamlines their responsibilities and enhances their efficiency in carrying out their duties.

AlgoSec has improved our organization through a safer firewall rule base and better time-to-market IT services provided to the rest of the organization. Those are the two main improvements. In general, AlgoSec has provided a better security posture.

AlgoSec has significantly enhanced our troubleshooting capabilities. We can quickly pinpoint the causes of routing issues and conduct traffic simulations to identify potential problems. This has streamlined our analysis processes, which is a major advantage.

Moreover, AlgoSec simplifies the work of our security engineers in two key ways. First, it streamlines the approval process for flow requests, with the security team assessing risk and granting approvals. Second, it facilitates audits by providing effortless access to firewall configurations and permitted traffic data, making compliance checks much smoother.

FireFlow, a component of AlgoSec, has been particularly valuable for us. It serves as a centralized platform for managing firewall rule requests, making it easy to understand and implement these requests efficiently. Additionally, Firewall Analyzer helps us identify missing routing information and check firewall status without the need to access individual devices.

AlgoSec has significantly reduced human errors and misconfigurations, especially during firewall implementation. It provides comprehensive information, minimizing the chances of oversight or omission. While it's not flawless, it typically alerts us when something cannot be implemented, ensuring transparency.

It is of great benefit to observe the firewall risks from a different perspective and to see that they are improving in the process. When the effects of tightening and improvements are checked regularly, we can better monitor the current risk situation. It is a difficult process to examine the security risks in detail in each of our products and in our firewalls which may be different brands and models. AlgoSec enables us to manage this process in a central way.

We were able to improve the security ratings of our firewalls. It helped us with annual audits, change notifications, rule assessments, and visibility in general.

It improved compliance and risk management and connections revolving around the network Layer 3.

We can get all the firewall-related data with a single click and effectively work on synchronizing with all the firewall gateways including the management server.

We are using it for the firewall change auditing process for our department. They are one of the leaders that we found in this area. There is a very limited group of vendors that provide this kind of functionality and we've gone through the majority of them. AlgoSec still stands out as the leader, in our opinion.

The solution has allowed us to:
• Easily prove compliance during internal or external audits
• Has reduced resources needed to manage firewall changes

With the AlgoSec firewall analyzer, it now takes us half the time to deploy firewall changes and policy optimization.

The AFA also provided us with the flexibility and intelligence that reduces human error and risk.

It allows the security compliance team to focus more on providing a better level of security and compliant devices than on the process and changes.

When it comes to a large organization with many vendors/partners, our firewalls are more easily managed using the AlgoSec AFA component.  The ease of use, visibility, compliance, and efficiency is unmatched in the industry. 

We have used AlgoSec AFA to have more visibility into the network and know what firewalls to activate. 

AlgoSec AFA has great search tools and firewall cleanup functionality. 

The Algsec AppViz is a newer Algosec element that we will use to improve application security and visibility in our complex network.

The comprehensive visibility of network security allows users to understand the dependencies between different policies. In the firewall analyzer, we can easily visualize and analyze all the devices within the network. To check the connectivity between the two devices, you can use the source's IPs and destination.

We can build the whole network topology using Algosec easily and provide optimization with all networks.

The verification of policies on all integrated firewalls with a minimal time period. 

AlgoSec made our work simple in managing the multivendor firewall rule. Audit-ready reporting is an awesome feature.

AlgoSec has freed up my time to look into new solutions and complete other jobs that I have to get done. I have been able to shepherd the migration from Cisco ASA to FortiGate and using AlgoSec made that process much easier. Now, when I get a request for audit information, that information is available at a click. A PCI audit is no sweat. I know which firewalls fall under PCI, and I can provide the needed answers in minutes instead of days.  This has improved my use of time.

Security policy management entails far more than simply inspecting a device and applying certain rules. It is all about improving and automating time-consuming security processes so that staff can concentrate on more strategic responsibilities. AlgoSec FireFlow, for example, enables enterprises to process security policy changes in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks. It automates the entire security policy change process, from design and submission to proactive risk analysis, implementation, validation, and auditing, using intelligent, highly customizable processes.

It gives us a pretty good understanding of what's going on in our network in terms of network security policies. In terms of the overall visibility that it gives into our network security policies, I would rate it a nine out of 10.

For preparing for audits and ensuring that our firewalls are in compliance, Firewall Analyzer gives a great overview of what's going on with the firewalls in terms of rules, etc. It offers a great input for auditors or for reporting to auditors.

We use Firewall Analyzer in order to monitor the PCI DSS network area. It is helpful for meeting some requirements of PCI DSS.

We work with multiple security vendors. It works when it comes to integrating it with the leading vendors. We didn't have any problems integrating with the solutions of our top three vendors.

AlgoSec has improved our organization in terms of improving efficiency within our firewall setup. It has added automation to working process that has helped us achieve our initial goal of reacting faster to incoming requests, which as a result of allows the relevant teams time to focus on other areas of importance.

Algosec helps with device onboarding and offboarding, managing access, and overseeing information security.

Algosec helps customers across the globe optimize their firewall policies and bring the best performance.

AlgoSec supports a wide range of devices and is constantly working to include support for many other vendor devices.

The solution checks on vulnerability scans often and reports.

Auto policy orchestration has helped our organization.

We can get all the firewall-related data with a single click. There is effective work on synchronizing with all the firewall gateways, including the management server.

It's helpful for auditing firewall configuration. If there is any mistake on the configuration side, it helps us to fix it. If there is a complication or there are unused security policies, it suggests removing or double-checking them. It's a good product. It's stable and gives us accurate results.

We have a network with more than 10,000 users. We have a lot of security devices for finance, remote sites, and corporate. AlgoSec is helping us to review and do auditing of the security device configuration. It's helping us to audit and review the configuration for any mistakes for firewalls, web application firewalls, proxies, etc.

When we add a security device, such as a firewall, it analyzes the configuration files for the firewall and gives us a brief of everything, such as security policies, routings, and objects. It lets us know if there is any mistake in the configuration, which is helpful for us. It gives us good visibility of what we have inside our security devices. For example, one of the firewalls that we have has more than 500 security policies. With manual auditing, we cannot analyze or review such a huge configuration. So, we are using AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer for this purpose, and it has saved more than 70% of our time.

It reduces human errors and misconfigurations. It lets us know if there haven't been any traffic hits for a policy for a long time. We can then review the configuration to see why there are no new hits for this. We are reviewing all of this every six months. It makes our work easier. It simplifies the job of security engineers.

The solution has improved our organization in multiple ways. We can:

• Easily understand and provision application connectivity to accelerate application delivery and minimize outages

• Process firewall changes 4x faster, and eliminate misconfigurations and rework

• Proactively assess the impact of network changes to ensure security and continuous compliance

• Simplify and automate internal and regulatory firewall audits, and reduce time and costs

• Streamline communication across the application, network and security teams

• Deliver a tighter security policy that provides better protection against cyber-attacks

AlgoSec has helped significantly with our firewall compliance. Before AlgoSec it was a very manual job to go through firewalls and look for risky rules. Now, we get alerts when a risky rule is created. This allows us to maintain compliance and run compliance checks monthly. As a result, we have saved many hours of work by our operations folks. They were the ones who had to manually review all of the firewall policies and create evidence of their review in a very scrappy fashion.

With AlgoSec, we can show a view of firewall compliance that is clean and easy to read and present. This also helps our business units ensure their policies are clean. With that data, we are able to show management that the firewalls connected to our network, but owned by other business units, meet our standards.

By letting developers access AlgoSec, we cut down the questions and time we had to spend explaining what ports are open and where. They can now see in one panel. Since there are multiple firewall vendors, they can see what rules apply where using one tool.

Specifically, with FireFlow, we've managed to integrate that into our overall change advisory and request for change control process: requests flow through a ticket, through AlgoSec Fireflow, through our IT security department for approvals. We've taken advantage of all that. We generally do not have any out-of-band changes and those that happen are logged, tracked and reported on.

The Active Change component has helped reduce human error and given people more confidence the ACL changes have been applied as they requested.

AlgoSec has helped to simplify the job of our security auditors. Primarily, from an audit perspective, it's much faster than it ever was because they can review the ACLs all in one tool now, as opposed to asking for plain text CSV dumps of firewall rules. They can also respond a lot faster now to requests for ACLs as to whether or not they're valid or required because they can review the traffic simulator.

AlgoSec enables us to manage our dispersed environments in a single pane of glass for the firewalls. Seeing all of those firewalls in one view, we no longer need to use things like the Cisco ASDM for day-to-day ACL management. 

AlgoSec ASMS brings a holistic view of network firewall policy and automates firewall security management in very large-sized environments. Additionally, it speeds up the changes in firewall rules with a vendor-agnostic approach. As a result, the security and accuracy of firewall rules are increased.

Another very helpful feature of the AlgoSec ASMS solution is the ability to automate the mapping between applications and IT systems traffic requirements, and firewall rule base in couple with security risks analysis and compliance.

Definitely with the help of this solution it made our life easier to optimize and clean up the task within a short span of time which provided the quick visibility of all the rules to be actioned.

Traffic Analyzer provided the centralized view for our IT SOC operations to focus mainly on high-risk firewall rules exposing with explicit any rules.

The other best feature is the Fire flow module which is in the process of implementation to automate the firewall rules changes along with the workflow model right from the requester to the implementer.

It has reduced the workload for the firewall team thanks to the API integration with our ticketing system, handling the standard types of requests automatically. Before having it, we had to create a lot of standard rules that now can now be just pushed from the AlgoSec system.

It has also helped in terms of firewall monitoring. Automatic alerts are sent to the security team so we can react quicker in case something goes wrong or a thread is detected going through the firewall. This is made possible using the simple reports.

AlgoSec provided a much easier way to process FCRs and get visibility into traffic. With previous vendors, we had to guess what was going on with our traffic and we were not able to act accordingly.

By automating some parts of the work, business pressure is also reduced since we now deliver much faster. I received feedback from our security department that their FCR approval process is also now much easier. The network team is also now able to process FCRs much faster and with more accuracy.

This solution is helping us in the long term for managing the firewall configurations.

AlgoSec FireFlow Network Security solution is an end-to-end solution that ensures that firewall changes are approved, necessary, and implemented in the right way.

If some change is not implemented correctly then it warns you right away.

Also, while migrating from Cisco to AlgoSec, we can see the hit counts on the security rules and when the last time each rule was used. Depending on this information, we only use security rules that are more recently used when configuring new firewalls for migration.

For Palo Alto Firewalls, we have configured a lot of virtual routers as part of the network. This segmentation allows different network traffic to be isolated from a security point of view.

For us, it is a great management and audit tool.

AlgoSec has improved our organization by providing us with an appliance to assist with our daily Firewall duties. AFA & AFF assist with change detection and logging of user modifications. Also, it's a great tool when preparing for audits and ensuring your firewalls are in compliance.  

AlgoSec's compliance management capabilities have helped a lot in my organization. It offers predefined compliance frameworks, such as PCI DSS and HIPAA, and assists organizations in mapping their security policies to these standards. AlgoSec can generate comprehensive reports that demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements, simplifying the audit process. 

It also provides continuous compliance monitoring, alerting administrators of any of policy violations or any changes that may impact compliance.

AlgoSec has been a partner in my company for many years, with which we can improve our customers' experience.

It adds many facilities in the management of network equipment, due to the ease in analyzing the rule base. It helps firewalls to have a better performance since the rules are positioned more efficiently and unnecessary rules and objects are removed.

The training provided by AlgoSec helps a lot in the development of employees who work with the tool.

I recently discovered the "ask the community" option and it made problem-solving a lot easier.

AlgoSec is a powerful firewall management tool. I have supported a client implementing the firewall analyzer in an environment with several firewall vendors and poor management. The implementation went smoothly, with good support from the AlgoSec team. However, the configuration was tricky due to the maturity of the client and the ‘messy’ situation, and the internal know-how available regarding what was implemented on the multiple sites.

AlgoSec has reduced the need for additional manpower and we can now use the time to tackle other security-related issues. For incident response, you can automatically isolate compromised servers from the network.

It helps remove rules with limited impact on other applications. By maintaining a clean security policy, it reduces the risk from the most common attacks and also improves performance.

AlgoSec has also helped increase collaboration between departments. It helps our network department to reduce third-party involvement in policy creation and management.

A Central tool to track firewall requests. 

Using AlgoSec API calls to integrate with other apps (ex: central IT request portal)

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. 

Also, ABF is a wonderful module where you can keep the footprint for your firewall rules up-to-date, like CMDB.

This product has had many benefits in improving my security posture by fixing many vulnerabilities.

Lack of sufficient resources or expertise to leverage AlgoSec's capabilities to their full potential might hinder the expected improvements.

The ability to automate policy analysis, optimize configurations, and visualize security risks allows organizations to mitigate threats and reduce the risk of security breaches proactively. AlgoSec's reporting and compliance features help organizations meet regulatory requirements more effectively.

The amount of time spent on doing simple tasks, such as adding a particular rule or giving access to a particular person, or doing the same repetitive task has been reduced. We don't have to manually look into duplicate rules or look into traffic that is not getting hits. It will be automatically taken into consideration by AlgoSec, and the information will be given to us so that we can take action on that part. It saved us a lot of time.

When the staff is doing the same repetitive task all the time, there will be errors. AlgoSec helped to reduce human error and misconfigurations to a great extent.

AlgoSec reduced the time it takes to implement firewall rules for our organization. 

The product helps us prepare for audits and ensure firewalls are in compliance; we can check the security and firewall rating points and advise our customers on optimizing their firewall and security rules. 

AlgoSec helped simplify the job of our security engineers, primarily through the advice it provides to admins managing the firewalls, which is essential. It also made them more efficient at their jobs.   

Growing big requires an increased level of automation and less manual tasks, and this is where AlgoSec comes into the picture.

It has being used for CheckPoint environment with numerous domains, hundreds of Firewalls and numerous policy packages, and Algosec able to provide single point of review. Security risks reports and rules analysis are very handy to optimise company's security posture and operational excellence. 

We were able to identify every rule configured on each firewall in our facilities with AlgoSec. This included every risky rule, shadow rule, and non-compliant rule. After this, we were working with a fully cleaned-up process.

Now, any rule is pushed automatically with AlgoSec. In fact, every user in the company is raising tickets through it to request a new open flow across firewalls. If AlgoSec detects that this flow has no risk, it is automatically pushed onto the firewall. If not, it goes to a dedicated approval process.

We could not effectively manage our security policies before using the Firewall Analyzer tool. We had never performed a firewall cleanup. We could not meet our Audit Requirement of re-certifying without the Firewall analyzer tool.

AlgoSec has saved us a lot of time in managing our rule base which has become increasingly large. With 20-plus multi-vendor firewalls, it gets really hard to manage without a solution like AlgoSec. This has helped us to fulfill our internal SLAs for change implementation.  

The fine tuning of the policies is a lot faster and repeatable. 

The compliance factor has also helped us a lot where we can show auditing that we have a repository for all the changes made in the firewalls, who made them, and at what time.

Gone are the days where time-based rules expire without anyone noticing. We have now automated reports sent to the team. This allows us to ask the involved asset owners if rules can be disabled or need to be extended.

We need less time to identify any risks in our firewalls, as we can detect changes in real-time.

We have obtained in easy way to do compliance reports for audit purposes. With this optimization reports, we can clean up unused rules, consolidate covered or redundant rules. We can also define trusted rules that apply.

Risky rules reports help to reduce manual work and identify the main risky configurations to remove. This give us some recommendations on how remediate and their importance.

Now, we can easily track the changes in policies. With every change, AlgoSec automatically sends an email to the IT audit team. It increases our visibility of changes in every policy. 

Every month, I use the optimizer to reduce firewall rules. In the summary tab, I can easily track the number of changes in the firewall policies.

The solution has helped us a lot in improving our firewall security optimization as well in evaluating security policy to eliminate the risky rules or secure them. 

Its reporting modules solve all our monthly and quarterly compliance-related reporting requirements. 

AlgoSec has helped me in the last three companies that I have worked for. I was working to do Firewall migration projects, FW cleanups of risky rules (FW policy optimization), process def between IT and IS, audit, SOC reports, GRC support, and Cloud support in both native and Hybrid environments that we use. 

AlgoSec has given us the confidence to remove unused rules, consolidate where appropriate, and prove reachability prior to searching a rule base to check access for an application or user. Breaking down a rule to specify used objects within groups and protocols used has proved invaluable for us to narrow exposure to potential threats.

Object and rule usage statistics enable object-level recertification of all rules. AFA usage statistics have enabled our company to establish regularly scheduled recertifications of all firewall rules across all policies.

With the help of this product, we can manage all the network security equipment in a centralized way. We are also able to make requests to our security team about quick and valid changes requests, helping to minimize the workload in documentation, troubleshooting and so on. This helps to identify any wrong or unnecessary changes in the network security perimeter, making sure that all security policies and best practices are followed in our network domain. During change implementation, and especially after completion, we can validate, make sure that everything is working fine, and is up-to-date per our expectations.

It has improved the way our organization functions in that, for our change process, we now require all changes to be planned using AlgoSec so that the security team has visibility into the changes and we're aware of any risks. We also are using the covered rules and risky-rule detection to improve our security posture.

We haven't fully implemented the processes, so we haven't measured any reduction in human error as a result of using the solution, but subjectively, it has reduced human error.

It has also helped to simplify the jobs of our security engineers.

AlgoSec has definitely helped to improve the process of auditing all firewall rules and access. 

From a security standpoint, it has significantly improved an organization's standing from identifying all risky items in a given firewall policy as well as change audits, among others. 

Using Fireflow has also significantly reduced the amount of effort and time required to analyze and plan firewall changes that normally happen on a near-daily basis. 

Change audit has also reduced the effort during audit season especially when clients are running multiple-vendor firewalls.

Before AlgoSec, our firewall rules got pretty big over time and it came to the point where it was barely manageable. Duplicate rules and objects were everywhere and there was nothing we could do about it. Performing a manual clean-up was a nightmare and near to impossible.

AlgoSec Firewall Analyser improves the firewall rules dramatically by identifying rules and objects that are not needed and consolidates rules and rule re-ordering.

It also helped our team to optimize performance and further secure the network by identifying risky rules.

Our pen testers were constantly using AlgoSec for the firewall assessments, even when going with different vendors. We decided to buy the product in order to check the policy in real-time and ensure there were not miss-configurations that would linger until next year's pen test.

We also get an automated email of firewall changes in addition to being able to see if there are any rules that are poorly configured.

I am less stressed thinking there could be a glaring misconfiguration that could cause an incident.

In short, this solution makes it possible to increase efficiency by simplifying the life of our engineers. They support the daily interactions with the Firewalls through the implementation of the requested rules. We can easily and quickly identify all of the rules on the firewall and avoid the individual review and analysis of each rule. This keeps the firewalls clean and under our security policy, following our internal standards.

This solution has helped the team to be updated with changes globally.

AlgoSec saves our IT department a lot of time and also creates transparency. A large number of reports can be generated quickly. The reports are based on all known catalogs and are important for management and department heads. The products interlock and share relevant information with each other.

AlgoSec has highlighted to us a huge number of unused rules and restored the confidence in us to remove them where appropriate. At the same time, it enables us to consolidate and enforce the point of reach prior to searching a rule base to check access for an application or user. 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.

Reporting features are a godsend when it comes to executive review and monthly directorship calls.

The AlgoSec solution has allowed us to achieve a clean-up and optimization of our filtering rules across our entire environment. The rules analysis allowed us to delegate the tool for operational purposes for the evaluation of firewall opening and audit requirements.

Algosec is a game changer for our environment due to core functionality provided by Firewall Analyser. It has simplified rule optimisation and compliance. We are now building on this by deploying AlgoSec FireFlow which we expect to massively reduced the time and complexity around firewall change requests and approval. 

The AFA workflow has helped us to manage firewall rules implementation using multiple stakeholders' approval with an end-to-end lifecycle of change management and tracking. 

Reporting helps us with deliverables, areas of focus for improvement, and much more. Algosec AFA is useful for policy optimization and clean-up and can measure capacity management. 

AFA provides greatly extended support for firewall rule review for risky rules, optimization, and clean-up for unused rules. 

Firewall rule automation for implementation also makes support easy for support firewall administrators.

Detection of loopholes and pinpointing troubleshooting areas were the key value additions that AlgoSec has provided. Its response time is fast. 

Detection of malicious activities and malware is much better than other options. 

Previously, the company was dependent on third-party solutions for audit reports. AlgoSec now provides an instant audit report. 

It has improved the management of all the firewalls (which are both cloud and on-prem) via a single console. The integration with the routers and other IT products is seamless.

With AlgoSec Security Management we have many advantages.

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 have collected all of the alerts for each of the firewalls, which helps to identify devices that are in need of a more in-depth analysis.

AlgoSec helps us to manage hundreds of FWs and take care of policy compliance.

We recently moved our data center to a new location and we migrated our firewalls from one vendor to a different vendor. AlgoSec helped us tremendously to clean up shadow rules, unused objects even before moving to a new vendor. 

There are some legacy customers still using AlgoSec. The benefit is the ease in management of firewalls and rules. Also, if they have a small setup, making changes to multiple firewalls at the same time is something the customer enjoys due to limited resources. When an organization becomes an enterprise, then change management comes into the picture as well as best practices, so making changes to multiple devices at the same time is not good. 

It has the capability to be an enterprise grade product, but the use cases have not been fine-tuned for that in the past four years.

This solution will cut down operating costs in any company. 

We met our goal by gaining visibility and automating rule creation. We are on a very good track.

AlgoSec provides visibility of policy and NAT firewall rules for rule review and cleanup. It provides risk management status of our firewalls at a glance, and notifies when any change is made to the firewalls. This solution has improved our security posture, lowered our risk and exposure, saved time with cleanup and maintaining the firewalls, and allowed for log review with ease. Finally, AlgoSec has changed how firewall management and changes are conducted, so it has improved our overall process and procedures.

The solution greatly improved the value delivered to the customer, generating reports and providing suggestions for improvements.

Adding AlgoSec as a process into our network, compliance, security, and audit teams allowed for quick turnaround on any issues that arise regarding security rulesets. We often find these issues before they are pointed out to us, which leads to a quicker turnaround from compliance, but more importantly from a security mindset. This tool is used as part of the M&A process to analyze any new companies looking to incorporate our network. It's become one of the indispensable products we can't live without.

The benefit depends on the type of client. Our banking customers are impressed with the compliance features, automatic policy installation, and FireFlow. They also realize performance improvements of approximately 20 percent. 

AlgoSec has simplified the work of security engineers. If I had to give that a grade, I would give it a nine out of ten. We used the solution to implement and manage micro-segmentation initiatives. Still, it has been limited since this is a private cloud version, and many of our customers use regular firewalls. 

We deal with customers with a mixture of environments, including private cloud, public cloud, and on-premises. Many of them have on-premises and private cloud environments. AlgoSec provides a single pane of glass for managing these mixed environments, making management more effortless. 

AlgoSec provides our customers with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. Most of our customers are in the financial industry. AlgoSec can analyze existing policies that you have set up on your devices, gauging the risk. For example, with PCI requirements, there needs to be a description for each firewall rule change as to why it was made. Therefore, if a change was made by one of our clients, who was unable to put a description or comment against that rule, then automatically I would need to flag that.

ActiveChange integrates with your change workflow and ticketing system. For example, a change request is made to open port 8080. Then, if the guy who was supposed to implement that change mistakenly opened port 80, then ActiveChange will say, "What was approved was 8080, but what you actually opened was 80." That actually helps to fix human errors. It helps to check everything that is being done. You can go through the analysis and see changes that were made, and AlgoSec is able to alert you immediately. Whenever there is a change, notifications are sent to the administrators because it gives you that real-time alerting and change. 

AlgoSec has greatly improved the time and resources spent on creating and deploying our firewall rules. Our network and security teams can now smartly research our ACLs and implement them with confidence.

It is helping with the migration as we don’t carry over empty rules and allows consolidation of rules. 

An example is that we have a policy with 900 rules, which we were able to reduce to 500 rules. That's close to a 50 percent savings on the rule base.

We used the Unused rules function in Firewall Analyser to examine our rule base. This has drastic performance increases in our production firewalls.

Objects not used within rules can save even more when it comes to cleaning up rule bases. Where this is a very manual process without AlgoSec, engineers can have a level of automation by building useful reports to assist with clean up.

It has saved us much time, helping us work smarter and more efficiently with regards to policy/ruleset management, automation, and consolidation. This product has saved us numerous person-hours in terms of automation and consolidation.

The various elements of the product have allowed us to cover all aspects of Firewall Security Management, Firewall Policy Automation, and Auditing, which all help to leverage the product's full potential.

Having learned more about the product, going forward we believe it will allow us to benefit in additional areas of Firewall security management. 

Our company environment used old fashioned firewall devices for a long time and we hardly touched on old firewall rules. With this product, we were able to clean up our firewall rules and organize them neatly. It actually gave us a very straightforward report of what is being used, and not used, for firewall rules. 

AlgSec is used for in-depth firewall analysis and intelligent policy tuning and optimization. It helps in regulatory compliance metrics and overall firewall security optimization.

• AlgoSec helps to analyze the risk, optimize the rules and policies, and improve performance in network security devices such as firewalls.
• It helps to perform the network security changes four times faster than the normal change request process.
  
• It assists in provisioning the application rapidly, which increases the organization's revenue.
• The ASMS (AlgoSec Security Management Solution) is fully focused on business security and automation. It ensures business security and agility.

We are able to quickly review 100's of firewalls and stay compliant.  The product has been invaluable to our information security department

For a massive migration, it permits project/application owners to estimate and anticipate changes which are needed autonomously and only involve the security administrator for implementation of the rules. This permits us to save a lot of time and make some firewall policy clean up. Then, when we add firewall change requests to management through this tool, it decreases the time for design and implementation significantly.

There is no question that AlgoSec has reduced the time it takes to implement firewall rules. That is also true because some of our clients use firewalls from various vendors and AlgoSec allows them to implement firewall rules on those firewalls simultaneously, even though they are from different vendors. Even so, when we receive a request for a rule exception, no one controls how long this exception is valid. As a result, these exceptions are valid for a long time and accumulate one by one. With the help of AlgoSec, it is very easy to eliminate this problem. A timer is set for a given firewall rule and, when the timer runs out, a security engineer is notified that the rule is set to expire at the specified time.

In addition, large deployment cases face a large problem due to the number of firewall rules, which can slow down the performance of a firewall and overload the firewall memory. This happens in part because of duplicate rules and rules that conflict with one another. With the help of AlgoSec, we reduce the number of rules, on average, by 30 to 35 percent. AlgoSec cleans duplicate rules and conflicting rules, freeing up memory.

At least two of our clients, when using AlgoSec extensively, have seen a reduction of at least 1.5 to two times what it would take them to implement firewall rules, by reusing predefined templates within AlgoSec. In addition, they find it extremely helpful that AlgoSec checks them for compliance. Before AlgoSec, they had to manually justify compliance of every single firewall rule, when being audited for compliance. They had to explain why it was created, which client and/or service was behind that rule, et cetera. In comparison, AlgoSec does the compliance check on each and every firewall rule making sure it is always compliant with the latest requirements and one can quickly create a report to prove it.

When it comes to preparing for audits and ensuring firewalls are in compliance, about 60 percent of our clients are financial institutions, like banks and insurance companies. They have to adhere to the strict compliance rules and AlgoSec allows us to ensure that the firewalls are in compliance with the normative requirements. IT departments are able to create PCI and DFS reports via AlgoSec that are acceptable for such audits.

In terms of working with multiple security vendors, we usually integrate AlgoSec with other service desk vendors, like ServiceNow and controllers like Cisco ACI. AlgoSec has resources on their website where we can find documentation about integrations with various systems. It was fairly easy to integrate AlgoSec with ServiceNow and Cisco ACI. Their API is understandable and very well described.

The major value, at least here in Ukraine, when integrating AlgoSec with Cisco ACI is that we see most of our clients prefer DSN systems, like Cisco ACI, for data processing. ACI contracts are treated similarly to firewall rules, i.e. permission is required for access. Some of our clients use over 400 such contracts for data processing. Implementing access rules for these systems is not easy. With the help of AlgoSec we can create a rule and AlgoSec checks it for compliance, for duplicate rules, and rule conflicts. That very much simplifies the implementation and deployment of contracts in ACI.

AlgoSec helps tremendously when it comes to reducing human errors, especially when the environment includes firewalls from disparate vendors. In that situation, the probability of human error is very high. It is difficult for me to approximate by what percent it has reduced human error but the reduction is very significant.

In addition, it has helped to simplify the job of security engineers. I’m very sure of that because, otherwise, our clients wouldn’t buy more AlgoSec user licenses.

It didn't improve in my organization. There is a lack of documentation when communicating between the AlgoSec appliance and the other appliance. When we raised these concerns to their support, they were not able to help us with the issues.

• Central firewall management
• Security policy change management
• Firewall auditing
• Compliance
• Firewall policy optimization

AlgoSec makes it quite easy to down level firewall auditing, running, and maintenance. This has given the operations team, audit, and security instant  access to firewall configurations.  

AlgoSec has helped us save time by having one central location to view firewall policies, especially when crossing multiple vendors.

Over time, firewall vendors have added features, such as rule counters, that AlgoSec traditionally has offered. However, AlgoSec continues to add capabilities that firewall vendors simply cannot provide. We have reduced the attack surface of risky rules, improved our compliance scores, and streamlined our firewall change flow all thanks to AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer.

This solution has improved our Security in our Firewalls. This has helped to restrict rules, delete rules that are too permissive, and create a configuration that complies with our security policy.

The reports are very useful for determining whether our Firewalls are compliant with our security rules and directives.

AlgoSec is one of the most complete security management solutions on the market. It manages security and compliance based on the applications that power our business. It is one product combining multiple tools. This makes a real difference compared to its competitors.

It helps us deploy new business applications quickly and securely. It ties cyber threats directly to critical business processes.

Using AlgoSec is a double benefit to us. By using this solution we can reduce the cost and the number of errors in our daily operation and also expand our offerings. 

It has reduced our audit preparation efforts and costs drastically and maintains continuous compliance.

AlgoSec delivers a rich set of change management workflows and enables zero-touch change processes if no risks are identified.

This application is very nice. We save a lot of time with troubleshooting the flows and we can detect in a few seconds what flows are right or wrong.

It tremendously improved the security of our organization with much better and efficient firewall rules. We saved a lot of time using this tool to get the rules clean. Also, the overview of the network topology map is a very good thing to get a clear view of every single region in your network.

It improved a lot in our flow database. In the past, application owners did not know their application connectivity. AlgoSec helps with this and our users are able to documents their rules.

We implemented it to get a better, clearer view. It has supported us very well.

The solution provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. This is very important for us because we are regulated according to the FDA. It shows us which changes have been made and why. So, it has worked very well for our compliance needs.

AlgoSec is a tool that really supports our work in compliance and our customers' requirements, fulfilling their FDA requirements.

Our security has been stronger due to AlgoSec. We don't have human errors.

The visibility that AlgoSec provides about our environment is very important. Without it, we won't have visibility into various risks to our environment. AlgoSec can show us these risks and allows us to improve and close some rules. It improves the security of the network, and we can protect the data of our customers more efficiently.

AlgoSec products help to manage complex environments with many devices, so we can deliver requests more quickly.

Environments with many devices are difficult to identify problems, especially when there are new analysts on the team. AlgoSec helps in troubleshooting and streamlines the analysis.

AlgoSec helps in the agility of the analysis, speed in the delivery of compliance reports, automation in the request to create rules in firewalls, removal of unused rules, and optimization of the rule base.

Reducing operational costs and decreasing the cat's time with rework and unproductive audits.

We find that the traffic simulation query, active change, policy optimization, FireFlow, and map features are especially useful. All other features of the app are also valuable.

The time spent on auditing before AlgoSec was very heavy, at least one analyst dedicated for a week for small audits, and for most, we lost an analyst for weeks.

After implementing AlgoSec, we reduced the audit time to three days.

The environment is much safer with more active configurations.

We now have more visibility into our firewall and security environment using a single pane of glass. We have a better audit of what our network and security engineers are doing on each device and are now able to see how much we are complaint with our baseline.

The product gave us more agility in the process to analyze and resolve tickets by requesting permissions to access services not enabled by default. At the same time, providing visibility of what we can improve on the scenario that we are already running on it.

It has eased the process of streamlining our firewall configuration management considerably. Our firewall and IPS team now has the ability to budget their time and focus on other tasks, rather than dealing with repetitive change request functions. This has enabled the team to work much more efficiently and effectively.

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.

It is still being deployed, but it shall enable reliance on more third parties out of the IT security team without losing the assurance that the configurations are under control. 

AlgoSec is able to provide a consistent view into all of an organization's firewalls, regardless if the management is done by different companies, e.g., Check Point's, Cisco's, and Palo Alto's firewall policies are presented to the security team in a consistent format. This enables risk management decisions to be made without detailed understanding or experience in various underlying firewall technologies or management systems.

• Reports run easily to my management.
• Searching on IP address to find out the firewalls.
• Streamline tickets

It has streamlined our processes for access and firewall management. It is used by all the IT user community internally and by our service provider who is in charge of our IT run activities.

• Saves person-hours
• Security tightening and optimization in minutes
• Loophole identification which helps with compliance
• Effective tracking and automation of change management

AlgoSec saves time by providing an analysis of all the firewall rules. For example, I might find 10 unused rules, or rules without objects or without a subnet. To get that information manually can take time. I might have to go through a firewall and check the rules and it would take at least 10 minutes for 10 rules. And a manual process can result in errors. AlgoSec saves time because it can detect all unused rules and I can just remove them via the AlgoSec platform through FireFlow. Removing those 10 rules manually can take about 20 minutes, but through AlgoSec it takes one or two minutes.

The solution can find all the misconfigurations in firewall rules and it can delete or modify them automatically, with no human action needed. As a result, there will no longer be errors in the firewalls. FireFlow handles the workflow of adding and removing policies. Sometimes, an engineer may not have solid experience when it comes to firewall rules. If he goes to the firewall portal itself and tries to add or remove a policy, this policy may cause errors or potential risk. AlgoSec handles this process instead. It helps eliminate human error.

Also, if you have a network engineer with less experience, he can still go through AlgoSec and submit rules. AlgoSec supports another tier of engineers who approve the policies. This is all done using FireFlow.

We consult with big customers who have multiple locations. In every location, they have various firewalls available. With AlgoSec as our product, it has really helped with our operational tasks and activities.

If you go through that compliance report, it will give you whether your firewall is in compliance or not. It will also give you a recommendation whether you need to change it. The compliance has helped us with customers, e.g., internal audit from the quality team and external auditors.

AlgoSec integrates with multiple security vendors. It captures the rules, policies and authentication required.

It has reduced the workload for the firewall team thanks to the API integration with our ticketing system, doing the standard type of request automatically. Before having it, we had to create a lot of standard rules that now can now be just pushed from the AlgoSec system.

With AlgoSec, it was able to conduct the environment so that it was possible to get more accurate and fast information about the changes that the environment went through.

It has reduced the time for firewall rule requests to be implemented in the environment.

With AlgoSec, we are now able to automate several time-consuming tasks. We are currently in a rule base performance improvement process and AlgoSec is an invaluable tool to accomplish this. Furthermore, we are starting rule creation automation, which will also provide some relief on our workload.

In the beginning, we compared tools like AlgoSec, Tufin, and Skybox. We did some research. There was budget to purchase the resource. We did comparisons and found AlgoSec to be the best solution.  

This solution provides visibility and comprehension of the network in our organization. It assists us in network security reviews and audits. In the end, a lot of time, we add context and build a security matrix matching our own standards. The optimization tools are much appreciated by the network operators.

It helped us clear out almost half the work by identifying the rules automatically with no manual work, which is very cool.

We have improved the performance of the firewall to handle requests and responses to/from clients as reduces the number of policies that are needed when the network is exposed to high risk.

Since we deployed Algosec our Firewall policies which didn't have much maintenance over more than 15 years had their policies reduced to less than half the rules by using Algosec's Firewall Analyzer to remove unused rules, unused objects withing rules, compacting several firewall rules in one rule, etc.

We were also able with Firewall Analyzer to get risk reports of our firewall policies and start tackling them to close them or at least to be aware of its existance.

Firewall Analyzer is amazon in Policy Optimization and we feel we are much more secure since we have this product. If we add a rule that poses a risk we get an alert from Firewall Analyzer which is very important to us.

We are also starting to use Fireflow and our goal is to have the policy creation automated soon. For now we are already able to identify which firewalls are on the path between point A and point B and we are on the path to full automation which will reduce a lot the workload of our team.

Over the period of two years, we integrated the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and FireFlow on multiple solutions including next-generation firewalls, web security, proxies, and other network devices.

On the improvement part, we enabled the common set of policies across firewalls and proxies. This tool helped us eliminate the requirement to have L3 engineer in our other data centers and our Tier 1 and 2 engineers utilize the solution well from the configuration and maintenance areas.

We simply pass over three to four external agency audits on various particulars which we spent more time on before onboarding the solution.

AlgoSec has helped tighten the rules on my firewalls, reduce the risks or exposure, and also meet regulatory compliance.

Running AlgoSec helped us clean up years worth of obsolete rules and objects. This left us with a clean and up-to-date policy on our new firewalls.

We use this tool for rule monitoring and cleaning up the unused objects to improve performance. The risk team uses this tool to validate the existing traffic flow for their approval.

It provides faster go to market with fewer resources. In one system, users are able to request access through the firewall for business services, which can be approved by the appropriate team and can be implemented automatically by the system itself. Furthermore, users are able to track whether one particular access is blocked on any of firewalls or not, etc.

This solution has helped my client to analyze and assess whether any service or routes are needed for connections that are going to be created. It has also optimized the efficiency of the firewall by evaluating the rule set.

This solution helps us to save time, making the job more efficient for our network engineer.

• Transparency over the actions made in the rulebase by the different firewall operators
• Documentation of the rules.

I found that for policy optimization it does a great job. It handles covered rules, duplicate rules, and consolidated rules.

It provides the organization by giving us visibility in the process of our clients and automates policy implementations and checks. It gives value to our managed services that we provide.

By leveraging BusinessFlow/FireFlow/ActiveChange we have been able to reduce the time from initial requirements gathering to implementation of complex firewall designs by approximately 80% without compromising our security posture. 

This product allowed us to identify unused rules more easily and doing this simplifies policies in our firewall. We now have documentation of our application with objects sync with real configuration. Our approval in change management has been improve through FireFlow and errors have been reduced through change advised and active change. We also save time by identifying earlier than usual routing issues associated to a change request.

• Centrally manage firewall flow requests
• Approval/implementation and validation
• We can easily make our firewall flow change requests using the web interface.

We have been able to add more vendors to support.

It definitely helps a lot to manage the complexity of environments with many devices and many vendors.

AlgoSec AFA and AFF automate lots of things for my organization. The products are really useful for both security and network teams. It had also provided more control over the network. After Firewalls are boarded into AlgoSec, the first results appear quickly.

Our customers are able to optimise and clean the rule sets on our FW estate and streamline the change management process whilst adhering to compliance, governance, and risk requirements.

AFA has helped us to spot risky rules, overlapping rules and helps prioritize remediation efforts. We have a variety of firewalls and look forward to expanding services such as FireFlow.

The product has helped us improve our firewall policies. It's also helped me to make decisions on best practices.

AlgoSec provides a good optimization function that matches our needs related to other vendors. It allows us to clean useless rules and objects.

It has made implementing regulatory requirements like PCI DSS and ISO easier. It makes me more security aware.

In the past, policy changes were applied, but not always with the correct approval. Because of this, we ended up with huge holes in the rule base.

We now have baseline and rules checking.

It is very useful for PCI DSS compliance. 

FireFlow has been a winning product, as it helped with documenting all the processes in our rule implementations.

AlgoSec reduces time and costs of firewall change management, risk mitigation, and compliance audits.

* Less overhead on the network security department since the user can verify the rules themselves.

* Risk profiles helps find disallowed traffic.

* Policy cleanup feature is really good for removing unused rules, etc.

AlgoSec improved our firewall visibility and related control points.

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.

It's helped optimize our firewall configuration and eased our troubleshooting.

Policy optimization, visibility, and a faster change management process has reduced unnecessary times required for manually changing processes. The resources are now utilized more effectively for other areas.

It gives control and visibility to the end users. It also lowers the burden of the security department.

We can optimize and produce reports for 744 firewalls from different vendors (Check Point, Juniper, FortiGate, and Cisco) with one application.

It has improved the way we handle risky rules on firewalls.

Security Firewall Policy; Firewall Performance; Firewall Hardening.

This solution helps all of our customers. They are network engineers and network administrators who need to recertify expired firewall rules, as well as clean and remove all of the rules that the customer doesn't need in their devices.

With AlgoSec we can improve performance, simplify manageability, and tighten security. One of the quick wins is to view our device status easily, with out-of-the-box dashboards and charts. A nice capability is the reporting, with a dedicated BI tool having access to all of our key AlgoSec data.

It has helped us to clean up and optimize the firewall rule sets by identifying duplicate rules, covered rules, and even rules that have not received hits within a defined period. The baseline of in-built policies such as PCI DSS helps us maintain good security ratings in compliance with regulatory standards.

It helped to improve our automation and simplified the configuration of new access rules.

It provides better performance on our firewalls.

AlgoSec makes it easier to implement flow-opening requests by our users. We now have a standard procedure that everyone must follow, whereby they create an AlgoSec request for any change to the firewall policy. The product also helps us to keep track of every change that occured in the past.

AlgoSec also provides us an easy way to review the policies of all of our firewalls. We are able to perform searches for specific rules/objects on all of them at the same time, even if they are from different vendors.

Policy optimisation helped reduce the policy count of the firewall. Therefore, the visibility of firewall policies improved. 

It has helped to detect all unauthorized changes made on my firewalls. Also, this product can identify if anyone is creating dangerous rules that can severely affect the security of my organization.

It has helped us manage PCIDSS compliance and also improved the overall network security.

It has helped us better manage the rules and policies of the firewall.

• Change management system
• 3D view of your firewall configuration
• Tool intelligence, highly useful for information security
• Design point-of-view

Saves time and labor cost in optimizing and operating our firewall system.

The audits for the firewalls are now straightforward.