AlgoSec Other Solutions Considered

CW
Vice President Head of Information Security at Itaú

I have looked at other options along the way, like Skybox. AlgoSec came to the market before the alternatives did. When I become aware of it and something is good, I stick with it. Why change? 

I went to the Gartner page and looked at who the competitors were. I looked at customer reviews and things like that. However, because I have had such a good experience with AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer, I continue to use it. I have found no reason to go with any of the other alternatives.

Our local policy is that I have to be able to compare at least three products when I go to management to ask for money. I did exactly that. I took three alternatives and brought them to our management team. I explained the whys and wherefores for why I was promoting AlgoSec. Now, we have it here in our environment.

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AZ
Sr. Network and Security Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

There were four of us involved in the evaluation of the product.

We compared this tool to two other different tools. Even with their higher-end solution, when we had the full budget for this, AlgoSec was less expensive than some of the other top tools. We looked at FireMon and Tufin. The reason why we said, "No," when we had budget to FireMon and Tufin is because they were not pulling in the application data or URL data. 

AlgoSec actually pulls application data and URL data in. AlgoSec is a little easier to use than the other solutions. Cisco recommended AlgoSec to us.

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Tempreviewer F - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Software Engineer and Machine Learning Scientist at Google

We also evaluated Tufin.

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AlgoSec
March 2024
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Guy Soudant - PeerSpot reviewer
CISO at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We finally chose AlgoSec over Skybox for its customizability, the options for integration, and the workflows. Though Skybox was much more user-friendly, it was weaker when it came to integration options and customizability.

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IbrahimAlsharif - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at CITG

I did not evaluate other options. 

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reviewer0185153 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Security Engineer at ALTEPRO solutions a.s.

We did not evaluate other options. 

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erdemerdag - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I did not evaluate other options.

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reviewer262735 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at New York Community Bancorp, Inc.

We did not evaluate other options. 

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VS
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

There were three main players at the time, we went through proof of concepts with each of them, and AlgoSec was definitely the strongest vendor in that group and we don't regret it at all. I think it is a good solution.

The other vendors were promising a lot more than they were actually delivering on when it came time to actually putting it onto our network and evaluating it. We were finding that things that they were telling us that they supported and were part of their packages were not actually functional at the time. So we did not go forward with them because of that. AlgoSec actually had everything working properly. It was very easy to set up and use and it did what they promised.

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Gabriel Borlean - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at UFST.dk

The AlgoSec solution was selected before I joined the organization.

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SC
Regional Sales Manager - South India at Exclusive Networks

We did not evaluate other options.

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reviewer184691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Tata Consultancy

We did look into Tufin.

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JC
MITP-2 at State of Nevada Department of Administration Message

We did look at a couple of other solutions. FireMon and Qualsys are the only two I remember.

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VS
Information Security Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated other solutions such as Skybox, Tufin. We found the graphical user interface of AlgoSec to be very user-friendly. It provides the information that you need. The information that you need is very well organized as compared to other solutions.

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SC
Regional Sales Manager - South India at Exclusive Networks

We did not evaluate other options. 

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SL
Project Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We did also consider Tufin.

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reviewer1175712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
TW
IT Security Engineer III at Paychex, Inc.

We evaluated Tufin

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BK
Senior Technical Analyst at a maritime company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We looked at Tufin and FireMon. At the time, FireMon was cloud-based and we had a policy that didn't allow us to use it.

We had met with AlgoSec a couple of times over the years at Cisco Live. We were familiar with their platform.

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Ilya_Kondratyev - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Information Security Department Director at AMT Group

We have evaluated Tufin and Skybox.

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Sahanawaz khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Platform Owner at Emirates NBD

We went through the RFP process evaluation for all the magic quadrant leaders of the  market.

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Srdjan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical and Integration Designer / Center of Excellence / Europe & Indonesia at Ahold Delhaize

We also evaluated Skybox.

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MP
Network Administrator at City of Calgary

We evaluated a few other options, including Tufin, before choosing this solution.

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AW
Security Engineer at Genuine Parts Company

This solution was in place prior to me transitioning to this role. 

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reviewer252573 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analist at Compugraf

I did not evaluate other options previously.

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AS
Senior Consultant at Deloitte Portugal

We evaluated other options before choosing this solution including Skybox and Palo Alto Panorama.

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MD
Global Network Security Engineer at General Motors

I was not part of the evaluation.

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SP
Manager - Network Service Delivery (IP & Security) at Prudential Corporation Asia at Prudential Corporation Asia

We evaluated three marketing leaders in the NSMP industry. However, we are not interested in highlighting anyone here.

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MG
IT Security Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We have evaluated number of solutions which are available on the Market. In my opinion several of them were concentrating to much on security operations and SOAR while not having that much functionality related to managing rulebases. Solid firewall change management is something must to have as it is provide strong basis for security governance, improves company's posture and allow to reduce risks in rapidly growing companies associated with multiple changes which might be not properly assessed or implemented as a security exception.

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MarcelTe - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technical Consultant at Schneider Electric

We were doing some workshops with both AlgoSec and Tufin. 

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it_user837879 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Analyst at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
RF
Resp. Area de Segurança at REN

We evaluated the main competitor, Tufin, because we were using it!

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reviewer1335075 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Chubb

I did not evaluate another solution.

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MK
Network Security Engineer at Türkiye İş Bankası

Before purchasing AlgoSec, we implemented a PoC with each of AlgoSec, Tufin, and FireMon.

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Sunil Kumar.  - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Maple Leaf Foods

We evaluated FireMon but it was more complicated than AlgoSec and did not fulfill our basic requirements. 

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AS
Director of Information Security Operations at First Quality Enterprises

We did not evaluate options other than AlgoSec and Tufin.

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NR
Network Manager at iPSL

Yes, we looked at Tufin and FireMon.

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ZS
IT Security Analyst at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
AG
Consultant at HCL Technologies

We have tried FireMon and Tufin under a non-production environment, but the overall features of AlgoSec were best. Therefore, we choose this product for our production environment.

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MR
Cloud and Digital Transformation Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We looked into Tufin. We chose AlgoSec because of its support for Cisco ACI. Tufin was just releasing that and we felt that AlgoSec was a more mature product.

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EL
Level 3 Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We also looked into FireMon and Tufin.

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GB
L3 Security Engineer at NTT Security

We did not evaluate other options. 

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SE
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

I find AlgoSec more organized than some of the other products. With some other products, you have to go here and there to check it, but with AlgoSec it's more organized. But, I find some of the other products more customizable than AlgoSec. It takes a little bit of time to do the customization, for example, if you need to change or add some special level of approval or if you need to add three different levels of approvals for a particular workflow. To do that, sometimes you have to contact AlgoSec's regional support. But with other products that I know, it's just a matter of adding a particular character to the workflow. In some cases I have found other products that are useful, but in terms of organization, I find AlgoSec easier and more manageable than some of the other products.

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reviewer1432929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer III at Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

I did not evaluate other options. I do like NetBrain's Path tool. This gives us a similar capability to FireFlow and has some other really great tools. 

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Sergi - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager at Schneider Electric

My team was not involved in testing or pilots of any other solution prior to making a decision. Another global team was part of the negotiations, study, and comparison. My team and I were involved once the decision was made.

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IM
Global Network and Security Team Leader at Ormat Technologies Inc

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.

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KK
Client Manager - TE Services at NTT Security

We evaluated a few other options before positioning this solution. 

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Paltxe - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Schneider Electric

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.

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reviewer1112223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We did evaluate other options, but I am not sure of the reasons for choosing this one because it was a management decision.

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reviewer946827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Just Tufin, as this was a competitor to AlgoSec.

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AM
Regional Sales Engineer at RedSeal, Inc.

AlgoSec-type products and requirements are not necessary or prevalent these days. If you look at AlgoSec, what do they have? They do firewall management, predominantly. Firewall management as a technology is dying. If you look at Palo Alto, Fortinet, Forcepoint, Cisco, or Juniper, all these firewall vendors are coming up with firewall management platforms. If you talk about Palo Alto, they have Panorama. If you talk about Juniper, they have Junos Space. If you talk about Fortinet, they have FortiManager. You can manage their firewalls using the respective vendor management consoles. The question comes, "Why would someone want to use AlgoSec to do firewall management?" The usability takes a dip in terms of capability because people trust the native vendor, e.g., someone who manages Palo Alto firewalls will do it with Panorama because Panorama is a product of Palo Alto.

AlgoSec's use case was good four years ago before FortiManager and Panorama. If you have a hundred firewalls from Fortinet, then you can manage all of them for a single FortiManager. If you have 50 Palo Alto Firewalls, you can manage those from Panorama in a single pane of glass. These solutions did not exist four years ago, and now AlgoSec is losing its essence in the market since these native vendors have been launched.

Four years ago when I started off with AlgoSec, and I'm still working with them, it was strategic. Now, it has become tactical. AlgoSec has a very good feature of doing firewall rule optimization, which has not been there in the native products. For the last couple of years, the native products also started coming up with firewall rule optimization. For example, Palo Alto (from PAN-OS 9.0 and above) was released a year and a half back. It does firewall rule analysis for you. It is the same case with Fortinet and Forcepoint. Therefore, if I have to sell products on firewall management, which does firewall rules on analysis, what is the use case that I give to customers with AlgoSec?

I am running out of AlgoSec use cases because the native vendors give you the capability to do firewall management, firewall rule analysis, and pushing conflicts to multiple firewalls from a single screen. These are the use cases of AlgoSec. This is what AlgoSec does. This story is not just limited to AlgoSec. Products like FireMon and AlgoSec and the way they used to do firewall management have become a commodity. Now, most of the firewalling vendors have the same functionality in their management console. 

Companies, like RedSeal, or even to an extent, Skybox, are better built because they take the story to the next level. They don't just look at firewalls. They also look at the network, vulnerabilities, risk, governance, compliance, architecture issues, and incident response. This is the story which customers love to see because none of the native vendors are providing this. 

RedSeal and Skybox are doing firewall management for free. They don't charge you for it. On top of it, they do:

  • Complete network visualization.
  • Give you best practice conflict checks.
  • Security architecture issues.
  • Risk analysis of every IP asset in your organization.
  • Vulnerability prioritization.
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TB
Defensive Security Leader at Stone Pagamentos

Yes. Tufin and FireMon.

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MC
Security Analyst at Ethnos IT Solutions LTD

AlgoSec is 10 out of 10 compared to FireMon. Compared to any other solution that does firewall analysis and policy management, AlgoSec deserves 10 out 10 because of:

  • Its simplicity: Virtually everything about AlgoSec is straightforward.
  • Versatility, as far as the reporting and alerting.
  • Support, which is quite amazing.
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NM
Digital Security Specialist at Derivco

I would not like to disclose which other products, but I have used two other products that didn't even come close to AlgoSec's power.

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reviewer1433391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at Inmarsat

We didn't evaluate other products as we had a previous, much smaller deployment of AlgoSec that we were happy with.

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reviewer1113381 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We did POC on FireMon and AlgoSec. We chose AlgoSec for our company environment.

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RM
Works

Before selecting this product, we evaluated Tufin.

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it_user808863 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Tehnique securité réseau at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated differents solution when launching the project, like Tufin. This one was the most mature.

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VZ
Chief Technology Officer at Accord Group

I have hands-on experience with Tuffin and both of these products (Tuffin and AlgoSec) are equal in terms of functionality. In terms of main differences, it comes down to a personal preference.

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reviewer1173033 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated FireMon before choosing this solution.

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WP
Global Network Solution Architech at AXA Tech

Not applicable.

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it_user859881 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cybersecurity

We evaluated FireMon.

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Zufayri Zaidi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at AceTeam Networks

Before choosing AlgoSec, we evaluated Tufin as an option. We chose AlgoSec because it has a better interface.

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reviewer1278546 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not evaluate other options before choosing AlgoSec.

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reviewer1006992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It was not my work to choose this solution; a project team did it.

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it_user866376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at Prudential Corporation Asia

We evaluated all of AlgoSec's competitors and chose AlgoSec as it was the best.

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TC
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have tried other vendors. This is the best solution that we came up with due to our requirements and demands.

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RD
Senior Security Analyst at Compugraf

We evaluated Tufin and FireMon before choosing AlgoSec.

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Paulo Ataides - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Security Analyst at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before choosing this product, we evaluated SolarWinds and FireMon.

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FB
Network & Collaboration Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
JC
Works

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

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reviewer1019766 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
it_user829395 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated other options. FireMon and Tufin were on the list but AlgoSec won out. It is better.

AlgoSec may be little pricier with its licenses, but it is probably better than any of other competitors.

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it_user454551 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security/ Network Intelligence Professional at EliteVAD

As a fair evaluation, other solutions are available in the security policy cleanup area. However, AlgoSec stands apart with a visionary business centric approach – not limiting itself to a mere firewall security cleanup tool. With AlgoSec, we also get an automated security change management/compliance solution. It has the unique and powerful application connectivity auto-discovery and then translates these to firewall rules. This is useful to achieve automation during datacenter migration, etc.

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SS
Sr Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Cisco ACI with Check Point , FortiGate, and Palo Alto.

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JS
Works at a wireless company with 10,001+ employees

I evaluated FireMon and Nipper in addition to this solution.

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IS
Security Operations Engineer at a security firm with 201-500 employees

AlgoSec is better than Skybox and Tufin. We have a lot of AlgoSec licenses. It offers the ability to do optimization and varied tasks.

AlgoSec offers diagrams about different pieces of equipment but Tufin and Skybox don't offer these features. I can also control external IPs. We can see the configuration. All equipment has configuration and AlgoSec enables us to log that traffic. We have control over the flow.

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reviewer1126863 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 10,001+ employees

Before choosing this solution we evaluated FireMon and Tufin.

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MR
Freelance System Security Consultant at a consultancy

I didn't evaluate other options.

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JM
Network Security Engineer/Architect at Euronext Technologies SAS

We heard about Tufin and Algosec, and after going through the specs we decided to go on a POC with Algosec and ended up buying it as it fitted our needs. We followed our Firewall integrator advice, who also recommended Algosec for our Firewall's park which is basically Fortinet and Check Point.

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GR
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Skybox and Tuffin as well. Our internal team showed interest in AlgoSec right away, however, Skybox was a real challenge to differentiate.

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OO
Deputy CISO/ Security Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

No evaluations. AlgoSec was recommended, and we got a trial version for a period.

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AndyWodzien - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at WPPI Energy

I did not evaluate any other solutions.

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reviewer1275342 - PeerSpot reviewer
IP network expert at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We have chosen this system after evaluation (RFQ). The other competitor was Tufin.

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NN
Technical Director at Keystone Solutions, Inc.
it_user494187 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security and Network Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We benchmarked Tufin before choosing AlgoSec. We chose AlgoSec over Tufin for its capacity to be more customized and its support for MPLS and VRF.

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reviewer1112214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 10,001+ employees

We also did a PoC with Tufin and FireMon.

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reviewer877923 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Director

We looked at Tufin and Skybox. AlgoSec was the only vendor who had the full suite of products which met the customer and business demands. BusinessFlow was (still is) the game changer.

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it_user268725 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sênior Network Security Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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Security-Architect-Lux - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at POST Luxembourg

Tufin, Skybox.

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it_user281946 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Design/Network Security Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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it_user810882 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programme Manager
it_user541044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Tufin, we selected AlgoSec because it provide some useful features that other solution didn't have.

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it_user457512 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated two other vendors in addition to AlgoSec.

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it_user300489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We also looked at Tufin.

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it_user272901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I tested Firemon which is great, the only problems were the lack of a web GUI interface and our Apple clients couldn’t connect to it.

We also looked at ManageEngine.

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reviewer1068567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 51-200 employees

As a distributor, we took AlgoSec as a complementary product to Fortinet, which was one of our main products.

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it_user872862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security and Network Consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Tufin was also evaluated.

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it_user502071 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Technical Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I don’t know if they evaluated other options before choosing this product.

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it_user960087 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect, InfoSec at Euronext

We have looked at the main competitors, which are FireMon and Tufin.

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KK
Technical Presales Engineer at Exclusive Networks

Yes, Skybox was there, but the GUI and some of the features are missing.

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it_user540387 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We evaluated the FireMon solution prior to this product.

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it_user494103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst, Team Lead Network Security Assesment at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I tried the ManageEngine firewall analyzer. AlgoSec has a superior firewall policy optimization algorithm.

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it_user270741 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other products were evaluated.

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it_user290457 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst - ISO 27001 at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was not the one who made the decision, but I have been supporting for customer.

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it_user541047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees
it_user302103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other options were evaluated.

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Buyer's Guide
AlgoSec
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about AlgoSec. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.