AlgoSec Reviews

AlgoSec is a global tool that has been purchased to get a centralized view of our infrastructure. This enables us to review our security posture and implement a compliance strategy.

AlgoSec is also used for in-depth firewall analysis and intelligent policy tuning and optimization. It helps in regulatory compliance metrics and overall firewall security optimization. It is currently used by the network security, audit, and internal control departments of organizations, giving overall insight/visibility and enhancing improved security across the enterprise.

It has been really helpful in automating changes. This helps us to reduce operational work drastically. The product has centralized visibility, unified management, and reporting across an entire hybrid environment. It can be deployed on-premises, in a private cloud, public cloud, and in SDN platforms. It automatically discovers applications and their connectivity flows, then associates connectivity with their underlying firewall rules.

AlgoSec's solutions are incredibly powerful, providing us with intelligent process improvement that has directly translated into the highest level of security and compliance for our internal network.

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.

AlgoSec proactively analyzes all risks in the network security policy, across multi-vendor firewalls and cloud security groups.

AlgoSec is the only solution that supports the entire security policy management lifecycle from application connectivity discovery, through migration, maintenance, and decommissioning. Independent testing describes it as ‘one of the most complete security management solutions on the market’.

It seamlessly integrates with all leading brands of traditional and NGFWs, cloud security controls, routers, and load balancers.

The graphical user interface is much better than in other products.

The GUI has not been upgraded for a long time and could use updating.

We have been using AlgoSec for several years.

I'm sure we will use this solution for ten more years, at least, as long as it continues to do what is promised.

This product is ready to work within a next-generation infrastructure environment. It simplifies and automates network security policy management to make your enterprise more agile, more secure and more compliant – all the time.

Overall, this is a complete product that helps our organization on a daily basis.

I mainly use this application to check the flows. I work for a big company in the network team which needs to check the flows every day.

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.

The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer is for me the most valuable thing in this application. I don't know how much time we saved with this application, but I now know that without it, we would lose several hours every day solving networks incidents.

We also use the AlgoSec FireFlow to generate and manage the tickets concerning the flows.

I think that AlgoSec could improve the application by improving the treatment speed.

If AlgoSec could make few seconds less to analyze research, theses few seconds will be used by my team to be more efficient.

I mean, in the Traffic Simulation Query, it will be wonderful if Algosec could find a way to make the research faster than now. In fact, we are often waiting arround 1,30 min to see the results.

Maybe something can be done to make this reasearch faster?

No, it is my first application for this kind of work.

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

Our primary use case is to clean up firewall rules of migration from Cisco ASA to another firewall vendor. We try to get rid of old rules and get these converted into new rules which apply better to our environment.

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.

The best feature is, in my opinion, the firewall analyzer. Just let the tool analyze the traffic for a few days or weeks, and you will get perfect ideas on how to improve your rules and which rules are just unnecessary or too spacious. So getting a better security level by better firewall rules is just what you want to have if you're using a firewall. Otherwise, it would not make sense to have a firewall, right?

A nice feature as well is that it gives a compliance report on each of your security devices. This helps a lot to get an overview of every single security device in your network and its status.

The versioning is a bit weird. We used to use version 2017 which is quite current, but it looks like it is a 2017 version. As far as I know, they want to have this changed soon. Nevertheless, this is something which definitely needs to be improved.

• ABF application centric
• Risk and compliance
• Zone matrix
• Conditional workflow
• IPT
• Active change 

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.

ABF: It is application-centric. which helps to track changes in the application from day one.

Compliance: It helps to have a zone matrix and capture risks.

ABF needs to be more integration with AFF/AFA. We needs object level permissions and application level recertifications.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

We used a different network security policy management tool, but we felt it would not be able to fulfill our requirements and address our previous gap. We were looking for a place where we could keep our rules and also track ownership of each rule in the application.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We implemented through a vendor team, whose expertise level was high.

We are satisfied with our ROI.

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

We use FireFlow, AppViz, and AppChange. We use them mainly to visualize our firewalls.

We have three data centers, but we are also providing the public cloud as well.

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 most valuable feature is its ease of use.

It provides a very good, clear view. I really love the product. 

Overall, it gives a better overview of our firewalls. This is a tool that we cannot live without because it is easy to view and maintain.

I have been using this solution for four years.

Overall, the stability is good. It supports our work. We are happy and our customers are happy.

It has very good scalability.

The technical support is fast and very good. I would rate the support as six or seven out of 10.

Neutral

We have seen ROI on time. AlgoSec has reduced the time it takes to implement firewall rules in our organization. It used to take around an hour, and we can now implement them in 20 minutes.

It is a good investment due to the losses that a customer will have if they are not aligning with the FDA. That would be in the millions, so it is a good investment from our side and the customer's side.

Quality has a price. 

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

It is good for integrating with leading security vendors.

I would rate the solution as eight out of 10. If you have requirements with very strict alignment for firewall rule processes, then I would really recommend this product.

We started deploying the application in January of this year. Currently, in our contract, we have a license for AlgoSec FireAnalyzer and FireFlow. So, at this moment, we are only working with AlgoSec FireAnalyzer. 

We are using AlgoSec to have a good view of our environment in terms of the risks and compliance and to implement rules. Our environment at this moment is only on-premises. We have servers, routers, firewalls, etc.

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.

It is helpful in improving the security and compliance of our environment. We can optimize our environment by improving the rules that are not used or are duplicated. FireFlow is useful in creating and implementing new rules. It allows us to automate rules implementation and have more control over rules.

Its reports are very important for compliance and understanding and mitigating risks. They show us the rules that are open or that can create risks for our environment. This information is very important for us for optimizing our environment and correcting the policies.

In our environment, we add rules in the firewall based on user logins, but currently, we can't do that with AlgoSec. AlgoSec can't create rules based on user logins. For example, generally, when we create a rule, we put IP Address, Destination IP Address, and Service Port. However, in our environment, we put IP Address, User Login, Destination IP Address, and Service Port, but AlgoSec doesn't support a rule in this format. We opened a ticket regarding this with their support two months ago, and they said that they will be able to add it in the future, but they don't know the timeframe. We are currently in the process of making changes in our environment for such rules, and after two months, we won't be using the rules that are based on user logins. We will make them consistent with the market, and we will use only the IP Address, Destination IP Address, and Service Port for rules. So, it won't be a problem for us, but this can be an improvement for other clients.

It is quite new for us. We starting working with it just a few months ago.

Its stability is good. We never had a problem where we couldn't access the platform. It is always available, and we don't have any problems related to the downtime of this platform.

At the moment, it gives us what we need. Next month, we will add new technologies to AlgoSec.

AlgoSec has a great team. They are professional and have good knowledge of AlgoSec. We have a good relationship with them, and we got good support from them.

We never had a solution like this. It is the first one in our environment.

We started its implementation in January with the help of a partner company. It was very easy to implement, and we didn't have to contact AlgoSec.

We completed the deployment in February. We put it in our environment and started the server. After that, we did the configuration and started to add our devices to AlgoSec.

We implemented it with the help of a partner company in Brazil called Logicalis. When we have any problem, we talk to them, and they are able to help us.

I would recommend this solution because AlgoSec provides a lot of reports and views of your environment. You won't be able to get this view through a firewall manager. For example, the CheckPoint firewall manager won't provide what AlgoSec provides, especially related to the compliance of your environment.

We have implemented Cisco ACI in our environment, and AlgoSec will help us to work with this new technology implemented in our environment. We will integrate AlgoSec and ACI next week.

I would rate AlgoSec a 10 out of 10.

We use this solution for device changes auditing, device compliance, network mapping, active change, clean-up of the rule base, and a ticket system.

The device changes audit is a quick identification when changing the configuration on devices. Device compliance gives us the ability to generate device compliance reports. The network map is the method for locating the devices that are related to the communication of origin and destination.

Active change is used to centralize the creation of rules in AlgoSec without the need to access other devices. Cleaning up the rule base means that AlgoSec reports and helps remove unused rules and even unused objects within a rule.

In terms of the ticket system, FireFlow helps to record user requests.

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.

In my opinion, the most valuable features are the network map, unused rules reports (IPT), and active change. They are features that help with automation and reduce the analyst's time spent troubleshooting.

The unused rules reports (IPT) help remove unused rules and even unused objects within a rule.

I would like an analysis to be created for user group rules (Check Point - identity awareness). 

Current versions of AlgoSec do not perform analysis of Identity awareness (Check Point). It would be important for the user to be able to request a rule by an access role group and then AlgoSec would create this rule automatically in the firewall.

An improvement in tool performance would be important. Environments with many devices need a lot of hardware resources to avoid slowdowns. Memory consumption of the server is very high.

I have been working with AlgoSec for five years.

The tool is very stable and does not present many problems.

Currently, the tool works well with large environments.

It may be necessary to create a distributed solution of the product on different servers (WEB / DB).

We did use another solution prior to AlgoSec and the change was due to the reports having more information and easy customization.

The initial setup is simple.

After that, it is possible to make customizations to adapt the tool as desired.

The cost of the tool can be recovered with AlgoSec automations.

We evaluated Tufin and FireMon before choosing AlgoSec.

AlgoSec is the best tool on the market.

Increase the visibility of CyberSec and the area of compliance (audit) of the environment, with the AFA increasing the visibility of vulnerabilities in the environment caused by extensive configurations, and with the AFF optimizing the operation, allowing to focus on improvements.

We implemented in an environment with more than 280 Firewalls from different manufacturers and the AlgoSec solution enabled a more detailed analysis of the environment, ensuring greater security.

It made it possible to reduce the performance of the operating team in the reactive combat of threats, making the operation more active and focused on quality.

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.

Analysis of the environment to optimize the use of the solution (firewall) and obtain a greater view of compliance.

Optimizing the operation making it possible to focus on other improvements.

The possibility for the end-user to request their rule and ensure that policies are complied with using AlgoSec adds greater security, and it also speeds up the request process. It also makes it possible to automate the implementation of rules.

The user receives the information if his request is within the policies and can continue the request, or if it is denied, the applicant must adjust their request to stay within the policies. The time spent for this without AlgoSec is up to one week, whereas with AlgoSec, in a maximum of 15 minutes we have the request analyzed.

I would like to see support more technologies, but I know that AlgoSec is always in the process of evolution.

Perhaps a better financial option would allow customers to choose the complete solution. In an environment that is very large, with many firewalls and routers, it is sometimes impossible to buy all of the licenses. This makes the AFF solution impossible.

This product is stable. There have been a few problems, but when there is some instability the support is always available.

Scalability-wise, this product is good. You can increase capacity simply by buying more licenses.

We had a few cases where we needed support, but whenever we did, it was available, and with the information needed to solve the problems.

The initial setup is easy and simple.

Always by supplier, highly qualified work with positive results.

The solution has a high cost, but the reduction in operation pays the investment.

For the AFF solution, it is necessary to purchase a license for each network asset so that the solution is complete, depending on the size of the environment. 

Before choosing this product, we evaluated SolarWinds and FireMon.

Overall, this is a good product and it meets the needs of customers.