We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It detects if the requested network and ports are getting blocked by the network or firewalls by a simple query, which helps to identify the network blocking firewalls in the topology."
"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."
"Optimizing the operation making it possible to focus on other improvements."
"Detection of malicious activities and malware is much better than other options."
"AlgoSec AFA and AFF automate lots of things for my organization."
"Traffic queries are a great help when troubleshooting a problem, especially if the traffic is going through two or more firewalls."
"The most valuable features for us are the functionality it provides for our two main use cases: planning firewall changes and traffic simulation queries."
"R&D patches to address issues that I have encountered have been timely and effective."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management."
"Key features for us include the firewall change audit every week. Also, being able to track firewall ACL usage, so that we can produce semiannual reports on ACL usage and shadowed and redundant rules on the firewall."
"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"The most valuable feature is the compliance, whether it's access compliance or the configuration compliance, to make sure that all of our devices are configured as they're supposed to be, to limit access as much possible, to follow least-access guidelines."
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"The MAP has a persistent issue with a firewall that is using a double BVI (Bridge virtual interface)."
"It would be nice to have a good tool for network map discovery in the GUI to make it more user-friendly."
"The user interface could be a little more user-friendly."
"The FireFlow template does not allow the user to perform external actions like sending an email or triggering a specific action."
"While AlgoSec provides comprehensive visibility and management of security policies across hybrid environments, there is an opportunity to further expand its intelligence capabilities."
"In an environment that is very large, with many firewalls and routers, it is sometimes impossible to buy all of the licenses."
"The risk matrix implementation is not easy from an Excel file, so it would be nice to have a solution for creating it directly within the web interface."
"We don't dare push the new policy automatically, We don't have confidence in this feature."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about aspects of the solution and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything."
"Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point."
"The support could be improved."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"The tool does not offer options for customization."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Gives us the ability to dig down into details and work at a level above the skills that we already have". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, RedSeal and Balbix BreachControl. See our AlgoSec vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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