We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."With the AlgoSec firewall analyzer, it now takes us half the time to deploy firewall changes and policy optimization."
"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."
"We are in the process of implementing FireFlow in our daily operation, which will make our lives even easier. The idea is to search the Firewall Analyzer for the equipment between the source and destination, and then automatically jump off to FireFlow and open a ticket. This will then automatically implement what is needed without the need to go into the Firewall itself. This will save us a lot of time and will help us to onboard junior engineers very quickly, getting them up to speed on our network and daily operation in record time."
"It also provides very good visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests and that is very important to us."
"Detection of malicious activities and malware is much better than other options."
"The Firewall Analyzer component has excellent compatibility with the solution, and it's highly useful and easy to manage."
"We have not seen many faults reported from our customers."
"FireFlow helped with documenting all the processes in our rule implementations."
"The most valuable features are the micro-segmentation and integrated security options."
"We secured our organisation with Micro-segmentation."
"From a distributed firewall perspective, it's a solid solution."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the ability to set up virtual networking environments."
"The organization of it is logical, useful, and intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of VMware NSX is the high bandwidth."
"The most valuable features of VMware NSX are the tight integration with the VMware Hypervisor natively and the management console. We have a lot of other integrations where you are able to see the virtual machine's end-to-end visibility."
"We would like to have a kind of "Time Capsule" to be able to restore to a certain state from a backup."
"Some of the auditing functionality needs improvement. Our major focus is the firewall validation process and tracking and verifying that changes are implemented correctly. We are actually doing parts of the auditing process manually. And getting any one of the vendors to bring out a good auditing process has been very difficult."
"The simulation can be improved."
"It would be very helpful to have a direct link to the relevant firewall policy embedded within reports when there are warnings or risks indicated."
"Algosec should also be exploring the integration with the open source firewalls as well."
"While AlgoSec provides comprehensive visibility and management of security policies across hybrid environments, there is an opportunity to further expand its intelligence capabilities."
"Needs better technical support and quicker response times."
"More scope for editing alerts would be a welcome change."
"It takes time to do the initial setup. It is a bit slow, which is surprising."
"We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"There is room for improvement in VMware NSX's workload management, particularly in the orchestration layer and in managing workloads across multiple clouds."
"The solution could benefit from improvements in its pricing and scalability."
"The support from VMware NSX could improve."
"It might be nice to have more AI in the future."
"A room for improvement in VMware NSX is that it has some security vulnerabilities, which means my company has to apply the patches every once in a while."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. 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 VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and AWS Firewall Manager, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload.
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