We performed a comparison between FireMon Security Manager 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."The technical support is very good. They've always been helpful."
"The most valuable features are the security assessments and the ability to identify unused rules or objects."
"What I like about FireMon is the ability to track changes made by network engineers on the network."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. There are a lot of products out there, but the ability to navigate through and use Firemon is very good."
"The automation that the platform provides to create tickets reduces human error and more generally, reduces the operational overhead."
"Compared to other applications, it is user-friendly. The appearance of the menus and titles is clear and they are easy to follow. Of course, it requires some experience through using it, to go through everything, but it is not very difficult. It is an easy application to use."
"FireMon decreases errors and misconfigurations by 10% that increase risk in our environment. That has to do a lot with the change reporting that is in place, but also with the built-in controls and custom controls that we have made. Those all decrease the errors that people naturally make on a day-to-day basis for firewall administration."
"The SQL language is convenient to use. It allows us to process a bunch of criteria very quickly and narrows things down if there is an issue with the firewall. It's easy to do that with SQL queries."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The most valuable features are the rule compliance and the OS vulnerability checks."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"When you import all the assets that you have, like desktops, servers, networks, devices, routers, and then firewalls, and other products, then Skybox makes like, a model of the network, but with context. So, it is not just a model in VIZIO. Or something like it like that. You get the model with context, and, like, it looks like a real network in a real-time. So you can check your network and the security of your network on that model."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"It shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything."
"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."
"I don't like that it comes with bugs, constant issues, and limited functionality."
"The initial setup can take some time, including connecting it and configuring it. It's not something that is easy for anybody to do. There is time and energy required because of the number of systems you have to configure to get it to work properly."
"We have had some stability issues that are affecting operations. We rely heavily on this solution and if it isn't working then we have to create rules manually."
"We are looking for more integration with SIEM and other tools."
"We're working on implementing FireMon with our ticketing system service now. Having that would be an improvement."
"The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious... Imagine you have a list of 200 devices, and you can grade each of those devices as either green, yellow, or red. However, there might be three different reasons for you to go to red, or eight different reasons to go to yellow, and all of those things could be combined... Out of all those categories, I only find one or two of them that are, perhaps, pertinent."
"It comes as a Linux appliance on a server and we're not a Linux shop, we're more of a Windows shop. It would be great if they could automate or integrate the backups into it and other things through their GUI interface, just to make the management of Linux a little more transparent."
"FireMon could improve its end-user practices. As an end user, I am just trying to catch up on all the alerts. There are so many, and you still have to go through them and document what was found."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"They are not satisfied with the complexity of the solution and the price."
"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."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"The price could be cheaper."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
FireMon Security Manager is ranked 4th in Firewall Security Management with 53 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. FireMon Security Manager is rated 8.2, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of FireMon Security Manager writes "Makes compliance much easier compared to doing it manually, and automates policy changes across environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". FireMon Security Manager is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, AlgoSec, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and RedSeal, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, RedSeal and Balbix BreachControl. See our FireMon Security Manager vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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