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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"It provides us with a single pane of glass for our on-prem environment, to see configuration. We have not implemented into the cloud yet. We can search for an object group and see where it lives on any firewall in the enterprise or find security rules, no matter what firewall they're on." "The Security Manager part of FireMon... gives me an eye on everything that's out there, everything that I cannot see. Because I'm not a network admin, I cannot go to a firewall itself, but at least I have FireMon so that I can go in and view everything that I want to view. And I can eliminate whatever I see that is wrong," "The most valuable feature is the reporting capability because everything that we do is a result of our being able to query a report, based on our environment and our PCI compliance efforts." "It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance." "It is the single place where we go to review all of our firewall changes. The solution makes it easier for us to track all the changes made. It is a central place where we can look at all the firewall rules, because we have three different firewall vendors. It save us time and creates efficiencies by looking at the general picture." | "The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration." "This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score." |
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"Some of the core functionality in our environment doesn't seem to work. We will get buggy code releases. They need to work on their Q&A of every code release." "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." "The AWS integration is still not mature for us to use. It is just not ready for our use case for AWS connectivity. Therefore, it does not provide us with a single pane of glass for our cloud environments, because we can't manage our cloud environment with the tool." "The stability has been fairly decent, but there have been a few issues. My coworker has had some issues in the past where he has had to work with support." | "The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do." "One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency." |
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"The pricing is very good, very straightforward. It also came in cheaper than AlgoSec and Tufin." "Regarding additional costs, if you want things like Policy Optimizer, extra features, that's extra." "We don't license all of the devices in our network, so it does not provide us with a comprehensive visibility of all devices in a hybrid network at this time." "We pay for it yearly." | "The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures." |
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Top Answer: Thank you, Sunil and Carlo, for your insightful responses.
I really appreciate that and will investigate further.
Best regards,
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| FireMon | RedSeal |
Overview | |
FireMon is the No.1 provider of Intelligent Security Management solutions worldwide, combining advanced benchmarking, simulation, and analysis to deliver next generation security intelligence. Since creating the first-ever network security management solution 15 years ago, FireMon solutions have continued to deliver visibility into and control over complex network security infrastructure, policies, and risk to over 1,500 customers around the world. Using the FireMon Intelligent Security Management platform, today’s leading enterprise organizations, government agencies and managed security providers have dramatically improved effectiveness of network defenses, accelerating business agility optimizing return on investment. For more information or a free 30-day trial, visit www.firemon.com. | RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, so you can target existing cybersecurity resources to protect your most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see the security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Convey, MGM Resorts International, Southwest Airlines, Alkami, Costco, Aetna, IBM, Salesforce, Verizon, Wells Fargo | United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm31% Insurance Company8% Comms Service Provider8% Healthcare Company8% Computer Software Company34% Comms Service Provider18% Financial Services Firm8% Media Company5% | Computer Software Company23% Government22% Comms Service Provider20% Financial Services Firm5% |
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Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise75% | Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise71% |
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, FireMon and others in Firewall Security Management. Updated: December 2020.
454,950 professionals have used our research since 2012.
FireMon is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 5 reviews while RedSeal is ranked 4th in Network Modeling with 2 reviews. FireMon is rated 8.2, while RedSeal is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of FireMon writes "Reporting features help us close visibility gaps and decrease auditing time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RedSeal writes "Improves visibility, helps determine risk and compliance, and reliably enhances security". FireMon is most compared with Tufin, AlgoSec, Skybox Security Suite, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Palo Alto Networks Panorama, whereas RedSeal is most compared with Skybox Security Suite, AlgoSec, Tufin, Darktrace and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer.
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