We performed a comparison between Skybox Security Suite and Tufin Orchestration 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 solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"It provides a comprehensive overview of what our network looks like in terms of what is allowed and what is not, then how the traffic' is flowing with the Network Topology Map."
"We've scaled it to hundreds of firewalls."
"It is very stable."
"The change workflow process is very easy to customize. You can do a workflow however you want, so you can have an approval every single step. Or, you can remove approvals on certain steps, automating some steps."
"We use it to clean up our firewall policies, which gives us better security policy and less junk on the firewalls."
"We built the policy comparison reporting into our processes that before we push any change to production, an engineer will stage actual date rule changes and policy changes. Another engineer will go in and do a comparison report of the last push policy to the last save, making sure what has been changed is what is expected to. From an operational excellence, it's huge for us. We have huge policies. All it takes is one accidental right click, delete, or backspace button, which could impact our business. So, this is something that we use almost day in and day out."
"The solution helps us meet our compliance needs."
"I like the fact that Tufin was able to integrate with our firewalls, which include Palo Alto and FortiGate."
"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."
"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"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 primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."
"The pricing could be a bit more competitive."
"The solution does not have automation with other Firewalls."
"The key area for improvement is the integration to F5. One of the things that we encountered with another customer is that there were some limitations when we tried to migrate policies from F5 into Tufin."
"One feature that is missing is the ability to assign a step in the workflow to a specific user at a specific time, based on how the previous steps of the workflow have been handled."
"Currently, we have to get different data from different sections of the site. It would be nice if it was all combined into one."
"It would be great to add a link to Visio to create shapes directly from Tufin, as it has the configuration."
"I would like a better reporting feature and automatic alerting based upon rule changes."
"Our project is running on Riverbed for SDN. I don't know if Tufin can integrate with Riverbed. Other than that, I have no issues with this product."
Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews while Tufin Orchestration Suite is ranked 2nd in Firewall Security Management with 180 reviews. Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8, while Tufin Orchestration Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tufin Orchestration Suite writes "A flexible, very secure solution that works well in Layer 2 environments". Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, RedSeal and Balbix BreachControl, whereas Tufin Orchestration Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Cisco Defense Orchestrator. See our Skybox Security Suite vs. Tufin Orchestration Suite report.
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