RedSeal Competitors and Alternatives

What is most valuable?

The Configuration Change Management feature was something we were interested in as it helped us to identify who made the change, when and why. Also, the workflow was easy to set up to ease operations. The second important feature I liked was... more»

How has it helped my organization?

As mentioned, we were able to ease the operations and set up a workflow that allowed the firewall and other network-related requests to go through a formal approval process. This helped to track who, when and why the request was done. Also,... more»

What needs improvement?

I would have preferred fewer updates, as there were quite a few updates made every now and then. Secondly, the Risk Management Module didn’t work well until you have the all of the subnets mapped. This can be improved.

What is most valuable?

With a network like ours - more than 100 routing points with around 6 VRF on each - traffic simulation query is one of the most valuable feature on AFA. For FireFlow, workflow customization and active change are the best features. In... more»

How has it helped my organization?

This product allowed us to identify unused rules more easily and doing this simplifies policies in our firewall. We now have documentation of our application with objects sync with real configuration. Our approval in change management has... more»

What needs improvement?

A lot of areas have room for improvement!! This product is still young and in constant development. Interaction with a lot of vendors generates a lot of firewall options (specifically, a timer on services, application control, and so on...).... more»

What is most valuable?

It can compare policy revisions side by side to see when you've made a change, and what the change is. It also lists the detail of the objects and policies. In other words, it has the ability to list all the policies as well as having side by... more»

How has it helped my organization?

I think we knew we needed to invest in the solutions because of a replacement we had to do last year. We had no other way of gathering the information. It wasn’t replacing anything.

What needs improvement?

I would like to be able to see the changes made on the software blades that Check Point has, such as URL filtering, IPS. I’d like to see it work with F5. It's supposed to work and it doesn't. The problems we have with the F5 is what brings... more»