Skybox Security Suite Scalability

NenadMijatovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Sales at S4E Serbia

It is easy to scale because it is already meant to be an enterprise-grade solution. It is not for small companies because the price is not so small. 

Usually, small companies have simple networks and infrastructure so they can handle vulnerabilities. But for bigger companies, Skybox Security is like a cream on a cake.

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Pawan-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Specialist at Rah Infotech Pvt Ltd

It is a scalable solution. Most of our customers are enterprise and banking companies. We recommend it even for small companies because they also need to check the compliance of network devices and endpoints. They may have fewer devices, but it is still necessary.

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MT
Leading Specialist at Eurasian Bank

I am not sure about the scalability of the product since we did not scale it in our organization. We have only one server and did not plan or attempt to scale up.

There are more than 1000 users of the solution in my company. I work for a large organization which is a bank or better described as a financial organization. All of the users have access to create tickets.

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VJ
CEO at Foresight Cyber Ltd

The current solution is only scalable vertically. When you scale vertically, you are adding bigger resources to the same computer. 

If you have a computer server that needs more speed, you might change CPUs. You may add an additional CPU or add more memory or disk space. But there is a ceiling because of server size. It is not feasible to buy a server with 300 petabytes of memory. There are also storage and CPU ceilings. If you have a bigger network and you need to analyze it faster or you have a lot of information, then you need a bigger server. 

Skybox is rearchitecting the solution to scale horizontally and ask before running analysis on the server. Instead, the analysis will be offloaded to different virtual machines that can be paralyzed effectively. Essentially, you go left or right to connect with resources. Instead of one server for the task, you can have 50 servers that might only be in use for ten minutes. The server speaks to the infrastructure, tells it to access 50 servers to run a certain application like a script or Java codes, assigns the task, and tells the infrastructure to report back with the results. Scaling horizontally is the only way in computer science to effectively tap into unlimited scaling. 

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UC
Vice President Cloud Security Architect at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable but not completely. About 20 people are using the solution in our company.

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IC
Head of Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable so it works well for retail. For example, you can use a number of consoles or servers that operate with specific data in a specific segment. You can have a management server with a proxy in a different part of the network that operates specific devices on a segment or provides data for analyzing a management service. 

You can add RAM or cores for virtual machines if you need more or deeper infrastructure segments. 

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erdemerdag - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Skybox is scalable.

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Karthik-Krishnamoorthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Wipro

In terms of scalability, I would give it a six out of ten. The logging features are good, but zones and zone mapping to get interactive topology are not straightforward.

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SB
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are in a complex environment, and we have three teams, with approximately 30 people using it on various entities.

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PG
Asst. Manager Finance at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's a scalable product. We scaled our internal projects.

We only have single customers who are using this solution.

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DG
VP Technology at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

As of now, we don't have any challenges with scalability. If we are fulfilling all prerequisites, it is okay. 

Earlier, in some of the cases, it was a bit slow, but if we are fulfilling all the requirements, it gives a good performance. For a PoC, when we were using an old platform, the performance was not up to the mark, but when we use the latest platform and hardware, the performance is good.

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it_user725601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect - Information Security at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability of the solution is very good. There's nothing stopping a company from expanding if they need to.

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it_user870714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Security Architecture at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It scales just fine. The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up. But I've never had a problem where fault tolerance was necessary. It's just an available option that makes everything a bit more robust.

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Igor Pinter - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at BEOtech

The scalability of the Skybox Security Suite is good. You can put as many collectors that you need. We have three or four large installations and we didn't have any major issues.

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AP
Information Security Officer at Sony Corporation of America

The solution isn't great at scalability. I'm not saying it is not scalable, but then, of course, companies have to test and see. For us, when it came to scalability, there were always question marks as to if it could be done effectively. We were never 100% confident in its capabilities. For us, and the environment we worked in, we were somewhat sensitive to scaling with this solution.

There were two types of users for this solution in our organization. One type of user had full access to the tool and they were the leadership team, IT and security. The other type of user had access to automated reports. There were about 200 people who had access to this.

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HW
Marketing Expert at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The product is highly scalable. It is suitable for enterprise businesses. I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.

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Syed Rizwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Defa3 cyber security

My company has 20 users for the product. 

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AB
Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of scalability, if you need anything to be extended in your environment, you have to pay for Skybox security in order for it to be supported. It costs extra money to scale.

We have about 14 people in our organization who use the solution.

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SK
Principal Specialist - IT Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I don't think scalability is a problem area, to be quite frank. As to how much you can run, it primarily depends on the type of licenses you have. And they also have a hardware appliance which can take on any workload. So I don't think this is a problem area.

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RG
Senior Information Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

The stability is fine for my organization.

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LB
Information Security Architect at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

We've had no need to scale it.

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TB
Information Security Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had to separate our initial appliance into the server and a separate collector just because we have, at last count, about 120 firewalls in there. Collecting all the firewall information in all the logs daily during off hours, it started to get a little choked up. When we separated the server and the collector onto two different machines that fixed the problem.

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VB
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user844593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Networks Vice President at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with scalability at the moment.

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LN
Director of Solutions Integration at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues with scalability.

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CV
Pre-sales Engineer with 1-10 employees

As we are new to this solution, we haven't attempted to scale it yet.

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it_user873423 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user796227 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Specialist with 10,001+ employees

No changes to check.

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AM
Regional Sales Engineer at RedSeal, Inc.

This is a scalable solution.

In the region that I am working in, the director has indicated that we want to target organizations with a minimum of 15 firewalls and 500 devices. Essentially, the networks are very big, the firewalls and devices might be from different vendors, and the operations teams are having trouble managing them.

Skybox, from a scalability perspective, is only for customers with a very large environment that is complex.

Scalability is also a factor when a customer is migrating to the cloud. Specifically, when transitioning from on-premises to the cloud the customer will need cloud-based firewalls, load balancing, sandboxing, etc. This means that the network map in Skybox needs to include the cloud.

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