AlgoSec Reviews

Provides visibility to firewall policies. 

Single tool to engineer changes and track approvals for audit compliance.

A Central tool to track firewall requests. 

Using AlgoSec API calls to integrate with other apps (ex: central IT request portal)

Standard view of firewall policies, regardless of vendor (ex: Checkpoint and Cisco). 

Built-in reports to aid in policy cleanup (ex: unused rules or objects, covered rules).

Faster HA/DR failover - with very large databases, it takes a long time to failover / failback.

Provide even more REST API calls (ex: rule removal API)

Product and appliances have been very stable.

It easily scaled up to support our hundreds of firewalls.

Both are excellent. 

Customer service is clearly important to AlgoSec. I never get the feeling they're just trying to sell me something, they sincerely try to assist with the best solution for us.

Tech support is extremely knowledgeable and responsive. If I could score them 11, I would. 

Did not use another solution previously.

Initial deployment was straightforward. The FireFlow workflow can be configured to match the existing flow - customizing this to match any workflow permutations takes the most time. 

Through a vendor team. They were top-notch - extremely knowledgeable and great to work with.

Unknown.

Explore the possibility of running on a VM instead of dedicated hardware.

I was not part of the evaluation.

The tool is very flexible. Be sure to allocate sufficient resources to deploy & customize it.

We have been using AlgoSec mainly to review/filter duplicate firewall rules and policies.

It helped us clear out almost half the work by identifying the rules automatically with no manual work, which is very cool.

The analysis and visualization part has given us a great insight into our perimeter security architecture. Also, the top 100 policy report usage is a pretty cool feature that I like the most. It also helps us from an auditing standpoint as well to make sure we meet our compliance demands.

I think the product is great from an overall observation, sometimes speed is an issue but I think it could be improved a little bit from a parsing perspective.

We have a big environment consisting of around 100 firewalls with a combination of different vendors. We use AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer to analyze our firewall rules from different vendors and importantly for our firewall optimization project.  

We recently moved our data center to a new location and we migrated our firewalls from one vendor to a different vendor. AlgoSec helped us tremendously to clean up shadow rules, unused objects even before moving to a new vendor. 

Firewall Optimization is all time favorite which saves a lot of manual work and increases device performance. Compliance is also equally important as our organization is very concerned about it and AlgoSec does it for us in minutes. 

I always wanted AlgoSec to support cloud base security firewalls such as Amazon security groups-AWS or Microsoft Azure network security groups. Hoping they will have it ready by end of 2018. 

AlgoSec releases hotfixes every now and then which keeps the product stable and with better performance.

AlgoSec is a much-needed tool for any organization as it helps in reducing manual effort when it comes to managing firewalls. 

I have not contacted customer service that much but whenever I do, I receive a great support and they reach beyond your expectations.

We have used Tufin beforemuch-much we faced lots of challenges and saw bugs all the time so we wanted something better. 

I have AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and FireFlow certifications which helped me a lot during initial set up. It was straightforward and easy. 

It was in-house.

It's a lot, as it saves time and money.

I am a security engineer and from my point, I would say setup is without complications. Pricing and licensing is taken care of by my senior management so I cannot comment on it. 

Just Tufin, as this was a competitor to AlgoSec.

It's simply great, keep going. 

My organisation has used Firewall Analyser for many years to simplify and automate rule set management across an estate of hundreds of Checkpoint firewalls. Key functionality provided covers compliance reporting and identification of duplicate and unused, as well as risky rules.

Algosec is a game changer for our environment due to core functionality provided by Firewall Analyser. It has simplified rule optimisation and compliance. We are now building on this by deploying AlgoSec FireFlow which we expect to massively reduced the time and complexity around firewall change requests and approval. 

Compliance and risk reporting are the most valuable features of the product, closely followed by FireFlow, which builds on the analysis engine. I have also found the team to be engaging and customer focused.

I look forward to cloud service integration, which is coming in future releases and this should help make the product more of a complete solution. I would also like to see AlgoBot integrate with other communication systems such as Rocket Chat.

Implemented in a Managed Security Service Provider and had every managed customer firewalls integrated as part of the service. The tops were used to generate baseline reports and compliance views suiting all kinds of businesses.

The solution greatly improved the value delivered to the customer, generating reports and providing suggestions for improvements.

AlgoSec Firewall Analyser (AFA): Providing reports and security improvements actually added value to the services provided to our customers. This was a key feature provided as a service allowing us to be proactive anticipating possible flaws and vulnerabilities.

• Support more and more vendors, like minor ones: WatchGuard and others. 
• Also, it would be interesting if it could analyse iptables and IPFW rules and support migration.
• Windows Firewall and Forefront would also be nice since we often need to migrate from those platforms and prove the value of the newly installed solutions.

Very stable, I've had minimal problems using it, and the solution feels really mature.

Not that great, they are improving though.

Great support. Always available.

No.

Completely straightforward except with the configuration of Check Point devices which requires additional steps.

In-house.

Great return since the firewall analysis was sold as a service to our customer.

Setup is really straightforward, and their professional services are available for your every need. About costs, I don't see much difference from its competitors.

Yes. Tufin and FireMon.

It's not a solution to install and forget. To bring out the best of its value you must always keep generating reports and applying corrections. It's a great tool to have especially if you have too many juniors operators.

Check Point platform with over 14 clusters. 

It is very useful for PCI DSS compliance. 

FireFlow has been a winning product, as it helped with documenting all the processes in our rule implementations.

Rule optimization is one of the features that we have used the most, as firewalls were running for a while with no prior process rules created for them and no follow up being done.

• The reporting could be a bit better. 
• FireFlow was a bit tricky to configure with its customized flows. Maybe the latest release will resolve this.

Deployment was fairly easy. There were no issues. 

Everything was done using in-house resources.

The majority of customer use cases are around rule optimisation, workflow management, and risk/compliance. 

Our customers are able to optimise and clean the rule sets on our FW estate and streamline the change management process whilst adhering to compliance, governance, and risk requirements.

• Firewall Analyser due to its initial ability to cleanse and provide efficiencies to legacy estates. 
• FireFlow continues to drive customer efficiencies, allowing an organisation to keep up with the pace of change.  
• We see the value of BusinessFlow for organisations involved in digital transformation projects migrating to public/private/hybrid cloud models.

Further integration with ACI and NSX will be key to our customers' requirements moving forward, as customers adopt new, innovative environments.

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Our customers are receiving quick ROI using the AlgoSec platform when compared to the FTE costs for using legacy manual processes.

Licensing is offered as a subscription and as a perpetual model.

Pricing is easy to grasp.

We looked at Tufin and Skybox. AlgoSec was the only vendor who had the full suite of products which met the customer and business demands. BusinessFlow was (still is) the game changer.

We use it for global firewall rules management to ensure global policies are applied to all regional firewalls, provide auditing and compliance.

• Central firewall management
• Security policy change management
• Firewall auditing
• Compliance
• Firewall policy optimization

AlgoSec FireFlow:

• Eliminates mistakes and optimizes firewall rules.
• Firewall rule compliance with global security policies.
• Eliminates redundant and unused firewall rules.
• Reporting.
  

• It needs better API integration with its third-party firewall management.
• It needs support for its cloud-based solution.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

We have had no complaints about their support.

We did not previously use a different solution.

It is somewhat complex to initially setup.

We implemented it in-house.

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