AlgoSec Reviews

Policy management.

It has improved the way we handle risky rules on firewalls.

Security Firewall Policy; Firewall Performance; Firewall Hardening.

The Tighten Permissive Rules Function could be better, we need more specific information about source, destination and service on the rule we will handle.

About 1 year.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

They have replied fast to all my concerns.

Excellent.

I used to use Firemon before but switched to AlgoSec because the AlgoSec product and User Interface are more friendly than Firemon.

The AlgoSec vendor in Vietnam is Misoft, I rate them excellent in experience and support.

• Risk management for the rules
• Policy optimization suggestions

AlgoSec allows me to understand the inside of the firewall and brings simplicity to very complex firewall setups.

It has helped us manage PCIDSS compliance and also improved the overall network security.

The product has several compliance checks built in for PCIDSS, ISO, SOX, etc., and also a baseline security policy. It would be nice to allow customers to build their own policy, based on the customer’s own customization and business needs.

I have used it for four years.

The application is easy to deploy in an hour and can be done via a user guide.

Support needs are rare. I only require support around twice a year. Upgrades are easily done by the user but when support is required, it is great.

Initial setup is easy because it is a virtual appliance with its own OS.

I have expertise in implementation and prefer to do it myself rather than invoke the support contract. I believe it helps me stay knowledgeable and besides, AlgoSec implementation is a breeze.

The license is perpetual but support is periodic.

I tried the ManageEngine firewall analyzer. AlgoSec has a superior firewall policy optimization algorithm.

It’s a good buy for simplifying large networks.

• Overly permissive rules need more visibility, and we have given the "any to any" access in some cases. 
• Looking for the solution which will provide details and description of the policy, like providing the source and destination addresses that are used from particular rules.

Policy optimisation helped reduce the policy count of the firewall. Therefore, the visibility of firewall policies improved. 

Policy tightening feature: It gives the visibilities of "any to any" rules, which source and destination are used, and the actual traffic from overly permissive rules. Therefore, we are able to tighten the policy of the firewall. 

I would like to suggest that cloud visibility feature is provided in the next release. We would be able to understand how traffic flows from the source to destination.

No.

Yes, Skybox was there, but the GUI and some of the features are missing.

Firewall Analyzer (AFA) to analyze configs from production firewalls of various types.

AFA has helped us to spot risky rules, overlapping rules and helps prioritize remediation efforts. We have a variety of firewalls and look forward to expanding services such as FireFlow.

In AFA, the ability to trend rule usage and drill into traffic seen hitting that rule is powerful for cleanup of overly permissive rules.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Customer service has been helpful and responsive.

Skybox Security. However, Skybox is has less actionable output than Algosec. 

Setup does take some time to customize to your environment.

It provides us with a trail of changes. It also has an optimization advisor.

The audits for the firewalls are now straightforward.

The regulatory compliance rules.

I've been using it since March 2015, and I'm responsible for the deployment and administration of it.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's very good, nothing to complain about.

It's excellent, their support is fast and very competent.

I didn't use a similar solution previously.

It was straightforward.

We used a vendor team who covered all the aspects, and requirements, of the product.

No other options were evaluated.

• Rule optimization
• Risk analysis

Saves time and labor cost in optimizing and operating our firewall system.

Find duplicate objects in different firewalls.

3 years

Mainly with log collection.

No issues.

None.

Good.

Good.

No.

Simple to setup.

Via a vendor team. They are good.

I don't have the details, but it is effective.

No.

It should support IPS devices.

We use AlgoSec for automating and management of security changes to our firewall policies.

AlgoSec makes it easier to implement flow-opening requests by our users. We now have a standard procedure that everyone must follow, whereby they create an AlgoSec request for any change to the firewall policy. The product also helps us to keep track of every change that occured in the past.

AlgoSec also provides us an easy way to review the policies of all of our firewalls. We are able to perform searches for specific rules/objects on all of them at the same time, even if they are from different vendors.

Firewall Analyzer is valuable because it makes searching our existing policies so simple.

We like FireFlow because it provides an easy way to introduce flow-opening requests.

They can make some improvements to the user interface because it can be slow at times.

We have been using AlgoSec for three years.