AlgoSec vs FireMon Security Manager comparison

AlgoSec and FireMon are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. AlgoSec is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while FireMon is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.8. AlgoSec holds a 22.8% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to FireMon’s 17.5% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of AlgoSec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of FireMon users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

AlgoSec and FireMon Security Manager are competitors in network security management. AlgoSec seems to have an edge with its detailed risk analysis and compliance tools, while FireMon stands out for real-time monitoring and policy management.

Features: AlgoSec offers detailed reporting, compliance tools, and superior risk analysis. Its Analyzer and FireFlow modules assist in policy optimization and automation. FireMon excels in policy review and change management with real-time monitoring and analysis.

Room for Improvement: AlgoSec needs enhancements in integrating with newer firewall technologies and cloud platforms, along with improvements in its UI and technical support. FireMon requires better vendor support and multi-vendor integration. Its real-time compliance features could use more automation and UI improvements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AlgoSec is versatile in deployment across on-premises and hybrid environments, receiving mixed reviews for its user-friendliness and support. FireMon primarily supports on-premises deployment, with customers noting satisfaction in setup but facing support challenges for network complexities.

Pricing and ROI: AlgoSec's pricing is higher, with reports of good ROI for those leveraging its features, though licensing can be costly for large integrations. FireMon offers competitive pricing, deemed reasonable for its monitoring and policy management, despite being pricey compared to some alternatives.

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Categories and Ranking

AlgoSec

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

186

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

FireMon Security Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 22.8%, up from 20.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of FireMon Security Manager is 17.5%, up from 15.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

it_user1292127

Manager Risk Advisory at Deloitte

Feb 27, 2020

From your experience, what are the technical differences between AlgoSec and FireMon?

Well before both the products have their own pros and cons. But the criteria you mention, I would say you can go with AlgoSec with the following reasons: 1. It's less expensive compared to FireMon. 2. Need very less amount of resources as compare to FireMon who need a huge amount of resources with their basic level VM as well. 3. Easy to manage and configure. 4. I found AlgoSec better than FireMon in terms of reporting. But the biggest drawback with AlgoSec is their tech support which takes a huge amount of time to respond and investigate the issue. And in the end, they will always provide you one solution which is a known bug in the product and they will release an HA for that.

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SAURABH JAMBHULKAR

Senior cybersecurity Consultant in CSP at Tata Consultancy

Empowers organizations to reduce change management time by 80% and improve audit efficiency

AlgoSec offers essential features such as risk management, policy optimization, change management, traffic simulation, and compliance auditing. Risk management is crucial for security, enabling deep analysis and threat prioritization, while traffic simulation allows interactive diagnostics for operational traffic management. Change management includes tools for monitoring policy changes and ensuring compliance with security standards, making these features significant for any organization. AlgoSec positively impacts my organization by reducing operation burden, enhancing time efficiency, and saving costs associated with security management. AlgoSec firewall analyzer helps with policy complexity by identifying unused or redundant rules and objects, recommending optimizations such as merging similar rules and removing unnecessary allows. Over time, firewalls can accumulate risky configurations, leading to increased overhead and troubleshooting time, but with AlgoSec, we simplify our rule sets, improve firewall performance, and facilitate faster change implementations.

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Ganesh-Khutwad

Senior Network Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited

Rapid policy insights with robust dashboards and cross-vendor automation

FireMon Security Manager is excellent for real-time compliance management. It allows us to quickly retrieve any policy needed for testing and easily analyze it for loopholes. If a loophole exists, FireMon provides comprehensive details within the policy manager. It alerts us to firewall rule additions or changes that violate compliance policies. It supports various firewall platforms, including Checkpoint, Zscaler, Fortinet, Cisco, and AWS, and provides centralized management for all configured policies through a single console. FireMon Security Manager provides many features, like whether my firewall is compatible with required standards such as NTP and SNMP. Each compliance included in our RFPs is shown in the UI of FireMon. It gives robust and clear dashboards, making it easier to understand risks because the policies have ratings showing usage, and the number of hit attacks. It streamlines our compliance reporting processes by providing comprehensive risk and compliance assessments. It offers a range of features, including verification of firewall compatibility with protocols like NTP and SNMP, and detection of signal charges. FireMon effectively addresses all compliance requirements outlined in our RFPs. For instance, it can determine if firewalls or proxies within a stack are configured in Secure Mode or Active-Active mode. FireMon Security Manager enables us to generate reports on all these aspects, ensuring thorough compliance monitoring and documentation. FireMon Security Manager is robust and can help automate firewall policy changes across large multi-vendor enterprise environments. FireMon Security Manager helps automate firewall policy changes across various environments, including on-premises, cloud, hybrid, SASE, and SD-WAN. It also simplifies cleaning up firewall rules in our environment. The time required to accurately create, approve, and deploy firewall policy rules has been reduced. Tasks that took 30 minutes can now be completed in just five minutes using FireMon. FireMon provides immediate visibility into our policies through a robust and clear dashboard, making it easy to identify errors or misconfigurations based on the policy rating.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It improves audibility and security by having instant access to firewall configurations."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to deploy new rules in all of the firewalls included in the environment at one time."

"The most valuable feature is that the tool is capable of simplifying firewall management and configuration in an automated fashion."

"There are some legacy customers still using AlgoSec. The benefit is the ease in management of firewalls and rules."

"We now have baseline and rules checking."

"AFA provides project teams with a simplified way to obtain the status on their current rule set."

"It gives us 100% visibility into our network security policies. It has given us a couple of surprises. Over the years, the network that we are administrating has been subject to people who have an idea of how a network should be set up. That differs from technician to technician or engineer to engineer. So, we are finding little pockets of hidden little self-engineered configurations and the way things were done that nobody knew about. Once the engineer left, the knowledge of that setup disappeared. You don't know about those until something either goes wrong, or you get something like AlgoSec to discover it for you, and it says, "Hey, there is this going on over here.""

"The most valuable is helping us determine where our rules are too permissive. Based on previous human review of our rules, they are very cursory. We know why we do something, but we don't get into the details of whether the rule is nice and tight. What Firewall Analyzer lets us do is understand the risks presented by our rules. The tool does a calculation of all the traffic that could be allowed and we can match that to whether it should be allowed."

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"The most valuable feature for me is its capability for cleanup and managing the complexity of security products."

"FireMon is nice and provides 360-degree user views."

"Vendor agnostic when it comes to integrating with other product."

"For the cleanup of firewall rules, it performs really well for us. We utilize it in our regular rule cleanup tasks, several times a year. FireMon is our primary tool when doing that, either by going through its out-of-the-box compliance rules or using it to search for certain things in our rules that we want to prune from our firewalls."

"Policy test, access path analysis, and change reports."

"FireMon decreases errors and misconfigurations by 10% that increase risk in our environment. That has to do a lot with the change reporting that is in place, but also with the built-in controls and custom controls that we have made. Those all decrease the errors that people naturally make on a day-to-day basis for firewall administration."

"Firewall auditing is very important. We also use the solution for rule traffic analysis, traffic flow discovery and hidden/shadow rules within over 100 firewalls spanning five different brands."

"The most effective feature is the general reporting on compliance."

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Cons

"Due to the fact that AlgoSec's user interface is less friendly than that of other programs, it might not be appropriate for persons with little experience in security or IT."

"The reports are lacking information when they come out. They will not pull the URL or application information from Cisco FTDs. I know this works for Palo Alto Firewalls, which we currently do not have. If they could improve the integration with Cisco FTDs as a whole, that would be immensely helpful."

"I would like for there to be more AI functionalities."

"Algosec does not support vendors like Sophos, SonicWall, Forecepoint, and so on."

"It would be nice if it was more variable when checking virtual domain baseline in the same way as Fortigate's firewalls do."

"A more granular approach and the possibility to separate data and show relevant data to specific key roles or key users would be a great achievement in future releases."

"The user interface could be a little more user-friendly."

"A simple tutorial about the initial configuration on Youtube could provide a lot of help."

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"Some of the core functionality in our environment doesn't seem to work. We will get buggy code releases. They need to work on their Q&A of every code release."

"The training for configuring new users or operators is confusing because the UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."

"FireMon could be easier to use and flexibility regarding reporting could be improved."

"The issue for me started with Fortinet not being able to see things correctly. It lost its appeal in terms of what it could do for me from a security standpoint, so I do not pay as much attention to it."

"The advanced features are complex in setting up the rules."

"The cost of the solution is pretty expensive. It would be ideal if they could work on their pricing."

"FireMon could improve its end-user practices. As an end user, I am just trying to catch up on all the alerts. There are so many, and you still have to go through them and document what was found."

"The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious... Imagine you have a list of 200 devices, and you can grade each of those devices as either green, yellow, or red. However, there might be three different reasons for you to go to red, or eight different reasons to go to yellow, and all of those things could be combined... Out of all those categories, I only find one or two of them that are, perhaps, pertinent."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It will reduce your operations costs with improved team performance."

"I can’t say that this is a cheap system. It's affordable for large enterprises and, in some cases, for mid-sized companies. For the majority of other companies, this solution is out of their price range."

"Use the entire suite for its best benefits."

"Licensing is very easy to set up. The pricing is relative to how you want to expand and harden your network security."

"The price is within the standard of security products."

"The cost of the tool can be recovered with AlgoSec automations."

"Setup cost and pricing were reasonable and the licensing was straightforward."

"AlgoSec may be little pricier with its licenses, but it is probably better than any of other competitors."

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"The pricing was very good during our initial year, but they increased it this year a little bit. The price is okay. It is not cheap, but it is still average."

"FireMon is cheaper than AlgoSec."

"FireMon is very expensive. I think that they charge a premium. In general, they are very pricey. Compared to their competitors, they cost a little more than the other solutions that we evaluated."

"Pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing is very good, very straightforward. It also came in cheaper than AlgoSec and Tufin."

"Its pricing is good. Compared to others, it is not so expensive."

"Regarding additional costs, if you want things like Policy Optimizer, extra features, that's extra."

"Pricing model seems fair."

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Answers from the Community

it_user1292127

Manager Risk Advisory at Deloitte

Feb 27, 2020

From your experience, what are the technical differences between AlgoSec and FireMon?

2 out of 4 answers

Carlo Gardener

Security Engineer at BCBSMA

Feb 24, 2020

Unfortunately we chose Tufin over both those products, sorry I cannot give you a comparison on either. For us, Tufin simplifies the needs we have for Risks/Cleanup/Violations in our FW policies. We also leverage compliance policy for best practices. You can also take advantage of the reporting functionally which suites your environment or infrastructure such as: - New Revision - Advance Change - FW Modul Change - Object Change - Expired Rules - Rule and Object Usage - Policy Analysis - Security Risk - Rule Documentation.

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Sunil Kumar.

Works at Maple Leaf Foods

Feb 25, 2020

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlgoSec?

AlgoSec's ability to integrate with various security and networking solutions enhances its overall value.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?

Pricing for AlgoSec is fairly competitive. Rating the pricing on a scale from one being high to ten being low, the price is considered competitive without being specified absolutely.

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What needs improvement with AlgoSec?

The user interface for AlgoSec has remained unchanged for the last ten years and could benefit from being more interactive and informative. Additionally, a cloud offering as a SaaS would relieve th...

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What do you like most about FireMon?

I like the Security Manager console where we can see any changes that have been made or pull the results of an assessment and control the policies that we implement.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireMon?

Comparatively, FireMon has a very good price and is below the general competition in cost. I have not seen any additional fees beyond the general contract fees for the usage I have. So, I have not ...

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What needs improvement with FireMon?

For one company I work with, I use Fortinet, and FireMon is not able to understand the zones that Fortinet uses. Part of that compliance piece does not provide me with the necessary information. An...

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Overview

AlgoSec enhances application delivery speed and security by automating connectivity and policy management across hybrid networks.

With 20 years of experience, AlgoSec is trusted by over 2200 organizations for securing critical workloads. Its Horizon platform leverages AI to discover and manage business applications, offering comprehensive visibility into security and compliance issues across hybrid environments. Intelligent change automation improves both agility and security, ensuring conformity to internet security standards and regulatory requirements.

What key features does AlgoSec offer?

Firewall Analyzer: Optimizes firewall rules, managing risk and compliance effectively.
FireFlow: Automates change management processes, reducing manual errors and boosting efficiency.
Traffic Simulation: Assists in troubleshooting by simulating traffic scenarios.
Vendor Compatibility: Works with multi-vendor devices, ideal for complex networks.
Compliance Reporting: Simplifies audits with templates for standards like PCI-DSS and ISO 27001.

What benefits should users consider?

Enhanced Security: Streamlines security policy management, reducing redundant rules.
Operational Efficiency: Automates processes, leading to faster and more accurate changes.
Regulatory Compliance: Provides tools for easy alignment with industry standards.
Centralized Control: Offers centralized management over firewalls and application connectivity.

In complex industries, AlgoSec aids in risk analysis, firewall policy management, and compliance auditing. Organizations optimize firewall rules and automate policy changes, achieving improved security and operational efficiency across multiple vendor environments. AlgoSec's tools are integral to streamlining change management and enhancing security posture in large network structures.

AlgoSec

The increasing complexity of networks, driven by the constant influx of new devices, applications, and cloud services, presents a daunting challenge for managing firewall policies and rules. A typical enterprise environment has millions of rules, and just one simple misconfiguration can lead to devastating consequences like compliance violations, outages, and data breaches.

FireMon’s Security Manager is a purpose-built network security policy management (NSPM) platform that automates the management of firewall and cloud security policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately and quickly change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.

Reduce Risk Manage risk with real-time visibility and control
Manage Change Avoid misconfigurations, accelerate business, and improve security
Enforce and Maintain Compliance Avoid violations, avoid risk, and avoid fines

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Sample Customers

Maersk, Delta Airlines, Chevron, General Motors, T-Mobile, Chevron, AT&T, BP, Bell Canada, HCA Healthcare, Morgan Stanley, Unilever, Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, US Bank, Microsoft

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