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AlgoSec vs Opinnate comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AlgoSec
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
188
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Opinnate
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
12th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 20.7%, down from 22.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Opinnate is 2.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Firewall Security Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
AlgoSec20.7%
Opinnate2.2%
Other77.1%
Firewall Security Management
 

Featured Reviews

Prasad Boddu - PeerSpot reviewer
project manager at FedEx
Automation has transformed firewall changes and has reduced audit effort and breach risk
The best features AlgoSec offers include automation of firewall rule changes, centralized security policy management, and improved compliance and audit readiness. AlgoSec has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to see faster change management, reduced audit costs, and reduced breach risk. I can share specific metrics indicating that through OpEx savings, we have been able to reduce firewall rule analysis and rule change handling time by 60 to 90 percent. This has led to fewer manual tasks and a smaller workload on our network and security teams. We have seen a return on investment with reduced audit costs, less time spent preparing evidence manually, and reduced breach risk. I would like to add that on centralized security policy management, it reduces complexity in multi-vendor environments.
Fulya ALGÜL - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Specialist at Doğuş Teknoloji A.Ş
Good support, nice interface, and simple to upgrade
PDF format is not available for Alert Composer. There are file attachment or body content output options. The other issue is that the range object can be displayed in the rule viewer section. If we know the range object, we provide imaging, but if we do not know the range object, there is no imaging. It also allows adding range object rules when performing server cloning. In general, however, we have made successful progress since the POC process.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We have not seen many faults reported from our customers."
"With AlgoSec, I believe we save up to 80% of the time involved in security change management processes when using fire flow, compared to manual methods."
"Audit-ready reporting is an awesome feature."
"AlgoSec supports a wide range of devices and is constantly working to include support for many other vendor devices."
"It detects if the requested network and ports are getting blocked by the network or firewalls by a simple query, which helps to identify the network blocking firewalls in the topology."
"The most valuable feature of AlgoSec is its firewall analyzer."
"​The initial setup process is excellent."
"It has the ability to create architectures improving performance and reducing costs."
"The platform is easy to deploy and maintain."
"Version upgrades can be done quickly."
 

Cons

"The Flash to HTML5 rewrite has been bumpy."
"I would like an intelligent tuner where it could help update rules with the application ID."
"The product is severely lacking in vendor support."
"The customization of dashboards should be simplified and more user-friendly."
"Introducing greater flexibility in editing alerts would be a highly appreciated improvement."
"I would rate the support as six or seven out of 10."
"Algosec should also be exploring the integration with the open source firewalls as well."
"It gives you the capability to make changes to hundreds of your firewalls at the same time, but big enterprises have change management policies. Change managers will never allow you to make changes to more than 10 devices at the same time, which is a feature in AlgoSec. Because, what if something goes wrong, then you have to roll back and figure out what caused the impact, e.g., which firewall did not work well. Doing that post-mortem becomes a difficult thing. So, change automation on a firewall is actually defeating the purpose of the change management policies in any organization. If you run a bank, you will not allow anyone to make changes at the same time from a single click for 10 firewalls. The bank will never allow this."
"The product's web page view is very basic. They could add new features to it."
"PDF format is not available for Alert Composer."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are working with our finance department right now to be able to purchase it. The AlgoSec team is doing everything that they can in their power to get the costs down to where our budget is. They have worked a lot on it. They have cut the cost in half for us so far by questioning, "This is in the quote. Is this something that is actually needed?" They have pulled some stuff out and cut our costs down by 50% for the product itself."
"I would suggest that you start with a VM, get a PoC with a temp license, and try it out. You will love it."
"The licensing scheme should be done in a simpler way. For example, if we delete a firewall and want to add a new one, then the license doesn't get freed up automatically. You have to request a new license to customer support and install it. If you are testing new implementations, this can be cumbersome."
"For cloud environments, it can be expensive. The model adopted to use as licensing for the cloud environment should be reviewed since it sometimes can increase the value of the service/product in an unexpected way. For example, they should instead use the amount of instances, which should just take into consideration the number of Security Groups and ACLs."
"It seems we have recovered our money on this appliance, so it is money well spent."
"AlgoSec is not much more expensive compared to other products available in the market."
"The cost of the tool can be recovered with AlgoSec automations."
"It has improved our performance in operations, projects, and security.​"
"Opinnate is inexpensive than other products."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Retailer
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise179
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that while the migration cost can be higher, the cost is acceptable. It is cost-effective, but the setup is not very easy.
What needs improvement with AlgoSec?
AlgoSec has a bit of a learning curve. It requires training, especially to fully leverage application-centric workflows. In terms of needed improvements, I would like to mention the integration cha...
What is your primary use case for AlgoSec?
My main use case for AlgoSec at FedEx is to automate, optimize, and ensure compliance of firewall and network security rules across our hybrid environments. This tool gives us a single pane of glas...
What do you like most about Opinnate?
Version upgrades can be done quickly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Opinnate?
Opinnate is inexpensive than other products. They offer yearly licenses.
What needs improvement with Opinnate?
PDF format is not available for Alert Composer. There are file attachment or body content output options. The other issue is that the range object can be displayed in the rule viewer section. If we...
 

Overview

 

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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