FireMon Security Manager vs Opinnate comparison

FireMon and Opinnate are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. FireMon is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2, while Opinnate is ranked #12 with an average rating of 10.0. FireMon holds a 17.9% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Opinnate’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of FireMon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Opinnate users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

FireMon Security Manager and Opinnate compete in network security management. Opinnate has the advantage with advanced features like automation tools, whereas FireMon is favored for its pricing and support.

Features: FireMon Security Manager delivers robust security configuration monitoring, real-time policy management, and analytics. It is strong in policy compliance and user access management. Opinnate offers automation and integration capabilities, enhancing operations across platforms and reducing IT workload.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FireMon's deployment requires professional service assistance with a traditional model, while Opinnate offers a cloud-based option, simplifying setup. FireMon provides dedicated account managers for personalized service. Opinnate's customer service is noted for quick responses and effective problem-solving.

Pricing and ROI: FireMon is seen as budget-friendly due to flexible support options, linking ROI to performance and compliance improvements. Opinnate, with higher initial costs, emphasizes automation for reduced labor costs and improved efficiency over time.

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Categories and Ranking

FireMon Security Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

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

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of FireMon Security Manager is 17.9%, up from 16.4% 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
Product	Market Share (%)
FireMon Security Manager	17.9%
Opinnate	2.2%
Other	79.9%

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SurajYadav

Network Security Consultant at NTT DATA

Centralized policy governance has reduced audit effort and continuously improves risk visibility

I wish to see deeper and more customizable reporting and dashboards, as while the standard reports are useful for audits, operational teams sometimes need real-time, flexible views without exporting data. Tighter integrations with ticketing and change management tools would also enhance the workflow from request to implementation. FireMon Security Manager is excellent for policy governance and risk reduction, but better real-time dashboards and stronger workflow integrations would make it even more powerful for daily operations. There are one or two areas where FireMon Security Manager could be improved to make it even stronger. While FireMon Security Manager overall delivers solid governance and risk insight, it would benefit from more flexible dashboards and deeper integrations to reduce manual steps and improve visibility without relying on external tools. I rate FireMon Security Manager an 8 out of 10. It is a strong tool for firewall policy management, risk analysis, and compliance, clearly improving our audit process and policy governance. The reason I do not give it a 9 out of 10 is mainly because the dashboard could be more flexible and integration with the firewalls could be smoother. FireMon Security Manager is a reliable and high-value platform for managing and governing firewall policies, especially in a multi-vendor environment, though a few areas can still be improved.

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Fulya ALGÜL

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In one report, FireMon tells us there are, say, 1,000 rules that can be taken out and it gives us the ability to disable those for a year and to track when we made our changes. After a year, we can go back and eliminate the rules, to bring the configuration down to an almost human-readable level."

"The most valuable feature is the Firewall reviews for our company compliance."

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

"It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance."

"I've been using the reports to see what is going on, and that is a helpful feature. We can track down unused rules, which helps with compliance. We can see rules that have not been used or that are duplicates or overly permissive."

"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. There are a lot of products out there, but the ability to navigate through and use Firemon is very good."

"The Security Manager part of FireMon... gives me an eye on everything that's out there, everything that I cannot see. Because I'm not a network admin, I cannot go to a firewall itself, but at least I have FireMon so that I can go in and view everything that I want to view. And I can eliminate whatever I see that is wrong,"

"FireMon Security Manager has had a very positive impact on our organization by reducing manual effort and improving overall security posture."

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"The platform is easy to deploy and maintain."

"Version upgrades can be done quickly."

Cons

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

"Policy Planner requirements section is good, but could use some improvement to allow flexibility to enter different types of requests (modifying an existing policy, object or service group, for example) in a structured task format that can be auto-verified."

"While I like the reporting, I think that has the biggest room for improvement. Right now, as a user of FireMon, if I create a report, I am the only one who can see it inside FireMon. If someone on my team creates a report, they are the only person who can see that report on FireMon. It doesn't matter if you're admin in FireMon or not. The way we have to do it now is that we have created a service account user and that service account user runs all the reports. This way, all the reports, which are running, are just run under a single user so we can always access them. This definitely needs to change so users can see other users' reports or we can share reports within FireMon."

"A feature that could be improved is support for more devices, not just the firewall."

"When it comes to real-time compliance management, something that is missing is alerting on certain, predefined controls. It would be good to have a predefined set of controls which, if not complied with in a newly set up rule, would create an alert for us. That is something that is missing, out-of-the-box."

"When it comes to identifying risk in our environment and prioritizing fixes, it is really about the different priorities within the organization. FireMon is not so smart that it can tell what's important to us. It's up to us to figure that out."

"The support response time has room for improvement."

"When it comes to documentation, they need to start putting together a basic command manual. With Cisco, you can look up a command and it gives you examples of three or four different ways that command can be used. It tells you how to put it into the GUI and the CLI. FireMon does need to start doing that."

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"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

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

"It's a good value. From a licensing standpoint... it's very simple to understand, and gives us a good bang for the buck."

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

"This is an expensive solution. The cost of three modules for three years was approximately one million."

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

"We don't license all of the devices in our network, so it does not provide us with a comprehensive visibility of all devices in a hybrid network at this time."

"FireMon is cheaper than AlgoSec."

"Pricing is reasonable."

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"Opinnate is inexpensive than other products."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

20%

Retailer

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	46

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Questions from the Community

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?

Our experience with FireMon Security Manager's pricing and licensing is that it is on the higher side, but justified for a large, regulated environment. The setup cost and licensing made sense give...

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What needs improvement with FireMon?

FireMon Security Manager is a strong platform. However, it could be improved with a more intuitive user interface and faster initial onboarding for new users. Simplifying some workflows and dashboa...

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What do you like most about Opinnate?

Version upgrades can be done quickly.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Opinnate?

Opinnate is inexpensive than other products. They offer yearly licenses.

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Overview

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

FireMon

Eliminate boundaries in network security policy management. Analyze, optimize, automate & audit your security policies easily
Opinnate‘s user-friendly UI allows you to redirect the effort gained through our system towards other security topics, rather than focusing on our solution itself.
As opposed to incumbent technologies, the intelligent and lightweight Opinnate platform makes automated network security policy management attainable for enterprises of all sizes.

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