RedSeal offers advanced network mapping and risk management capabilities that enhance digital resilience by providing visual and analytical tools to assess network vulnerabilities and compliance.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
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| RedSeal | 1.6% |
| Qualys VMDR | 9.8% |
| Rapid7 InsightVM | 8.1% |
| Other | 80.5% |
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| Category | Risk-Based Vulnerability Management | Jun 24, 2026 | Download |
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| Qualys VMDR | 4.2 | 9.8% | 94% | 96 interviewsAdd to research |
| Zafran Security | 4.8 | N/A | 100% | 6 interviewsAdd to research |
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RedSeal integrates network mapping with vulnerability data, enabling organizations to visualize end-to-end network access and manage configurations effectively. It provides comprehensive scoring of digital resilience while facilitating "what if" traffic analyses. Organizations benefit from features like accelerated incident response and unified infrastructure views, which help identify security postures and compliance gaps. Improved report customization and a shift from Java dependency to HTML5 are areas for enhancement.
What are RedSeal's Key Features?In industries like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, RedSeal aids organizations in securing their infrastructure by identifying risk scores and ensuring compliance. It supports digital transformation by analyzing network gaps, segregating prohibited access points, and aiding lifecycle management for robust technological performance and security integration.
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| Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | I use RedSeal primarily for lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. The Analyzer and change management modules are valuable, enhancing network visibility. However, integration of OT and private 5G security needs improvement. There's no previous or alternate solutions considered. |
| Vice President at a government with 201-500 employees | 4.0 | I find RedSeal excellent for network mapping and configuration, aiding security compliance and assessments. While stable and scalable, I believe the dashboard needs improvement for easier data correlation and dedicated tabs for various compliance standards. |
| Associate Director Security at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | I found RedSeal excellent for visual network overview and traffic control. However, I faced configuration bugs and its interface isn't user-friendly. It also lacks a compliance audit feature, so I rate it 7/10. |
| Regional Sales Engineer at RedSeal, Inc. | 4.5 | I find RedSeal an excellent platform for unique digital resilience scoring and managing security posture, vital for digital transformation. It's stable with easy setup. My main concerns are the GUI's Java dependency and ongoing improvements for containerization visibility. |
| Senior Solutions Security Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees | 5.0 | RedSeal helps me visualize my network, prioritize resources, and understand compliance. However, I wish it integrated with other security tools and offered custom reporting beyond its current canned options. |
| Security Analyst, Cyber Intelligence Center, Operations at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I value its 'what if' traffic analysis and centralized configurations for security and finding misconfigurations. However, the network visualization is cumbersome and slow, and proper deployment is critical for full utility. |
| Principal Security Consultant at a tech company with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | I find the vulnerability management valuable for audits and security posture, essential for reporting. Setup was straightforward. However, I want improved report customization, a faster UI, and better support. |
| Cybersecurity Integration Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees | 4.0 | I value RedSeal's robust resilience measurement, network visualization, and world-class support over two years. I just miss the more user-friendly Windows VM version. |
| Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | I found RedSeal valuable for its comprehensive network mapping and vulnerability integration, offering an actionable global view. Setup was easy, but plugin stability and Java dependency are issues. Support improved at higher tiers. I highly recommend it. |
The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas.
RedSeal helps in optimizing the cost for the customer based on different use cases. If the solution caters to a particular use case, the organization sees cost optimization.
RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged. The change management module is also beneficial. Additionally, it has a feature enhancing network visibility.
There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal.
I have used RedSeal for about three to four years.
I would rate the stability between seven to eight out of ten.
I would rate the scalability between seven to eight out of ten.
The quality of technical support from RedSeal is rated between seven to eight out of ten. Generally, my team does not follow up with the tech team, so there are no specifics on the challenges faced.
The initial setup of RedSeal is easy to use.
The deployment is usually handled by a team. I don't have detailed knowledge about it.
The pricing of RedSeal is competitive.
I would recommend RedSeal to others because it has the capability to support enterprise customers. It offers a competitive advantage.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
We run three different networks with multiple VLANs across each of them. We're using it internally but looking at potentially using it to support other companies.
Because we work a lot of assessments, RedSeal helps us to validate certain security practices that are required. They have 148 best practices that are laid out, and the combination of those best practices along with some of the other capabilities, such as network mapping where it lays out the tracking and identification of devices, supports a lot of the requirements from government or companies that work with government agencies.
RedSeal looks at where you correlate the different practices as it relates to those defined by the assessment requirements put in place by the government contractors. Once they've done that, it will ease the time. While there is a dashboard with all of the information, you've got to go to the right place to find it and validate it. With the consolidation done, you get that as output and it ultimately saves us time when it comes to determining compliance.
The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration. It definitely speeds up the identification of mismatches and issues related to configuration and provides a good way ahead for remediation of those deficiencies.
The scorecard in resiliencies is helpful because you can get a snapshot look of it based on taking all of the data in.
From a front-end perspective, it just a superb job. RedSeal brings a lot, but it also brings an understanding that you're adding to it in order to get the full picture.
Once you flush out your layer two and layer three by bringing in scans, you tie in RedSeal with your SIEM. The dashboard makes moving forward very easy as it relates to the operation, which is something that we're very happy with.
When you're pulling in all of the vulnerabilities using the scanning tool that has been used, it is overlaid on the structure and helps to build it within RedSeal. This gives you one entry point to get a pretty good look at a company.
The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do. As it is now, if I go into RedSeal then I may have to look at six or seven practices, plus go to a configuration tab and then look at the mapping to identify one security practice that's been defined within the CMMC model.
It would like to see a feature that gives specifics about different types of compliance. For example, different tabs for SCADA, HIPAA, CMMC, 800-53, and PCI, would be helpful for having everything available in one location. As it is now, I have to view Excel spreadsheets to get that answer. Also, these things change depending on whether you are dealing with a DOD compliance effort versus medical compliance.
We have been using RedSeal for more than six months.
I am comfortable with the product. We have not seen any issues at all, in terms of stability.
We are currently looking at building relationships with other companies to improve our supply chain, and it is definitely scalable enough to support that.
The technical support is really good. They have a personal touch and build a relationship with you that helps with integrating the product. They really help when it comes to having a full understanding of how it works and it makes a big difference because they don't just leave you stranded.
My experience is that the technical support is structured to make sure that you get what RedSeal can provide.
The initial setup is straightforward, although it is a matter of importing all of the other sources of info that really makes it work well. For example, you're getting network layer seven, part of layer three, and all of those things that are associated with them. But, when you want the full picture, it takes the additional step. You need to load the scans and get tie-in to the SIEM, as well as everything else, to get the full utility out of RedSeal.
The technical support provided really eases the setup process.
The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures.
My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to have a good understanding of what RedSeal brings to the table, as well as what it is that you need to bring to the table to get full usage out of it. RedSeal comes in and sets the foundation and gives you the front-end, and then you have to add things like your scanned data. If you don't already have a scanner such as Nessus then you won't get a full picture. The team at RedSeal makes it clear that these plugins are essential to get the full benefit of the product.
Overall, I am very happy with the way the product is working.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We had a distributing environment, and we used RedSeal to look into the gaps in existing network connectivities. We looked into if any of the forbidden accesses are open. We also looked at the points from where the traffic was going in and out and the policies that were configured on the network devices but were not as per compliance.
We had to provide the configuration of our network, and then we could see the routes that are being used to transfer the traffic from one point to another. Based on that, we could control how specific traffic should be transferred from one point to another. If a device was not declared as a perimeter firewall or a perimeter router but was configured to communicate with the internet or fiber links, we would block it.
RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out.
Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version.
Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface.
They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus.
I have used RedSeal in my previous organization for one year.
Their technical support is good.
They were already using this solution when I joined that organization.
It is straightforward and not complex. You simply have to apply or provide the configurations of your devices. You can integrate a number of devices based on the running configuration and network configuration, or you can integrate all network devices.
Its implementation took around a month, and the implementation strategy was to first integrate all perimeter devices. We first covered those devices that were public-facing or connected with our clients in the data center. After configuring all of our perimeter devices, we started integrating our internal network at the distribution layer or the core layer. So, our implementation was divided into two phases. In the first phase, we integrated all devices deployed on the front line, and in the second phase, we moved to our distribution layer or the core layer.
We got assistance from the vendor who provided us the solution. In case of any requirement, we got assistance from them.
I would rate RedSeal a seven out of ten. It requires minor improvements in terms of the user interface and new features.
If you have a product like RedSeal, the main use case is to identify your risk score and your security posture. These are common questions that any CEO will ask a CSO, a CIO, or a CTO, the person who is responsible for the technology in the organization.
According to Gartner, the biggest use cases in today's world among the top three priorities of CIO, on which a CEO of a company can gauge the digital transformation drive. How far the organization has gone in its digital transformation drive and this is how CIOs or CTOs are rated by CEOs.
At the end of the day, a CEO is not a technical person and the only interest is how resilient his infrastructure is, what the risks are, and what is the security posture.
This solution is amazing! The most important part is the way it gives access information to the entire infrastructure, the network most importantly.
It is the only platform with vulnerability management that can reduce thousands of vulnerabilities to 100 or less based on your network model.
Risk compliance governance is very valuable. This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score. This is something that is unique and not found with any other vendor. RedSeal can measure your digital resilience, your risk, your compliance, and your governance. Importantly, it can help you to identify why your score is what it is.
RedSeal also has a very good feature which is Auto Populating the configs. You can give a file any name and when you do a bulk import, it can read the file and look at each and every config the device can identify.
There are some areas that have been mentioned to the engineering team.
One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency.
In the next release, the dashboard will eventually be Java-dependant on the platform.
Some other drawbacks are ingesting threat intelligence coming from different vendors. They create a network map and they laser-focus all of the vulnerabilities from the data that has come from the vulnerability scanners to the network map. It can tell you which vulnerabilities you should address first, as not all have to be addressed. You have to address the ones that are exposed to your network context. Your firewall is allowing or the router is providing access to it.
I would like to see the visibility of the containerization environment. Everyone is talking about Kubernetes, containers, and spinning up applications in the DevOps environment.
RedSeal already has a basic capability, but they're improvising their capability of network modeling the DevOps environment. This is a very important inclusion. In tech management, having tech intel feed information and DevOps is crucial. The Java section is just cosmetic and can be ignored for a person like me, who's more technical than commercial or who is looking at the beauty part of it. DevOps visibility is going to be a game-changer.
I have been working with RedSeal for more than one year.
We are using the latest version.
Stability is a key differentiator. I have not heard from any of my customers that we have hit a bug, and the system has crashed, or that it has stopped working.
This product is very stable, as long as you size the needed compute, which is the CPU, memory, hard disk, and the database, and if the system engineering team is sizing it correctly.
The initial setup is straightforward. It's very simple as long as there are not many prerequisites given by the customer. It doesn't take a lot.
You can directly onboard a device and connect it. If you don't want to integrate your routers, switches, and load balancers, it can be integrated with your monitoring system.
We know that the monitoring system is going to monitor each and every device. We can take all of the configurations from the monitoring system and with that, we will know how long it will take. Then you can do the same with the vulnerability scanner.
With RedSeal, you can have an application installed on the mobile device that gives you the live data, live information about your resilience score, your risk score, and tells you exactly where you are standing.
In order to achieve digital transformation, and not only to achieve but to scale and harvest the advantages of digital transformation, you have run security transformation in parallel. Without that, you cannot achieve digital transformation.
CEOs should be asking if they are able to scale up their digital transformation drive to the maximum potential. Are they able to harvest the benefits of digital transformation? Gartner indicates that 80% of the companies say no.
When you are going through a digital transformation, your applications are talking to each other. You are exposing many services to the outside world and when you do that, you are adding risk to your environment. Security transformation has to run in parallel.
RedSeal can measure your resilience, digital resilience, your risk, your compliance, your governance, and can help you to justify what your risk score is. For example, it can tell you that there are services exposed that were not intended to, or that were mistakenly exposed. Through indirect exposure to your critical asset, there is a possibility of an attack.
It could also be that there were many changes to the application that was newly built as part of the digital transformation drive was actually a part of the network or the security of the infrastructure configurations not being there, as per the best practice.
This could help explain why your risk score is low.
It also tells you how compliant you are. This is in a live feed, it's in real-time which allows you to go back and check to see what your state was at the time of an attack.
This available through a web interface that is available for the administrators and gives them the capability to know and solve the issues.
Through the mobile app, a CEO can view the detail of compliance standards.
I always tell my customers that is not a tool, it's a platform.
Another good part of RedSeal is the engineering team. RedSeal is a young company, and one with less than 200 people. They believe in change, and they believe in delivering features. They are very dynamic and energic when it comes to feature requests. They delve into it immediately and if proves to be a real use case that is useful for multiple customers then the engineering team can deliver it within a few days, not even weeks or months.
If you don't want to integrate with the vulnerability scanner, it has a repository of scan results.
Most of the updates are incremental. So they keep updating their customers and partners on the new releases. The releases are service software updates, so you don't really have to reboot your systems and lose or even skip some live data. It's uninterruptible software upgrades.
In comparing it with Skybox, which is very bulky and has different modules, you have to go to each module that they have in the network. Skybox has network assurance, firewall management, tech management, vulnerability management, and horizon, which is the main platform for which they can get the entire visibility of all the platforms. If you really want to do an update on Skybox, you have to go to individual modules and update them. It's a difficult system to implement and costly as well.
I would rate this platform a nine out of ten.
RedSeal helps you prioritize and allocate your scarce human and capital resources where they have the biggest impact to protect your most-valuable digital assets.
RedSeal runs on a physical appliance or a virtual environment. To get the product operational does not require a lot of effort.
The most valuable feature of the product to me is being able to ask “what if” questions about traffic flows. It is a great ability to have for security and incident response. Also, having infrastructure configurations in one central place is awesome because it enables me to answer questions about why a certain type of traffic may be getting blocked or is getting through when it shouldn’t be. I can find the location of misconfigurations easily. It’s a great resource for finding areas of the network and locating devices and subnets. I presume the risk assessment aspects are also very valuable. However, I don’t use those features in my role.
Fairly regularly, there are alerts that are raised in security systems regarding traffic flows that violate security policies. We often use RedSeal to locate recent changes in configurations or routing paths that have caused the alarms. The faster we can do that, the faster we can assess and determine if an event is really a security incident or an operational issue.
The network mapping/visualization could be improved significantly. It’s pretty cumbersome to use and not very easy to visually drill down to something of interest. The performance seems slow as well.
I have been using this solution for two years.
I had contact with one of their trainers, who was excellent.
I do not know. However, I can say that we have not deployed it correctly and I would always recommend using vendor resources when possible if there is any doubt about being able to successfully deploy. If you don’t get this one right, it makes the whole platform less useful and you need to start over.
Include both operational and administration training in the project, as it pays for itself by many factors.
The Vulnerability and Risk Management feature is valuable to us for keeping the security posture up-to-date and conducting regular continuous audits.
It helps in auditing customer access review and vulnerability review. Without RedSeal, it seems impossible to do vulnerability/network access audit reporting.
There is room for improvement regarding customization and automation of reports.
I would also like to see improved analysis time, and more attention to simplifying the product and making it more intuitive. Make the UI faster and thinner. More regression testing of new features needs to be done.
I have used this solution for four years.
I did encounter any deployment issues.
I rate technical support 6/10, average to good.
Initial setup was straightforward.
Implementation was done in-house.
The most valuable feature I enjoy that is provided by this security analytics platform is the ability to measure resilience. With our RedSeal Digital Resilience Score, we can measure, benchmark, and set targets to actively manage the digital resilience of our network and security infrastructure.
With our RedSeal's security analytics platform we have built an accurate, up-to-date model of our organization's entire infrastructure and as-built network to visualize access paths. We prioritized what required a fix, and targeted existing cybersecurity resources on our most valuable assets.
Although we are talking about a very robust platform, I would like to see the Windows compatible VM version come back. This is because I used v7.1.3 for Windows and it seemed more user friendly.
I have been using Redseal for the last two years.
We have had no issues with the deployment.
There have been no performance issues.
It's been able to scale for our needs.
Customer service and technical support are world class and deserve 10/10. They have a very fast response, are eager to solve any issue, and will go the extra mile to ensure costumer satisfaction.
It's absolutely straightforward with a very intuitive user quick start guide. This is because it comes with easy to follow instructions that even a novice can execute quickly.
Implementation was done collaboratively with the vendor. I recomend a team lead is selected and have then attend the RedSeal class prior to the start of the actual implementation.
It is at the top of its class and Redseal provides world class support. RedSeal is a robust, sturdy and stable solution that will not only reveal vulnerabilities in your network structure but it will also point to all the affected connections allowing you to quarantine the affected areas without having to shut down the entire network.
The ability to create a comprehensive network map and tie it to vulnerability data. This was invaluable in providing critical context to remediation emphasis, planning and benchmarking.
Besides remediation efforts, it provided a global view of the network that was unfiltered by any one group, specifically the networking staff.
I did not like the Java dependency. The product needs to make use of HTML5 or something that is browser agnostic.
I was actively involved with the product for about 8 months. That includes installation, configuring and developing corporate procedures around using the product.
We have had no issues with the deployment.
RedSeal uses plug-ins to interface with the devices (Layers 2 & 3) that it is gathering configuration data from. Sometimes the updated plug-ins "break." When the plug-ins don't work your configurations and analysis accuracy is impacted.
It's been able to scale for our needs.
Initially their level one support was very frustrating to work with. Once I was able to get to the higher tiers I had excellent support and resolution.
I found the setup to be straightforward and fairly intuitive.
I was not part of the selection process and to my knowledge I don't think any other products were reviewed. However, since then I have looked at similar products and to my understanding there is some comparable functions but not an exact match.
If you want to understand your network environment as it relates to configuration issues, host/node vulnerabilities and firewall configurations, then I highly recommend that RedSeal be considered. You might think you know your network and the issues present but RedSeal ties all of the aforementioned elements into an actionable, global view.
