Skybox Security Suite Reviews

We use this solution for data encryption.

We provide and deploy this solution for our customers and show them how to extract the reports. Our customers are really happy.

If they run into any issues, we resolve their queries.

It's a good product. We can extract the data from it very easily.

It's very supportive and very user-friendly.

We are not using the solution and rely on customer feedback. If the customer does not provide any, then we can't recommend what could be better.

If they have had any kind of issues, then we are able to know and have it perform better.

I have been using this solution for four months.

We are using the latest version.

It's a stable solution. We haven't had any issues with stability in the four months that we have been using it.

It's a scalable product. We scaled our internal projects.

We only have single customers who are using this solution.

We have not contacted technical support because we have not any issues.

Our clients have not had any queries. If they do, then we would contact technical support.

It's easy to install and deploy.

It took one month to deploy to all of the branches.

The integration was done by the vendor. We didn't do any kind of integration.

We purchase the license for the product.

Customers do not purchase the license, we take care of that.

When compared with other companies, the license is more costly.

The price could be cheaper.

We have deployed this solution for our clients and have not received any complaints.

I would definitely recommend this solution to others.

I would rate Skybox Security Suite a ten out of ten.

Skybox Security Suite is a major security services provider that offers penetration testing and network standard services for some of our customers. We were able to use it and support their tactics. It helps us better understand complicated situations.

We have been able to generate reliable results with Skybox Security Suite. Getting a hold of this information from customers and our business competitors is often difficult to do within our customers' timelines.

It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs. 

The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost.

We have been using Skybox Security Suite for about six months.

Technical support is pretty good, but it could be better.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It didn't take us much time to deploy it and start using it.

We deployed it in-house within five working days. They provided us with a manual and some guides, and we were able to do it.

It's expensive.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Skybox Security Suite a nine.

In my personal experience, I use a Skybox to do some proof of concept for clients. We show characteristics about how the client can connect their firewalls and network.

Within our company, three employees use this solution to run tests.

Skybox is a very busy environment because it shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything. When I see an issue, Skybox allows me to create a new ticket to redirect to the pertinent area.

Honestly, I love this solution. As of now, although I have a minimum amount of experience with this solution, Skybox has been great.

I have been using this solution for six months.

This solution is very stable.

As we are new to this solution, we haven't attempted to scale it yet.

We haven't had to contact technical support yet. 

The initial setup was very easy. It took us one week to deploy it.

A developer helped install this solution — he was great.

Skybox is a great solution; I would absolutely recommend it to others. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of nine.

I primarily use the solution for my firewall. It offers a firewall compliance test and can check and verify firewall configurations and firewall changes on a daily basis. They also send you information on which are activated and which should be deactivated.

The solution is very good at dealing with firewall changes and firewall compliance. For network assurance, you need to know the compliance for your related devices, for example, the configuration and your network and switches. The solution allows you to look for something that is already in review or consultation and provides proper configuration. 

The most important feature in Skybox is the offline attack simulation. It helps you understand what your priorities should be in terms of deployments or patches. It's important to know what is the most important and what is the least, due to the fact that, every day, if you have a large enterprise network, it would be very difficult to install all of the patches on your environment. By having the most important highlights, you can start there and work your way down the list of patches. 

The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface.

The pricing is too high. 

Other competitors provide a solution that rebuilds holes from scratch and rebuilds configurations on all the holes. Skybox does not offer this capability. It's something they should add to their list of features.

The support could be improved. 

The implementation process could be a lot faster and much less complex.

The search functionality could be better. There's no way to exclude items from your search criteria, for example.

They need to find a way to revamp the firewalls in a professional way. They need to figure out a proper implementation strategy for the firewalls.

I've been using the solution for six years now.

The stability is actually okay. We don't have any issues in that sense.

In terms of scalability, if you need anything to be extended in your environment, you have to pay for Skybox security in order for it to be supported. It costs extra money to scale.

We have about 14 people in our organization who use the solution.

Support is not the greatest. 

If you need help with a new product or service, they seem to take forever to be able to help you. They'll also not help you unless you are on the newest versions, so they sort-of force upgrades.

The initial setup was not straightforward at all. In fact, it was quite complex. We took about one and a half years to stabilize Skybox. It took far too much time.

Normally, when you require assistance, like we did, it's via Skybox consultants.

Due to the cost of the solution, I've decided to switch products. I'm already paying a lot and I have to pay a subscription each year. I'm looking for another solution that would less money and could provide the same features.

The pricing is very expensive. If you have the enterprise version, you have multiple products and multiple versions you need to activate. If you need to do a replacement, for example, you'll have to pay for Skybox professional services in order to support your version.

Currently, the licensing costs me about $300 USD for the year. This is a huge amount for my environment.

We were looking at FireMon and another solution previously. It is my understanding that we will be switching to FireMon soon due to the relative costliness of this product. We're going to do a POC on FireMon, and if all the features we need are supported, we're likely to switch.

We're just a customer.

The latest version is 11, however, I am currently one version behind.

For small and medium-sized environments, this may not be the best solution, due to the cost involved. However, if you are an enterprise-level company, this might work well for you.

Overall, I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

The primary use of this solution is as a firewall and for cybersecurity.

We are a solution provider and this is one of the security solutions that we implement for our customers.

Our customers have not had any complaints about the Skybox Security Suite.

The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control.

This solution is easy to use.

This device has support for 130 vendors.

The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving.

I have been using Skybox Security Suite for about six months.

Our customers have not faced any issues with stability.

We have not had to contact technical support.

The initial setup is easy.

We have an in-house team to deploy this solution. We have four or five engineers who can deploy and perform maintenance.

The price is not expensive.

This solution is pretty good. Our customers have found that Skybox has a lot of good features and I don't expect that any of them will be changing to another product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We primarily used the solution for model sites, on the configuration side of things. We also used it to review certain port services, etc.

The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization.

The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about certain aspects and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything.

The solution requires more integration in terms of automation features.

It would be great to have proxies, IDs, IPs, firewalls, certain network centers, etc. on the solution. If more of that can be looked at or reviewed from a Skybox standpoint it would be helpful. The solution needs to expand its scope.

We had been using the solution for about a year. It hadn't been too long.

For us, the stability of the solution was okay. Our organization managed to use it just fine.

The solution isn't great at scalability. I'm not saying it is not scalable, but then, of course, companies have to test and see. For us, when it came to scalability, there were always question marks as to if it could be done effectively. We were never 100% confident in its capabilities. For us, and the environment we worked in, we were somewhat sensitive to scaling with this solution.

There were two types of users for this solution in our organization. One type of user had full access to the tool and they were the leadership team, IT and security. The other type of user had access to automated reports. There were about 200 people who had access to this.

We were never in touch with technical support. I can't speak to how helpful they were. We had a team that dealt with technical support, but I don't recall ever hearing from them about how good or bad the service was.

We've since moved from Skybox to another solution, therefore, we aren't using it anymore. About four to six months ago, we migrated from Skybox to another tool called AlgoSec.

I'd advise other companies to scan the solution from time to time and be mindful of it. It's also important to make sure the services of the tool are enabled for the actions a company will need to handle or monitor.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for our management and optimization.

The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature.

The solution needs more detailed reporting. In Skybox the reporting is good, but it could be improved.

The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger.

I've been using the solution for about four years now.

We've found the product to be quite stable. We haven't come across any bugs or glitches. We also haven't experienced any crashes that would lead us to believe there was instability.

The scalability of the solution is very good. There's nothing stopping a company from expanding if they need to.

Reaching out to the solution's technical support wasn't in my remit. I'm the enterprise architect, so I don't get involved in tech support issues.

We did evaluate other solutions before choosing this one. In fact, I'd recommend other companies to also take a look at Tufin and AlgoSec. Evaluating each of these will help organizations pick the best solution for their needs.

We're just a customer. We're not a partner or reseller of the solution.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I'd recommend those considering the solution to also look at Tufin and AlgoSec. I'd advise anyone considering any of these three options to compare them together and request a detailed proof of concept.

In general, I'd recommend the product. 

We use it for change management control and firewall policy management.This helps is keeping the compliance is Check

When we are adding new users to the network it has an impact on the security posture of the organization. So we use this product to do analysis, what kind of impact it will have on the security. What are the particular applications which may be required in terms of access controls, what are the changes, what are the policies we should put on the firewall? And in case we need to have a temporary policy, we can then revert back to the original one. All of these things have really helped us improve the security and network systems.

Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool. It's the most important one to use.

We really need to see how it can help us with cloud connectivity. It's there but I think it could give us a far better visualization.

It's a stable product.

We've had no issues with scalability.

Technical support is not something which I would rate very high. Support is available but they need to ensure that they bring in their local team to give us support. I wouldn't say that it is bad, but it's not top-notch.

We were not using any solution before this one.

The initial setup was complex, a little complex, but I think that is what the product entails. There was good documentation available on site from Skybox.

Pricing is on the higher side.

In terms of licensing, you should buy the complete suite rather than buying only the Change Manager. I think Change Manager with Vulnerability Control is something that would be interesting to look at.

We did evaluate other products, including Tufin, but we chose this one.

Anyone implementing this product should bring together the teams which have security and network understanding, as a part of the project and, of course, they should look into the product properly before they implement it.

I rate this product at about seven out of ten. The product is good but pricing and technical support are the ones which take marks off.

Aside from Firewall Assurance, we use Vulnerability Control and Change Manager to prioritize and focus on key risks.

Focuses resources on business-critical remediation, as opposed to remediation that is quantity-based.

The platform provides insight and context from many threat logs and prioritizes them. 

There is not anything on the market that 

• correlates logs and threats and prioritizes 
• provides network maps
• provides change result context and resulting vulnerability 

for the network/enterprise.

As a reseller, I feel the marketing of this product could be better. It seems awareness is a bit low. We are trying to get the message out. I equate it to the early Palo Alto Networks days, where we had to market the concept of what a next-gen firewall was before we could get customers to buy in.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Technical support is excellent.

We use several different solutions: Qualys, ServiceNow, Rapid7. We did not switch but have Skybox ingest all logs to provide an action plan.

The setup is straightforward; clear instructions.

FireMon, RedSeal.

Educate other IT teams about its value.

The primary use case is security and network for security.

It has grown organically and become a full featured suite. If you have the funding, you can make it do all types of great things.

Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls.

The vendor's support is terrible. The rest of the product is fine.

With certain versions, we have encountered stability.

The stability is fine for my organization.

The technical support is not good. I would rate them as a three out of 10.

We did not previously use a different solution.

The initial setup is easy.

The pricing has increased exorbitantly in the last few years, so now it is questionable. Now, it makes me want to review other products.

With licensing, the number of network nodes becomes very expensive to the point where you have to rationalize if the tools are warranted anymore.

Fully understand the total cost of ownership. They have gone to a new model where you have to replace the hardware every X amount of years at a very substantial cost and fully understand your intended number of nodes. To operate a firewall, you have to pay two licenses, a firewall node and a network node. If you are a reasonable-sized organization, this gets expensive very quickly.

We go through an evaluated reseller to purchase the product.

We did evaluate other options many years ago when Skybox was the leader in this space, but today, there are others that can compete.

I am looking at using other competitive products from other vendors. The reason would be because other people are using them and we need to or consolidate our tools.

I really like the product. I do not have the experience with its competitors, either in function or pricing. It is a very useful tool, especially for those who do not have access to the devices they are monitoring. Because of separation of duties, you often do not have access to the firewalls or network devices. This type of tool does a great job of reaching into those other devices producing risk recommendations, compliance recommendations, and a single plane of glass to do your queries, so you can find where these rules might exist.