We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and RedSeal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."The most valuable feature is the unused rule optimization, where it clears the policy when appropriate."
"The solution provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. This is very important for us because we are regulated according to the FDA. It shows us which changes have been made and why. So, it has worked very well for our compliance needs."
"AlgoSec has helped us save time by having one central location to view firewall policies, especially when crossing multiple vendors."
"AlgoSec AFA and AFF automate lots of things for my organization."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, including the policy report and regulatory compliance reports."
"The features that I like are the monitoring and the alerts. It provides real-time monitoring, or at least close to real-time. I think that is important. I like its way of organizing, also. It is pretty clear. I also like their reporting structure - the way we can use AlgoSec to clear a rule base, like covering and hiding rules."
"AlgoSec supports a wide range of devices and is constantly working to include support for many other vendor devices."
"The Firewall Analyzer helps us achieve our various IT compliance requirements, like ISO-27001."
"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."
"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."
"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."
"We are using AlgoSec directly against our Cisco Firepower. At first, AlgoSec didn't work with Firepower. It didn't know how to read the logs. So, improvement has been made. Now, the feature that was available on the older generation firewall is available on the current one, but this is a problem which has already been dealt with."
"It would be nice if it was more variable when checking virtual domain baseline in the same way as Fortigate's firewalls do."
"The simulation can be improved."
"The Firewall Analyzer module can be improved to implement a vulnerability management solution, or they can link Firewall Analyzer with a vulnerability management solution in order to get a better overview of what's going on in our network in terms of vulnerabilities."
"In terms of integrations, we would like to see a greater number with the upcoming and next-generation tools (i.e. SOAR and a selection of other SIEMs)."
"Having the ability to patch an issue as oppose to upgrading the entire suite."
"Algosec should also be exploring the integration with the open source firewalls as well."
"We would like to see more features in the GUI so that we don't have to work with the API as extensively."
"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."
"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."
"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."
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AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while RedSeal is ranked 21st in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while RedSeal is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Gives us the ability to dig down into details and work at a level above the skills that we already have". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RedSeal writes "Provides a graphical overview of our network and is easy to deploy, but needs a user-friendly interface and a feature for compliance audit policy". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Cisco Defense Orchestrator, whereas RedSeal is most compared with Skybox Security Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Ekahau Site Survey, Darktrace and iBwave Wi-Fi.
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