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AlgoSec mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of AlgoSec in the Firewall Security Management category stands at 21.9%, up from 20.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryFirewall Security ManagementJan 10, 2025Download
ProductReviews, tips, and advice from real usersJan 10, 2025Download
ComparisonAlgoSec vs Tufin Orchestration SuiteJan 10, 2025Download
ComparisonAlgoSec vs Palo Alto Networks PanoramaJan 10, 2025Download
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Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Retailer
5%
Government
5%
Healthcare Company
4%
Insurance Company
4%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Construction Company
2%
Educational Organization
2%
University
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Media Company
1%
Real Estate/Law Firm
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Non Profit
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Leisure / Travel Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Wellness & Fitness Company
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YUKTHIKUMAR K - PeerSpot user
Technical Architect at Tata Consultancy
Verified user of AlgoSec
Oct 20, 2024
Enhances security with effective identification of unused and risky rules

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of AlgoSec is its capability for identifying unused and risky rules, which cannot be done through manual analysis."

Cons

"There could be improvements in the analysis between internal zones, such as internal to DMZ or guest to DMZ."
Tempreviewer F - PeerSpot user
Staff Software Engineer and Machine Learning Scientist at Google
Verified user of AlgoSec
Nov 20, 2023
Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes

Pros

"AlgoSec gives organizations the visibility and intelligence needed to make application connectivity changes confidently while managing risk and compliance. "

Cons

"While AlgoSec provides comprehensive visibility and management of security policies across hybrid environments, there is an opportunity to further expand its intelligence capabilities. "
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Network engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AlgoSec
Jan 12, 2023
It helps us perform analysis faster because we can quickly determine the cause of routing issues and do traffic simulations to discover if something is open

Pros

"FireFlow is great. In a company that gets a large volume of requests to open firewall rules, it's helpful to have one place that summarizes the requests, enabling you to clearly understand why they need to be implemented and also implement them. Firewall Analyzer can help you identify missing routing or check information on the firewall without the need to log into a firewall or router to check the routing. We have all that access in three clicks. "

Cons

"Our experience with support has been inconsistent. Sometimes, support is fast and clean; other times, not so much. Occasionally, they have taken a while to respond or provided an inadequate workaround instead of a solution."
Tony Augé  - PeerSpot user
EXPERT OUTILS SYSTEMES ET RESEAUX at AG2R LA MONDIALE
Verified user of AlgoSec
Oct 31, 2024
Analyzes network flows with good functionality and clear insights

Pros

"One of the most valuable features we've found in AlgoSec is its ability to analyze network flows to help define new, less permissive rules. This functionality is crucial for enhancing our network's security posture by ensuring that only necessary traffic is allowed."

Cons

"One specific area that could benefit from improvement is the rule analysis feature, particularly in terms of defining objects within a new rule. Currently, the process seems to be more focused on network-level analysis rather than on objects, which sometimes requires us to perform multiple iterations to achieve optimal results."
Shameerudheen Kp - PeerSpot user
Manager, MS Operations at NTT Security
Verified user of AlgoSec
Nov 13, 2024
Easy to setup with good auto-implementation and good rule reviews

Pros

"Both analysis and Implementation engines/features are found to be very much valuable since they helped the client to manage the show better."

Cons

"AlgoSec is slow when it is loaded with too many firewalls and policies. "
CW
Vice President Head of Information Security at Itaú
Verified user of AlgoSec
Aug 10, 2021
Gives us the ability to dig down into details and work at a level above the skills that we already have

Pros

"The most valuable is helping us determine where our rules are too permissive. Based on previous human review of our rules, they are very cursory. We know why we do something, but we don't get into the details of whether the rule is nice and tight. What Firewall Analyzer lets us do is understand the risks presented by our rules. The tool does a calculation of all the traffic that could be allowed and we can match that to whether it should be allowed."

Cons

"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."
AZ
Sr. Network and Security Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of AlgoSec
Jun 9, 2021
Out-of-the-box, you can run a compliance check against your environment that tells you exactly what needs to be fixed and why

Pros

"It gives us 100% visibility into our network security policies. It has given us a couple of surprises. Over the years, the network that we are administrating has been subject to people who have an idea of how a network should be set up. That differs from technician to technician or engineer to engineer. So, we are finding little pockets of hidden little self-engineered configurations and the way things were done that nobody knew about. Once the engineer left, the knowledge of that setup disappeared. You don't know about those until something either goes wrong, or you get something like AlgoSec to discover it for you, and it says, "Hey, there is this going on over here." "

Cons

"The reports are lacking information when they come out. They will not pull the URL or application information from Cisco FTDs. I know this works for Palo Alto Firewalls, which we currently do not have. If they could improve the integration with Cisco FTDs as a whole, that would be immensely helpful."
Frederico Da Costa - PeerSpot user
IT Operations Coordinator at Sicredi
Verified user of AlgoSec
Jul 7, 2022
Reduces the time needed to implement rule changes and integrates well with multiple vendors' products

Pros

"It also provides very good visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests and that is very important to us."