AlgoSec Reviews

We primarily use the AlgoSec solution to monitor and interpret the risk status in our firewalls. Seeing the troublesome situations experienced in our firewalls from the same point of view sometimes does not help to solve the problem. However, thanks to AlgoSec, it is of great benefit to observe these risks from a different perspective and to see that they improve in the process. Being able to see and follow these changes makes the work of system administrators and risk analysts much easier.

It is of great benefit to observe the firewall risks from a different perspective and to see that they are improving in the process. When the effects of tightening and improvements are checked regularly, we can better monitor the current risk situation. It is a difficult process to examine the security risks in detail in each of our products and in our firewalls which may be different brands and models. AlgoSec enables us to manage this process in a central way.

AlgoSec can monitor the current status of firewalls. Other vendors mostly focus on working with daily tasks, however, AlgoSec is able to follow the live status and current issues or changes with the help of push technology. It can be easily integrated with different firewall devices (even different brands and models). In this way, it becomes very easy to monitor different risks from a single interface. Thanks to the web-based management screen, it can be easily managed through any end-user operating system.

At the integration point, a manual page could be added to the dashboard where directions about the products are explained in detail. In this way, if the system administrator wants to integrate a new product, they will be able to integrate this product by following these directions, even if they do not have deep knowledge of the product in question. Integrating different products should not require us to have to wait for coordinated work with a product specialist.

I've used the solution for almost four years.

In terms of stability, we have no complaints so far. We didn't face any problems.

This solution works well in mid-size companies. 

Customer service is very good and educated. However, the process to open a ticket sometimes could be harder than necessary since we need to collect some logs from the dashboard and upload them to the related ticket before submitting it.

Positive

I've used the Skybox Security solution as well.

The product offers an almost straightforward setup. It is easy to install and integrate.

I installed the product by myself.

We cannot calculate ROI based on vulnerability or data leak issues.

The cost and licensing are reasonable.

I did not evaluate other options.

We have four firewalls and two routers in our environment. We also have a business application. At first, it was very difficult to connect to each firewall individually, see my environment as a whole, and determine where traffic was being blocked and who made changes. AlgoSec provides a solution to all of this in a single platform.

Being able to see where traffic is blocked using traffic simulation provides me with great convenience. Additionally, with FireFlow, I can handle this in a single action instead of taking actions on each firewall individually.

Thanks to Algosec, especially with the FireFlow and AppViz modules, I have managed the regulation compliance I need to adhere to through baseline compliance and checked my compliance with it. Without connecting to my firewalls one by one, I was able to handle all my changes with FireFlow in a single-handed manner according to a specific plan. I was able to clearly see the accesses to the application in my environment and the vulnerabilities of the application. The reports section was very useful in tightening up my policies.

Country-specific regulations should be added when required. Doing this on my own with baseline compliance is quite difficult.

Additionally, I would like AlgoSec to provide suggestions such as "this object includes that object" for my objects on the Check Point firewall. For my Fortigate manager, the support of the active change feature is important to me. 

Lastly, the FireFlow interface could be simplified a bit more. I agree that it is user-friendly, but on the other hand, it can be difficult to organize and find certain things.

I have been using AlgoSec for one year. 

We haven't encountered any interruptions while the product is running. It operates very stably.

We can add devices very quickly whenever we need to, with additional licenses.

I received sufficient and useful responses within a maximum of one day.

Positive

Straightforward. We imported the ova file and that's all, then just clicked add devices.

It has been a very useful and suitable investment for us.

The setup is very easy, and while I can't say anything definitive about the pricing in terms of competition, licensing is also quite straightforward.

We have tried Tuffin.

I am working with AlgoSec for supporting my end clients and partners. AlgoSec has different functionalities. The primary use case of this solution is firewall policy management which helps most of the enterprise's customers to manage their L3 devices and multiple firewalls in their environment at a single console and audit firewall configuration from time to time. AlgoSec provides full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. The network topology table helps to understand where the traffic flows through and where it's interconnected.

The comprehensive visibility of network security allows users to understand the dependencies between different policies. In the firewall analyzer, we can easily visualize and analyze all the devices within the network. To check the connectivity between the two devices, you can use the source's IPs and destination.

We can build the whole network topology using Algosec easily and provide optimization with all networks.

The verification of policies on all integrated firewalls with a minimal time period. 

The solution helps visualize and manage the hybrid network. 

Auto Discover applications and services are great. 

It simplifies security policy management. 

The product enhances visibility and control. 

Compliance automation and network topology are great. 

You can connect applications to security policy rules. 

Everything can be micro-segmented successfully.

We can easily identify risky rules. 

End-to-end security management is simple in that we can automate every change. 

It has effortless cloud management and can detect firewall configuration changes to spot unusual activities.

AlgoSec provides very good support to their clients. There are no complaints. That said, these items can be improved:

• Support can be improved as there are time delays for resolutions
• In the current version of AngloSec analyzer, we can not delete the object from all firewalls and need to do the task manually
• We need more effective topology diagram
• There are challenges in connecting the different security vendors
• User creation and assigning roles are a little bit difficult
• While upgrading we have to upload package files which can be downloaded from the Algosec website yet the downloading takes time

The stability is excellent.

The product performs well in the environment.

We did not previously use a different solution.

Licensing is based on a subscription model and the costs associated are worth it.

We did not evaluate other options.

We use the solution for rule optimization. We had almost 100+ firewalls in our network. AlgoSec helps us to manage the firewalls more effectively.

AlgoSec made our work simple in managing the multivendor firewall rule. Audit-ready reporting is an awesome feature.

The most valuable aspects of the solution include policy optimization, rule cleanup, and network discovery.

They need to do some improvements in multi-vendor firewall policy migration. They need improvements in network discovery. The solution could fix some bugs in the A32. Fireflow needs to be a little more user-friendly.

I've used the solution for the past four years.

The scalability is good.

We previously used Firemon. AlgoSec has more functionality and is user-friendly to manage our firewall more effectively.

The initial setup is good.

The ROI is good.

AlgoSec provided the best price and the team helped effectively with the support and A32 migration.

We did look into Tufin.

The solution is the best in the market.

I am the senior network security engineer in an environment of more than 80 firewalls ranging from ASA 5506-X to ASA 5585-X and now to FortiGate 3960E. As part of this position, I need to be able to audit firewalls and ensure that they are compliant to a number of policies.  Before AlgoSec, this was done in a very long, slow manual process, and it took days to audit even the smallest firewall. With AlgoSec, I can run a compliance report and see exactly where that firewall falls short.

AlgoSec has freed up my time to look into new solutions and complete other jobs that I have to get done. I have been able to shepherd the migration from Cisco ASA to FortiGate and using AlgoSec made that process much easier. Now, when I get a request for audit information, that information is available at a click. A PCI audit is no sweat. I know which firewalls fall under PCI, and I can provide the needed answers in minutes instead of days.  This has improved my use of time.

Policy optimization, compliance, and change reports are the most valuable. I can clean up firewall rules quickly, optimizing the rule set and moving on in hours. Before, I was looking at days. Compliance is a breeze. The change reports are helpful to see changes over time and also be a "second set of eyes" when looking into issues. 

The mapping tool is helpful. 

Traffic queries are a great help when troubleshooting a problem, especially if the traffic is going through two or more firewalls.

I can't think of specific improvements. If anything, the product has been improving in usefulness constantly. 

I have been using AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer for approximately two and a half years now.

Product hotfixes are released regularly and are a breeze to install. I have dealt with other products that always promising to fix bugs, but it takes months or longer for the next patch to appear. AlgoSec is on top of this and in my opinion is a real leader with bug fixes.

Technical support is the best that I have ever dealt with. I have yet to have a support engineer tell me that they couldn't fix a problem or that it was sunspots (Cisco TAC). They have gone above and beyond multiple times. I never hesitated to call as they have never made me feel that the problem is the user, even though I am sure that there were times it has been.

I have never had a problem that the technical support wasn't willing to dig into and get resolved.

Not really. We used a homegrown VBScript that would parse the configurations on our firewalls for auditing. This didn't help at all with compliance.

The setup is not difficult. The professional services were outstanding in installation and knowledge transfer.

We implemented through a vendor team. Their expertise was outstanding. They made sure to spend a lot time doing knowledge transfer.

The initial cost was high for us, but we have always been behind the tech curve and cost has always been the limiting factor. That attitude has changed. Now, we look for the best, not simply the cheapest.

We did look at a couple of other solutions. FireMon and Qualsys are the only two I remember.

It has saved my bacon a number of times and is a great arrow to have in your quiver of tools.

I use AlgoSec as a firewall analyzer. It helps review the changes made on the firewalls and determine who executed those changes. The tool automates predefined reports about non-used network objects, which is technically challenging for manual review.

By implementing AlgoSec, we've reduced the time and effort it takes to review firewall changes and audit logs. Before AlgoSec, we used to review each firewall manually, but now, the tool automates this process which saves us time.

The most valuable feature of AlgoSec is its ability to generate comprehensive reports. As a firewall analyzer, it's very useful for reviewing and collecting information at a single point. The tool also helps generate reports automatically, which is beneficial for us.

The graphical user interface in AlgoSec needs improvement. Sometimes it gets stuck, requiring multiple refreshes. Additionally, system integration with more products can be enhanced, like integrating the Blue Coat web filtering products.

I have been using AlgoSec since 2020.

The product is stable and reliable for our needs.

While we haven't tested it extensively, it has the capability to scale. We currently use it to manage eleven firewalls and nine routers. It has the ability to expand by adding more CPUs and memory.

Technical support is decent, although it can take time for them to handle more complex cases. The first level of support may lack the knowledge to solve advanced issues swiftly.

Positive

Before using AlgoSec, we manually reviewed and audited changes and reports.

The initial setup was easy for adding firewalls, despite some challenges when deploying the second module of AlgoSec.

The implementation was conducted by working with the vendor through remote sessions.

The return on investment is evident in the reduced time and effort for reviewing and auditing firewall changes.

I am not involved with pricing details since I mainly handle the technical aspects. However, the value from reduced time and effort justifies its cost.

I would recommend AlgoSec for enterprise environments that make frequent changes. Smaller environments with infrequent changes may not benefit as much.

We use AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and AppViz. We have bought the FireFlow license, but we do not use it currently. We plan to use it, but we are not using it right now. 

Firewall Analyzer is helpful for network assurance and meeting some requirements of PCI DSS. 

We use it to manage only our on-prem environment. Our network environment is mostly on-prem. We do not use cloud networking. We have an internal cloud, which is hosted in the Netherlands, but it is like a private cloud.

It gives us a pretty good understanding of what's going on in our network in terms of network security policies. In terms of the overall visibility that it gives into our network security policies, I would rate it a nine out of 10.

For preparing for audits and ensuring that our firewalls are in compliance, Firewall Analyzer gives a great overview of what's going on with the firewalls in terms of rules, etc. It offers a great input for auditors or for reporting to auditors.

We use Firewall Analyzer in order to monitor the PCI DSS network area. It is helpful for meeting some requirements of PCI DSS.

We work with multiple security vendors. It works when it comes to integrating it with the leading vendors. We didn't have any problems integrating with the solutions of our top three vendors.

Firewall Analyzer and AppViz are the most important features because they provide a lot of information regarding network segmentation. For us, this is a valuable input in order to provide network segmentation for various applications that we have developed in-house or that we bought from vendors. Our network is not properly segmented right now, but we plan to do it using AlgoSec. This is the most important feature for us right now. We also plan to use FireFlow in order to automate the firewall change management.

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.

We started implementing AlgoSec in April this year.

So far, so good. We didn't have any problems. It is pretty stable.

From what I've heard and what I've read on their portal, it is pretty scalable. There are no issues around this.

We have not opened any tickets on the portal. We have a dedicated support person who assists us in the deployment. They are pretty fast to react. If I ask them a question today, they will respond very quickly.

We didn't have a different solution.

It was pretty straightforward. We started implementing AlgoSec in April this year. We are not fully into production, but we have been using it since May. Technically, it took less than a month, but we still have to do some paperwork in terms of security procedures, security monitoring, etc. So, it has been all paperwork from May till today.

The patching process of this solution is also pretty straightforward. They provide monthly patches, and it doesn't take a whole bunch of people to maintain it. Just one or two people can do the job.

Even though we had a reseller involved in this process, we did it on our own but with a little help from AlgoSec.

We have not yet seen an ROI. We are currently at the beginning of implementing the solution, and there is still a lot of time before we see a return on investment.

Price is not my concern. If a tool does its job, it is not my concern to obtain a good price for it. If a tool is needed, we are going to buy it.

We evaluated other solutions such as Skybox, Tufin. We found the graphical user interface of AlgoSec to be very user-friendly. It provides the information that you need. The information that you need is very well organized as compared to other solutions.

It depends on your needs. If you want to have a better overview of your network, AlgoSec is a tool that you can rely on. You can have an overview of your network by using your own equipment, but you have to dig in deeper. AlgoSec provides better visibility with a little amount of effort.

We haven't had any breaches in the past. We have not used it to implement and manage microsegmentation initiatives. We use it for network segmentation, which is done at the network level which includes firewalls, switches routers, and so on. Network segmentation is an ongoing process. 

I would rate it a nine out of 10.

Our company has a very large technical estate, with over 90,000 staff and 80,000 computing devices, it was imperative that we found a firewall security management tool that allowed us to speed up the process of change requests when it comes to our firewall IPS team, as they were becoming overwhelmed with the volume of requests.

AlgoSec has improved our organization in terms of improving efficiency within our firewall setup. It has added automation to working process that has helped us achieve our initial goal of reacting faster to incoming requests, which as a result of allows the relevant teams time to focus on other areas of importance.

The best feature for us is the ability to automate the change requests that come through our service desk, which is done via the tool's intelligence to analyze the conditional rules. As previously mentioned, this used to be a big time sink for the guys which is now less of an issue. This means that the company can claim back valuable man-hours for other means (also showing a labour cost saving to the board).

For the most part, this AlgoSec tool does meet our needs. If I was to think of any improvements I think the main one that stands out to me is confidence in future proofing. A good example is that we are looking at various SOAR which we'd like it to be fully compatible with (but not entirely convinced it is yet). Lastly, I have also heard a few qualms about the technical support and that it could be improved. However, this doesn't detract from the value the tool brings to our business.