AWS Firewall Manager vs AlgoSec comparison

AlgoSec and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. AlgoSec is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. AlgoSec holds a 22.1% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of AlgoSec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

AlgoSec and AWS Firewall Manager are two competing products in the firewall management category. AlgoSec appears to have the upper hand in cross-vendor support and granular risk analysis, while AWS Firewall Manager excels in AWS integration and centralized policy management.

Features: AlgoSec provides detailed risk analysis, real-time monitoring, and policy optimization for multi-vendor firewalls, featuring tools like FireFlow for change management and BusinessFlow for application-focused network visibility. AWS Firewall Manager integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud services, offers centralized policy management across AWS accounts, and provides auto-scaling capabilities.

Room for Improvement: AlgoSec could improve its support for cloud integrations and expand its vendor range. Additionally, its UI and real-time analysis need enhancements to address user-reported performance issues. AWS Firewall Manager's array of features can be overwhelming, complicating user interaction and increasing the likelihood of user confusion.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AlgoSec is mainly used in on-premises and hybrid environments, offering high customization but challenging initial deployments. Customer support is generally rated well, but some users face delays. AWS Firewall Manager is better suited for public and hybrid cloud environments, bolstered by AWS's strong infrastructure and excellent technical support, despite some limitations in localized support.

Pricing and ROI: AlgoSec is perceived as costly but delivers good ROI through enhanced security and automation, minimizing manual work and operational expenses. It requires upfront investment for its optimization features. AWS Firewall Manager uses a pay-as-you-go model, offering flexibility and scalability, though costs can rise with increased service use.

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Categories and Ranking

AlgoSec

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

182

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

AWS Firewall Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 22.1%, up from 20.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Firewall Manager is 4.8%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management

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Shameerudheen Kp

Manager, MS Operations at NTT Security

Easy to setup with good auto-implementation and good rule reviews

AlgoSec is slow when it is loaded with too many firewalls and policies. A plan to take care of heavy usage is to be considered. Support of all firewalls and policy features to be enabled. AlgoSec should support in identifying most hit rules and re-ordering existing firewall rules - this is a very key to manage firewall CPU. A clustering of AlgoSec can also be considered. A group of AlgoSec servers managing large client bases geographically or datacenter-wise or function-wise. A head reporting unit and child processing units.

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Bassam Khoreich

Territory Account Executive at Barracuda

Automated security operations streamline network protection

I use AWS Firewall Manager primarily for cybersecurity solutions, particularly for AWS Firewall Manager AWS Firewall Manager can be the control plane for multiple deployed applications like CloudFront and any other network firewall, BPF, and VPC. Everything can be managed with one dashboard. It…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

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.""

"Users utilize this tool to make their change requests."

"With the AlgoSec firewall analyzer, it now takes us half the time to deploy firewall changes and policy optimization."

"The most valuable feature is the Firewall Analyser, which has a number of fantastic features."

"ABF is application-centric. which helps to track changes in the application from day one."

"Firewall Analyzer is valuable because it makes searching our existing policies so simple."

"I like the auto-mapping features and configuration overview. We use this for many things, but primarily for quick reactions to security events, audit, project management, and quick operational efficiencies."

"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."

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"It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting."

"The product is highly reliable."

"The most valuable feature is the centrally managed rule. I also like the central orchestration."

"AWS Firewall Manager isn't a separate solution when you create the virtual private cloud (VPC), so you can control the traffic through that security group."

"Also, the strength of the community is invaluable."

"The most valuable feature is scaling, which allows you to deploy one configuration and scan and deploy it across the network. The automated policy application feature also streamlines security operations."

"Once this solution is set up, we hardly have to touch it."

"The interface is intuitive and it is easy for the users."

Cons

"Be able to automatically analyze application traffic with machine learning capabilities and propose simplification for rule set optimization."

"It would be easier if the network maps could be updated using the GUI portal instead of from the OS."

"Introducing greater flexibility in editing alerts would be a highly appreciated improvement."

"One important thing they should improve is their support level. We have a lot of trouble with the basic enterprise support level. They are very slow to respond and solve problems."

"Needs better technical support and quicker response times."

"The blacklisting and whitelisting of IP addresses should be improved. There are many false positives."

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

"In an environment that is very large, with many firewalls and routers, it is sometimes impossible to buy all of the licenses."

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"The system should be more customizable."

"AWS Firewall Manager should be open to manage other third-party appliances as well."

"They could consider organizing and enhancing documentation in a more structured and chronological manner"

"The product could benefit from improvements in the user interface and integration capabilities."

"This solution is suitable for a small-scale enterprise and may not scale up to a very high volume of traffic or a large number of servers."

"Enabling and configuring the logging is not that straightforward."

"It needs to be more employee-friendly, and the security management could be more efficient."

"I would like to see AWS add some UTM features to the firewall. It would also be great if AWS Firewall had native IPS/IDS. They have the separate IPS/IDS, GuardDuty."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cost is based on firewall. There are bundles, e.g., virtual firewalls might make the solution cheaper."

"When it comes to the cost of support and licensing, it is much cheaper than other competing products."

"The licensing scheme should be done in a simpler way. For example, if we delete a firewall and want to add a new one, then the license doesn't get freed up automatically. You have to request a new license to customer support and install it. If you are testing new implementations, this can be cumbersome."

"Pricing is great if you have a small number of large firewalls, otherwise, it does not bring ROI."

"Licensing is offered as a subscription and as a perpetual model."

"The initial cost was high for us."

"The solution has a high cost, but the reduction in operation pays the investment."

"It will reduce your operations costs with improved team performance."

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"It is a cost-efficient product."

"The licensing is on a pay-as-you-go basis and we are billed monthly."

"The AWS Firewall Manager is a little on the costly side."

"From what I've heard from my colleagues, it appears that the pricing is competitive, which influenced our decision to choose this option."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlgoSec?

AlgoSec's ability to integrate with various security and networking solutions enhances its overall value.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?

I am into operations and not aware of cost or pricing.

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What needs improvement with AlgoSec?

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What do you like most about AWS Firewall Manager?

It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Firewall Manager?

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the pricing for AWS Firewall Manager as seven, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with AWS Firewall Manager?

AWS Firewall Manager should be open to manage other third-party appliances as well.

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Overview

AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity and cloud-native applications throughout their multi-cloud and hybrid network. Trusted by more than 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations, AlgoSec’s application-centric approach enables to securely accelerate business application deployment by centrally managing application connectivity and security policies across the public clouds, private clouds, containers, and on-premises networks. Using its unique vendor-agnostic deep algorithm for intelligent change management automation, AlgoSec enables acceleration of digital transformation projects, helps prevent business application downtime and substantially reduces manual work and exposure to security risks. AlgoSec’s policy management and CNAPP platforms provide a single source for visibility into security and compliance issues within cloud-native applications as well as across the hybrid network environment, to ensure ongoing adherence to internet security standards, industry, and internal regulations. Learn how AlgoSec enables application owners, information security experts, DevSecOps and cloud security teams to deploy business applications up to 10 times faster while maintaining security at www.algosec.com.

AlgoSec

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. As new applications are created, Firewall Manager makes it easy to bring new applications and resources into compliance by enforcing a common set of security rules. Now you have a single service to build firewall rules, create security policies, and enforce them in a consistent, hierarchical manner across your entire infrastructure.

Using AWS Firewall Manager, you can easily roll out AWS WAF rules for your Application Load Balancers, API Gateways, and Amazon CloudFront distributions. Similarly, you can create AWS Shield Advanced protections for your Application Load Balancers, ELB Classic Load Balancers, Elastic IP Addresses and CloudFront distributions. Finally, with AWS Firewall Manager, you can enable security groups for your Amazon EC2 and ENI resource types in Amazon VPCs.

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Sample Customers

Maersk, Delta Airlines, Chevron, General Motors, T-Mobile, Chevron, AT&T, BP, Bell Canada, HCA Healthcare, Morgan Stanley, Unilever, Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, US Bank, Microsoft

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