We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Cisco Defense Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I found that for policy optimization it does a great job."
"The product gave us more agility on the process to analyze and resolve tickets by requesting permissions to access services not enabled by default."
"R&D patches to address issues that I have encountered have been timely and effective."
"It offers a range of automated workflows and processes that accelerate security policy management."
"It saves time by allowing administrators to test network traffic and pinpoint which rules are being triggered for a particular traffic flow."
"To be able to monitor all firewalls under one umbrella."
"In my opinion, the most valuable features are the network map, unused rules reports (IPT), and active change."
"The most valuable features are the network map, risk analysis, and tickets for firewall changes."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We spun up the VM onsite. We generated the key that it needed to talk to the Cloud Orchestrator. After that, as I started adding devices, it was relatively quick and easy."
"When we're looking to the policies, it identifies the shadow rules. It notifies us about anything that will supersede other rules."
"If we have a firewall go down, I can hop into CDO, pull the latest configuration off and apply it. That's really good. It helps save time."
"We have quite a few Active Stone by pairs. If they fail over... I'll see that there's a change on it and I'll have a look. The only change on it is that now this one is the standby, it took over the active role. I can go into that firewall and find out what happened... and troubleshoot based on that. That's pretty cool too."
"With Cisco Defense Orchestrator, we can manage the complete Cisco Security solution. It provides a simple and centralized way to manage all products."
"I like the upgrade feature. That is pretty valuable to me because I have dual ASAs and when I go through CDO it does it for me pretty well. It's all done in the back-end and I don't really have to be involved. I just initiate, pick the image, and I pick when I want it done and it just does it, whether I have a single ASA or have a dual ASA."
"The ability to see the uptimes on the different VPNs that we have configured for site-to-site."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator has useful guides for the steps that need to follow by users."
"The initial setup was extremely complex due to our large environment."
"Needs better technical support and quicker response times."
"FireFlow was a bit tricky to configure with its customized flows."
"ABF is not very mature compare to AFA and AFF, but the module and concepts are quite good. I would suggest more concentration on ABF, especially on object and application permissions."
"Support for Layer 7 policies, including User-ID and threat profiles with Palo Alto firewalls, has been a pain point from us. We would like to include the additional info specifically because we believe it changes the riskiness of the rule if it is only set for a specific user or a group of users."
"The FireFlow template does not allow the user to perform external actions like sending an email or triggering a specific action."
"Certain firewalls don't integrate with AlgoSec, and it would be great if this bug could be fixed."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly for low-profile users so that we can give some kind of access to specific people around the company for self-configuration of specific rules."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator can improve by providing more support for third-party security components."
"The dashboard needs to be more customizable to provide better reporting for our network."
"It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily."
"They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud."
"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."
"I've found dozens of bugs over the year we've been using it. The more I use it for different things, the more problems I find... Most of the problems have to do with the user interface. A lot of thought and work has gone into the back-end component to make the product do what it's intended to do, but the way it is presented for use hasn't gotten nearly as much thought to make it smart and bug-free."
"If I make a change locally to the firewall, CDO gives an alarm or an error message and says there's a change in compliance: "The firewall has this configuration but the last time it was compiled it had that configuration." That view of new changes versus the old could be better... I had to log in manually, locally on the firewall, to check which version, which configuration was actually running. I couldn't see it in CDO."
"They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly."
Earn 20 points
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and VMware NSX, whereas Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager. See our AlgoSec vs. Cisco Defense Orchestrator report.
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