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AlgoSec vs Opinnate comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

AlgoSec
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
183
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Opinnate
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
13th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 22.7%, up from 20.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Opinnate is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Firewall Security Management
 

Featured Reviews

Shameerudheen Kp - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Fulya ALGÜL - PeerSpot reviewer
Good support, nice interface, and simple to upgrade
PDF format is not available for Alert Composer. There are file attachment or body content output options. The other issue is that the range object can be displayed in the rule viewer section. If we know the range object, we provide imaging, but if we do not know the range object, there is no imaging. It also allows adding range object rules when performing server cloning. In general, however, we have made successful progress since the POC process.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features for us are the functionality it provides for our two main use cases: planning firewall changes and traffic simulation queries."
"AlgoBot is a brilliantly, simple idea that lets us give our IT internal customers a way to check if rules are already in place before asking for more."
"We now process FCRs much faster, which helps us to deliver faster and implement reworks at a quicker rate."
"The most valuable feature of AlgoSec is integration because it needs the be integrated with vendors' firewalls and other security products. AlgoSec has intelligent policy tuners."
"The visibility provided by the single pane of glass for managing multi-vendor firewalls is excellent and then pinpointing network connectivity issues is certainly on a very good level."
"We need less time to identify any risks in our firewalls, as we can detect changes in real-time."
"AlgoSec gives us a high level of confidence that our ACLs and our risk components are actually in line with our expectations. Because we run a lot of our firewalls as an internal change control boundary, we rely on them heavily to segregate vendor networks. It gives us a high level of confidence that those third-party networks that ride on the backbone are segregated and appropriately defined."
"We see the value of BusinessFlow for organisations involved in digital transformation projects migrating to public/private/hybrid cloud models."
"Version upgrades can be done quickly."
"The platform is easy to deploy and maintain."
 

Cons

"All our firewalls were renamed, and AlgoSec saw these devices as new devices. As a result, all the reports from the same device but with the old hostname were no longer connected. AlgoSec did not clean up the old reports as well. After a few days, it depleted its own storage, and then, the server became inaccessible."
"The Flash to HTML5 rewrite has been bumpy."
"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."
"The blacklisting and whitelisting of IP addresses should be improved. There are many false positives."
"Some features require a learning curve and may necessitate support from AlgoSec, which can be challenging at times."
"The initial setup was extremely complex due to our large environment."
"The customization of dashboards should be simplified and more user-friendly."
"We have a complaint about the compliance check, in that sometimes we want to keep rules rather than merge them."
"PDF format is not available for Alert Composer."
"The product's web page view is very basic. They could add new features to it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It will reduce your operations costs with improved team performance."
"The pricing for this solution seems to be reasonable for the functionality."
"Use the entire suite for its best benefits."
"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."
"Licensing is very easy to set up. The pricing is relative to how you want to expand and harden your network security."
"The pricing is flexible with a low cost setup."
"The price is within the standard of security products."
"The price is adapted to the product's utilization for each company."
"Opinnate is inexpensive than other products."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
5%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?
Pricing for AlgoSec is fairly competitive. Rating the pricing on a scale from one being high to ten being low, the price is considered competitive without being specified absolutely.
What needs improvement with AlgoSec?
The user interface for AlgoSec has remained unchanged for the last ten years and could benefit from being more interactive and informative. Additionally, a cloud offering as a SaaS would relieve th...
What do you like most about Opinnate?
Version upgrades can be done quickly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Opinnate?
Opinnate is inexpensive than other products. They offer yearly licenses.
What needs improvement with Opinnate?
PDF format is not available for Alert Composer. There are file attachment or body content output options. The other issue is that the range object can be displayed in the rule viewer section. If we...
 

Overview

 

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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