AlgoSec vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama comparison

AlgoSec and Palo Alto Networks are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. AlgoSec is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9, while Palo Alto Networks is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2. AlgoSec holds a 21.6% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Palo Alto Networks’s 8.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of AlgoSec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Palo Alto Networks users who would recommend it.

AlgoSec

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96% willing to recommend

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97% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

AlgoSec and Palo Alto Networks Panorama are key competitors in network security management. While both offer unique strengths, AlgoSec stands out for its detailed configuration insights, whereas Panorama excels in centralized firewall management.

Features: AlgoSec offers robust traffic simulation, change management through FireFlow, and policy optimization features, instrumental in identifying risky rules and streamlining compliance. Panorama provides centralized management and extensive control over multiple firewalls, alongside task automation and security updates.

Room for Improvement: AlgoSec needs to enhance API integrations and vendor support, especially for cloud solutions, and refine its reporting capabilities. Panorama faces challenges with cost efficiency, multi-tenancy, and integration with other network tools, while users suggest improvements for streamlined configurations and faster updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AlgoSec primarily offers on-premises deployment with a range of tiered support, although resolution delays have been noted. Panorama supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, providing responsive support but facing challenges in initial configuration complexities. Customer service is satisfactory, yet AlgoSec's technical support receives mixed feedback.

Pricing and ROI: AlgoSec is seen as a premium product, often critiqued for high licensing costs, yet it offers substantial ROI through automation and security insights. Panorama is expensive, justified by its comprehensive feature set and market positioning, with customers evaluating cost against capabilities and benefits provided by both solutions.

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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

Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 21.6%, up from 20.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is 8.9%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management

Q&A Highlights

Anouar Talbo

Works with 10,001+ employees

Nov 29, 2022

What are the differences between Palo Alto Networks Panorama and AlgoSec?

Hi Dear Anouar, I want to explain something to avoid misunderstanding. Palo Alto Networks (PAN) Panorama is the management dashboard for Palo Alto Firewalls; which is provided by PAN and comes with a license. However AlgoSec is used as a Firewall Analyzer tool to analyze firewall rules according to their severities, configuration mistakes, shadowing or redundant rules, etc. If you want a solution to analyze your firewalls and harden them; you can consider preferring a firewall analyzer solution. If you want to manage your firewall configurations, create rules, routes, etc., you can prefer to have PAN panorama; instead of managing the firewalls by connecting each of them separately.

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YUKTHIKUMAR K

Technical Architect at Tata Consultancy

Enhances security with effective identification of unused and risky rules

There should be improvements in the analysis between internal zones, such as internal to DMZ or guest to DMZ. These scenarios should be considered critical and enhancements should be made, even if the risk score is set high. Improvements are also needed in the area of PCI, specifically the PCI controller.

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ManjitSingh

Cyber Security Engineer, team lead at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies

Our company uses the solution for monitoring and policies. We monitor data, make rules for firewalls, and allow source IPs to destination IPs with respect to ports and services. We also use UR filtering to allow or block things. We have a Prisma Access Firewall that we allow or block for remote…

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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

"AlgoSec AFA and AFF automate lots of things for my organization."

"AlgoSec has a feature that provides intelligence on which rules are correct. It was crucial in helping us understand which rules were important and which ones could be turned off or removed, simplifying the structure. It helps prioritize actions and performance needs. The performance boost we had was huge. We were considering buying new firewall structures, but with AlgoSec, we just organized the rules and avoided spending more money on the environment."

"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."

"It provides faster go to market with fewer resources."

"AlgoSec contributes more in the security space for our company, especially in automatically finding the high risk and medium risk rules instead of manually reviewing over a few thousand rules."

"The training provided by AlgoSec helps a lot in the development of employees who work with the tool."

"AlgoSec made our life easy."

"The solution provides us with full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. This is very important for us because we are regulated according to the FDA. It shows us which changes have been made and why. So, it has worked very well for our compliance needs."

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"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its innovation and impressive capacity to handle network traffic efficiently."

"This solution is user-friendly. It is centrally managed and provides role optimization, without the need for additional tools."

"The telemetry visibility is really good as well as the automated workflows for creating policies. The overall solution is quite intuitive to use."

"Palo Alto Networks Panorama has good stability. I didn't see any instability from it, and its initial setup was straightforward."

"Panorama has improved the organization by enabling log collection, administration, and optimization of firewall policies. It supports policy migration and offers platform stability and decent uptime."

"It has shared profiles for all gateways. If I do not have Panorama, I need to create a separate profile for each and every gateway by logging into that particular gateway, but with Panorama, I can create a shared profile and just push it down to each and every gateway connected to it."

"Our team has the option to make configuration changes at any given time."

"The initial setup isn't very complex, it's user-friendly."

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Cons

"FireFlow was a bit tricky to configure with its customized flows."

"I would like to see continued expansion to other firewall versions, platforms, and vendors."

"Releasing hot fixes or patches is late compared to other security products."

"In terms of additional features in the next release, more integration with SD-WAN would be valuable."

"It doesn't support all features on our firewalls. For instance, planning changes, which include net rules, doesn't work. It didn't integrate so well with the ACI network."

"Due to the fact that AlgoSec's user interface is less friendly than that of other programs, it might not be appropriate for persons with little experience in security or IT."

"Priority should be to improve the user interface for the risk and compliance part, making it more responsive and user-friendly."

"The initial cost was high for us, but we have always been behind the tech curve and cost has always been the limiting factor."

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"The central firewall management could be better."

"Sometimes technical support is slow to respond."

"We found a vulnerability where when we have a low flow, like 2.7K, it is not getting fired by the threat prevention. That's something important to improve on. They should have a proxy or some solution to solve the issue. We also found some issues around decrypting the flow. When we have more flow than expected to decrypt, the performance goes down."

"The general customer feedback is when saving the configuration, it takes a long time. That needs to be fixed. The troubleshooting, the debugging part is also a little bit of a pain. It's not user-friendly on the interface to do our debugging when comparing it with other firewalls, like Forcepoint."

"I am observing that whenever pushing our configurations sometimes the configuration will not push properly and then we have to go to the individual firewall and save it again."

"The configuration could be a bit better."

"It communicates with remote devices, and sometimes, there is a little bit of delay during its communication with remote devices. There should be real-time communication or updates from the manager to devices."

"Lacking in speed and reliability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It has improved our performance in operations, projects, and security."

"The cost is kind of high but I really did not check any other vendors."

"Licensing is very easy to set up. The pricing is relative to how you want to expand and harden your network security."

"AlgoSec is not a cheap product. If I compare Firemon and AlgoSec, because I am also Firemon certified, Firemon is still cheaper in price than AlgoSec."

"Initially, it was more expensive, but we managed to negotiate the price. It's about average now."

"My advice is that you must do a POC and show value."

"I find the price too expensive. It looks a bit like SAP, so it does have standard functionality out of the box, but you will spend a lot of money if you want to customize it. However, the price is not as extreme as SAP or Oracle, but the actual implementation does turn out to be expensive."

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"The price of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is expensive."

"The price of Palo Alto Networks Panorama could be lower."

"Palo Alto products are generally priced higher compared to their competitors."

"The pricing could be lower."

"It is very affordable when compared to more expensive firewalls."

"Everyone, I suppose, would like the price to be improved. Price is always a good thing to change."

"Palo Alto is costly compared to Fortinet and Sophos."

"Sometimes the company prefers to give a license to test the product in our environment before we go to the customer. But the customer should buy his own license, and that's the system here. The system is different between one country and another. Some countries say that the IT solutions provider should provide the license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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?

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 s...

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What do you like most about Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

In large installations, it can be expensive with hardware appliances, however, virtual Panorama is well-priced and is sold every time there's a solution.

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What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

The integration between Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama could be enhanced to allow customers to stay on Panorama for many years while still utilizing Strata Cloud Manager for deployment.

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AlgoSec

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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.

Panorama network security management provides static rules and dynamic security updates in an ever-changing threat landscape. Reduce administrator workload and improve your overall security posture with a single rule base for firewall, threat prevention, URL filtering, application awareness, user identification, file blocking and data filtering.

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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