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AlgoSec vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs Skybox Security Suite comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 21.2%, up from 20.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is 9.3%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skybox Security Suite is 10.8%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Firewall Security Management
 

Featured Reviews

Tempreviewer F - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2023
Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes
It allows organizations to identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes required to deploy or migrate applications safely and quickly. With ever-changing infrastructure and threats, keeping security policies optimized is extremely challenging. AlgoSec's continuous monitoring capabilities allow organizations to maintain proper controls and compliance coverage as the application landscape evolves. No longer are security changes made blindly. AlgoSec gives organizations the visibility and intelligence needed to make application connectivity changes confidently while managing risk and compliance. Having all these capabilities seamlessly integrated into one platform makes AlgoSec a powerful tool for digital transformation initiatives involving constant application change.
ManjitSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 17, 2022
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…
NenadMijatovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 8, 2024
Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use
Vulnerability management is the most valuable feature because it lets you focus on the most critical vulnerabilities. That's the important thing. Here in Serbia, there are not so many companies that have too many firewalls inside one company. So, they usually don't buy this model for Firewall Assurance unless there is some compliance. So you can prove that your firewalls are compliant. So, that model is not so important here in Serbia. It's for bigger companies. So, they usually buy network assurance to build the model of the network and vulnerability management to focus on the most important vulnerabilities. Moreover, Skybox can collect data for many vendors. From the endpoint protection vendors to the network equipment vendors to other security vendors. So, it supports more than one hundred vendors to collect data from them.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It assists us in network security reviews and audits."
"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 see the value of BusinessFlow for organisations involved in digital transformation projects migrating to public/private/hybrid cloud models."
"We now have baseline and rules checking."
"AlgoSec AFA and AFF automate lots of things for my organization."
"We were able to improve the security ratings of our firewalls."
"AlgoSec has reduced the need for additional manpower and we can now use the time to tackle other security-related issues."
"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."
"Technical support is helpful and knowledgeable."
"Panorama integrates security management by allowing easy modification of policy by account, IP, or application."
"It allows administrators to manage all firewalls from a single interface, reducing the time and effort required for configuration."
"In Panorama, installing the policy, and pushing the policy, it's quite seamless."
"The application ID or App-ID feature is a good feature for us. We are also using IPS and content inspection features. The firewall can inspect the packages that are passing through my network."
"Threat prevention and traffic monitoring are the most valuable features for us."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its innovation and impressive capacity to handle network traffic efficiently."
"From a configuration point of view, when we are implementing it for large organizations where the customer owns a hundred firewalls, it's just easy to manage them all at one central location."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"Robust modules can be used for different parts of network security."
"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."
"The initial setup process was easy."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"The most valuable feature is firewall management."
 

Cons

"The documentation could be better."
"In our environment, we add rules in the files based on user logins, but currently, we can't do that with AlgoSec. AlgoSec can't create rules based on user logins. For example, generally, when we create a rule, we put IP Address, Destination IP Address, and Service Port. However, in our environment, we put IP Address, User Login, Destination IP Address, and Service Port, but AlgoSec doesn't support a rule in this format. We opened a ticket regarding this with their support two months ago, and they said that they will be able to add it in the future, but they don't know the timeframe."
"The GUI has not been upgraded for a long time and could use updating."
"There could be certain improvements such as supporting secure email."
"It would be interesting if the product could automate the switch configuration and create a dynamic map of the entire network."
"Needs better integration between modules and also a better troubleshooting methodology."
"One specific area that could benefit from improvement is the rule analysis feature, particularly in terms of defining objects within a new rule. Currently, the process seems to be more focused on network-level analysis rather than on objects, which sometimes requires us to perform multiple iterations to achieve optimal results."
"It needs support for its cloud-based solution."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating AIOps functionalities into Panorama."
"The initial setup requires expertise and can be a bit complex."
"Integration between Panorama and the Edge Firewall has a lot of issues, like different configuration assets, configuration object templates, lack of flexibility, and not a good browser."
"The solution should improve the speed at which they make changes on the system. Historically, they've been a bit slow in that respect. They should apply changes to the box quicker and more often."
"The implementation is not that easy."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"Reporting might be an area to improve. It can provide reporting or some sort of graphical representation of your environment."
"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."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."
"There is room for improvement in the product's user interface. It could be more user-friendly."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform​."
"If anything could be improved it would be staying on top of the collector scripts, but I understand that's a very tough challenge."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is very easy to set up, with flexible licensing methods such as subscription and perpetual."
"The pricing could be better."
"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."
"Licensing is very easy to set up. The pricing is relative to how you want to expand and harden your network security."
"The cost of the tool can be recovered with AlgoSec automations."
"The price is adapted to the product's utilization for each company."
"Initially, it was more expensive, but we managed to negotiate the price. It's about average now."
"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."
"You can buy the hardware only and each box is not even $10,000. It's only $8,000 for the unit itself. However, then you are charged a three-year license at $81,000."
"The pricing is considered a little bit expensive, but depending on the client, it's worth it."
"Pricing for Palo Alto Networks Panorama is always high. If you're going to sell the product, you always have to talk about the technology because it should be about the solution rather than the price."
"It is pretty reasonable as compared to other companies."
"Palo Alto products are generally priced higher compared to their competitors."
"It is not a cheap solution."
"With the URL filtering, we probably went down from around four hours in response time to about five minutes."
"Its licensing is yearly and multi-yearly. It is not expensive."
"When compared with other companies, the license is more costly."
"I've seen the pricing of every solution on the market. When you compare apples to apples, where Skybox becomes exceedingly expensive is if you look at it compared to something like FireMon that only does a fraction of what Skybox does. But if you include everything that Skybox does, it becomes way more expensive than the competition, but you're also not comparing apples to apples. If you look at FireMon, and you look at like just the firewall assurance piece, they are fairly comparable and, actually, Skybox comes in a little bit cheaper in some cases, depending on which product you're looking at."
"The solution is based on a subscription model for annual licenses."
"The software is expensive. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."
"Pricing is on the higher side. In terms of licensing, you should buy the complete suite rather than buying only the Change Manager. I think Change Manager with Vulnerability Control is something that would be interesting to look at."
"I think for the cost, what we got definitely is worth it. The only caution I would give is that whenever you license for Firewall Assurance at the same time, for some weird reason, you have to get one Network Assurance license, just to manage one firewall. That's a little bit of overkill. But otherwise, in general, the pricing is fairly okay."
"Skybox comes with extra licenses and has a change management license. The licenses are expensive, but they come with extra value."
"The licensing fee is paid yearly and is approximately $100,000."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
 

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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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlgoSec?
The pricing is moderate. It's not that cheap and it's not expensive.
What needs improvement with AlgoSec?
I cannot think of anything that could be improved. Everything is good. I would like for there to be more AI functiona...
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Panorama?
Palo Alto Panorama might appear expensive to some enterprises, but its powerful platform justifies the cost.
What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Panorama?
Palo Alto needs to improve deployment by making it easier to deploy an agent to a desktop. Currently, it's complex si...
What do you like most about Skybox Security Suite?
Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identif...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Skybox Security Suite?
Skybox Security Suite has indeed helped us reduce costs. The prices of AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite are approxim...
What needs improvement with Skybox Security Suite?
There is room for improvement in the product's user interface. It could be more user-friendly.
 

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 
University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia
ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BT, USAID, Delta Dental, EDF Energy, EMC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson
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