AlgoSec vs Skybox Security Suite comparison

AlgoSec and Skybox Security are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. AlgoSec is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9, while Skybox Security is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.3. AlgoSec holds a 21.9% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Skybox Security’s 10.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of AlgoSec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of Skybox Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

AlgoSec and Skybox Security Suite compete in the network security management space. AlgoSec seems to have an upper hand in firewall rule optimization and compliance, whereas Skybox Security Suite excels in vulnerability management and scalability to support hybrid environments.

Features: AlgoSec offers detailed firewall rule analysis, optimization, and traffic simulation queries to enhance network security. Its reporting features and compliance capabilities provide valuable insights and recommendations. FireFlow automates workflow to reduce manual tasks. Skybox Security Suite focuses on vulnerability management, offering comprehensive network visibility and risk management. Its centralized dashboard supports the management of thousands of devices, allowing efficient handling of hybrid network environments.

Room for Improvement: AlgoSec could improve integration with more firewall vendors and cloud environments, alongside user experience and support services. Enhancing compatibility with identity awareness and detailed reporting is also needed. Skybox Security Suite could benefit from a more intuitive user interface and better customer support. Optimizing deployment configurations across various platforms and increasing licensing flexibility, especially regarding specific firewall features, is desirable.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AlgoSec is primarily deployed on-premises with hybrid cloud options and receives mixed reviews for customer service, with reports of both responsiveness and resolution delays. Skybox Security Suite offers deployment flexibility with reliable customer and technical support, despite some users citing inconsistencies and a steep learning curve during initial setup.

Pricing and ROI: AlgoSec is perceived as expensive, but its ROI is justified through improved security and compliance features that translate into operational savings. Skybox Security Suite also faces pricing concerns, though its value in vulnerability management and network assurance is acknowledged. While licensing costs are high, users often find the expense worthwhile due to significant security benefits like reduced manual work and enhanced security practices.

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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

Skybox Security Suite

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (43rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of AlgoSec is 21.9%, up from 20.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skybox Security Suite is 10.8%, up from 10.4% 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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NenadMijatovic

Director of Sales at S4E Serbia

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.

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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

"The most valuable feature of AlgoSec is its ability to generate comprehensive reports. As a firewall analyzer, it's very useful for reviewing and collecting information at a single point. The tool also helps generate reports automatically, which is beneficial for us."

"Proactively assess the impact of network changes to ensure security and continuous compliance."

"The most valuable feature is traffic simulation because, with this function, it has become more practical to know if something is released or blocked in my environment."

"Traffic queries are a great help when troubleshooting a problem, especially if the traffic is going through two or more firewalls."

"Rather than logging in on separate firewalls, AlgoSec enables you to make changes on all firewalls from one pane of glass."

"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."

"The features that are most valuable are the interactive topology map and the traffic simulation queries."

"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.""

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"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."

"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."

"Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integration is easy, and I have integrated it with Fortinet firewalls."

"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"

"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."

"The most valuable feature is firewall management."

"The most valuable features are the rule compliance and the OS vulnerability checks."

"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."

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Cons

"Support can be improved as there are time delays for resolutions."

"AlgoSec is slow when it is loaded with too many firewalls and policies."

"I believe Active Change needs to be improved because not all products are supported, and some functions cannot be implemented by Active Change either."

"It can be optimized. There is a lot of RPA and we have scripts in AlgoSec that need recertification. With AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer, we can see lots of objects and lots of rules that tell us we need to clean the equipment. It will give us a solution but it doesn't always work. The solution that it gives us is not always accurate from the scripts."

"It needs better API integration with its third-party firewall management."

"Some of the auditing functionality needs improvement. Our major focus is the firewall validation process and tracking and verifying that changes are implemented correctly. We are actually doing parts of the auditing process manually. And getting any one of the vendors to bring out a good auditing process has been very difficult."

"I would like to see Bi-Directional API support in order to integrate with SOAR platforms that provide SOC automation and IRR."

"The FireFlow's out-of-the-box workflow configuration/customization wizard could be improved to be more user-friendly and have a shorter learning curve."

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"Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point."

"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."

"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."

"The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about aspects of the solution and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything."

"The support could be improved."

"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."

"The price could be cheaper."

"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is very easy to set up, with flexible licensing methods such as subscription and perpetual."

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

"The cost of the tool can be recovered with AlgoSec automations."

"I compared the prices of AlgoSec with Tufin and FireMon. I don't recall the exact cost, but it was within budget and not very expensive. In addition to standard licensing fees, we didn't have any significant additional costs. We did hire new people for the change management process, but that's not a technology issue."

"The pricing of AlgoSec is fair."

"We have had quite a number of our prospective clients have come to us, and say, "Hey guys, we want AlgoSec," but one of their turn-offs has been the pricing. I would like it if AlgoSec would review their pricing and come down on it. The solution is quite amazing and versatile, so we would really appreciate it if the pricing could be reviewed for Nigeria because we definitely would get more sales if that happened."

"The pricing is flexible with a low cost setup."

"The price is high but the support is extremely poor, so keep that in mind before choosing this product."

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"The solution is based on a subscription model for annual licenses."

"It's expensive."

"The licensing fee is paid yearly and is approximately $100,000."

"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."

"The price of the Skybox Security Suite can be expensive."

"The pricing has increased exorbitantly in the last few years, so now it is questionable. Now, it makes me want to review other products."

"Currently, the licensing costs me about $300 USD for the year. This is a huge amount for my environment."

"Fully understand the total cost of ownership. They have gone to a new model where you have to replace the hardware every X amount of years at a very substantial cost and fully understand your intended number of nodes. To operate a firewall, you have to pay two licenses, a firewall node and a network node. If you are a reasonable-sized organization, this gets expensive very quickly."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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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 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 identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integrat...

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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 approximately 50 percent different. The tool may require special vendor support from abr...

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What needs improvement with Skybox Security Suite?

There is room for improvement in the product's user interface. It could be more user-friendly.

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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.

The Skybox Security Suite platform combines firewall and network device data with vulnerability and threat intelligence, prioritizing security issues in the context of your unique environment. Powerful attack vector analytics reduce response times and risks, bringing firewall, vulnerability and threat management processes for complex networks under control.

Firewall Assurance brings all firewalls into one normalized view, continuously monitoring policy compliance, optimizing firewall rulesets and finding attack vectors that others miss. Skybox covers the most comprehensive list of firewall vendors, complex rulesets, even virtual and cloud-based firewalls. With proven scalability in 1,500+ firewall deployments, Firewall Assurance keeps rules optimized and ensures changes don’t introduce new risk.

Gain total visibility of the vulnerabilities in your attack surface without waiting for a scan. Leverage Skybox Research Lab's vulnerability and threat intelligence, and automatically correlate it to your unique environment. With network modeling and advanced simulations, pinpoint exposed vulnerabilities and other attack vectors. And use context to prioritize vulnerabilities in terms of actual risk and respond to threats with accuracy and efficiency.

For more information or to view a demo, visit www.skyboxsecurity.com.

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

ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BT, USAID, Delta Dental, EDF Energy, EMC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson

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