We performed a comparison between AlgoSec and Tufin based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although the setup and support could use some improvement for both solutions, the easy integration with widely used firewalls put AlgoSec slightly ahead of Tufin.
"With the AlgoSec firewall analyzer, it now takes us half the time to deploy firewall changes and policy optimization."
"It enhanced the complete workflow system within six months of deployment."
"Customizability is AlgoSec's best feature."
"It can be easily integrated with different firewall devices (even different brands and models)."
"We now have baseline and rules checking."
"It helps us to streamline our firewall rules, identify risks, and provide better visibility. This product has significantly saved the time and human efforts in creating and deploying firewall rules. It is now easier for our cybersecurity team to analyze firewalls rules and ACLs, using them in a more efficient manner."
"AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer can detect misconfigurations and unused or permissive rules, as well as rules without logging. Through a single dashboard, I can see all the problematic rules from all the firewalls. It's very simple, with AlgoSec, to get an analysis of all the rules, and that helps with visibility."
"The most valuable feature is that the tool is capable of simplifying firewall management and configuration in an automated fashion."
"The most valuable features are the Security Risks and Best Practices reporting/Rule base cleanup."
"The visibility is huge. In order to figure out what was going on previously, we would have to pull stuff out of firewalls and put them in spreadsheets, then do sorts. Now, it's all right there in Tufin. We can write reports to look for what we need, ad hoc searches to find object groups, and know which firewalls are on. This was almost impossible to do previously."
"We have a better view of our compliance status."
"The technical support is pretty good."
"SecureChange is the most interesting part. It all comes down to having the user request firewall access and SecureChange, based on workflows, takes care of it, sending two or three emails to the business approvers. With one click, you can automate a firewall rule."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it reduces both the time required and the number of errors when making changes."
"We use it to clean up our firewall policies, which gives us better security policy and less junk on the firewalls."
"The change workflow process is flexible and customizable. We have one guy who has never logged into Tufin ever in his life. He sits down and in 30 minutes had written an automation routine, then went back and changed it. He did that with no training. For me, that is a major benefit."
"It would be very helpful to have a direct link to the relevant firewall policy embedded within reports when there are warnings or risks indicated."
"We are running multiple hybrid cloud solutions, working with cloud providers, and looking for API integrations with cloud and related interoperability. Sometimes, when we are trying to delete or disable any rule, it takes more time than expected."
"In the VMware platform, sometimes the application is frozen and we have to reload the machine."
"My only concern is related to how they count the number of licenses. We have active and standby devices. If someone adds the standby device by mistake and does an analysis, it consumes two licenses. They need to improve the way they are counting the number of licenses because someone can do analysis on a standby device by mistake. We need a way to fix or solve this issue."
"The interface is more on the complex side."
"Creating more intuitive menus could be helpful, especially for first-time users."
"It would be nice if it was more variable when checking virtual domain baseline in the same way as Fortigate's firewalls do."
"I would say that the cases opened with AlgoSec could be solved faster or escalated sooner to the senior engineers/2nd or 3rd tier."
"I think that the interface could be cleaner, and easier to use."
"They are sort of at the pilot stage on some of their products. I saw the Orca and Iris products yesterday. My initial impression of these products were that they were good products, but I felt like some of their features overlapped with SecureTrack and SecureChange, which they are already doing. So, I just wondered what direction they're going in? I understand that they are cloud products, but are these security products going to overlap each other's features at some point? This is my initial concern."
"This solution increases the time it takes to make changes."
"The policy browser has had trouble working. We have experienced bugs."
"I would like to see more configuration options on next-generation firewalls, defining possible standards for devices."
"The initial setup can be tough."
"The solution does not have automation with other Firewalls."
"The network part of the solution could be improved. It's too hard because of the Tufin licensing model for the routing devices."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Tufin Orchestration Suite is ranked 2nd in Firewall Security Management with 180 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Tufin Orchestration Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Helps identify risks, reduce attack surfaces, and streamline policy changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tufin Orchestration Suite writes "A flexible, very secure solution that works well in Layer 2 environments". AlgoSec is most compared with FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Tufin Orchestration Suite is most compared with FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Cisco Defense Orchestrator. See our AlgoSec vs. Tufin Orchestration Suite report.
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