FireMon Security Manager and Skybox Security Suite compete in the network security management category. FireMon appears to have the upper hand with its strong rule comparison and policy validation features.
Features: FireMon Security Manager provides valuable features like redundant ACL reports, policy review, and ticket integration. It also offers alerts for firewall changes, making it well-suited for compliance and security policy validation. Skybox Security Suite excels in firewall management and vulnerability control, integrating with multiple vendors, and offering change management and network path analysis to understand network changes.
Room for Improvement: FireMon requires enhanced network maps, better SMB firewall support, and improved migration processes. Reporting needs consistency, and update processes should be more user-friendly. Skybox's web interface and firewall change management need development. Reporting should be expanded, and customer support could be more responsive, requiring improved third-party tool integration.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FireMon supports on-premises deployment with excellent customer service and technical support. Users appreciate its various support channels. Skybox supports on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, offering superior technical support and highlighting its flexibility in deployment environments.
Pricing and ROI: FireMon's pricing is seen as balanced but expensive, delivering significant ROI through time savings in audits. High renewal costs are a concern. Skybox is costly, with a pricing model that could be more flexible, but it offers value in network assurance and vulnerability management, providing potential for cost reduction and ROI in larger implementations.
The increasing complexity of networks, driven by the constant influx of new devices, applications, and cloud services, presents a daunting challenge for managing firewall policies and rules. A typical enterprise environment has millions of rules, and just one simple misconfiguration can lead to devastating consequences like compliance violations, outages, and data breaches.
FireMon’s Security Manager is a purpose-built network security policy management (NSPM) platform that automates the management of firewall and cloud security policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately and quickly change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.
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.
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