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Skybox Security Suite vs Vulcan Cyber comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Skybox Security Suite
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
28th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Firewall Security Management (6th)
Vulcan Cyber
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
33rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (20th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (12th), Cloud Security Remediation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Skybox Security Suite is 0.5%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vulcan Cyber is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
PR
Jul 19, 2024
Easily ingests information from different sources and offers a single pane of glass for vulnerability and asset management
It is very important for us that Vulcan Cyber offers a single pane of glass for centralizing our security data. It was one of the most important topics for us when we were searching for this kind of tool. We wanted a single pane of glass to see all our assets in the company as well as all the vulnerabilities, not only from a single scanner but from different security scanners that we use in the company. Vulcan Cyber is very good for collecting our organization’s risk signals from multiple tools and attack surfaces into a single data lake. It is able to ingest information from different sources. They also have some capabilities to deduplicate data that is already in different sources. When you see it in their platform, in their data lake as they call it, you see it as a single entry instead of having duplicates all over the place. Vulcan Cyber has had a great impact because previously, we had to review the vulnerabilities manually before going ahead and communicating them to the different owners. Now, with the automation that Vulcan Cyber provides, it is very easy for us to see exactly what is the risk of a vulnerability, not only by the CVSS score, but also depending on if the vulnerability is currently exploited in the wild, or if there are exploits that are publicly available that can be used by anyone. All of those tasks are automated by Vulcan in the backend. We see a summary of the vulnerability, so we know whether it is very critical for us because it is affecting some of our assets. It could also be floating in the wild, so we need to take care of it immediately, or it might not be as critical as we thought initially. It might be classified as a high-risk vulnerability, but there is no expert available, so we have to wait a little bit longer to patch everything. The combination of all the data that we get in the platform helps with the automation of a task. There were some decisions that we had to manually review previously. Now, with all the information provided by Vulcan in a single place for each vulnerability, it is easier for us to understand if something is really critical and needs to be patched immediately or it can wait a little bit longer until we have some spare time to patch different systems in the company. Vulcan Cyber has helped reduce our organization’s mean time to remediation. We have the capability to open some tickets automatically for different vulnerabilities we have in the platform without having to go to different ticketing tools or business owners individually. In the company, we use different ticketing tools depending on the department, so having them all integrated inside of Vulcan is helpful. Having a single button to create tickets automatically, providing all the information already gathered by Vulcan in this ticket, and then just passing the ticket to different teams impacts the remediation. Vulcan Cyber has, for sure, helped save costs for our organization when it comes to human hours spent to fix vulnerabilities. We do not have to manually review each vulnerability and go to the different threat intelligence sources to identify if there are any exploits or if they are being exploited in the wild by malicious threat actors. When we have all that information in the platform, we can make decisions based on the data that we already have. That saves a lot of human hours.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"The initial setup process was easy."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"It is very good when it comes to ingesting information from different sources and then displaying this information in an easy-to-use platform."
"Vulcan enables us to automate tickets from multiple scanners. It has lots of analytics options that show us charts and allow us to view the statuses in different waves. The dashboard is nice because it's highly informative about the big picture."
 

Cons

"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"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."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform​."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"The solution needs improvement in firewall configuration checks. I would also like to see more configuration checks for Forcepoint and for other non-supported firewalls."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"Mainly, what I would like from them is more maintenance of the different connectors they have in the platform."
"The performance is bad. The query and the UI are always slow, and it's quite frustrating. Vulcan is trying to solve this with a newer design. The dashboard is also crowded. It pulls in all this raw information that you need to filter. Vulcan has filtering capabilities, but they're hard to manage. The labels aren't very clear, so you need to do things by trial and error. It's not as easy as other tools we've been using."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is normally on a yearly basis. There may also be a perpetual license. Normally, the customers ask for a lower price. If you want to sell more, you have to think about it."
"The solution is based on a subscription model for annual licenses."
"I rate the pricing two on a scale of one to ten, where one is very expensive, and ten is cost-effective."
"The price is not expensive."
"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."
"It's 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."
"Its pricing is quite fair compared to what is out there in the market, especially compared to the tool from Microsoft. It is a SaaS platform that has an annual cost, so it is something that is already used by many companies. It is quite affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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...
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...
What needs improvement with Skybox Security Suite?
There is room for improvement in the product's user interface. It could be more user-friendly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vulcan Cyber?
Its pricing is quite fair compared to what is out there in the market, especially compared to the tool from Microsoft. It is a SaaS platform that has an annual cost, so it is something that is alre...
What needs improvement with Vulcan Cyber?
We have already requested Vulcan several features. Mainly, what I would like from them is more maintenance of the different connectors they have in the platform. You can connect different sources a...
What is your primary use case for Vulcan Cyber?
We were searching for a tool in the market that would allow us to automate our vulnerability management processes. We found Vulcan Cyber to be the best one, at least for our company, for automating...
 

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Sample Customers

ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BT, USAID, Delta Dental, EDF Energy, EMC, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson
Stitch Fix, Mandiant, Wealthsimple, Entrust, Anaplan, Deloitte, Origami Risk, Verana Health
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