Skybox Security Suite vs Tufin Orchestration Suite comparison

Skybox Security and Tufin are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. Skybox Security is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.3, while Tufin is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0. Skybox Security holds a 10.8% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Tufin’s 21.8% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Skybox Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Tufin users who would recommend it.

Skybox Security Suite

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 8, 2025

Tufin Orchestration Suite and Skybox Security Suite are competitors in network security management. Tufin holds a slight advantage in automating firewall rule management, whereas Skybox excels in vulnerability management and threat context correlation.

Features: Tufin Orchestration Suite offers automation of firewall management with SecureTrack and SecureChange, allows comprehensive policy audits across multiple vendors, and provides enhanced policy visualization tools beneficial for DevOps workflows. Skybox Security Suite focuses on providing network assurance, advanced threat context correlation, and robust vulnerability management, which offer enterprises broad threat exposure visibility.

Room for Improvement: Tufin Orchestration Suite should improve its user interface and data visualization capabilities while enhancing support for devices from additional vendors. Skybox Security Suite could benefit from advancing its network modeling accuracy and expanding integration capabilities with more security tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tufin offers on-premises and hybrid cloud deployment options, emphasizing strong customer support with hands-on assistance. Skybox provides deployment flexibility, targeting a wider multi-cloud framework. Both solutions ensure robust customer service, although Tufin is recognized for more direct client involvement.

Pricing and ROI: Tufin Orchestration Suite is a premium option with high licensing costs, justified by extensive features and quick return on investment through timesaving in firewall management. Skybox Security Suite, while also expensive, provides a scalable and cost-effective solution for comprehensive network visibility and risk management, contributing to favorable ROI by streamlining operations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

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)

Tufin Orchestration Suite

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

183

Ranking in other categories

Container Security (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of Skybox Security Suite is 10.8%, up from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tufin Orchestration Suite is 21.8%, up from 21.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management

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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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Amroy Lumban Gaol

Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

A flexible, very secure solution that works well in Layer 2 environments

Integration for Layer 2 devices could be improved because it requires manual scripting. Other layers are very simple to integrate. It would be a benefit to have a form field for firewall names, user names, and passwords which then auto integrate. Licensing options are confusing and require additional fees for high availability. Competitors include high availability with their standard licenses.

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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

"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."

"It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."

"instead of asking for firewall rules which may or may not be relevant, or could already be there, or could be over-permissioned, Skybox can be used to map out the resources that that application is going to use and provide the exact rules that an application would require to function correctly. If the traffic isn't able to flow for the application, if it's erring out, Skybox can be used to troubleshoot that and say, "All right, where is the traffic being stopped and why, and how do I fix that.""

"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."

"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 solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."

"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."

"It shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything."

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"The change workflow process is flexible and customizable. I was really impressed with it. It's pretty easy. You can add automatic validation steps. Depending on the security matrix, you can pre-allow whatever flow you want."

"I don't think that we were ever slow, but we can now say that changes are completed within twenty-four hours."

"The solution's most valuable features are its security policy and steps for deployment."

"The most valuable feature are role and objects usage for individual objects and app usage."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"We use it to clean up our firewall policies, which gives us better security policy and less junk on the firewalls."

"The filtering of lots of criteria is very valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the reporting of our risk poster in our firewall."

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Cons

"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."

"There is room for improvement in the technical support."

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

"The support could be improved."

"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."

"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."

"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."

"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."

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"Customizing it can be a little tricky, but that depends on your use cases."

"I would like to see AI elements included with this solution."

"Lacks ability to create a Terraform that would enable deployment without manual steps."

"Our initial setup was complex from two dimensions, because we were deploying it globally and had to have a centralized view, but a distributed approach. We had it in Asia and North America, causing a slightly complicated approach."

"The documentation site is horrible as well. It has a tree structure, and you really get lost quite easily."

"This solution increases the time it takes to make changes."

"I think that the interface could be cleaner, and easier to use."

"The change workflow process is getting better. I wish it was a little more customizable. Right now, my biggest issue is that it wants to optimize everything we put in. Sometimes, we need a rule to be more readable, and we want it to go in a specific way. Sometimes, it's difficult to get Tufin to accept that. It wants to optimize and reduce the number of ACLs. On the compliance side, sometimes you just want more ACLs, so it's more readable for an auditor."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive."

"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 abroad, resulting in slightly higher costs. Its pricing is in the middle."

"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."

"I think the price is fair."

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

"I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"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."

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

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"The solution has helped us to reduce the time it takes to make changes. With Tufin, it takes ten to 15 minutes. Before, it was 30 minutes or more."

"Tufin makes things a little easier. It lessens the amount of manual work which we have to do. It has a lot of benefits in terms of revenues, profits, employee costs, and operational costs. We have already seen return on investment."

"I'm saving 20 man-hours a week, so I am seeing some ROI."

"Pricing is quite high. We did compare it with AlgoSec but the pricing is not much different between the two."

"For us it's around $40,000 or so."

"The licensing costs are a significant amount of money."

"Price could always be better, but there are always consequences."

"Our licensing fees are approximately $100,000 USD yearly."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

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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...

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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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What do you like most about Tufin?

The most valuable feature of Tufin is security auditing. We are able to check the rules and compliance of the company, for example, what is allowed or not. We are able to check the rules over diffe...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tufin?

Tuffin is expensive, and we have to explain to our customers the benefit for them to purchase. If we explain the benefits in the correct way they do not mind the price. We typically do costing for ...

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What needs improvement with Tufin?

The reporting function could improve in Tufin. For our clients with companies that have strong compliance, reporting privacy data is mostly a problem. In the IT department, private data needs a fun...

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Overview

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.

Tufin enables organizations to automate their security policy visibility, risk management, provisioning and compliance across their multi-vendor, hybrid environment. Customers gain visibility and control across their network, ensure continuous compliance with security standards and embed security enforcement into workflows and development pipelines.

Sample Customers

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

3M, AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BNP Parabas, ConocoPhillips, Deutsche Bank, GE, IBM, Pfizer, United States Postal Service

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