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Vendor: AlgoSec
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Pros & Cons summary

Prevasio's AlgoSec optimizes network management by preventing firewall rule duplication and offering firewall policy summarization for visibility and compliance. It integrates with Slack via AlgoBot to streamline traffic assessments, supports microsegmentation, and automates administrative tasks. Despite its benefits, technical support limitations, integration challenges, and risk profile restrictions hinder full potential, with issues in FireFlow processing and API metrics. Buyers should consider both its capabilities and constraints.

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PROS

Prevasio helps in identifying and avoiding duplicate firewall rules and ports, enhancing security efficiency.
It provides a comprehensive summary and monitoring of firewall policies, including risk assessments and compliance checks.
AlgoBot, a Slack chatbot, enables staff to easily check if network traffic will be blocked by firewalls, saving time and effort.
Prevasio is effective in implementing and managing microsegmentation initiatives, essential for modern network environments.
It integrates seamlessly with various types of firewalls like Check Point, Palo Alto, and FortiGate, ensuring compatibility and smooth operation.

CONS

Technical support response time is low, potentially exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in insufficient support.
API integration could potentially improve to better integrate with systems like ServiceNow or GRC environments.
Risk profiles in the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer are limited, offering only three standard zones without customization options.
In the new version H32, stability issues arise, including numerous bugs and errors during multiple request handling.
AlgoSec lacks integration with two-step or multi-factor authentication and does not support Oracle on the cloud or Layer 2 network device integrations.
 

Prevasio Pros review quotes

JS
May 3, 2021
AlgoBot is a Slack chatbot that they've designed to help people identify if the firewalls are going to allow or block specific network traffic. We leveraged this to allow our staff to check themselves if the firewalls are going to be blocking traffic or not. That saves us logging into the firewalls and running the query off the host. We give them the power to use it and it saves us time.
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TN
May 24, 2021
We have used the solution to implement and manage microsegmentation initiatives. That is the whole point of modeling towards, "Hey, how will this work for a specific situation in the end?" I think it's a great solution because a lot of companies are not just going to the cloud, but microsegmentation and service-delivered products. So, I feel like it is very capable and comparatively better than its peers, if not equal.
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NS
Aug 3, 2021
We have Check Point, Palo Alto, and FortiGate firewalls, and it integrates pretty seamlessly with these firewalls. We have had no issues so far.
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GH
Jun 13, 2021
The workflow and the fact that I can follow up on a request that I've created and clearly see the status it is in are the most valuable features of this solution. When I need things to move on, for example, if the security guys didn't look at the request or the implementation is not going as it should, then I can contact people. There is a mechanism in there that clearly indicates the service level agreement we have for implementation. We can see if it is being attained.
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AP
Apr 22, 2021
Because we get about 60 to 70 rules to deploy a week during the firewall maintenance window, we might create some duplicate rules or open duplicate ports. AlgoSec has become very helpful whenever we need to find out the nodes or subnets that have already been created, then we don't need to create the duplicate subnet of that particular IP address.
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LT
Apr 28, 2021
The firewall policy summarization is the most valuable feature. It helps us to cross-check the firewall ruleset. That's the main purpose of it. And of course, it monitors changes of the firewall policy. It provides full visibility into the risk involved in firewall change requests. It helps us to check for any integrity issues and conflicts with other rulesets, and of course the compliance.
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FS
Dec 4, 2022
The most unique feature is the ability to help fix any gaps or mismatches in the configuration of the firewall.
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AK
Oct 21, 2021
The most valuable feature is the automation that can be accomplished by using scripts. If we didn't have AlgoSec, I would have to do everything manually.
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AS
Aug 23, 2021
AlgoSec has good tools to manage policies and devices. Many administrators like how it helps you monitor and clean up the policy for the on-premise firewall.
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Juan Tolosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 24, 2023
The optimizations are the most useful aspect because most customers have a very unmanaged network with a lot of rules. We use a lot of the optimizations in our reports for improving firewall rules.
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Prevasio Cons review quotes

JS
May 3, 2021
We work with multiple security vendors. It's rather difficult to integrate the vendors. AlgoSec is a platform that hasn't really been developed as much as we would like to just because of its complexity to set up. If it was easy to set up and easy to get integrations with other companies, then we would be doing it. But the thought is that we are relatively stretched thin in our team as it is and the complexity of configuring AlgoSec doesn't make it any easier.
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TN
May 24, 2021
The API integration could potentially improve. I didn't get a chance to look and see how well this solution can integrate with ServiceNow or our GRC environment.
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NS
Aug 3, 2021
There is a little bit of scope for improvement in the risk profiles that come with the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer module. Currently, AlgoSec provides only three standard zones within a risk profile. These standard zones are external, internal, and DMZ. Everybody's network is divided into different zones within a data center, but AlgoSec only provides three zones. This is a limitation that I see for the risk profile analysis. If there was an option to customize these zones, it would be great.
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GH
Jun 13, 2021
The analysis part can be improved when I make a flow request. There should be a clear analysis of which metric part needs to be opened and which firewalls will be opened. It should give you a bit more graphical visibility about these.
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AP
Apr 22, 2021
The technical support response time is low. This might be due to the coronavirus pandemic situation, but I am not getting full support when working with them.
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LT
Apr 28, 2021
Now that we've moved to the VM it is more stable and independent of hardware.
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FS
Dec 4, 2022
AlgoSec cannot be integrated with solutions that require two-step or multi-factor authentication. Embedding multi-factor authentication capability into the solution would be a valuable feature.
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AK
Oct 21, 2021
When we send multiple requests across at once, sometimes it causes errors and FireFlow gets stuck. In cases like this, we have to go back in and fix it.
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AS
Aug 23, 2021
In the new version H32, there are many, many bugs.
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Juan Tolosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 24, 2023
Integration with Oracle on the cloud is not supported. I would also like to see integrations with network devices in Layer 2.
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