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Skybox Security Suite pros and cons

Vendor: Skybox Security

3.8 out of 5

35 reviews
82% willing to recommend

1,558 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Skybox Security Suite enhances network visibility, simplifies firewall rule management, and improves the security ecosystem through vulnerability prioritization and compliance tracking. While the suite integrates with tools like Rapid7 and Qualys, boosting security posture, it faces compatibility challenges with certain devices and vendors. Despite its strong network overview capabilities, effective change management, and vulnerability management, setup complexity, licensing issues, limited vendor support, and high cost may impact tech buyers' experience.

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PROS

Skybox Security Suite enhances network visualization and troubleshooting, improving visibility into device configurations and aiding in the cleanup of stale rules.

It offers comprehensive tools for firewall, network, and change management, allowing for weekly firewall audits and detailed access control list reports.

Skybox Security Suite prioritizes vulnerabilities effectively, using contextual network awareness to guide patching and mitigation efforts.

The platform features scalable architecture and robust compliance checks, ensuring configurations are compliant and access is minimized according to best practices.

It integrates seamlessly with other vulnerability management solutions, providing clients with enhanced security oversight and optimization capabilities.

CONS

Skybox Security Suite lacks support for some devices and configurations, leading to limited compatibility.

Skybox faced issues with licensing and incorrect updates, highlighting process inefficiencies.

There are concerns about system stability, with frequent restarts required.

Automation and orchestration features are insufficient, limiting functionality.

The Skybox implementation process and technical support are complex and require skilled personnel.

Skybox Security Suite Pros review quotes

AM

Regional Sales Engineer at RedSeal, Inc.

Oct 31, 2021

The most valuable feature is firewall management.

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VJ

Vladimir Jirasek

CEO at Foresight Cyber Ltd

Aug 8, 2022

The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks.

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Director, Security Architecture at Critical Start

May 23, 2018

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

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Director of Sales at S4E Serbia

Feb 8, 2024

When you import all the assets that you have, like desktops, servers, networks, devices, routers, and then firewalls, and other products, then Skybox makes like, a model of the network, but with context. So, it is not just a model in VIZIO. Or something like it like that. You get the model with context, and, like, it looks like a real network in a real-time. So you can check your network and the security of your network on that model.

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SK

Principal Specialist - IT Services at Infosys Technologies Ltd

Feb 12, 2018

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.

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Information Security Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 15, 2018

The most valuable feature is the compliance, whether it's access compliance or the configuration compliance, to make sure that all of our devices are configured as they're supposed to be, to limit access as much possible, to follow least-access guidelines.

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reviewer1140936

Business Consultant. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jan 24, 2021

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.

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reviewer1202646

Head of Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Nov 23, 2022

Robust modules can be used for different parts of network security.

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DG

VP Technology at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Nov 3, 2021

It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base.

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reviewer1451070

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 13, 2020

The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface.

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Skybox Security Suite Cons review quotes

AM

Regional Sales Engineer at RedSeal, Inc.

Oct 31, 2021

The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich.

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VJ

Vladimir Jirasek

CEO at Foresight Cyber Ltd

Aug 8, 2022

The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use.

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Director, Security Architecture at Critical Start

May 23, 2018

The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out.

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Director of Sales at S4E Serbia

Feb 8, 2024

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

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SK

Principal Specialist - IT Services at Infosys Technologies Ltd

Feb 12, 2018

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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Information Security Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 15, 2018

Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything.

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reviewer1140936

Business Consultant. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jan 24, 2021

The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team.

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reviewer1202646

Head of Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Nov 23, 2022

The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations.

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reviewer1451070

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 13, 2020

The support could be improved.

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DG

VP Technology at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Nov 3, 2021

Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point.

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