Skybox Security Suite Reviews

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

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. 

I have been using the product for three years. 

My company has 20 users for the product. 

I would rate the solution's setup a ten out of ten and is straightforward. The product's deployment takes one week to complete. 

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

I would rate the product a ten out of ten. 

We use it for change management control and firewall policy management.This helps is keeping the compliance is Check

When we are adding new users to the network it has an impact on the security posture of the organization. So we use this product to do analysis, what kind of impact it will have on the security. What are the particular applications which may be required in terms of access controls, what are the changes, what are the policies we should put on the firewall? And in case we need to have a temporary policy, we can then revert back to the original one. All of these things have really helped us improve the security and network systems.

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. It's the most important one to use.

We really need to see how it can help us with cloud connectivity. It's there but I think it could give us a far better visualization.

It's a stable product.

We've had no issues with scalability.

Technical support is not something which I would rate very high. Support is available but they need to ensure that they bring in their local team to give us support. I wouldn't say that it is bad, but it's not top-notch.

We were not using any solution before this one.

The initial setup was complex, a little complex, but I think that is what the product entails. There was good documentation available on site from Skybox.

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.

We did evaluate other products, including Tufin, but we chose this one.

Anyone implementing this product should bring together the teams which have security and network understanding, as a part of the project and, of course, they should look into the product properly before they implement it.

I rate this product at about seven out of ten. The product is good but pricing and technical support are the ones which take marks off.

The use case is firewall rule lifecycle management.

This is something we are on the way to doing.

Network path analysis is the most valuable feature. There is a lot of work in my team to support internal and external customers, to answer their questions and difficulties with connectivity that doesn’t work. Mostly, the problem is missing orders. So if the customer can do the network path analysis for himself, the customer is able to write the request for the missing connectivity, without any support from my team.

Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset. 

At the moment we have a lot of work in implementing the tool in our workflow, so we are not looking for new features. But this could change in the next six to 12 months.

We have had some issues implementing the tool, but we are in contact with Professional Services to fix them.

No issues with scalability at the moment.

We are still in project mode, and we have direct contact.

No previous solution.

It was not so straightforward, but we bought onsite support from Skybox Professional Services.

The pricing is high, and the licensing model needs more flexibility.

In my case it was important to know the workflow, and then to look for a tool that could support this workflow to make it easier.

The primary use of this solution is as a firewall and for cybersecurity.

We are a solution provider and this is one of the security solutions that we implement for our customers.

Our customers have not had any complaints about the Skybox Security Suite.

The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control.

This solution is easy to use.

This device has support for 130 vendors.

The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving.

I have been using Skybox Security Suite for about six months.

Our customers have not faced any issues with stability.

We have not had to contact technical support.

The initial setup is easy.

We have an in-house team to deploy this solution. We have four or five engineers who can deploy and perform maintenance.

The price is not expensive.

This solution is pretty good. Our customers have found that Skybox has a lot of good features and I don't expect that any of them will be changing to another product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Aside from Firewall Assurance, we use Vulnerability Control and Change Manager to prioritize and focus on key risks.

Focuses resources on business-critical remediation, as opposed to remediation that is quantity-based.

The platform provides insight and context from many threat logs and prioritizes them. 

There is not anything on the market that 

• correlates logs and threats and prioritizes 
• provides network maps
• provides change result context and resulting vulnerability 

for the network/enterprise.

As a reseller, I feel the marketing of this product could be better. It seems awareness is a bit low. We are trying to get the message out. I equate it to the early Palo Alto Networks days, where we had to market the concept of what a next-gen firewall was before we could get customers to buy in.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Technical support is excellent.

We use several different solutions: Qualys, ServiceNow, Rapid7. We did not switch but have Skybox ingest all logs to provide an action plan.

The setup is straightforward; clear instructions.

FireMon, RedSeal.

Educate other IT teams about its value.

Skybox Security Suite is a major security services provider that offers penetration testing and network standard services for some of our customers. We were able to use it and support their tactics. It helps us better understand complicated situations.

We have been able to generate reliable results with Skybox Security Suite. Getting a hold of this information from customers and our business competitors is often difficult to do within our customers' timelines.

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

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

We have been using Skybox Security Suite for about six months.

Technical support is pretty good, but it could be better.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It didn't take us much time to deploy it and start using it.

We deployed it in-house within five working days. They provided us with a manual and some guides, and we were able to do it.

It's expensive.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Skybox Security Suite a nine.

We use it for Vulnerability Management.

Standard scanning solutions are not able to give any priority in terms of associated risk from identified vulnerabilities. Understanding the real exposure from vulnerabilities and associated assets can reduce the time and investment needed to mitigate risks.

Also, by reducing the number of vulnerabilities that have to be analyzed and managed we have the chance to create a process of management.

Identifies direct exposed vulnerabilities.

Firewall Change Management has to be improved with rules provisioning on firewalls because that is where the competition is going and is what customers need.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Technical support is good.

Initial setup was simple because we approached the project in small steps.

The pricing is okay.

We evaluated Tufin, Algosec for Firewall Assurance. We did not evaluate other products for VC.

Involve network, security, and operations at the same table for smooth project startup.

• Potential attack vector discovery
• Network troubleshooting
• Security check
• Compliance

Aside from Firewall Assurance, we use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting. Currently, we are not using the Change Manager Module.

User interface. A web interface would be better.

• Change Tracking (audit logs)
• Access Analyser (access checks)
• Compliance

No issues.

No changes to check.

It is sufficient.

No.

The initial setup was easy.

No.

Check product compatibility. In our case, during implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform.