Easy to setup with good auto-implementation and good rule reviews
What is our primary use case?
My client is from a finance background and has more than 100 firewall clusters deployed, that too from different OEMs, for added security. Thanks to historical reasons, some of the firewall policies are poorly managed with tons of rules, and nobody knows what policies are in use and what are not, what policies are redundant, and what are vulnerable.
On top of this, the client Info-sec policy enforces strict one-to-one rules, which, considering the size of the business, leads to the implementation of hundreds of new policies every week.
Firewall Rule analysis & New rule implementations were a challenge, and there comes the AlgoSec.
How has it helped my organization?
We started using AlgoSec to review existing firewall rules. To our surprise, thousands of policies were redundant, and many risky rules were also present.
Due to their large rule bases, firewalls used to have high CPU usage during peak business hours. The client was able to remove redundant rules and strengthen risky rules to save the network from compromises.
Implementing firewall rules was another challenge. The same rule had to be implemented on multiple firewalls from different OEMs. AlgoSec made our life easy.
What is most valuable?
Both analysis and Implementation engines/features are found to be very much valuable since they helped the client to manage the show better.
Implementations used to take a long time, both in terms of approvals and manual implementations. Errors during implementation were another challenge. Delays in policy implementations impacted new feature rollouts or application developments. AlgoSec auto implementation came into the picture, which helped the right departments to approve policies and implementations.
What needs improvement?
AlgoSec is slow when it is loaded with too many firewalls and policies. A plan to take care of heavy usage is to be considered. Support of all firewalls and policy features to be enabled.
AlgoSec should support in identifying most hit rules and re-ordering existing firewall rules - this is a very key to manage firewall CPU.
A clustering of AlgoSec can also be considered. A group of AlgoSec servers managing large client bases geographically or datacenter-wise or function-wise. A head reporting unit and child processing units.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution needs to improve scalability.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No other solution used before.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was handled in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am into operations and not aware of cost or pricing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
AlgoSec was the only option considered.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Great visibility, automation, and mapping
What is our primary use case?
My primary use case to use this solution was to get visibility into my multi-vendor network environment into a single pane of glass making it easy to have compliance and audits done seamlessly.
Also, it is letting me know if any changes are required over different network devices if I bring a certain new application in the environment (discovering its dependencies) and then push the changes from the single console. Also, it needed to verify if there are any unnecessary rules with the attribute "any" over all the firewalls that the solution was able to cover.
How has it helped my organization?
It helped me in managing the multi-vendor network devices with also mapping the required network level prerequisites for my application to be able to handle their network needs in an automated and seamless manner. It also removed the need for multiple approvals with Fireflow.
It also made compliance and audits very easy for my organization. It was able to give visibility of the changes on the firewall with a who-when-what scenario. It helped me to document all the risks related to any change request that I made.
What is most valuable?
The way the solution helps in managing, reporting and seamless security policy change automation for the connectivity between the network devices and the applications is great.
The visibility provided by the single pane of glass for managing multi-vendor firewalls is excellent and then pinpointing network connectivity issues is certainly on a very good level.
The majority of the value comes with automating of the entire security - i.e., the policy change process from design and submission to proactive risk analysis, implementation and auditing.
What needs improvement?
They need to improve the web interface to be a little more interactive and friendly. It's still not bad, yet it could improve.
They could improve AlgoSec academy, as there are some bugs when it comes to advancing resources. When trying to do the certification, I got stuck in one module, which prevented me from completing the certification.
The only downside of AlgoSec is that it seems to need some updates as it relates to UX and potentially some more outlined integrations. Specifically with cloud platforms and tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution from the last six months and have been quite happy with it.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
This was my first solution and I have been continuing with this solution only for future needs until it satisfies all of my use cases.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I evaluated other options as well, however, where their capability ended, i.e. firewall analyzing capability, AlgoSec provides much better capabilities.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
current Algosec user non bias review
What do you like best about the product?
very user friendly accessing menus and GUI
What do you dislike about the product?
still having issues accessing some of the netqork devices for monitoring and analysing , NSX-T environment still not fully supported , this is quite important since most of the companies migrating their app to Cloud and NSX-T is an important technology widely used
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
central dasboard to manage firewall rules and policy , audit reporting , firewall assurance
Great firewall management tool
What do you like best about the product?
value for price, lot of functions, useful Fireflow workflows, grat Firewall policy analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
not all functions supported across diferent vendors in FireFlow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
one policy around all firewalls
compliance reviews
AlgoSec Review
What do you like best about the product?
About Algosec Firewall Analyzer: This module of AlgoSec is really wonderful if you have lot of firewalls in our network and if you want to manage all the firewalls and network traffic from one console. Super handy tool. You can go for firewall rule set review.
* It help automate application connectivty and security policy accross hybrid network. It brings together infrastructure, security policies and business applications, enabling you to drive change across your estate and accelerate application delivery. It supports multiple vendors and clouds as well.
AlgoSec automates changes security, avoiding misconfigurations. It provides intelligent automation for application connectivity and security policy change, from planning through risk analysis. Implemetation, and validation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most of the things like Change creation and working on changes are happened through other modules which we need to purchanse additionally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can manage all the network devices and firewalls from the single console. Review all the firewall rulesets which is very hectic if we go through firewalls one by one.
Creating compliance reports makes our work so easy.
Enabling better management of firewall security policy
What do you like best about the product?
Centralised management and multivendor support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Topology map can sometimes be clunky to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly optimising security policies and identifying any security gaps in existing policies.
Great Product with minimal effort
What do you like best about the product?
The ability of forcing compliance Checks and grabiing ACL from the Cisco FMC and FTDs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes there are issues with adding new firewalls if there are not configuring any routes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The time of jumping to the Cisco FMC and searching for Rules there and generating reports for every firewall or scheduling it every night.
Great partner alliance team backed by a set of great technology solution sets.
What do you like best about the product?
Firewall assurance analyzer and container security offerings.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing for MSSPs when trying to bundle a service together.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ensuring that there is a minimum firewall policy compliance that our customers adhere to.
Network security using Algosec
What do you like best about the product?
what I like most about algosec it's his capabilities to develop reports based on the information obtained from different sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Its massive options catalog for simple tasks that sometimes need easier ways for obtaining information
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly reporting according to our compliance areas about the different sources, it gives us first-hand insight information
Good overview, easy management, excellent service
What do you like best about the product?
the overall picture of sec setting, cross-vendor
What do you dislike about the product?
not much to say here, but can´t leave it blanc
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
overview of sec settings
