Best Case Solution for a Optimizer | CFM
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity and easy deployment of the solution
What do you dislike about the product?
Bugs on versions released in 2020 which had issues on databases which cased a lot of patch upgrades
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Microsegmentation is good but does not support certain features like policy deployment for micro segmentation like ilumio.
Need more integration on other new upcoming solutions
Algosec
What do you like best about the product?
I like Algosec suppport is fast and helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like the limitations on Algosec FireFlow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algosec is solving issues for inventory, monitoring and compliance.
A network security management solution to manage network security policies, optimize firewall rules, and automate security workflows
What is our primary use case?
AlgoSec was used as a firewall setting, but we had issues with change management, approvals, and the workflow to deploy firewall rules. The tool covers the technology and intelligence, but we had a lot of manual work to convince sponsors and correlated areas that used AlgoSec or needed to open a firewall rule.
What is most valuable?
AlgoSec has a feature that provides intelligence on which rules are correct. It was crucial in helping us understand which rules were important and which ones could be turned off or removed, simplifying the structure. It helps prioritize actions and performance needs. The performance boost we had was huge. We were considering buying new firewall structures, but with AlgoSec, we just organized the rules and avoided spending more money on the environment.
What needs improvement?
We faced internal challenges with our services and the process. If we had a closer approach from AlgoSec with instructions on how to build or change the management process, how to improve our environment, it would have been better. The big problem was more about the approval and request roles, and bureaucratic side of things.
For how long have I used the solution?
I left the company a couple of years ago. I bought AlgoSec in 2022, and after a few months, I left the company and joined a different one that already had AlgoSec infrastructure in place.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We had no stability problems. After we engaged with the project and started using AlgoSec, we established that no rule could be done without AlgoSec's approval. We removed admin rights from the technical team, and we didn't have any issues because AlgoSec worked as intended. We removed manual admin rights and only allowed AlgoSec to create and edit rules.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support was really technical and had a more technological view of the problem. Here in Brazil, we have a lot of discussions, conversations, and meetings, so the technology didn't resolve the problem we had like that.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
We had some troubles when deploying the environment, but the technical support was fast enough to solve them. The complexity of our site was an issue, but with technical support, any problems with maintenance were covered. It was not a big issue for us.
What was our ROI?
In terms of return on investment, we achieved our targets. The money spent on after-hours work with the team paid for the tool in the first year, therefore, the investment was worth it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I compared the prices of AlgoSec with Tufin and FireMon. I don't recall the exact cost, but it was within budget and not very expensive. In addition to standard licensing fees, we didn't have any significant additional costs. We did hire new people for the change management process, but that's not a technology issue.
What other advice do I have?
I wouldn't recommend AlgoSec for environments with fewer than 500 rules or without multiple offices, as the solution is quite complex to deploy and engage teams. It's more suitable for larger enterprises with complex environments. If you have a complex environment, AlgoSec is a good choice, but for smaller or medium-sized companies with fewer firewalls, it's easier to manage with the console provided by the vendor. If your site has complexities and you deal with multiple firewall vendors, AlgoSec simplifies management. However, if you only have one vendor, it's better to avoid adding more consoles. For environments with multiple vendors and many rules, AlgoSec or any firewall management tool would help.
Overall, I would rate AlgoSec ten out of ten, considering the complexities of the companies I've worked with. The tool needs to be managed by expert teams who understand both the technology and the change process.
Fantastic experience on the Foundations and System Admin training
What do you like best about the product?
The Analyzer and Fireflow features are net level features. Really enjoyed playing around with the Labs within the training.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at this stage. I'm happy with what i've seen so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analyzing Firewall rules and better managing the policies assigned to the Firewall rules ( becoming compliant based on the results filtered from the Analyzer tool )
I am very satisfied with the product.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the automation and optimization results.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm a new user so I don't have any feedback yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rule auditing, rule optimization, rule deletion, rule automation. Performance and time optimization.
Must Have for the most companies!
What do you like best about the product?
It supports the most popular firewall and switch vendors. It can build a network map. Very convenient and friendly interface. There is a module to automate changes. You can find unused rules and merge rules to improve hardware performance and be compliant. It supports many Compliance frameworks as well. A certain number of free licenses are added each year. It is cheaper than similar vendors.
They also have Cloud modules, Application Visibility and other interesting capabilities.
It is a successful project for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since I don't use the product after implementation, I don't have anything to comment on here.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed us to conduct Access List Review much faster and change rules without fear of applications downtime.
Evolving product and lots of things needs to add as feature.
What do you like best about the product?
Security posture , Risk calculation and optimization.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are lots of issue and doesn't support alll feature related to firewall. Then we need to do things manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its somehow helping with Security policy automation , risk and complaince and optimization of rules. It is also benefit with cloud in terms of cloudflow.
Ran into several issues during deployment but has been great after.
What do you like best about the product?
Helps with optimization and management of firewalls.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ran into several issues with deployment and took longer than expected due to this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Optimization and management of firewall policies.
Algosec Review- Automation tool for Firewall On-prem and cloud
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of deployement, integration and adding the firewalls on the algosec, cloud management is easier for all the rules. Finding the insecure communication and risk management or risk analysis is pretty easy.
Reporting will be very helpful to understand all the existing risk in the environment and with the help of the report remediation of the risk is possible in shorter span of time. The rule implementation is simpler and identification of end to end flow can be found with algosec.
We are using it everyday to implement firewall rules.
What do you dislike about the product?
Issues with portal on daily basis, the services goes down intermittently because of some reason or the other. The most common service that is impacted is bflow service and httpd service and we have to open a case everytime to fix the same.
Second you will find issues with creation of duplicate objects everytime you create a rule via algosec, the objects could be service object, address objects.
Customer support is average considering the cost of the service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Automating the policy creation and doing it in shorter span of time.
2. Understanding of infrastructure in terms of security
3. Cloud security and risk analysis
4. Risk remediation.
5. Achieving larger rules in shorter time.
Great firewall management application
What do you like best about the product?
I like how Algosec can anaylze firewall configurations and suggest ways of cleaning it up. Algosec can highlight rules that are unused, objects that are not attached to ACLs and even find rules that perform the ame function and can be consolidated.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have had problems with the application that required a ticket to be created with Algosec that took to long to resolve by the support team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algosec helps to clear the clutter from my firewall configurations.
