A solution with a good interface that can be used for firewall policy management
What is our primary use case?
We use AlgoSec for firewall policy management.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of AlgoSec is its firewall analyzer. AlgoSec also has a better interface.
What needs improvement?
AlgoSec's audit management is not good enough and can be improved. Also, AlgoSec should be made more scalable.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using AlgoSec for around one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
AlgoSec is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
AlgoSec is not a scalable solution. Only I use AlgoSec in our company to do firewall management.
How was the initial setup?
It is moderately easy to set up AlgoSec.
What about the implementation team?
Two staff were involved in AlgoSec's deployment, which took around three hours.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing AlgoSec, we evaluated Tufin as an option. We chose AlgoSec because it has a better interface.
What other advice do I have?
AlgoSec is a good firewall management tool for organizations with multiple firewall levels. If you only have two or three firewall levels, then AlgoSec is not worth investing in.
Overall, I rate AlgoSec an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Algosec Firewall Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
Algosec Firewall Analyzer is used to monitize firewalls policy and rules. It will also used to mature your network policies. If a policy is already defined it highlights that policy and you can merge the policy.
What do you dislike about the product?
User creation and assigning roles is little bit difficult. While upgrading we have to upload packages files which can be downloaded from algosec website but downloading takes time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algosec Firewall Analyzer is used to monitize firewalls policy and rules. It will also used to mature your network policies. If a policy is already defined it highlights that policy and you can merge the policy.
AlgoSec Training and Product Review
What do you like best about the product?
Algosec can provide some insight into firewall policies and network traffic. This can be helpful when implementing or managing firewalls. The AlgoSec training team was great and quite helpful with any questions we had.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some downsides of AlgoSec are that it seems to need some updates as it relates to UX and potentially some more outlined integrations. Specifically with cloud platforms and tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AlgoSec provides insight into firewall policies. This visibility helps with fine-tuning policies and identifying any policies that may not be required. Managing your firewalls becomes easier with this product.
Management
What do you like best about the product?
Algosec is not just a solution for a firewall. Because, firewall, data center switch, web proxy, load balancer etc. It can be integrated with many different systems. It is easy to use. The analysis reports it produces are very valuable and life-saving.
What do you dislike about the product?
Technically I like the product. However, I do not like the way of licensing products in the Turkish market. I think this is a very serious problem in terms of competition. I have stated this several times; but I guess it was ignored.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AlgoSec is solving several problems related to network security management that can benefit organizations in various ways.For us main benefit was single pane of glass over all policies over whole network as well as documented and automated policy deployment tool.
useful tool when you deal with multivendor complex firewall environment
What do you like best about the product?
Comprehensive network visibility: AlgoSec provides a holistic view of the network, which makes it easier to identify and manage potential security risks.
Efficient security policy management: With AlgoSec, it's possible to manage security policies across multiple platforms from a single console. This makes it much easier to enforce consistent security policies across the network.
Simplified auditing and compliance reporting: AlgoSec makes it easy to generate detailed reports on network activity, which is important for compliance with industry regulations and audits.
Automated risk analysis and prioritization: AlgoSec uses machine learning algorithms to analyze network data and identify potential risks. This enables IT teams to focus their efforts on the most critical issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
For some of my colleagues it took time to get onboarded...but its worth it
Also we had a bit strugle introducing some of our multi-context firewalls. But fixed that eventually with support of algosec
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AlgoSec is solving several problems related to network security management that can benefit organizations in various ways.
For us main benefit was single pane of glass over all policies over whole network as well as documented and automated policy deployment tool.
Right Solution for Business Continuity
What do you like best about the product?
Given that we use numerous firewalls in our customer environment, it is very convenient to administer and configure, and optimising the firewall settings is a great feature
What do you dislike about the product?
There have been no negative experiences to now, although it looks challenging to combine different security vendors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The issue of managing and upholding network security policies across extensive and complicated networks is resolved by AlgoSec. It gives users access to a unified platform for managing rules and automating numerous rote operations, which increases visibility, lowers risk, and ensures adherence to legal and regulatory requirements. Security teams can concentrate on other important duties by using AlgoSec to help manage network security rules with less time and resources necessary.
I was able to improve my understanding of the network infrastructure and make sure that the security rules were current and in line with legal and industry requirements thanks to AlgoSec. This can lower the possibility of security breaches and strengthen your organization's general security posture.
Powerful product to optimize FWs
What do you like best about the product?
I had to compare several products in the market mainly to keep our firewalls clean and optimized. Algosec was the best in my shortlist concerning correct reports and recommendations. It has powerful tools on top of FW optimization, which is traffic simulation query.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't optimize NAT rules and VPN access rules/lists in Cisco ASAs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can keep track of traffic and hits on access rules, giving us the proper recommendations for tweaking and removing unused objects. Nice to have it to remove unused or unattached objects. Policy Optimization is the place that I mostly use in day-to-day work.
It's been a wonderful experience using algosec. Navigation around the solution has been seemless
What do you like best about the product?
Report generation has been great and helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
Some devices are not discoverable. Like Sophos
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall device analysis and risk and risky rules compliance
Take Control of Your Network Security With AlgoSec: A Comprehensive Review
What do you like best about the product?
AlgoSec is a comprehensive security management platform that helps organizations streamline and automate security policy management. It simplifies the process of ensuring that your applications and networks are secure while maintaining compliance with internal policies, industry regulations, and external threats.
AlgoSec's strength lies in its ability to provide a unified platform for managing security policies across multiple networks and devices. With its intuitive visual interface, Al
What do you dislike about the product?
AlgoSec is a comprehensive application security management system that provides organizations with the ability to automate security policy management and analyze the security posture of their application environment. The thing I dislike the most about AlgoSec is the complexity of the user interface. While AlgoSec offers a variety of features and tools, navigating the UI can be a bit challenging, especially for users who are unfamiliar with the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AlgoSec is an enterprise software that helps organizations gain more visibility and control into their network security policies. It provides automated network security policy management, which helps organizations to quickly identify and identify security threats, evaluate their exposure to potential vulnerabilities, and identify how to respond to them. This helps organizations ensure compliance with security regulations and reduce the overhead costs associated with manual security policy management. It also helps organizations to streamline their security operations, reduce the risk of security incidents, and improve the performance of their networks. In addition, AlgoSec helps organizations to identify and remediate our compliance issues, reduce complexity, and increase scalability. This helps to improve the overall security posture of an organization and protect them against malicious threats.
Excellent product for multiple firewall manage in one pain of window.
What do you like best about the product?
Algosec Recommend policies according to various compliance bodies like HIPPA / PCIDSS
What do you dislike about the product?
Fireflow flow needs to improve to enhance workflow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algosec helps to manage multi vendor firewall under one roof so for an engineer becomes easy to manage multi firewall from single pain of glass.