Azure Firewall Manager vs. Skybox Security

WAF is great for apps hosted within Azure. It allows for great security as well as funneling traffic out through Azure rather than having to bring it back on-prem to your internal firewall to then go back out. Can really give too much of a reason for a situation where it doesn’t work as it has been used in one particular situation.

Incentivized

For any customer that has a complex network environment spanning globally, skybox helps manage firewall policy compliance for many vendors quite easy. It has a variety of security and network vendors that it is compatible with in its database.

• Anti -Spam and protection against phishing.
• Endpoint Security.
• DDOS Protection.

Incentivized

• Change tracking
• Configuration compliance
• Network map

Incentivized

• Functionality
• Setup is difficult.
• Networking

Incentivized

• It doesn't support and integrate with Microsoft Azure
• The pricing is quite high compared to others
• There are a lot of bugs in the solution
• The implementation is not that easy and takes a long time, it needs to be more automated.

It is user friendly and quite easy to use. It centralizes all info in one portal and generates good reports to help you visualize and assess your change management decision

The support team needs to be improved especially in their response and awareness about recent bugs in their solution. For example, sometimes they are not aware about how to integrate specific vendors like Microsoft Azure and they still don't have answers to it until now.

We Selected Azure Firewall Manager because of its reliable service and Security, which they provide across our network architecture.

Incentivized

Skybox performs better than Tufin and RedSeal and while AlgoSec performs as well, it requires far more manual configuration and customization than Skybox

Incentivized

• Reduced time required to manage multiple products
• Increased network visability
• Good logs for audits

Incentivized

• Reduces cost in terms of time and money to spend in remediation activity.
• Improve the network topology and then it's possibile to reduce cost of network/security appliances where they're not necessary.
• The cost of the solution is not trivial when the number of network appliances is big.

Incentivized