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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AlgoSec

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAlgoSec, from the company of the same name in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, is a firewall security management option. The service now includes the CMDB capabilities of Prevasio, which was acquired by AlgoSec.N/A

    FireMon

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    FireMon is a real-time security policy management solution built for today’s complex multi-vendor, enterprise environments. Supporting the latest firewall and policy enforcement technologies spanning on-premises networks to the cloud, FireMon delivers visibility and control across the entire IT landscape to automate policy changes, meet compliance standards, to minimize policy-related risk. Since creating their policy management solution in 2004, FireMon states they've helped…N/A
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    AlgoSecFireMon
    Editions & Modules
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    AlgoSecFireMon
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AlgoSecFireMon
    Considered Both Products
    AlgoSec
    Chose AlgoSec
    Algosec has multi vendor support including cisco aci, nsx, aws and azure security groups. While most other vendors are lacking in the spectrum of the vendors. The ROI is best on this product.
    Incentivized
    Chose AlgoSec
    Algosec is user-friendly and easy to implement and manage. The best part is it can be installed on-premises as well as on the cloud. It visualizes the complex networks and creates a dynamic network topology map. Using Firewall Analyzer, security and operations teams can …
    Incentivized
    FireMon
    Chose FireMon
    AlgoSec and Tufin both are good tools but the cost involved for what they offer as services led us to go with Firemon.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    To be blunt, at the time of purchase most of these products appeared to do the same things in the same ways. What really brought us to the table with FireMon six years ago was their willingness to earn our business, and to this day they remain just as committed to keeping our …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    AlgoSec is a great tool, lower in cost as well.

    FireMon has alot of capabilites, but our organization is not ready or have a use case yet for those features.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    We performed a head-to-head PoC between FireMon and AlgoSec several years ago. Both platforms were well developed, but FireMon had the upper hand in three areas:
    1. Its UI was more unified and intuitive across the different components and products
    2. The reporting was better suited …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    AlgoSec and Tufin both have initial issues during the POC stage, and FireMon even though with the changes they have made still works better and is more user friendly.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    I already had experience with the Tufin and AlgoSec products, and the customization that FireMon provides is just not available with the other products. The licensing of FireMon over AlgoSec is another winner for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Technically speaking FireMon Security Manager scored higher than the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer. It is also less expensive than other solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    FireMon has the most supported devices.
    The UI is easy to use and intuitive.
    There is a comprehensive list of built in compliance controls that are missing in the competition.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    We were impressed with FireMon's native cloud support and compliance reporting, in looking at other vendors we were not too impressed by their ability to support cloud-native technologies and their reporting was less than stellar. We did not want a solution that would last only …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    For our use case, only FireMon met our needs with the systems we use.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    AlgoSecFireMon
    Firewall Security Management
    Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of AlgoSec and FireMon
    Feature
    AlgoSec
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    0% above category average
    FireMon
    -
    Ratings
    Policy planning and rule management9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Policy Orchestration7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device Discovery7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy Compliance Auditing9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attack Path Simulation Testing7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Scans8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Rule Cleanup9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AlgoSecFireMon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.9
    (69 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (48 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlgoSecFireMon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AlgoSec
    It works okay for auditing existing network systems but seems to have trouble with cloud configurations.
    Incentivized
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    FireMon
    FireMon is best used in a large environment (for example, I have >100
    firewalls in my environment). It's best used when trying to improve
    security posture and showing changes in firewall security over time. It
    might not be the best choice for smaller environments or those that aren't concerned about security management.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    AlgoSec
    • Firewall policy overview and optimisation by rule reordering and suggestions to delete unused rules
    • Network map overview and implement topology changes based on source destination and port
    • Pci audit results and recommendations for a better score
    • Discover application based flows through auto-discovery and make changes to those flow.
    Incentivized
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    FireMon
    • Give good real time reporting for anyone making a change to any of our firewalls
    • Provides good reporting tools that are out of box
    • Provide good customization tools that is specific to our needs
    • Upgrades are a simple process and support does relatively well with assisting us.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    AlgoSec
    • AlgoSec need to work on their support in India.
    • Insufficient documentation.
    • It should support other platforms like GCP, Alibaba, etc.
    Incentivized
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    FireMon
    • Some features could be added to the existing functionality which include NAT rules usage
    • Rule expiration normalization from firewalls rather than entering them in rule documentation
    • .csv exports of the files from the firewall pane only gives usage for 30 days by default and that should be increased
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    AlgoSec
    No answers on this topic
    FireMon
    The shell is locked out and we can't run any general centos commands. The implementation and maintainence of the arch is very complex. Even with the right identifiers on log messages the log collection keeps failing. The warning messages on the device are ambiguous. The log messages on firemon are a bit confusing and don't show the exact issue.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    AlgoSec
    It worked great for on-site systems but does not scale effectively.
    Incentivized
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    FireMon
    It save me time and I'm able to have the review - review the rule independently with using my time.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    AlgoSec
    No answers on this topic
    FireMon
    FireMon has been relatively stable overall. However, there have been a handful of times where we had issues with the console. For example, we couldn't update which devices to include in a security assessment. The initial suggestion from support was to just reboot it. It seems like there weren't many other options available such as to restart services before going to the extreme of a complete reboot.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    AlgoSec
    No answers on this topic
    FireMon
    I'm not sure we have the largest implementation of FireMon out there but we do have a few 1000 devices being probed by FireMon. Overall, the system's performance has been rock solid. The console refreshes quickly and reports are generated within an expected timeframe.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    AlgoSec
    No answers on this topic
    FireMon
    FireMon technical support is awesome! They respond quickly to our requests and they are well trained and very knowledgeable about the tool. Some issues have to be referred to the development team, but technical support largely provides solutions for any issues that we may have.
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    Implementation Rating
    AlgoSec
    No answers on this topic
    FireMon
    Implementation is fairly simple. Most issues can be resolved by referencing manuals.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    AlgoSec
    User friendliness of Algosec is great!
    Incentivized
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    FireMon
    I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can easily import firewalls and begin to work on them to improve them
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    AlgoSec
    No answers on this topic
    FireMon
    Firemon Is easily scalable and maintainable with any size team. Although it requires some tech debt, it is well worth the time to invest to ensure compliance is visible and reports are accurate. Although our environment is very large we do not fully utilize the scalability of the Firemon product.
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    Return on Investment
    AlgoSec
    • Algosec has helped customers across the globe optimize their firewall policies and bring the best performance off their devices
    • AlgoSec supports a wide range of devices and is constantly working to include support for many others
    • The support and professional services team at AlgoSec is very knowledgeable and supportive.
    Incentivized
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    FireMon
    • FireMon's Compliance Reporting provided an immediate and tangible benefit
    • FireMon helps identify egregious or erroneous rules quickly across multiple platforms
    • FireMon took our audit process from an Excel spreadsheet into a far more advanced process with readily available context for reviewers
    Incentivized
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