#1 most frequent
United States of America
45.2%163 installations of 361
What is AlgoSec?
AlgoSec, 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.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Policy planning and rule management
Monitor the effectiveness of network security infrastructure
Category average: 8.9
Policy Compliance Auditing
Automatic identification of gaps in compliance, remediation, and generation of compliance reports for auditors
Category average: 8.2
Firewall Rule Cleanup
Ability to detect and cleanup rules that are either partially or completely unused, expired or shadowed
Category average: 8.9
Areas for Improvement
Automated Policy Orchestration
Automatically brings together all security controls in one place, automates changes and collapses risks
Category average: 7.8
Device Discovery
Ability to automatically find all devices connected to the network
Category average: 8.2
Attack Path Simulation Testing
Simulation of potential attack paths to expose network exposure
Category average: 7.9
Who Buys & Uses AlgoSec
#2 most frequent
France
8.3%30 installations of 361
#3 most frequent
Canada
6.4%23 installations of 361
AlgoSec for security auditing
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use AlgoSec to perform firewall audits ensuring there are no rule overlap and risky configurations are removed. It is also used to alert on any changes to the edge network environment and initially we were hoping the product would allow us to identify who made the changes as well, but it was unable to provide that ability.
Pros
- Traffic emulation to identify if IP traffic can flow between two points.
- Network device mapping is okay, but no better than other solutions.
- Identification of risky configurations and recommendations for remediation.
Cons
- Network mapping. Can't save any customized views unless you are an administrator.
- Rule identification. Really difficult to quickly identify rules that apply to ports and devices your are looking at.
- Can't identify who made firewall changes if AlgoSec does the change with its service account.
Return on Investment
- We never really got the solution to work properly for cloud and will be replacing it when licensing expires.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
AlgoSec is a very competitive firewall policy analyzer and manager available in the market.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- The patching in AlgoSec is not that great. Many a times when they fix a issue, another one is created.
- Traffic Simulation and Fireflow can use some improvement. User defined flow customisation needs a good amount of training.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
FireMon and Cisco Security Services
Other Software Used
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services, Amazon Web Services, Lucidchart, Terraform, by HashiCorp, Windows Server
Algosec: The business-driven security management
Pros
- Complete network policy visibility.
- Firewalls rule optimization.
- Automatically generate the reports for all leading industry regulations.
Cons
- AlgoSec need to work on their support in India.
- Insufficient documentation.
- It should support other platforms like GCP, Alibaba, etc.
Return on Investment
- By generating automatic reports based upon regulatory industries, AlgoSec reduces the audit preparation efforts and costs.
- Simulate the traffic query to see where traffic is blocked and automate the policy creation.
- Firewall rules optimization and cleanup.
- Identify and Mitigate risks and associate them to business applications.
Alternatives Considered
Tufin Orchestration Suite
Other Software Used
Tufin Orchestration Suite, Cisco Defense Orchestrator, FireMon
Algosec- Firewall Management at Ease
Pros
- Firewall rule optimization
- Regulatory and baseline compliance analysis/mapping
- Policy tuning
- Application discovery
- Automated Change management
Cons
- Enhanced integration via API (typically, this is only known by few Algosec users)
Return on Investment
- Increased employee efficiency
- Application auto-mapping
- Enhanced change control management