AlgoSec vs FireMon

AlgoSec

It is well suited for firewall security optimisation, tuning, change management and application discovery.

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Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

FireMon

FireMon Security Manager is well suited for anyone who is working within security, remediation, or architecture for their company's network. FireMon's report library enables the user to run reports in order to analyse, change, check compliance and health check, and usage for environment. It quickly identifies rules that can be/need to be cleaned up within the environment, particularly rules that are disabled or need description.

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Jackie Duarte

Senior IT Security Consultant-IRM

OptumInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AlgoSec

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FireMon

8.4

Policy planning and rule management

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8.7

Automated Policy Orchestration

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9.1

Device Discovery

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7.5

Policy Compliance Auditing

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8.6

Attack Path Simulation Testing

—

7.7

Firewall Rule Cleanup

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8.8

Pros

Firewall rule optimization
Regulatory and baseline compliance analysis/mapping
Policy tuning
Application discovery
Automated Change management

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Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Configuration changes, it can monitor and alerts any change on the firewall through email alerts.
Optimised firewall rules , FireMon easily identify the unused firewall rules, duplicate rules, shadowed rules.
Traffic Flow Analysis help a lot to further discover, tightening rules such as ANY rules configured on the firewall.

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Johnson Ditching

Senior Technical Support Engineer

AptSecure Technologies Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Enhanced integration via API (typically, this is only known by few Algosec users)

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Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Needs more supported devices and firewall supported vendors.
Needs to push other add on modules to show the full capability of the FireMon Security Manager. eg policy planner, policy optimiser, risk analysis.
Needs aggressive marketing in the Philippine Market. A lot of customers are not aware that there is a solution for firewall optimization and management.
A lot of add on features are not introduced or not being used by the customer.

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Senior Technical Support Engineer

AptSecure Technologies Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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FireMon9.1

Based on 2 answers

We use the tool frequently and it is integrated into our processes.

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Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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FireMon8.2

Based on 1 answer

For the most part, using the tool is straight forward. Some of the menus could use some work on usability.

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Support

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FireMon7.7

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The reason I rate FireMon so high overall because the support that this application provides me to accomplish my work is really solid. Anytime I've run into an issue using FireMon the support team was quick to respond and remediate the problem. Additionally, this tool is very user-friendly compared to other applications that are competitors to FireMon. The training that was provided to learn how to use FireMon was thorough and helpful in acquainting me with this application.

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Jackie Duarte

Senior IT Security Consultant-IRM

OptumInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation

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FireMon9.1

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Implementation is fairly simple. Most issues can be resolved by referencing manuals.

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Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

User friendliness of Algosec is great!

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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FireMon met all of our needs, no other products were evaluated.

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Jamie Hudson

Information Systems Auditor

LegalShieldInsurance, 501-1000 employees

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Scalability

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FireMon8.2

Based on 9 answers

We have encountered no issues scaling or changing systems that feed the data. Upgrades are straight forward.

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Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Increased employee efficiency
Application auto-mapping
Enhanced change control management

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We are managing larger number of client's security devices using FireMon and it reduced our backlog for routine changes.
By using FireMon's well-designed UI and great features like traffic analysis, removable rules report and compliance auditing etc, we are able to archive our goals in one central console, it saved manpower and reduced human errors.

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Computer & Network Security Company, 1001-5000 employees

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