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AlgoSec vs FireMon

AlgoSec
2 Ratings
FireMon
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83 Ratings

AlgoSec

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Score 8 out of 100

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FireMon

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Score 7.8 out of 100

Based on 83 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

AlgoSec

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

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FireMon

I would strongly recommend FireMon for any IT/Security department that must maintain and support multiple firewall platforms. FireMon's ability to create a unified interface to view, audit, and even implement rules in a vendor-agnostic manner is excellent.If PCI audits are an issue, and providing firewall reports for PCI is difficult, this is something FireMon solves immediately out of the box.If a business is entirely using a single firewall platform, FireMon still provides benefits, but the recommendation would not be quite as strong depending on the capabilities of the native management platform.

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Pros

AlgoSec

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

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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FireMon

  • FireMon provides a live view in to firewalls across the enterprise in a single tool.
  • Policy Planner is customizable, and can be fit to your company's workflow requirements, to include API for Service Now.
  • FireMon provides policy testing capability, and traffic flow analysis, which is critical for timely troubleshooting.

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Ken Sharp | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

AlgoSec

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

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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

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Likelihood to Renew

AlgoSec

No score
No answers yet
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FireMon

FireMon 9.1
Based on 3 answers
It improves documentation, save time and easy to use

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Usability

AlgoSec

No score
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FireMon

FireMon 7.3
Based on 3 answers
For the most part, using the tool is straight forward. Some of the menus could use some work on usability.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Support Rating

AlgoSec

No score
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FireMon

FireMon 7.7
Based on 34 answers
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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Eric Garcia | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Implementation Rating

AlgoSec

No score
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FireMon

FireMon 9.1
Based on 2 answers
Implementation is fairly simple. Most issues can be resolved by referencing manuals.

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Alternatives Considered

AlgoSec

User friendliness of Algosec is great!

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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 a few years and FireMon was able to provide us with what we needed, and we felt comfortable that they would support the direction we were going. By far they were they were the most engaged with the vetting process.

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Scalability

AlgoSec

No score
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FireMon

FireMon 7.5
Based on 28 answers
As a security professional let me first acknowledge that I know better than to say or document much in a public forum. That being said I have recently had reasons to sit down and future proof our current implementation. We're as virtual as virtual can be - if we acquired 300% of our current device load tomorrow responding to that need (aside from licensing) would just be a matter of spinning up more VM's in house, and cutting the appropriate tickets for where syslog info gets sent.

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Daniel James | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

AlgoSec

  • Increased employee efficiency
  • Application auto-mapping
  • Enhanced change control management

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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FireMon

  • The tool provides consistent, measurable compliance reports that help keep our business safe.
  • There was no migration path from version 7 to version 8. An audit requires seven years of records, so the old system needed to stay active despite support ending. There was no easy way to export the ticket information for storage and reference.
  • There have been some licensing challenges and confusion over how devices need to be licensed.

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Pricing Details

AlgoSec

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

FireMon

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

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