AlgoSec vs. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB

It works okay for auditing existing network systems but seems to have trouble with cloud configurations.

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Micro Focus Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB is well suited for medium to large IT operations after a careful review and strategy definition of all support tools that will be integrated. When it comes to deciding on a set of tools for IT operation management and its different processes like Incident, event, and change management; a good approach would be to create a roadmap with the integrated suite of tools to create a native ecosystem and reduce complexity on the integration and adoption.

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• 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.

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• Management and organization of Configuration Items
• Ensures a single and uniform source of database to avoid any ambiguity between departments.
• Proper delivery of services

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• AlgoSec need to work on their support in India.
• Insufficient documentation.
• It should support other platforms like GCP, Alibaba, etc.

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• When getting started the Cloud deployment may be not that easy.
• To manipulate the system deeply requires a professional operator.
• Working on large data project.

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It worked great for on-site systems but does not scale effectively.

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Old versions which do not support CMS have a luck of user experience and performance for reports and service modeling.

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Some complex issues regarding performance and platform upgrades have been difficult to address and have short time solutions.

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Upgrades from old versions were really hard to handle.

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User friendliness of Algosec is great!

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Quite competing products but short learning curve and fitment in our IT Landscape were main differentiators.

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• 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.

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• ensured proper service delivery which helped organizations to grow
• It was a little expensive for the company.
• Mainly had a positive impact especially in the cases of risk assessment and analysis.

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