AlgoSec vs Skybox Security

As far as policy management goes, AlgoSec is the best one available in the market and no competing vendors like tufin and FireMon are any close.

For any customer that has a complex network environment spanning globally, skybox helps manage firewall policy compliance for many vendors quite easy. It has a variety of security and network vendors that it is compatible with in its database.

• Complete network policy visibility.
• Firewalls rule optimization.
• Automatically generate the reports for all leading industry regulations.

• Skybox manages compliance for firewalls better than we have seen with other tools.
• Skybox integrates into standard change management tools so change control can flow through Skybox and assist with all decisions to implement a change.
• The Skybox network map is more detailed than other management tools showing us paths other tools didn't find.

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

• User experience. On the first approach, it's not the simplest tool that I have ever used.
• Web-based console. In my honest opinion it's very important [to have] this type of functionality to extend the use of Skybox.
• Too many updates of the product.

It is user friendly and quite easy to use. It centralizes all info in one portal and generates good reports to help you visualize and assess your change management decision

The support team needs to be improved especially in their response and awareness about recent bugs in their solution. For example, sometimes they are not aware about how to integrate specific vendors like Microsoft Azure and they still don't have answers to it until now.

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.

CloudGuard Dome9 does not have a suite for an on-premise datacenter.

• 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.

• Overall ROI is good as this product is an augmentation for us but we already have a mature security program with an experienced security team so the ROI is high.