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    FireMon

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    FireMon is a real-time security policy management solution built for today’s complex multi-vendor, enterprise environments. Supporting the latest firewall and policy enforcement technologies spanning on-premises networks to the cloud, FireMon delivers visibility and control across the entire IT landscape to automate policy changes, meet compliance standards, to minimize policy-related risk. Since creating their policy management solution in 2004, FireMon states they've helped…N/A
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    FireMon
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    FireMon
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    FireMon
    Considered Both Products
    FireMon
    Chose FireMon
    FireMon gives us more flexibility when deploying the solution. Integrates with cutting-edge security solutions
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    We have only used firemon and there hasn't been a need to consider other products as we are satisfied with what Firemon can do.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Firewall Rule analyzer was used before I joined the company, but I have no experience with it.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    OSSEC is open source and FM is much better from GUI and supportability stand points. Tufin and FireMon are very comparable
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Best Compliance and Auditing tool to to identify the traffic that is hitting this rule.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    I was not involved on the decision but having multiple brands in the company make sense to use a tool such as Firemon because it integrates easily with multiple vendors.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    AlgoSec and Tufin both are good tools but the cost involved for what they offer as services led us to go with Firemon.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    i was not involved in the selection however i am quite happy with FireMon as the replacement of our aging product.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    We have stuck with FireMon, and there is no reason to leave.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    The Dell product ran on its own hardware, which failed often. The reports were not available to us in real-time, we had to request them. Many false detections of issues.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
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    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Both perform admirably with regards to providing that single pane of glass and visibility in a normalized view. They both provide great insight into where your organization stands in terms of compliance controls. In terms of upgrading and scalability, I would have to give the …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
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    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    FireMon has the most supported devices.
    The UI is easy to use and intuitive.
    There is a comprehensive list of built in compliance controls that are missing in the competition.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    To be blunt, at the time of purchase most of these products appeared to do the same things in the same ways. What really brought us to the table with FireMon six years ago was their willingness to earn our business, and to this day they remain just as committed to keeping our …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    FireMon is way more flexible and the interface is tremendously better than any existing ones.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    AlgoSec is a great tool, lower in cost as well.

    FireMon has alot of capabilites, but our organization is not ready or have a use case yet for those features.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Tufin works much better with CheckPoint.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    They are two very well done tools, FireMon is better suited for firewall rules evaluation, configuration and review, Tenable.io is better suited for CIS benchmarking. We ended up using both of them in the end, it really depends of your needs and what you are looking for, the …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Nothing like FireMon. We have other tools but 99% of them are looking at specific areas and not the enterprise security on a dashboard.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    We performed a head-to-head PoC between FireMon and AlgoSec several years ago. Both platforms were well developed, but FireMon had the upper hand in three areas:
    1. Its UI was more unified and intuitive across the different components and products
    2. The reporting was better suited …
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    Tufin and Skybox are products that I've analyzed over the past few years, but never purchased.
    Incentivized
    Chose FireMon
    AlgoSec and Tufin both have initial issues during the POC stage, and FireMon even though with the changes they have made still works better and is more user friendly.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
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    FireMon
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco IOS Security
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FireMon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (69 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.8
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.9
    (48 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FireMon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FireMon
    FireMon is best used in a large environment (for example, I have >100
    firewalls in my environment). It's best used when trying to improve
    security posture and showing changes in firewall security over time. It
    might not be the best choice for smaller environments or those that aren't concerned about security management.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    FireMon
    • Give good real time reporting for anyone making a change to any of our firewalls
    • Provides good reporting tools that are out of box
    • Provide good customization tools that is specific to our needs
    • Upgrades are a simple process and support does relatively well with assisting us.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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
    FireMon
    The shell is locked out and we can't run any general centos commands. The implementation and maintainence of the arch is very complex. Even with the right identifiers on log messages the log collection keeps failing. The warning messages on the device are ambiguous. The log messages on firemon are a bit confusing and don't show the exact issue.
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    Usability
    FireMon
    It save me time and I'm able to have the review - review the rule independently with using my time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    FireMon
    FireMon has been relatively stable overall. However, there have been a handful of times where we had issues with the console. For example, we couldn't update which devices to include in a security assessment. The initial suggestion from support was to just reboot it. It seems like there weren't many other options available such as to restart services before going to the extreme of a complete reboot.
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    Performance
    FireMon
    I'm not sure we have the largest implementation of FireMon out there but we do have a few 1000 devices being probed by FireMon. Overall, the system's performance has been rock solid. The console refreshes quickly and reports are generated within an expected timeframe.
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    Support Rating
    FireMon
    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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    Implementation Rating
    FireMon
    Implementation is fairly simple. Most issues can be resolved by referencing manuals.
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    Alternatives Considered
    FireMon
    I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can easily import firewalls and begin to work on them to improve them
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    Scalability
    FireMon
    Firemon Is easily scalable and maintainable with any size team. Although it requires some tech debt, it is well worth the time to invest to ensure compliance is visible and reports are accurate. Although our environment is very large we do not fully utilize the scalability of the Firemon product.
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    Return on Investment
    FireMon
    • FireMon's Compliance Reporting provided an immediate and tangible benefit
    • FireMon helps identify egregious or erroneous rules quickly across multiple platforms
    • FireMon took our audit process from an Excel spreadsheet into a far more advanced process with readily available context for reviewers
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