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Skybox Security Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.3 out of 10
Score
7.3 out of 10

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TrustRadius Insights for Skybox Security are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Effective Compliance Management: Several users have found that Skybox excels in managing compliance for firewalls compared to other tools they have used. This indicates that the software provides an effective solution for ensuring compliance with firewall policies.

Seamless Integration with Change Management: Users appreciate Skybox's integration with standard change management tools, as it allows change control to flow through the platform. This feature enhances the overall change management process and assists with decision-making and implementation of changes.

Detailed Network Mapping: The level of detail provided by Skybox's network map has been praised by users. It offers more comprehensive information compared to other management tools, allowing users to visualize network paths that might otherwise go undetected. This enhanced understanding of the network infrastructure contributes to better network management and security.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Good product with good visualizations, but needs more features.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This product is being used by specific departments. We are an integrator, and we need a sophisticated tool for change management control to manage firewall policies. It is a centralized tool helping us continuously monitor our policies, firewall rules, and attachsk. This helps ensure compliancy, optimization and security protection.

Pros

  • Firewall change management. It is very important because it helps visualize the effect of a network change or a firewall change before it is applied.
  • It is very user friendly and simple to use with a centralized interface.
  • Has many good modules like the vulnerability control and firewall assurance.
  • Another useful tool is it generates informative reports on all firewalls to help in the risk analysis and assessment of any firewall change on the network. Thus it helps you take any precautions or corrective actions.

Cons

  • It doesn't support and integrate with Microsoft Azure
  • The pricing is quite high compared to others
  • There are a lot of bugs in the solution
  • The implementation is not that easy and takes a long time, it needs to be more automated.

Likelihood to Recommend

<p>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.

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VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Skybox Security
2 years of experience

Excellent product but needs a bit more compatibility with new versions

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for firewall and network assurance, for change tracking, configuration compliance, optimization, and cleanup, etc.

Pros

  • Change tracking
  • Configuration compliance
  • Network map

Cons

  • Compatibility
  • Support

Likelihood to Recommend

It does well on network assurance and some features on firewall assurance. Needs to improve on compatibility, especially with checkpoint.

VU
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Skybox Security
1 year of experience

Skybox - Studies show it is a leader

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Skybox Security is being evaluated to replace similar tools to manage, audit, and insert into change control for next-generation firewalls. We need a tool that works with next-gen firewalls which the current enterprise tool does not support.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • The management console could use work - move away from Java to HTML5 to something more lightweight
  • Dynamic objects are not properly identified in Skybox

Likelihood to Recommend

I can't think where Skybox is not appropriate - maybe in smaller companies depending on fund availability. The developers are constantly improving and getting the system to where it needs to be for management of next-generation firewalls and audit support.

AW
Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP
Security Architect in Information Technology at Securicon, LLC (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Skybox Security
1 year of experience
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Skybox Security for vulnerability management

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm a security consultant and I used Skybox Security for a financial customer with a very big server farm. To make the remediation part of the vulnerability management program faster, I prioritized the vulnerabilities based on the network map and attack vector. With the customer, I discussed the value of every asset (in terms of CIA) and the types of attack vector for every subnet analyzed and after that, I uploaded the results of the vulnerability assessment into Skybox.

Pros

  • Vulnerability prioritization
  • Review of firewall rules
  • Review of routing rules

Cons

  • 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.

Likelihood to Recommend

In a big environment with many server ad network appliances, Skybox works very well to prioritize vulnerabilities in a smart mode and to have a network sight in terms of discovering security holes.

It's not useful for a small company because the cost is expensive and it's possible to make the three tasks above manually.

GA
Gabriele Angeli
Senior Security Consultant in Information Technology at Bip - Business Integration Partners (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Skybox Security
1 year of experience
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