FireMon

FireMon

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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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Considered Both Products	FireMon Verified User Chose FireMon FireMon gives us more flexibility when deploying the solution. Integrates with cutting-edge security solutions Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon Firewall Rule analyzer was used before I joined the company, but I have no experience with it. Incentivized Helpful? Lee Theobald SecOps Manager at Liveperson (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose FireMon OSSEC is open source and FM is much better from GUI and supportability stand points. Tufin and FireMon are very comparable Incentivized Helpful? Anisulla Ali Cyber Security Architect in Information Technology at Altamed (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose FireMon Best Compliance and Auditing tool to to identify the traffic that is hitting this rule. Incentivized Helpful? Jorge Pomachagua Sotomayor Security Specialist in Engineering at NeoSecure (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon i was not involved in the selection however i am quite happy with FireMon as the replacement of our aging product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon We have stuck with FireMon, and there is no reason to leave. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon None Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon NA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon FireMon is way more flexible and the interface is tremendously better than any existing ones. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose FireMon Tufin works much better with CheckPoint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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: Its UI was more unified and intuitive across the different components and products The reporting was better suited … Incentivized Helpful? Blake Wofford Network Engineer in Information Technology at Enterprise Holdings (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees) Chose FireMon Tufin and Skybox are products that I've analyzed over the past few years, but never purchased. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful?
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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)