Skybox Security vs. Titania Nipper

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.

When critical networking gear, such as a main firewall needs to be quickly audited.

Incentivized

• Change tracking
• Configuration compliance
• Network map

Incentivized

• Easy to use tool, with a low impact in network traffic.
• Support from the vendor (for any enquiries or problems).
• Quick in creating the reports that we need.
• Licensing costs are low in comparison to other solution/vendors.

Incentivized

• 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.

• We definitely need support for a wider range of smaller vendors of equipment
• Better summary of conflicting access control lists would help

Incentivized

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.

Skybox performs better than Tufin and RedSeal and while AlgoSec performs as well, it requires far more manual configuration and customization than Skybox

Incentivized

Although Nipper from Titania helps in auditing accurately every device in the network and helps in prioritizing the fixies, it is really useful for the part of the firewall in a network and also for the quick making of reports which are also customizable. But from our experience, the Qualys solution for scanning the networks, although is more costly, it also has more features and options in regards to assessing a network and the elements connected to the network, though it is also somehow less powerful when it comes to creating quick reports. Qualys has a more interface and dashboard approach regarding the results of the scans.

Incentivized

• Reduces cost in terms of time and money to spend in remediation activity.
• Improve the network topology and then it's possibile to reduce cost of network/security appliances where they're not necessary.
• The cost of the solution is not trivial when the number of network appliances is big.

Incentivized

• Positive Return on Investment