Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) Tools

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Reviewed by Cem Dilmegani
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Researched by Ezgi Alp, PhD.
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Last update: December 27, 2024

Network security policy management (NSPM) software enables businesses to streamline network security policy design and enforcement. +Show More

Network security policy management (NSPM) software enables businesses to streamline network security policy design and enforcement.

To be included in this list, NSPM software needs to provide these features:

  • Firewall management including support for firewall audits
  • Role-based access control
If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) Tools and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Cybersecurity.
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AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
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Products Position SOAR Integration Firewall Compatibility
Tufin NSPM logo

Tufin NSPM

Niche Player
Fortinet, Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco
Tufin is built to meet the needs of both network and cloud security teams, its solution reduces the attack surface and meets the need for visibility into secure and reliable application connectivity. With 2,000+ customers since its inception, Tufin’s network security automation enables enterprises to implement accurate changes in minutes instead of days, while improving their security posture and business agility.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
3.80 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
6
Latest funding date
April 5, 2022
Features
IPAM Integration
SOAR Integration
TIP Integration
ITSM
Real-time data
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Check Point
Palo Alto
Cisco
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
2004
FortiGate logo

FortiGate

Leader
Fortinet
FortiGate offers a network security platform, designed to deliver threat protection and performance with reduced complexity.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.55 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
10k-20k employees
Company's social media followers
1m-2m followers
Features
IPAM Integration
SOAR Integration
TIP Integration
ITSM
Real-time data
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Microsoft System Center logo

Microsoft System Center

Leader
Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco
Microsoft System Center helps customers realize the benefits of the Microsoft Cloud Platform by delivering unified management. Experience fast time-to-value with out-of-the-box monitoring, provisioning, configuration, automation, protection and self-service.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.10 / 5 based on ~600 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
30m-40m followers
Features
SOAR Integration
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Check Point
Cisco
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2011
AlgoSec logo

AlgoSec

Leader
Fortinet, Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
30-40 case studies
Company's number of employees
400-1k employees
Company's social media followers
40k-50k followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
1
Latest funding date
January 3, 2018
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Features
IPAM Integration
SOAR Integration
TIP Integration
ITSM
Real-time data
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Check Point
Palo Alto
Cisco
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2003
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security logo

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security

Leader
Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco
CloudGuard Cloud Network Security, a component of the CloudGuard Cloud Native Security platform. The product offers microsegmentation, threat mitigation, and automated cloud network protection via a virtual security terminal across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.50 / 5 based on ~100 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
5k-10k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
SOAR Integration
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Check Point
Cisco
Qualys VMDR logo

Qualys VMDR

Challenger
Fortinet
Qualys VMDR is an all-in-one risk-based vulnerability management solution that quantifies cyber risk. It gives organizations unprecedented insights into their risk posture and provides actionable steps to reduce risk. It also gives cybersecurity and IT teams a shared platform to collaborate, and the power to quickly align and automate no-code workflows to respond to threats with automated remediation and integrations with ITSM solutions such as ServiceNow.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.18 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
2k-3k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
November 22, 2004
Last funding amount
$5-10m
Features
IPAM Integration
SOAR Integration
TIP Integration
ITSM
Real-time data
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
1999
FireMon logo

FireMon

Challenger
Fortinet, Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.13 / 5 based on ~80 reviews
Market presence
Number of case studies
10-20 case studies
Company's number of employees
200-300 employees
Company's social media followers
10k-20k followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
2
Latest funding date
September 1, 2020
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Features
IPAM Integration
SOAR Integration
TIP Integration
ITSM
Real-time data
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Check Point
Palo Alto
Cisco
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2004
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager logo

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager

Challenger
-
Palo Alto, Cisco
Automated network configuration and change management software
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.55 / 5 based on ~200 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
2k-3k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Features
Firewall Compatibility
Palo Alto
Cisco
Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) logo

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Niche Player
-
-
Web application attacks deny services and steal sensitive data. Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) analyzes and inspects requests coming in to applications and stops these attacks.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.80 / 5 based on ~40 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
AWS Firewall Manager logo

AWS Firewall Manager

Niche Player
-
Fortinet, Palo Alto
AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that makes it easier to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules across your accounts and applications.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.40 / 5 based on ~50 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
10m-20m followers
Features
Firewall Compatibility
Fortinet
Palo Alto
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1996

“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.


Sources

AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in network security policy management (NSPM) tools:


33 vendor web domains
17 funding announcements
81 social media profiles
22 profiles on review platforms
36 search engine queries

Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) Tools Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

FortiGate logo
Microsoft System Center logo
AlgoSec logo
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer logo
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security logo

What are network security policy management (NSPM) tools
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current network security policy management (NSPM) tools customer satisfaction leaders:

Microsoft System Center logo
FortiGate logo
AlgoSec logo
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer logo
Qualys VMDR logo

Which network security policy management (NSPM) tools solution provides the most customer satisfaction?

AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.

While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.

  • Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
  • Recency is important as products are always evolving.
  • Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
  • older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.

What are network security policy management (NSPM) tools
market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current network security policy management (NSPM) tools market leaders:

FortiGate logo
Microsoft System Center logo
AlgoSec logo
ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer logo
Qualys VMDR logo

Which one has collected the most reviews?

AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:

  • Product line revenue (when available)
  • Number of reviews
  • Number of case studies
  • Number and experience of employees
  • Social media presence and engagement
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

Microsoft System Center
FortiGate
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager
AlgoSec
Qualys VMDR

What are network security policy management (NSPM) tools feature leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current rpa software feature leaders.

AlgoSec logo
Tufin NSPM logo
FireMon logo
FortiGate logo
Qualys VMDR logo

Which one offers the most features?

AlgoSec, Tufin NSPM, FireMon offer the most feature complete products.

See how features are counted.

AlgoSec
9 features
Tufin NSPM
9 features
FireMon
9 features
FortiGate
6 features
Qualys VMDR
6 features

What are the most mature network security policy management (NSPM) tools?

Which one has the most employees?

IBM logo
Google logo
Dynamic Netsoft Technologies logo
AWS logo
Cisco logo

Which network security policy management (NSPM) tools companies have the most employees?

2,783 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 2,760 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 30 companies with >10 employees are offering network security policy management (nspm) tools. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 800k employees. The largest company in this domain is IBM with more than 300,000 employees. IBM provides the network security policy management (NSPM) tools solution: IBM Network Security

IBM
Google
Dynamic Netsoft Technologies
AWS
Cisco

Insights

What are the most common words describing network security policy management (NSPM) tools?

This data is collected from customer reviews for all network security policy management (NSPM) tools companies. The most positive word describing network security policy management (NSPM) tools is “Easy to use” that is used in 6% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 3% of all the network security policy management (NSPM) tools reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for network security policy management (NSPM) tools customers is 51-1,000 employees. Customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 47% of network security policy management (NSPM) tools customers. For an average Cybersecurity solution, customers with 51-1,000 employees make up 19% of total customers.

Customer Evaluation

These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all network security policy management (NSPM) tools. Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) Tools are most positively evaluated in terms of "Customer Service" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".

Overall
Customer Service
Ease of Use
Likelihood to Recommend
Value For Money

Where are network security policy management (NSPM) tools vendors' HQs located?

What is the level of interest in network security policy management (NSPM) tools?

This category was searched on average for 0 times per month on search engines in 2024. This number is still 0 in 2025. If we compare with other cybersecurity solutions, a typical solution was searched 918 times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.

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