AlgoSec is a company focused on securing application connectivity across complex, hybrid network environments. Their flagship product, the AlgoSec Horizon Platform, provides an application-centric approach to security management, offering deep visibility, automated security changes, and continuous compliance. The company emphasizes unifying on-premises and cloud security, enabling faster application delivery while improving security posture and reducing risk. Founded in 2004, AlgoSec boasts a significant customer base, including many large enterprises.
Application-Centric Security Management
AlgoSec’s core philosophy revolves around managing security based on applications rather than just infrastructure. Applications are the backbone of modern business; therefore the Horizon platform provides an application-centric view of the hybrid network, enabling better communication between business and security teams. This approach aims to help organizations deliver business applications faster while achieving a heightened security posture. The platform helps to auto-discover application dependencies and traffic flows, providing crucial context for security policy management.
AlgoSec explicitly targets the challenges of managing security across hybrid environments, encompassing both datacenters and multi-cloud networks. The Horizon platform is described as the industry’s first application-centric security management platform for the hybrid network environment. It aims to unify these disparate environments, ensuring seamless connectivity, robust security, and continuous compliance.
AlgoSec serves over 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations in 80 countries including 20 of the Fortune 50 in various verticals, including Finance, Managed Security Service Providers, Insurance, Telecommunications, Healthcare, and Government.
Key Capabilities of the AlgoSec Horizon Platform
- Visibility: The platform offers deep visibility and helps to easily discover, identify, map and analyze business applications and security policies across the entire hybrid network.
- Automation: AlgoSec emphasizes the ability to automate security changes and accelerate application delivery from weeks to hours through intelligent application connectivity and change automation.
- Compliance: The platform helps organizations ensure continuous compliance and maintain application-centric compliance. It also assists in identifying and resolving compliance gaps in the cloud and datacenter.
Risk Mitigation: AlgoSec enables users to prioritize risk mitigation based on business context and map network security risks to applications.