Azure Front Door vs Fortinet FortiWeb comparison

Azure Front Door

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Front Door and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Front Door vs. Fortinet FortiWeb Report (Updated: June 2024).

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Azure Front Door vs. Fortinet FortiWeb

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Front Door

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

CDN (3rd), Microsoft Security Suite (15th)

Fortinet FortiWeb

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Azure Front Door is 3.8%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiWeb is 9.8%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Unique Categories:

CDN

22.7%

Microsoft Security Suite

2.7%

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Featured Reviews

Renato Roque

Azure Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 28, 2023

Seamless global application delivery with features like efficient load balancing, web application firewall and robust traffic routing capabilities

It serves as the primary means for our organization to make applications accessible securely over the internet. While we do have specific requirements for load balancing, our primary focus is leveraging it to securely and exclusively expose our applications to the internet We rely on external…

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reviewer2106345

Security Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 17, 2023

Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments

We have not been using it for a very long time. It has only been eight months, and so far, there have been two main benefits. The first benefit is that if I have an on-prem solution, I can buy their hardware and deploy it, but the configuration is the same. If I have a cloud, I can use FortiWeb as a service or as a virtual machine. It depends on requirements, but the configuration remains the same. The configuration doesn't change. We have a lot of global parts and a lot of teams are working on it, so it gets easy to communicate and verify the configuration and create a baseline. Costing is another benefit. The cost is based on the traffic. If an application is used, we pay for it, but if it's not used, we don't have to pay for it. With other solutions, we have to buy the solution, and then we have to purchase or take licenses. If they aren't used, we are just burning money without any use. We are using anomaly detection and bot mitigation. In terms of anomaly detection, it is able to find the behavior. We have some applications where normal users are logging from India, and if the behavior changes, it gives us an alert, but in terms of bot mitigation, I haven't found much. It's easy to use. I don't have to do any changes in my environment. For example, if I use Azure WAF, I have to use a traffic gateway, load balancer, or something similar, whereas, with FortiWeb, I don't have to change any architecture. I just have to change my DNS entry. That's it. If I'm able to change my DNS entry, FortiWeb works. Adding new applications is also quite easy. You just add the application and change the DNS settings, and you are good to go. Whether you want to block or unblock, or you want the learning mode or protection mode, you can enable or disable it with just one click, and you are good to go. Most of the settings are already there if you want to tweak them. It has a GUI. You must have to click here and there. The documentation is also good. If I don't know something, their documentation is quite helpful. A lot of people are using Fortinet, so YouTube videos and articles are also available. The configuration part is easy. The configuration and implementation process is streamlined. We don't have to change anything. We don't have to follow 10 processes. It's a single process with which everybody is familiar. Manpower and manhours are saved because a lot of discussions are avoided. It also helps us in creating a baseline. We now have a baseline of what we need. So, from an instant response point of view, it's easy for us because we are getting the same results out of it. It has reduced false positives. As compared to my old solution, there is at least a 17% to 18% reduction. It has reduced the number of alerts that our organization receives. There is a 50% to 60% reduction in alerts. It has saved us time. We were spending around three to four days setting up our old solution, whereas now, we are spending a maximum of four hours.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."

"The web application firewall is a great feature."

"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."

"The solution is good."

"The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world."

"It inspects the traffic at the network level before it comes into Azure. We can do SSL offloading, and it can detect abnormalities before the traffic comes into the application. It can be used globally and is easy to set up. It is also quite stable and scalable."

"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."

"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."

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"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."

"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"

"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."

"It is a good product. We have just blocked everything coming from some geographical locations or certain countries, and it has been working very efficiently when I look at logs, events, and incidents generated from the system. It is generating very good analytic reports about it. This is the most valuable thing about this solution. It has load balancing and almost everything that a web application firewall needs. It is very flexible and easy to learn and configure. It can be easily learned and configured by using the information available on different channels such as YouTube."

"When it comes to blocking unknown threats and attacks, I would give it the highest score possible. We first started using AWS and its Web Application Firewalls. That was okay, but it was quite a manual process to keep it up to date, whereas Fortinet is always up to date, and the default rules or the modules that you can turn on are very easy to use."

"Banks have to be compliant with PCI and other things, and FortiWeb is absolutely amazing in terms of providing these reports. Otherwise, they will have to spend a lot of time on them."

"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."

"The support services, performance, and pricing are all valuable features. The performance is excellent."

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Cons

"The product needs to improve its latency."

"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."

"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."

"It lacks sufficient functionality."

"The product's features are limited compared to Cloudflare. The tool also doesn't work well in a hybrid environment. I would like to see a way to add personalized APIs in the system."

"We should be able to use Front Door defenders with multiple cloud vendors. Currently, they can be used only with the Azure cloud. Azure Front Door should also be able to do global load balancing and provide internal front door services. Microsoft should clearly define what Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door products do. These are similar products, and people get confused between these products."

"My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table."

"I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing."

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"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."

"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."

"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."

"I would like to have an antivirus option."

"Fortinet WAF came out recently, and there is not much feedback about customer experience. For each project, customers ask about the scenarios and references of the customers who have implemented this solution, which we don't have. They need to simplify the customer experience and provide more information so that we can propose Fortinet Fortiweb as a WAF solution to customers and convince them. They need to improve their service and training. We need good training to implement and use it properly and know more about it. We still don't know much about Fortinet WAF. We didn't get any proper training sessions. Other vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, and Barracuda provide such sessions. Whenever we receive a request from a customer for this solution, we just give the price. We don't propose this solution because we don't know much about it. We propose whatever we are familiar with and what is supported."

"I know that we have run into some issues with an SSL certificate and how it functions. Sometimes this breaks connectivity or just limits certain websites that are whitelisted."

"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented."

"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The transition to the premium tier has led to increased costs, making it more expensive than the classic tier."

"It is on a pay-as-you-go basis."

"The pricing of the solution is good."

"The product is expensive."

"The solution is a bit expensive."

"Keep a loose margin between your actual bandwidth and the product sizing when using hardware appliances. Only virtual machines are upgradable to larger sizes."

"The price of Fortinet FortiWeb is reasonable. This is one of the key factors of why we use this solution."

"It keeps changing, but it's based on the size of the VM you buy and also the traffic throughput you want from it, whereas what we have on Azure is just the traffic throughput. You can also pay on a monthly basis from Azure. During each part of the project, it's okay to get Azure-based licensing or AWS-based licensing for FortiWeb, but over time, you would want to go with the perpetual license. You should go to Fortinet and buy the license from them. So, there is a two-step process there."

"All our Fortinet pricing is bundled together for different products, like FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiWeb. FortiWeb, by itself, is probably around $2,500 to $3,500."

"It is not a cheap product. It is not like a Linux or a Genex that you can deploy. It is a hardware appliance, and it is built for a specific reason and reliability. It is an enterprise-class solution. You wouldn't find an SMB investing in something like this."

"The solution is cheaper compared with other solutions. It has a yearly license."

"Cheaper than others."

"The pricing is pretty good. We do pass a lot of traffic through our API servers. Something like 100 gigs of web traffic is a fair amount for reduced JSON API calls, but the cost is $50. For that peace of mind, we have thousands and thousands of customers that are protected by that $50, so it's a no-brainer."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Educational Organization

39%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Azure Front Door and Application Gateway?

We found Azure Front Door to be easily scaled and very stable. The implementation is very fast and Microsoft provides excellent support. Azure Front Door can quickly detect abnormalities before the...

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What do you like most about Azure Front Door?

Rules Engine is a valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Front Door?

The transition to the premium tier has led to increased costs, making it more expensive than the classic tier. However, we acknowledge that this pricing reflects additional features and capabilities.

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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiWeb?

The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiWeb?

The pricing is in the middle. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten. It feels like a justified cost for the features, but it might get more expensive in the future. Also, keep in mind that Che...

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiWeb?

I'd like more customization. I'm not sure if everyone would agree, as it might add complexity. But for advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets...

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

Azure Front Door is a global, scalable entry-point that uses the Microsoft global edge network to create fast, secure, and widely scalable web applications. With Front Door, you can transform your global consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performing personalized modern applications with contents that reach a global audience through Azure.

To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

Fortinet FortiWeb is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects your web applications and APIs from attacks targeting known as well as unknown vulnerabilities. As the surface of your web applications evolves with each change of existing features and deployment of new features, your APIs are left exposed. Fortinet FortiWeb provides the board protection capabilities required to protect web applications without sacrificing performance or manageability.

Fortinet FortiWeb is an automatic, advanced multi-layer solution that provides secure protection by discerning irregular behavior and distinguishing between malicious and benign anomalies. In addition, the approach delivers powerful bot mitigation capacities which authorize harmless bots to connect while blocking malicious bot activity securely. Regardless of where an application is hosted, Fortinet FortiWeb will safeguard business applications by providing deployment options, such as virtual machines, hardware appliances, and containers that can be deployed in the data center, cloud environments, or in the cloud-native SaaS solution.

Fortinet FortiWeb Features and Benefits

APIs and web applications have become integral to the rising demand for business-critical applications. Now more than ever, businesses are in need of an automatic firewall that will provide them with security, without sacrificing performance or reliability. Fortinet FortiWeb offers a variety of features and benefits, including:

Security fabric integration: FortiWeb integrates with other Fortinet solutions to provide advanced protection from persistent threats.
Proven web application and API protection: FortiWeb safeguards applications from all DDOS attacks, malicious bot attacks, and OWASP Top-10 threats.
Advanced visual analytics: FortiWeb offers a unique visual reporting tool that other WAF solutions don’t by providing a detailed analysis of attack elements and sources.
Hardware-based acceleration: With fast and secure traffic encryption and decryption, FortiWeb provides best-in-class WAF protection.
ML-based threat detection: FortiWeb delivers multi-layer machine learning defense protection to defend against zero-day attacks and reduce false positives.
False positive mitigation tools: Reduce daily management of policies through advanced tools to guarantee only unwanted traffic is blocked.

Reviews from Real Users

Fortinet FortiWeb offers an industry-leading Web Application Firewall, and users are satisfied with it for a number of reasons, including the ability to control everything from the dashboard and the PCI-compliant reports it offers.

Carlos P., director of business and digital transformation at SERNIVEL3, notes, "You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."

A director at a tech service company, says, "Banks have to be compliant with PCI and other things, and FortiWeb is absolutely amazing in terms of providing these reports. Otherwise, they will have to spend a lot of time on them."

Sample Customers

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Lush, Barnabas Health, Options, Riverside Healthcare, Hillsbourough County Schools, Columbia Public Schools, Schiller AG

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