Fortinet FortiWeb is praised for its top-tier security solutions, advanced functionality, and ease of use, although it could benefit from improvements in UI and integration with other tools. On the other hand, users find Prisma Cloud to offer competitive pricing, comprehensive security capabilities, and effective customer service, although some suggest improvements in UI, integration, and documentation.
The summary above is based on 139 interviews we conducted recently with Fortinet FortiWeb and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning."
"The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."
"Prisma Cloud helped us with compliance. Most of my deployments have been greenfield, so I don't have a benchmark to compare how the security posture has improved. I've always used this from day zero of the configuration. However, I can say that the compliance checks for PCI, DSS, HIPAA, etc., made my life simpler. I don't need to look at each of these standards and compare the rules I have in place."
"The most valuable feature is the option to add custom queries using the RQL language that they supply so that we can customize the compliance frameworks to what we need to look for."
"What I like most about Prisma Cloud is its zero-day signatures, maximum security, minimal downtime, cloud visibility, control, and ease of deployment."
"The product is quite good for providing multi-clouds or cross-cloud security from a single-pane -of-glass."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"CSPM is the most valuable feature for any organization that runs its workloads in the cloud."
"Integration is very easy. And because it supports security that spans multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, it's very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the alerts and auto-remediation because it allows us a lot of flexibility to customize and do things the Palo Alto team never intended. We faced some challenges with certificates because we also have next-gen firewalls. We would like to equip all the traffic because there have been many cases in which the developers have done things by mistake. Deploying certificates on virtual machines can be complex in a development environment, but we managed to do that with Prisma Cloud."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"The initial setup is complex."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"The innovation side of the solution could be more efficient and more detailed."
"While Prisma provides a lot of visibility, it also creates a ton of work. Most customers that implement Prisma Cloud have thousands of alerts that are urgent."
"The solution does not currently support servers for GCP."
"We face some GUI issues related to new permissions for AWS. So far, we don't have any automation to complete them through the GUI. We have to manually update the permissions. Our customers have faced some issues with that."
"We would like it to have more features from the risk and compliance perspectives."
"The UI could be improved."
"A couple of exporting functionalities should be more user-friendly because if I want to export something, I can get a lot of data visible to that particular CSV."
"In terms of improvement, there are some small things like hardening and making sure the Linux resources are deployed well but that's more at an operational level."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 82 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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