We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"The deployment was very easy."
"Technical support is very good."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted."
"If the price was lower, it would be a bit more attractive, as an option, to the customers."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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