We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb 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)."It is a highly scalable solution with a quick turnaround time for deployment and running of the software across any IT system."
"The most effective CloudGuard feature for threat prevention is its web app protection."
"It provides advanced analytics that gives each team time to prepare for any threat that might occur in the future."
"With the solution, we managed to obtain complete comprehensive visibility of the entire environment in the cloud, thus having better control of each of the resources."
"On the endpoint side, the most valuable feature is undoubtedly the cloud-based management capability, along with the ransomware protection, despite not encountering any instances so far."
"The solution's strongest point is that you can connect everything to it, giving you a full view of what's connected."
"By using a cloud application security solution, our company can save costs by reducing the need for additional security hardware and software and improving operational efficiency."
"The tool performs device health checkups and updates us. It helps us to be compliant with regulatory policies."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up."
"You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"They should improve in the delivery of more detailed reports with more information."
"Cost reduction and trial period extension should be considered with some lucrative discount offerings in buying standard versions."
"I have encountered issues with Check Point CloudGuard Application Security's technical support. It also has missing configuration features."
"They need improved latency in the main window."
"The creation of security profiles for each application takes a lot of time."
"Check Point CloudGuard Application Security needs to improve updates on integrations. It also needs to incorporate real-time monitoring features."
"CloudGuard could improve in areas such as ease of integration with Fortinet and reducing costs associated with deployment in cloud environments like Azure."
"In terms of features, I do not have any negatives. Their integration is extremely quick. It is better than others I have been involved with in the past. Their pricing model, however, can be better."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
"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."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"We use Kubernetes, so I would like to have a plugin to configure FortiWeb Cloud automatically using Kubernetes Ingress. That would reduce the complexity of setting up an Ingress object in Kubernetes. Some competing solutions help you configure Ingress and Kubernetes automatically."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
Check Point CloudGuard WAF is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 29 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard WAF is rated 9.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard WAF writes "Automation capabilities also help streamline security processes and smooths down API integration processes and detects API availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Check Point CloudGuard WAF is most compared with SonarQube and Checkmarx One, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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