We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: F5 Advanced WAF has an edge over Fortinet FortiWeb in this comparison. According to reviews, it has more advanced features than Fortinet FortiWeb. In addition, it received better marks in the ROI category.
"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the big advantages of using Fortinet FortiWeb is all the Fortinet family solutions use the same user interface and logic. This makes it easy to use, configure, manage, and understand if you have used one of their solutions before or are wanting to implement other Fortinet solutions in the future. Additionally, all Fortinet solutions can be managed with one application called FortiManager."
"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."
"The solution has a good sandbox feature."
"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 valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"The support services, performance, and pricing are all valuable features. The performance is excellent."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"The solution could improve by having an independent capture module. It has a built feature that you can deploy the capture on your published website. However, it's not very user-friendly. When you compare this feature to Google Capture or other enterprise captures, they are very simple. It needs a good connection to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. When you implement this feature in the data center, you may suffer some complications with connecting to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. This should be improved in the future."
"Their documentation is fairly complete, but it's sometimes a little bit difficult to search for exactly what you're looking for to resolve an issue. There have been times when we've gone to try to search for areas that we needed to get information on, and it has not always been extremely clear exactly how a particular thing needs to be set up."
"In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations."
"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."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"We want to see more detailed logging, such as audit logging, as this would significantly enhance the solution's reporting. We currently get some information from logs, but more would be better."
"The initial setup process could be improved."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 31 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 36 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "It comes with several preconfigured rule sets and templates that make deploying new applications easier". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF, NGINX App Protect and Barracuda Web Application Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiOS, Azure Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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