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.
"Provides good protection from attacks."
"The best solution for WAF."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"The valuable features vary from customers to customers. Some customers are okay with the basic features of the WAF, and some customers use advanced WAF with a few other features."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"FortiWeb is easy to operate with a reasonably high level of protection. FortiWeb provides multiple deployment options with a physical or virtual (FortiWeb-VM) appliance, and acts either as a reverse/transparent proxy or out-of-band. It is also available on AWS and Azure."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"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 feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"The solution has a good sandbox feature."
"The deployment was very easy."
"I would say their graphical interface, the GUI. I don't like the GUI as much as before."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"Scalability could be improved."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
"It is not entirely user-friendly."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, 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 "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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