We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"It can scale."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"There are a lot of good features."
"The tool's HTTP traffic, website fixing, and blocking are fantastic. It is user-friendly with easy configuration."
"The product is easy to configure."
"The machine learning on FortiWeb WAF is valuable."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall blocks attacks from application layers and provides protection."
"The platform's stability is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtration, web filter, application filter, and IPS."
"The initial setup was easy since it was possible to get remote support for the product."
"We use it to secure VMs and applications. It protects against DDoS attacks. It's very user-friendly."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"They could provide better pricing."
"The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"The deployment side is quite complex."
"The product lacks features offered by enterprise-level firewall tools."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's signature database updates could be improved."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."
"The documentation is poor."
"The product is complicated to set up."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) needs to update its attack prevention database."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster. Plus, they ask for a lot of information. It is not easy to get support."
"There is room for improvement in pricing, and actually, the price is a bit higher because on the same terms I purchased, the support subscription is so high."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) 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 FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) writes "Protects internal applications and prevents target attacks ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is most compared with Azure Front Door. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) report.
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