We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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: Fortinet FortiOS has a slight edge in this comparison. Between the two products, it has a better ROI.
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The pricing is excellent."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"Their classification inside of that database of the various threats is typically very, very good."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"It is a good product. We have just blocked everything coming from some geographical locations or certain countries, and it has been working very efficiently when I look at logs, events, and incidents generated from the system. It is generating very good analytic reports about it. This is the most valuable thing about this solution. It has load balancing and almost everything that a web application firewall needs. It is very flexible and easy to learn and configure. It can be easily learned and configured by using the information available on different channels such as YouTube."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"FortiWeb's ease of deployment is what we liked the most about it. Implementing FortiWeb was extremely fast and easy, which was a significant advantage. It comes with several preconfigured rule sets and templates."
"The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"FortiWeb offers a good price for the marketplace. In the Sri Lankan market, it's hard to find high-end products that can match FortiWeb's pricing. For high-end solutions, the price is always extremely high."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"A switch should be introduced."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only."
"Describing security rules should be improved. It's tricky to define new feature tools when you want to describe an attack pattern and want to block it."
"It costs too much."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."
"Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Darktrace and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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