Fortinet FortiWeb is praised for its top-tier security solutions, advanced functionality, and ease of use, although it could benefit from improvements in UI and integration with other tools. On the other hand, users find Prisma Cloud to offer competitive pricing, comprehensive security capabilities, and effective customer service, although some suggest improvements in UI, integration, and documentation.
The summary above is based on 139 interviews we conducted recently with Fortinet FortiWeb and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The solution has a very simple deployment."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"Prisma Cloud helped us with compliance. Most of my deployments have been greenfield, so I don't have a benchmark to compare how the security posture has improved. I've always used this from day zero of the configuration. However, I can say that the compliance checks for PCI, DSS, HIPAA, etc., made my life simpler. I don't need to look at each of these standards and compare the rules I have in place."
"The most valuable feature is its cloud security posture management."
"The Twistlock vulnerability scanning tool is its most valuable feature. It provides us insight into security vulnerabilities, running inside both on-premise and public cloud-based container platforms. It is filling a gap that we have with traditional vulnerability scanning tools, where we don't have the ability to scan inside containers."
"I was looking for a vulnerability scanner and I was looking for one place in which I could find everything. This tool not only does vulnerability scanning, but it also gives me an asset management tool."
"The CSPM and CWPP functionalities are pretty good."
"The initial setup is seamless."
"The application visibility is amazing. For example, sometimes we don't know what a particular custom port is for and what is running on it. The visibility enables us to identify applications, what the protocol is, and what service is behind it. Within Azure, it is doing a great job of providing visibility. We know exactly what is passing through our network. If there is an issue of any sort we are able to quickly detect it and fix the problem."
"CSPM is the most valuable feature."
"When we look at the incident reports in the dashboard, they are available for a maximum duration of 24 hours. They should provide more time for the analysis and increase the duration of the availability of these reports. Currently, it gives the options for 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours. It would be excellent if there are more options for a longer time period. It may be configurable, but I don't know how to do it."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"Based on my experience, the customization—especially the interface and some of the product identification components—is not as customizable as it could be. But it makes up for that with the fact that we can access the API and then build our own systems to read the data and then process and parse it and hand it to our teams."
"We have discovered that Prisma is not functioning properly with GCP."
"In terms of securing cloud-native development at build time, a lot of improvement is needed. Currently, it's more a runtime solution than a build-time solution. For runtime, I would rate it at seven out of 10, but for build-time there is a lot of work to be done."
"The automation must continue to become much smoother."
"The UI could use some improvement; we usually find the information we're looking for, but what fields can be clicked on and what workflow to follow to get the required information is not always evident. Sometimes we're all over the place, clicking around to drill in and uncover the alert and investigation details we're looking for."
"The information presented in the UI sometimes doesn't look intuitive enough."
"When it comes to protecting the full cloud-native stack, it has the right breadth. They're covering all the topics I would care about, like container, cloud configuration, and serverless. There's one gap. There could be a better set of features around identity management—native AWS—IAM roles, and service account management. The depth in each of those areas varies a little bit. While they may have the breadth, I think there's still work to do in flushing out each of those feature sets."
"The licensing is a bit confusing."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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