We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Radware Alteon 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."Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"The reason I recommend this product is because it guarantees that your network will be safe if it is set up properly and you fully utilize most of the functions."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"The support is quite good."
"The support services, performance, and pricing are all valuable features. The performance is excellent."
"The ability to configure multiple policies for different requirements is a strong feature of Fortinet FortiWeb."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"The product offers high availability."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"It costs too much."
"Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"The automation piece can be improved. Although they say it can be automated very well, there is still manual work. Its usability should be improved in terms of automation because we want to build an infrastructure with code, but you can't do that easily with this solution. If they can give us APIs in the firewalls that we can tap into, it would be perfect."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Radware Alteon 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Azure Front Door, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Radware Alteon report.
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