We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Rapid7 AppSpider based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"The support is quite good."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"This product is very user-friendly."
"When it comes to blocking unknown threats and attacks, I would give it the highest score possible. We first started using AWS and its Web Application Firewalls. That was okay, but it was quite a manual process to keep it up to date, whereas Fortinet is always up to date, and the default rules or the modules that you can turn on are very easy to use."
"AppSpider's most valuable feature is reporting - everything is stored in the local database so it can be sent to other machines."
"What I like most about AppSpider is that it's easy to use and its automated scan gives me all the details I need to know when it comes to vulnerabilities and their solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, which is compliant with international standards."
"I like the ability the product has to detect vulnerabilities quickly, when it has been released in our environment, then displaying them to us."
"I would say that it is stable, as I am not aware of any major issues."
"It scans all the components developed within a web application."
"The most valuable feature of Rapid7 AppSpider is the vulnerability reporting data. Additionally, the data is reported in a convenient way rather than seeing them as a PDF. We are able to generate all the reports exactly what we want in a flexible way."
"The initial deployment is very straightforward and simple. The product is stable if configured properly."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
"Their support needs improvement."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve data integration."
"I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted."
"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."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"The dashboard and interface are crucial and they need some improvement."
"AppSpider has some problems with the RAM needed while scanning."
"The enterprise interface is too simple. It should be more customizable."
"AppSpider could improve in the area of integration. They need to add more integration opportunities."
"The tech support is responsive but issues remain unresolved."
"One of the challenges I have with AppSpider is that it gives you a lot of false positives, especially when compared to other solutions."
"The product needs to be able to scale for large companies, like ours. We have millions of IP addresses that need to be scanned, and the scalability is not great."
"The performance of the solution could improve. When I compare the speed it is slower than others on the market. There are some tricks we use to help speed up the solution."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Rapid7 AppSpider is ranked 25th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 13 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Rapid7 AppSpider is rated 7.8. 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 Rapid7 AppSpider writes "Useful vulnerability reporting data, flexible, and simple implementation". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Rapid7 AppSpider is most compared with Rapid7 InsightAppSec, OWASP Zap, Acunetix, Invicti and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning.
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