We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and RedSeal 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 is ease of use."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"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."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"The solution has a good sandbox feature."
"I have recently been looking at the SSL certificate features and the learning mode of the appliance. This appliance learns from the pattern of SSL attacks."
"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."
"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."
"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."
"Centralized configuration using FortiManager – like what exists for NGFW FortiGate appliances - would improve the configuration."
"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."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."
"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."
"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."
Earn 20 points
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while RedSeal is ranked 20th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while RedSeal is rated 8.2. 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 RedSeal writes "Provides a graphical overview of our network and is easy to deploy, but needs a user-friendly interface and a feature for compliance audit policy". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas RedSeal is most compared with Skybox Security Suite, AlgoSec, FireMon Security Manager, Ekahau Site Survey and Darktrace.
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