Fortinet FortiWeb vs RedSeal comparison

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We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and RedSeal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiWeb

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

122

Ranking in other categories

Web Application Firewall (WAF) (1st)

RedSeal

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (20th), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (13th)

Mindshare comparison

Fortinet FortiWeb and RedSeal aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Fortinet FortiWeb is designed for Web Application Firewall (WAF) and holds a mindshare of 7.8%, down 8.1% compared to last year.
RedSeal, on the other hand, focuses on Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, holds 1.3% mindshare, up 0.2% since last year.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Fortinet FortiWeb	7.8%
Imperva Application Security Platform	7.8%
F5 Advanced WAF	7.5%
Other	76.9%

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
RedSeal	1.3%
Qualys VMDR	12.5%
Rapid7 InsightVM	10.8%
Other	75.4%

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

HameedAhmed

Joint Director at PAA

Security threats have been reduced through seamless deployment and strong integration with other tools

I have used Fortinet FortiWeb's integration features. We have easily integrated all of the applications with the product. Most of the applications we are using are in-house built. My technical team is looking after the best features. I have not used it extensively for maybe two and a half years. I have been involved in the installation, but I am not actually using the product. I work with it from time to time but not extensively. I would assess Fortinet FortiWeb's adaptive machine learning and artificial intelligence as having new patches installed regarding artificial intelligence, but when we bought it, I think the learning feature was there. Now they have installed artificial intelligence features through patches. We have a complete portfolio of Fortinet in our organization, including FortiMail, Fortinet FortiWeb, and FortiGate, along with multi-factor authentication. All of the products are from Fortinet. Fortinet tools integrate with each other and work in conjunction. I think Fortinet FortiWeb has helped us meet regulatory compliance because we are not a regulatory organization, but our sister organization is regulatory. We have regulatory compliance with the International Civil Aviation Authority, whose audit teams have checked our data center and these security products, and they are satisfied with us. The question about leveraging Fortinet FortiWeb's automated policy management does not pertain to my domain because I am not so technical, but I am in a management role now. My engineer is more technical than me. I would rate this product an eight point five out of ten.

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reviewer1339494

Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Enhancing network visibility with competitive pricing but needs better OT and 5G integration

The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas RedSeal helps in optimizing the cost for the customer based on different use cases. If the solution caters to a particular use case,…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."

"Fortinet FortiWeb has positively impacted my organization because most of our servers and applications are secure from hackers and other security threats."

"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."

"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."

"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."

"It is easy to install and to maintain."

"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."

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"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

"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."

"RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged."

"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."

Cons

"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."

"It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP."

"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 see no room for improvement at the moment."

"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."

"WAF needs more signatures on FortiWeb and updates the database continuously to protect against new attacks."

"Regarding areas for improvement, the documentation needs work. We had issues with a customer because the documentation didn't clearly show which devices can connect with FortiWeb WAF, leading to misconfiguration and difficult meetings. We also need deeper technical support - finding who's responsible for technical aspects is challenging. Hungary has a good Fortinet office with strong sales and pre-sales employees."

"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."

More Fortinet FortiWeb cons

"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."

"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."

"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."

"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cheaper than others."

"The price of Fortinet FortiWeb is expensive in our Ethiopian currency."

"If one is very cheap and ten is very expensive, I rate the product price as three or four."

"The costs are standard. We pay around $1,600 yearly."

"The tool is really expensive."

"The license cost depends on the size of the box or the size of the solution. It can go from €200 Euros to a few hundred thousand Euros a year depending on your size."

"It really pays off to buy licences for multiple years."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool an eight."

More Fortinet FortiWeb pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	60
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	36

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiWeb?

The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiWeb?

The pricing for Fortinet FortiWeb varies with different models having different prices. It depends on the requirement. For VM machines, the price increases based on CPU configurations of 2, 4, or 8...

What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiWeb?

There is room for improvement in Fortinet FortiWeb. The team was only from FortiGate itself. They are making new firmware versions and releasing them before checking, which leads to many bugs in th...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RedSeal?

The pricing of RedSeal is competitive.

What needs improvement with RedSeal?

There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal.

What is your primary use case for RedSeal?

The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas.

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FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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Overview

Fortinet FortiWeb is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects your web applications and APIs from attacks targeting known as well as unknown vulnerabilities. As the surface of your web applications evolves with each change of existing features and deployment of new features, your APIs are left exposed. Fortinet FortiWeb provides the board protection capabilities required to protect web applications without sacrificing performance or manageability.

Fortinet FortiWeb is an automatic, advanced multi-layer solution that provides secure protection by discerning irregular behavior and distinguishing between malicious and benign anomalies. In addition, the approach delivers powerful bot mitigation capacities which authorize harmless bots to connect while blocking malicious bot activity securely. Regardless of where an application is hosted, Fortinet FortiWeb will safeguard business applications by providing deployment options, such as virtual machines, hardware appliances, and containers that can be deployed in the data center, cloud environments, or in the cloud-native SaaS solution.

Fortinet FortiWeb Features and Benefits

APIs and web applications have become integral to the rising demand for business-critical applications. Now more than ever, businesses are in need of an automatic firewall that will provide them with security, without sacrificing performance or reliability. Fortinet FortiWeb offers a variety of features and benefits, including:

Security fabric integration: FortiWeb integrates with other Fortinet solutions to provide advanced protection from persistent threats.
Proven web application and API protection: FortiWeb safeguards applications from all DDOS attacks, malicious bot attacks, and OWASP Top-10 threats.
Advanced visual analytics: FortiWeb offers a unique visual reporting tool that other WAF solutions don’t by providing a detailed analysis of attack elements and sources.
Hardware-based acceleration: With fast and secure traffic encryption and decryption, FortiWeb provides best-in-class WAF protection.
ML-based threat detection: FortiWeb delivers multi-layer machine learning defense protection to defend against zero-day attacks and reduce false positives.
False positive mitigation tools: Reduce daily management of policies through advanced tools to guarantee only unwanted traffic is blocked.

Reviews from Real Users

Fortinet FortiWeb offers an industry-leading Web Application Firewall, and users are satisfied with it for a number of reasons, including the ability to control everything from the dashboard and the PCI-compliant reports it offers.

Carlos P., director of business and digital transformation at SERNIVEL3, notes, "You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."

A director at a tech service company, says, "Banks have to be compliant with PCI and other things, and FortiWeb is absolutely amazing in terms of providing these reports. Otherwise, they will have to spend a lot of time on them."

Fortinet

RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, so you can target existing cybersecurity resources to protect your most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see the security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience.

Sample Customers

Lush, Barnabas Health, Options, Riverside Healthcare, Hillsbourough County Schools, Columbia Public Schools, Schiller AG

United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International