We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and SonicWall Web Application Firewall 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."The policies and the filtering are the most valuable features, especially traffic, URL, and application filtering. The solution is excellent at detecting vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the ability to disseminate between the user entering some wrong value to the field, and a suspicious actor trying to exploit some known vulnerability."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"Capture ATP is a good additional feature in the latest version."
"The solution offers better data protection than competitors."
"We use SonicWall Web Application Firewall for security and tunneling."
"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."
"Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"We would like the interface to be easier to use and more user-friendly. The interface needs to be enhanced."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only."
"The solution needs an access management feature with API integration so we can assign certain levels of access within groups."
"We should get the logs from the solution, and it should communicate with the local DNS."
"We have a lot of unknown errors popping up in the latest version."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is ranked 25th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. 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 SonicWall Web Application Firewall writes "A stable and durable solution that can be used for security and tunneling". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas SonicWall Web Application Firewall is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall report.
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