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Fortinet FortiWeb pros and cons

Vendor: Fortinet
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Fortinet FortiWeb enhances web security with antivirus, web filtering, and application control features.
It provides robust protection from web attacks with a high-performance detection engine and comprehensive threat intelligence.
Fortinet FortiWeb offers versatile deployment options and integration with other Fortinet products for enhanced security.
It is cost-effective and offers excellent value for enterprise-level web application security.
Fortinet FortiWeb's AI-driven threat detection and hardware acceleration significantly improve protection capabilities.

CONS

Support services for Fortinet FortiWeb need improvement, including faster response times and comprehensive training sessions.
Fortinet FortiWeb's scalability is limited, requiring significant investment for hardware upgrades.
Integration with other technologies and platforms is lacking, and improvement is needed in data integration.
Fortinet FortiWeb lacks a cloud-based deployment option, limiting flexibility compared to other solutions offering SaaS models.
The upgrade process and initial setup for Fortinet FortiWeb can be complex and could benefit from simplification.
 

Fortinet FortiWeb Pros review quotes

it_user821967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Viznet Bilişim Hizmetleri
Feb 18, 2018
Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple​
FO
Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Feb 18, 2018
High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks.
Technicae31f - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 21, 2018
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.
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NetworkS4e03 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network System Administrator at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Feb 27, 2018
We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks.
PW
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Apr 22, 2018
The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF).
DD
Network Security Engineer at Technicom Mali
May 23, 2018
Security Fabric integration. This is really a value-added feature as FortiWeb can interact with the rest of the client’s Fortinet pack to provide an intelligent security layer like (FortiSIEM for central log management and correlation, FortiGate, FortiSandbox for malware analysis, etc.).
OR
Senior Network Security Planning at Ooredoo Kuwait
Mar 6, 2019
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.
RF
Head of Security systems department at Zerde Business Solutions
Mar 6, 2019
All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features.
DI
SE at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Jul 5, 2019
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.
FrtiWeb677 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Jun 27, 2019
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.
 

Fortinet FortiWeb Cons review quotes

it_user821967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Viznet Bilişim Hizmetleri
Feb 18, 2018
HA Architecture needs improvement. I would improve it by working on AP HA.
FO
Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Feb 18, 2018
Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms.
Technicae31f - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Feb 21, 2018
Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve.
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NetworkS4e03 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network System Administrator at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Feb 27, 2018
The false positives are annoying.​
PW
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Apr 22, 2018
​Their support needs improvement.
DD
Network Security Engineer at Technicom Mali
May 23, 2018
FortiWeb does not exist in a cloud-based form. Its only available for deployment as a virtual appliance on AWS and Azure IaaS platforms. Because of the trend to WAF environments, it would be good to have it as a SaaS. Also, FortiWeb would be more competitive if it combined WAF and DDoS protection.
OR
Senior Network Security Planning at Ooredoo Kuwait
Mar 6, 2019
I would like to have an antivirus option.
RF
Head of Security systems department at Zerde Business Solutions
Mar 6, 2019
New releases and old releases have some bugs, some features do not work as good as we want but every new release the Fortinet team fixes up problems.
DI
SE at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Jul 5, 2019
Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only.
FrtiWeb677 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Jun 27, 2019
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.