We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I was able to simply and quickly set up the WAF rules and security, and also set up easily complex policies and rules which gave me some great features to redirect."
"LTM."
"It makes the publishing of applications to the Internet safer."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is it helps our delivery team to make policies and rules for application."
"I like that F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a product that comes with valuable features, but what stands out from all features is load balancing."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"It is a stable product."
"The solution has a good sandbox feature."
"The customers are very happy with this solution because of two things. First, the IPS integration with a web application is very tightly done on Fortinet. Second, the ease of use is there. The management interface or the GUI interface is very easy to use, configure, and manage. These are the two main valuable features. It supports integration with other Fortinet products. It also integrates very well with the firewall and sandboxing technology. They already have enough integration with different technologies. They have got a complete tech intelligence view of the whole product."
"The deployment was very easy."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"Cloud native integration should be provided."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"The product is expensive."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"The auto logout feature after three minutes is terrible. I wish they would make that longer, since it is not a feature that we can change."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would expect more integration with different platforms and more integration with the backend systems. Additionally, in the next release, I would like a more secure version."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
"In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations."
"Their support needs improvement."
"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 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."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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