We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."A fully integrated solution."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiManager are the overall management it provides and its ease of use."
"I appreciate the ability to connect via SSH through Fortinet FortiManager to the FortiGates I manage. This feature allows me to gather information about the interfaces without having to physically connect to the device. This is a convenient aspect that I find valuable."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"The reports feature is excellent."
"The integration is quite good."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."
"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."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release."
"I prefer configuring rules and the VPN on the standalone device, not on the manager."
"The reporting details have room for improvement."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"Describing security rules should be improved. It's tricky to define new feature tools when you want to describe an attack pattern and want to block it."
"I know that we have run into some issues with an SSL certificate and how it functions. Sometimes this breaks connectivity or just limits certain websites that are whitelisted."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"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."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"Their support needs improvement."
"The product's scalability could be better."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". 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". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Cisco Prime, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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