We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiOS has a slight edge in this comparison. Between the two products, it has a better ROI.
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"FortiOS allows us to set up alarms for blocked websites and SSL verifications. When someone tries to access a blocked site, the solution sends a notification to the IT manager's mailbox."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"FortiOS's most valuable feature is a next-generation firewall that can be used as the APT solution in advanced threat protection."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"I like that the firewall gives me a lot of control in terms of outgoing and inbound traffic, and it scores better in deep packet inspections when compared with the Azure Firewall."
"It's easy to use."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"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."
"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."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"The ease of configuration is valuable. We have Azure WAF, we have OCI WAF, and we also have Cloud Armor for GCP, but their configuration isn't very easy. It's pretty simple in FortiWeb, and we can enable or configure whatever we want."
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The threat time interval lags a little, especially if there's a heavy load on the firewall."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"In the future I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards and a drop in the price."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the GUI and remove the command line interface. All the functionality should be available from the GUI. Day-to-day management can be tough for IT administrators. Additionally, the reporting is not very good."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing models. With the way they are structured, everything is very disparate and sold separately, and, depending on the solution, it can get quite pricey."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"The false positives are annoying."
"The product’s stability could be improved."
"We use Kubernetes, so I would like to have a plugin to configure FortiWeb Cloud automatically using Kubernetes Ingress. That would reduce the complexity of setting up an Ingress object in Kubernetes. Some competing solutions help you configure Ingress and Kubernetes automatically."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Darktrace, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect.
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