Fortinet FortiWeb is praised for its top-tier security solutions, advanced functionality, and ease of use, although it could benefit from improvements in UI and integration with other tools. On the other hand, users find Prisma Cloud to offer competitive pricing, comprehensive security capabilities, and effective customer service, although some suggest improvements in UI, integration, and documentation.
The summary above is based on 139 interviews we conducted recently with Fortinet FortiWeb and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Some of the threat detection analytics and the filtering capabilities they give us for filtering a certain type of information that we don't want coming into the site are its valuable features. The analytics are pretty good in terms of being able to see what threats have been detected and mitigated, where they're coming from, and things like that."
"It can scale well."
"The deployment was very easy."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"The solution has a very simple deployment."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features is the compliance of RedLock, which we are using for any issues with security. It flags them and that's the primary objective of that feature."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"It helps to identify the misconfigurations by monitoring regularly which helps to secure the organization's cloud environment."
"It provides good visibility and control regardless of the complexity."
"I found the network queue sets useful. I also liked the Workload Protection Module, the vulnerability findings, and how the rule sets handle the vulnerabilities based on severity."
"The dynamic workload identity creation, attestation, and assignment is the best feature. In addition, the application dependency map across heterogeneous environments for compliance is a striking feature."
"Integrating with a CI/CD pipeline and incorporating a vulnerability assessment process are highly effective features, especially when combined with runtime protection."
"The most valuable features of Prisma Cloud are its cloud security posture management and cloud workload protection capabilities."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company."
"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."
"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
"The solution is rather complicated. If you know what to do, it's not bad, but it's complicated for a first time user to configure the solution. What I'd like to improve are the custom signatures."
"It costs too much."
"When it comes to compliance, the issue is that when we are exporting the reports, there is only a single compliance option. If I need to report on multiple compliance requirements, that feature isn't available. For example, I made a single report for ISO 27000 but I can't correlate it with GDPR."
"Prisma Cloud's dashboards should be customizable. That's very important. Other similar solutions are more elastic so you have the power to create customized dashboards. In Prisma Cloud, you cannot do that."
"It would be ideal if they could somehow reduce the deployment time."
"We would like it to have more features from the risk and compliance perspectives."
"They should improve the user experience."
"I think Prisma Cloud could improve its preventive governance policy and CWP run time modules."
"The automation capabilities are growing each day, but the problem is that the updates are not that frequent. There are some services on Amazon that have come out with updates, and Azure is also getting up to date. But Prisma takes some time to follow. There's a time gap that Prisma inherits from these clouds. I understand why it takes some time, but that time should be reduced."
"The licensing is a bit confusing."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 82 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. 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 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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