We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"My favorite feature of F5 is the ability to play around with the ciphers. I also like the ability to have an immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs. The protection offered is great."
"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."
"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"I like them because I like the security solution. They get extra marks compared to other solutions or competitors. There are more features than any other product I can think of. They're always monitoring, and the security features offer more than other, lesser products."
"The platform's stability is good."
"The initial setup was easy since it was possible to get remote support for the product."
"We use it to secure VMs and applications. It protects against DDoS attacks. It's very user-friendly."
"The machine learning feature reduces the false positives."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtration, web filter, application filter, and IPS."
"It is good for web tracking applications."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall blocks attacks from application layers and provides protection."
"The machine learning on FortiWeb WAF is valuable."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"The solution could improve by having an independent capture module. It has a built feature that you can deploy the capture on your published website. However, it's not very user-friendly. When you compare this feature to Google Capture or other enterprise captures, they are very simple. It needs a good connection to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. When you implement this feature in the data center, you may suffer some complications with connecting to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. This should be improved in the future."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"There is a gap in report management."
"We have encountered issues with webhooks and management of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's on-premise version."
"The technical support team is bad."
"It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) needs to update its attack prevention database."
"The product lacks features offered by enterprise-level firewall tools."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster. Plus, they ask for a lot of information. It is not easy to get support."
"WAF needs more signatures on FortiWeb and updates the database continuously to protect against new attacks."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) writes "Protects internal applications and prevents target attacks ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is most compared with Azure Front Door. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) report.
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