We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"I have recently been looking at the SSL certificate features and the learning mode of the appliance. This appliance learns from the pattern of SSL attacks."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"Security Fabric integration. This is really a value-added feature as FortiWeb can interact with the rest of the client’s Fortinet pack to provide an intelligent security layer like (FortiSIEM for central log management and correlation, FortiGate, FortiSandbox for malware analysis, etc.)."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"The automation piece can be improved. Although they say it can be automated very well, there is still manual work. Its usability should be improved in terms of automation because we want to build an infrastructure with code, but you can't do that easily with this solution. If they can give us APIs in the firewalls that we can tap into, it would be perfect."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"Their support needs improvement."
"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."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". 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 FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Loadbalancer.org, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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