We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Radware Alteon 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."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."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"The solution has a good sandbox feature."
"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."
"The support is quite good."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"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."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"When we look at the incident reports in the dashboard, they are available for a maximum duration of 24 hours. They should provide more time for the analysis and increase the duration of the availability of these reports. Currently, it gives the options for 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours. It would be excellent if there are more options for a longer time period. It may be configurable, but I don't know how to do it."
"The solution could offer more integration opportunities."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be a better analysis when working with crypt issues. Right now, it is very manual; you load it into Alteon and it runs. It would be interesting to see a more dynamic process."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"The user interface can be improved."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Radware Alteon 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiDDoS, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and NGINX Plus. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Radware Alteon report.
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