We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."The reports feature is excellent."
"I like the rapid deployment feature. I also like that it's easy to troubleshoot. FortiManager is amazing because we can have a centralized policy. All our devices are integrated, and we can also engage in troubleshooting. We can use it for different deployments. One fantastic feature is the ability to create a version and deploy it immediately."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"You can configure it at your ease."
"It makes management very easy."
"FortiManager's most valuable features are web-based or web-rule-based policies, SD-WAN, and the ease of upgrading to new firmware."
"Provides good and detailed log management."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"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."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"The solution has a good sandbox feature."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"There is a degradation of performance if we activate logs on FortiManager."
"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"FortiManager should improve the integration with third-party platforms."
"The solution has some bugs."
"Configuring Fortinet without internet access is challenging."
"FortiWeb does not exist in a cloud-based form. Its only available for deployment as a virtual appliance on AWS and Azure IaaS platforms. Because of the trend to WAF environments, it would be good to have it as a SaaS. Also, FortiWeb would be more competitive if it combined WAF and DDoS protection."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"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."
"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."
"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 false positives are annoying."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". 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 FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Cisco Prime, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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