We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway 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."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.)."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"Azure Application Gateway's most valuable feature is ease of use. The configuration is straightforward. It isn't difficult to adjust the size of your instances in the settings. You can do that with a few clicks, and the configuration file is the same way. You can also set rules and policies with minimal time and effort."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"WAF feature replicates the firewall."
"The pricing is quite good."
"The tool helps manage microservices by providing developers with a platform to conduct tests and assessments on the web application. The custom domain option is one of the most valuable features I've found. This feature is incredibly helpful for the end-users of the web application. With the custom domain feature, you can change the lengthy link to a shorter, more memorable one. For example, instead of using a lengthy default link, you can customize it to something like imail.com, which is much easier to remember and share."
"The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure."
"In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The initial setup process could be improved."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"Describing security rules should be improved. It's tricky to define new feature tools when you want to describe an attack pattern and want to block it."
"I know that we have run into some issues with an SSL certificate and how it functions. Sometimes this breaks connectivity or just limits certain websites that are whitelisted."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway's first deployment is complex. It needs to improve its pricing."
"The tool's pricing could be improved."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."
"Scalability can be an issue."
"It takes a lot of time for a certificate to update in the system. That is a huge drawback, affecting the load-balancing side. And when there are changes to the load balancing, it affects the end-user."
"In the next release, the solution could improve the integration with Service Mesh and other Azure Security Services."
"It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 41 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. 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 Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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