Fortinet FortiWeb is praised for its top-tier security solutions, advanced functionality, and ease of use, although it could benefit from improvements in UI and integration with other tools. On the other hand, users find Prisma Cloud to offer competitive pricing, comprehensive security capabilities, and effective customer service, although some suggest improvements in UI, integration, and documentation.
The summary above is based on 139 interviews we conducted recently with Fortinet FortiWeb and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"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 solution has a good sandbox feature."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."
"The product has a very user-friendly dashboard."
"The support is quite good."
"The support is excellent."
"Syslog CLIs are the best feature."
"We found it to be easy and flexible. We could easily configure it for our needs, and we could spread the Prisma Cloud platform to 16 countries without encountering any kind of problem."
"Prisma Cloud's most important feature is its auto-remediation."
"CSPM is the most valuable feature for any organization that runs its workloads in the cloud."
"This solution helped us by allowing us to schedule and fix things. This is not an easy thing if you're managing 1,000 plus resources."
"I was looking for a vulnerability scanner and I was looking for one place in which I could find everything. This tool not only does vulnerability scanning, but it also gives me an asset management tool."
"The most valuable feature of Prisma Cloud is WAF (web application firewall)."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"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 documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
"Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"It can be better with web application firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"This solution is more AWS and Azure-centric. It needs to be more specific on the GCP side, which they are working on."
"It would be nice Prisma Cloud merged its modules for CSPM and infrastructure as code. It would simplify the pricing and make it easier for customers to evaluate the solution because there are different modules, and you need to add it to your subscription separately."
"It's not really on par with, or catering to, what other products are looking at in terms of SAST and DAST capabilities. For those, you'd probably go to the market and look at something like Veracode or WhiteHat."
"They are missing some compatibility details in their documentation."
"Getting new guys trained on using the solution requires some thought. If someone is already trained on Palo Alto then he's able to adapt quickly. But, if someone is coming from another platform such as Fortinet, or maybe he's from the system side, that is where we need some help. We need to find out if there is an online track or training that they can go to."
"It can be too expensive for small companies."
"More documentation with real-world use cases would be helpful."
"The automation must continue to become much smoother."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 82 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks 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 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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