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."Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"The policies and the filtering are the most valuable features, especially traffic, URL, and application filtering. The solution is excellent at detecting vulnerabilities."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"It can scale well."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented."
"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."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."
"The initial setup process could be improved."
"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."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The solution could be more robust."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"Performance could be improved."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
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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