We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"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."
"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives."
"The deployment was very easy."
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"The solution has a very simple deployment."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
"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."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". 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 FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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