We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiOS has a slight edge in this comparison. Between the two products, it has a better ROI.
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"It is a safe product."
"FortiOS's best features are its function as an internet gateway and how easy it is to manage."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the SD-WAN, SSL inspection, and IDS/IPS functions."
"It's very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"FortiOS allows us to set up alarms for blocked websites and SSL verifications. When someone tries to access a blocked site, the solution sends a notification to the IT manager's mailbox."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"A good network security system for medium-sized businesses with an excellent GUI interface that gives a graphic view of network status."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboard easier to use."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
"The technical support is good. However, during the holidays they can get a little slow to respond."
"There is no flexibility."
"FortiOS's bandwidth and interface could be improved."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
"I would like to see the Application Delivery Control (ADC) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) combined in one device."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"It is not entirely user-friendly."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Darktrace and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect.
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