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."It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"It's the extra security that is the most valuable feature. You have insight into your traffic. There are some great insights into what utilities hackers are trying to exploit. It blocks a lot of stuff from the internet."
"It can scale well."
"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"Technical support is very good."
"The deployment was very easy."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The product offers high availability."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"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."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
"If the price was lower, it would be a bit more attractive, as an option, to the customers."
"Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms."
"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."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
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, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Radware Alteon report.
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