We performed a comparison between Citrix Web App and API Protection and Fortinet FortiWeb 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."The stability is good. If there is a problem, the load will be shifted to other sites automatically, which has been a good experience for us."
"The advantage of Citrix Web App and API Protection is just its graphic user interface for beginners. The solution is nothing special, but we have to use it for the corporation. Another advantage of Citrix Web App and API Protection is that we have our copy to test things and get the know-how of it."
"The work balancing applications are the most valuable feature."
"I prefer this solution because of its user-friendly interface. I find it simple and close to what I am currently using, which is Citrix Fortiva Access for Multi-Factor Authentication. I appreciate the familiar user interface and troubleshooting tools it offers."
"We have good customer support."
"Citrix Web App API Protection allows you to enable a blocking mode"
"When our primary link goes down I can still get to my Cisco devices and the NetScaler devices on-prem because of the SDN solution. If the internet connection at one of the branches goes down, we can still route them, they still get internet based on the SDN solution through one of the other sites. They can carry on working."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"I have recently been looking at the SSL certificate features and the learning mode of the appliance. This appliance learns from the pattern of SSL attacks."
"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."
"The ease of configuration is valuable. We have Azure WAF, we have OCI WAF, and we also have Cloud Armor for GCP, but their configuration isn't very easy. It's pretty simple in FortiWeb, and we can enable or configure whatever we want."
"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 most valuable feature in this solution is the ability to disseminate between the user entering some wrong value to the field, and a suspicious actor trying to exploit some known vulnerability."
"The configuration for its web application firewall is complicated."
"The setup was not simple."
"Their upgrades are not very backward compatible, and sometimes they mess up."
"The user interface could be more friendly. Some wizards and other documentation for administrators, as well as some use cases, helps us to understand the solution."
"An area for improvement in Citrix Web App and API Protection is for it to give real-time notifications and alerts. It would be practical if the solution warns you if there's an attack or if the load or traffic volume increases or decreases. An additional feature I'd like to see in Citrix Web App and API Protection is a prediction or artificial intelligence on what is happening, for example, attacks."
"Citrix Web App and API Protection could improve in the area of licensing"
"Security could be improved because then I can get rid of my Cisco firewalls. If they improve the security then I could run my security, my proxy, my firewalling and my SDN solution on one device instead of having to have multiple devices."
"The reporting is not so good. They don't have an application to connect the logs."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"If the price was lower, it would be a bit more attractive, as an option, to the customers."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"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."
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Citrix Web App and API Protection is ranked 20th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 11 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Citrix Web App and API Protection is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Web App and API Protection writes "Has a good graphic user interface for beginners, but lacks real-time notifications, alerts, and artificial intelligence". 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". Citrix Web App and API Protection is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door, AWS WAF, Akamai App and API Protector and Imperva DDoS, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Citrix Web App and API Protection vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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