We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF 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: F5 Advanced WAF has an edge over Fortinet FortiWeb in this comparison. According to reviews, it has more advanced features than Fortinet FortiWeb. In addition, it received better marks in the ROI category.
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"The product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The reason I recommend this product is because it guarantees that your network will be safe if it is set up properly and you fully utilize most of the functions."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"F5 Advanced needs to improve its bot protection. The solution needs to have machine learning to learn the behavior of the customer to recognize the human versus the bot. This is a difficult feature to explain to our customers. I would like documentation about the bot feature to make it easier for the customer to understand."
"They should work on the virtualization of NGINX."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"There is a gap in report management."
"F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards."
"They could provide better pricing."
"The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions."
"Scalability could be improved."
"When we look at the incident reports in the dashboard, they are available for a maximum duration of 24 hours. They should provide more time for the analysis and increase the duration of the availability of these reports. Currently, it gives the options for 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours. It would be excellent if there are more options for a longer time period. It may be configurable, but I don't know how to do it."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"The solution is rather complicated. If you know what to do, it's not bad, but it's complicated for a first time user to configure the solution. What I'd like to improve are the custom signatures."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"New releases and old releases have some bugs, some features do not work as good as we want but every new release the Fortinet team fixes up problems."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". 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". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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