We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) 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 most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"The solution is stable."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"Good dashboard and reporting."
"It can scale."
"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."
"It is good for web tracking applications."
"The platform's stability is good."
"The machine learning feature reduces the false positives."
"The initial setup was easy since it was possible to get remote support for the product."
"The product is easy to configure."
"We use it to secure VMs and applications. It protects against DDoS attacks. It's very user-friendly."
"The tool's HTTP traffic, website fixing, and blocking are fantastic. It is user-friendly with easy configuration."
"The machine learning on FortiWeb WAF is valuable."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"They should work on the virtualization of NGINX."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve resource usage, it is CPU intensive. Additionally, adding automated remediation would be a benefit. For example, an easy button alerts us of the events that are occurring, and what we want to do at the time. An automated approach where somebody could be alerted very quickly. Instead of going and reconfiguring everything, an automated approach is what I'm looking at."
"F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"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."
"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) needs to update its attack prevention database."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."
"It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP."
"There is room for improvement in pricing, and actually, the price is a bit higher because on the same terms I purchased, the support subscription is so high."
"We have encountered issues with webhooks and management of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's on-premise version."
"The documentation is poor."
"The product lacks features offered by enterprise-level firewall tools."
"WAF needs more signatures on FortiWeb and updates the database continuously to protect against new attacks."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) 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 FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) writes "Protects internal applications and prevents target attacks ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is most compared with Azure Front Door. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) report.
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