We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."I appreciate the ability to connect via SSH through Fortinet FortiManager to the FortiGates I manage. This feature allows me to gather information about the interfaces without having to physically connect to the device. This is a convenient aspect that I find valuable."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The firewall configuration has more capabilities than the other firewall management systems that I have worked with."
"The solution is very stable."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"You can configure it at your ease."
"A fully integrated solution."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows a full view of all the devices on the network from one location."
"It is easy to install and to maintain."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"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."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"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."
"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."
"Configuring Fortinet without internet access is challenging."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"We have some visibility issues with the reporting."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"The product is not very stable."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."
"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."
"If the price was lower, it would be a bit more attractive, as an option, to the customers."
"Their support needs improvement."
"I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted."
"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve data integration."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"Centralized configuration using FortiManager – like what exists for NGFW FortiGate appliances - would improve the configuration."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". 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 FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Cisco Prime, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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