We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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: Fortinet FortiOS has a slight edge in this comparison. Between the two products, it has a better ROI.
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"I am satisfied with Fortinet FortiOS. It's a cool product and has a lot of UTM features. It has application control, web filtering, antivirus, IPS/IDS, DNS filtering, and many things in that firewall. It also has a web application firewall WAF feature. On the feature side, it's a good firewall."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"Fortinet FortiOS's valuable features include intuitive policy creation and deployment, precise parameter settings to determine thresholds, and security profiles such as web filtering and remote application filtering, among others."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The fact that is it has a UTM, a Unified Threat Management feature is the most valuable aspect for us. It's an all in one product. It's like our one-stop-shop to the internet."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"It is a stable product."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"It is a good product. We have just blocked everything coming from some geographical locations or certain countries, and it has been working very efficiently when I look at logs, events, and incidents generated from the system. It is generating very good analytic reports about it. This is the most valuable thing about this solution. It has load balancing and almost everything that a web application firewall needs. It is very flexible and easy to learn and configure. It can be easily learned and configured by using the information available on different channels such as YouTube."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Some features I have found to be hidden and cannot be accessed through the graphical user interface, you can only access them through the command-line interface(CLI). All the features should be accessible through the graphical user interface."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"In the future I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards and a drop in the price."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"We would like the interface to be easier to use and more user-friendly. The interface needs to be enhanced."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Darktrace, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect.
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