We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall 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."It has been a stable product in my experience."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"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 most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"When it comes to blocking unknown threats and attacks, I would give it the highest score possible. We first started using AWS and its Web Application Firewalls. That was okay, but it was quite a manual process to keep it up to date, whereas Fortinet is always up to date, and the default rules or the modules that you can turn on are very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"It can scale well."
"Also, if you serve files or you accept files with your server, Fortiweb has built-in antivirus. The Fortinet product family also provides good IP intelligence (botnet C&C, etc.)."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"The management can be improved."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". 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". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAF and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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