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's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements."
"It protects and mitigates damage in the network."
"This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"Technical support is very good."
"The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"The ability to configure multiple policies for different requirements is a strong feature of Fortinet FortiWeb."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"There is a learning curve that extends the time of implementation."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"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 Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it 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."
"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."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"Their support needs improvement."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
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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