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."Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows you to manage multiple FortiGate devices from a single console, and this is a valuable product feature."
"It makes management very easy."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"A fully integrated solution."
"The firmware version upgrades are the most valuable feature."
"The ability to configure multiple policies for different requirements is a strong feature of Fortinet FortiWeb."
"The solution has a very simple deployment."
"It is a stable product."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"The customers are very happy with this solution because of two things. First, the IPS integration with a web application is very tightly done on Fortinet. Second, the ease of use is there. The management interface or the GUI interface is very easy to use, configure, and manage. These are the two main valuable features. It supports integration with other Fortinet products. It also integrates very well with the firewall and sandboxing technology. They already have enough integration with different technologies. They have got a complete tech intelligence view of the whole product."
"Performance issues should be improved. We have problems when we have more mobile connections than local devices. Most of us have two to three devices."
"We have some visibility issues with the reporting."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"It's a difficult process to transfer one interface from one virtual domain to another."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"There is a degradation of performance if we activate logs on FortiManager."
"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 initial setup process could be improved."
"Centralized configuration using FortiManager – like what exists for NGFW FortiGate appliances - would improve the configuration."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"A better load balancer is needed when multiple servers are used for the same website."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"We use Kubernetes, so I would like to have a plugin to configure FortiWeb Cloud automatically using Kubernetes Ingress. That would reduce the complexity of setting up an Ingress object in Kubernetes. Some competing solutions help you configure Ingress and Kubernetes automatically."
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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