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.
"It's very easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"Firewall and overall management are valuable features."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"Security Fabric integration. This is really a value-added feature as FortiWeb can interact with the rest of the client’s Fortinet pack to provide an intelligent security layer like (FortiSIEM for central log management and correlation, FortiGate, FortiSandbox for malware analysis, etc.)."
"The reason I recommend this product is because it guarantees that your network will be safe if it is set up properly and you fully utilize most of the functions."
"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."
"One of the big advantages of using Fortinet FortiWeb is all the Fortinet family solutions use the same user interface and logic. This makes it easy to use, configure, manage, and understand if you have used one of their solutions before or are wanting to implement other Fortinet solutions in the future. Additionally, all Fortinet solutions can be managed with one application called FortiManager."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"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."
"All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution could improve the log retention and reports."
"You can enable and disable certain modules in it. However, with disabling, nobody can really tell us if that module is disabled."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"FortiOS doesn't work well with all browsers. I think they need to do a better job of making it compatible with the various browsers that are out there."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"We would like the interface to be easier to use and more user-friendly. The interface needs to be enhanced."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"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."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
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, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Darktrace 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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