We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Radware Alteon 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."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."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"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."
"Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The solution has been very stable."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The product’s stability could be improved."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"Performance could be improved."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiDDoS, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and NGINX Plus. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Radware Alteon report.
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