We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."
"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."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"Technical support is very good."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The setup was straightforward."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"Their documentation is fairly complete, but it's sometimes a little bit difficult to search for exactly what you're looking for to resolve an issue. There have been times when we've gone to try to search for areas that we needed to get information on, and it has not always been extremely clear exactly how a particular thing needs to be set up."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"The solution could have more customization."
"I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted."
"The initial setup process could be improved."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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