We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb 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."It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It has been a stable product in my experience."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"Banks have to be compliant with PCI and other things, and FortiWeb is absolutely amazing in terms of providing these reports. Otherwise, they will have to spend a lot of time on them."
"What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"I have recently been looking at the SSL certificate features and the learning mode of the appliance. This appliance learns from the pattern of SSL attacks."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The ease of configuration is valuable. We have Azure WAF, we have OCI WAF, and we also have Cloud Armor for GCP, but their configuration isn't very easy. It's pretty simple in FortiWeb, and we can enable or configure whatever we want."
"It can scale well."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"Azure WAF should not be deployed in the middle of the traffic."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"The management can be improved."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"I would like to see the Application Delivery Control (ADC) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) combined in one device."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
"The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic."
"Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company."
"Centralized configuration using FortiManager – like what exists for NGFW FortiGate appliances - would improve the configuration."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". 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". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAF and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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