We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) 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."Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"The support experience is better than average."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"Good dashboard and reporting."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."
"The tool's HTTP traffic, website fixing, and blocking are fantastic. It is user-friendly with easy configuration."
"The tool secures our critical applications, especially the mobile money application, which is often targeted by attacks. The solution provides rapid protection and has proven reliable against various threats."
"The initial setup was easy since it was possible to get remote support for the product."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtration, web filter, application filter, and IPS."
"The product is easy to configure."
"The machine learning on FortiWeb WAF is valuable."
"The platform's stability is good."
"The machine learning feature reduces the false positives."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by having an independent capture module. It has a built feature that you can deploy the capture on your published website. However, it's not very user-friendly. When you compare this feature to Google Capture or other enterprise captures, they are very simple. It needs a good connection to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. When you implement this feature in the data center, you may suffer some complications with connecting to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. This should be improved in the future."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."
"We have encountered issues with webhooks and management of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's on-premise version."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) needs to update its attack prevention database."
"The product lacks features offered by enterprise-level firewall tools."
"It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP."
"WAF needs more signatures on FortiWeb and updates the database continuously to protect against new attacks."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster. Plus, they ask for a lot of information. It is not easy to get support."
"The product is complicated to set up."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) writes "Protects internal applications and prevents target attacks ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is most compared with Azure Front Door. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) report.
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