We performed a comparison between Cloudflare 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.
"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."
"Technical support has a very fast response time and they are helpful."
"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."
"It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."
"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."
"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."
"The security features are valuable. The particular feature we use is called OWASP."
"Someone with a basic understanding of networking and security will be able to implement the firewall's basic features within 15 minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"It can scale well."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"The deployment was very easy."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"The support is quite good."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support."
"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."
"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."
"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."
"Its stability could be better."
"I have experienced some difficulties with Cloudflare's support as a customer based in India."
"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."
"We use Kubernetes, so I would like to have a plugin to configure FortiWeb Cloud automatically using Kubernetes Ingress. That would reduce the complexity of setting up an Ingress object in Kubernetes. Some competing solutions help you configure Ingress and Kubernetes automatically."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
"The support side of things can be improved."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"We would like the interface to be easier to use and more user-friendly. The interface needs to be enhanced."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". 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". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Azure Front Door and NGINX App Protect, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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