Cloudflare vs. Fortinet FortiWeb Comparison

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Fortinet FortiWeb

Cloudflare

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Read 22 Fortinet FortiWeb reviews.

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Most Helpful Review

XiaofengLiu

User at bitmart

Has helped improve the security of our organization

This solution has improved the security of our organization.

Yousef Altaj

Tech Manager at Global tec

Problematic licensing requires upgrades at scale with additional expense for advanced features

With this product, you can secure all the Fortinet products together. I'm an entrepreneur. Most people fail in the publication of a firewall.

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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution.""The technical support is good.""It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls.""The most valuable feature is the web application firewall.""The solution is very good at mitigating threats.""New and innovative way to protect the client's data." More Cloudflare Pros »	"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up.""All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features.""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.""The most valuable feature in this solution is the ability to disseminate between the user entering some wrong value to the field, and a suspicious actor trying to exploit some known vulnerability.""It's the extra security that is the most valuable feature. You have insight into your traffic. There are some great insights into what utilities hackers are trying to exploit. It blocks a lot of stuff from the internet.""FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives.""The most valuable features are support and security.""The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it." More Fortinet FortiWeb Pros »
Cons
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag.""The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage.""It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration.""There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers.""The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful.""Technical support is lacking." More Cloudflare Cons »	"I would like to have an antivirus option.""New releases and old releases have some bugs, some features do not work as good as we want but every new release the Fortinet team fixes up problems.""Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only.""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 solution is rather complicated. If you know what to do, it's not bad, but it's complicated for a first time user to configure the solution. What I'd like to improve are the custom signatures.""Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware.""I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence.""Describing security rules should be improved. It's tricky to define new feature tools when you want to describe an attack pattern and want to block it." More Fortinet FortiWeb Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees.""The cost primarily depends on the size of the organization."

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"The license cost depends on the size of the box or the size of the solution. It can go from €200 Euros to a few hundred thousand Euros a year depending on your size.""The solution gives us the best price to performance ratio.""The costs are standard. We pay around $1,600 yearly.""All our Fortinet pricing is bundled together for different products, like FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiWeb. FortiWeb, by itself, is probably around $2,500 to $3,500.""FortiWeb is more expensive than some competing products.""Due to the situation in Iran with the sanctions, the price of this solution is very expensive.""It's an expensive solution, although there are no additional costs.""It is fine now. We had to earlier negotiate the price."

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating? Top Answer: Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds by… more » Read all 7 answers Which should I choose, Cloudflare or Imperva Incapsula? Top Answer: Imperva Incapsula. Has the biggest POP capacity. Read all 9 answers What do you like most about Cloudflare? Top Answer: It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls. Read all 4 answers	What do you like most about Fortinet FortiWeb? Top Answer: The GUI is user-friendly. Read all 11 answers What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiWeb? Top Answer: FortiWeb is more expensive than some competing products. Read all 7 answers What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiWeb? Top Answer: The integration with other products should be improved. This product does not come with bare metal protection, so we need more network features. We don't want to be as dependent on a separate… more » Read all 11 answers
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1st out of 40 in DDoS Views 19,676 Comparisons 17,033 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 486 Rating 8.2	1st out of 45 in Web Application Firewall (WAF) Views 13,332 Comparisons 10,821 Reviews 18 Average Words per Review 457 Rating 8.1
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Overview
Cloudflare is the leading performance and security company helping to build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers more than 9 million Internet applications. More than 10 trillion Internet requests flow through Cloudflare’s network each month, accounting for nearly 10% of all Internet requests globally. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.	FortiWeb is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects hosted web applications from attacks that target known and unknown exploits. Using multi-layered and correlated detection methods, FortiWeb defends applications from known vulnerabilities and from zero-day threats.
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Sample Customers
Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.	Lush, Barnabas Health, Options, Riverside Healthcare, Hillsbourough County Schools, Columbia Public Schools, Schiller AG
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Marketing Services Firm15% Engineering Company15% Financial Services Firm15% Energy/Utilities Company15% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company27% Comms Service Provider23% Media Company8% Retailer5%	REVIEWERS Financial Services Firm29% Comms Service Provider19% Computer Software Company14% Government14% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider29% Government6% Media Company5%
Company Size
REVIEWERS Small Business66% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise16% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business35% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise54%	REVIEWERS Small Business39% Midsize Enterprise25% Large Enterprise36%

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