We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: F5 Advanced WAF has an edge over Fortinet FortiWeb in this comparison. According to reviews, it has more advanced features than Fortinet FortiWeb. In addition, it received better marks in the ROI category.
"This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"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 web application firewall itself is most valuable. It provides positive security and negative security. In negative security, it blocks a task such as cross-site scripting, code injection, etc. In positive security, it lets you specify and enforce things, such as the parameters allowed in username and password fields and the number of characters allowed in a field."
"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"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 anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"The delay times on firmware patches and software updates could be better and improved."
"This solution can be made more user-friendly."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"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 F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"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."
"Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms."
"It costs too much."
"I would like to see the Application Delivery Control (ADC) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) combined in one device."
"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."
"The initial setup process could be improved."
"The false positives are annoying."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiWeb 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 Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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