We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"This product is very user-friendly."
"The support is quite good."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The product has a very user-friendly dashboard."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"Centralized configuration using FortiManager – like what exists for NGFW FortiGate appliances - would improve the configuration."
"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."
"FortiWeb does not exist in a cloud-based form. Its only available for deployment as a virtual appliance on AWS and Azure IaaS platforms. Because of the trend to WAF environments, it would be good to have it as a SaaS. Also, FortiWeb would be more competitive if it combined WAF and DDoS protection."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"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."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". 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". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster, HAProxy and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.
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