We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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: Fortinet FortiOS has a slight edge in this comparison. Between the two products, it has a better ROI.
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its simplicity, highly user-centric, and performs well. The line speed and for heavy traffic, is helpful for us."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning."
"The support is quite good."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting part. The reporting is only for logging data, and it's just a tabulation of the log in the report. I would like to be able to take down more information in the event of an incident."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"Fortinet FortiOS need to manage its memory and CPU utilization better. It peaks at times, which sometimes can be challenging."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"While it is a solid solution, there are some product limitations which exclude it from deployment in some situations."
"A better load balancer is needed when multiple servers are used for the same website."
"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."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
"The automation piece can be improved. Although they say it can be automated very well, there is still manual work. Its usability should be improved in terms of automation because we want to build an infrastructure with code, but you can't do that easily with this solution. If they can give us APIs in the firewalls that we can tap into, it would be perfect."
"Their support needs improvement."
"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."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Darktrace and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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