We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva Web Application Firewall 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 product has a very user-friendly dashboard."
"The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"The solution has a very simple deployment."
"The support is quite good."
"You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"One good thing about Imperva Web Application Firewall is it can be on the cloud and also it can be on-premise."
"The solution is stable."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is stable."
"It has fewer false positives"
"The solution is cloud-based and offers us good uptime. It has combined web and API security. Therefore, with one license, you access both application security and also API security."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a highly stable solution and is very mature."
"Very scalable and very stable firewall for web applications, with a good interface in its cloud version. Mitigation is its most valuable feature. The technical support for this product is also good."
"It has threat intelligence and we are using Incapsula. With threat intelligence, we can separate HTTP and HTTPS traffic. We can use Incapsula to send all the threat intelligence to the WAF."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve data integration."
"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."
"Their documentation is fairly complete, but it's sometimes a little bit difficult to search for exactly what you're looking for to resolve an issue. There have been times when we've gone to try to search for areas that we needed to get information on, and it has not always been extremely clear exactly how a particular thing needs to be set up."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The user interface could be better."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
"I would like the solution to improve its support response time."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the console by making it easier to use."
"They recently separated the WAF and the DAM management gateways in order for each of these to be managed from different areas, so I believe it now requires additional investments for what was previously a single complete solution."
"I'd like the option to pick your bot protection."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 46 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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