We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb 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.
"We extensively use the solution every day. The solution is very stable; we haven’t seen any glitches."
"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."
"The product has a valuable security control functionality."
"The solution protects our application, which runs on the HTTP protocol, from DDoS attacks."
"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."
"It protects web applications efficiently."
"Technical support has a very fast response time and they are helpful."
"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"I have recently been looking at the SSL certificate features and the learning mode of the appliance. This appliance learns from the pattern of SSL attacks."
"The solution is stable."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"This product is very user-friendly."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"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."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."
"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features."
"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."
"The reporting could be more granular."
"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."
"Its stability could be better."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"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."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"It costs too much."
"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."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"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."
"HA Architecture needs improvement. I would improve it by working on AP HA."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". 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". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Azure Front Door and Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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