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)."Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"Also, if you serve files or you accept files with your server, Fortiweb has built-in antivirus. The Fortinet product family also provides good IP intelligence (botnet C&C, etc.)."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"Some of the threat detection analytics and the filtering capabilities they give us for filtering a certain type of information that we don't want coming into the site are its valuable features. The analytics are pretty good in terms of being able to see what threats have been detected and mitigated, where they're coming from, and things like that."
"FortiWeb's ease of deployment is what we liked the most about it. Implementing FortiWeb was extremely fast and easy, which was a significant advantage. It comes with several preconfigured rule sets and templates."
"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 GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"This product is very user-friendly."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"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 user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family."
"When we look at the incident reports in the dashboard, they are available for a maximum duration of 24 hours. They should provide more time for the analysis and increase the duration of the availability of these reports. Currently, it gives the options for 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours. It would be excellent if there are more options for a longer time period. It may be configurable, but I don't know how to do it."
"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."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"The solution could offer more integration opportunities."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve data integration."
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, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy, 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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