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.
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"The fact that is it has a UTM, a Unified Threat Management feature is the most valuable aspect for us. It's an all in one product. It's like our one-stop-shop to the internet."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ability to block and make white and black lists. Additionally, the filtering of user access to websites is useful."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"You have the ability to control everything from one single dashboard."
"FortiWeb offers a good price for the marketplace. In the Sri Lankan market, it's hard to find high-end products that can match FortiWeb's pricing. For high-end solutions, the price is always extremely high."
"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.)."
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"One of the big advantages of using Fortinet FortiWeb is all the Fortinet family solutions use the same user interface and logic. This makes it easy to use, configure, manage, and understand if you have used one of their solutions before or are wanting to implement other Fortinet solutions in the future. Additionally, all Fortinet solutions can be managed with one application called FortiManager."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"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."
"When it comes to blocking unknown threats and attacks, I would give it the highest score possible. We first started using AWS and its Web Application Firewalls. That was okay, but it was quite a manual process to keep it up to date, whereas Fortinet is always up to date, and the default rules or the modules that you can turn on are very easy to use."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"The GUI could be improved to make it more usable, easier to administer, and easier to configure."
"While it is a solid solution, there are some product limitations which exclude it from deployment in some situations."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the pricing could be lower. The price is very steep."
"There is no flexibility."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms."
"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."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
"Their support needs improvement."
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 Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect.
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