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Fortinet FortiWeb mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiWeb in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category stands at 8.4%, up from 7.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Educational Organization
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
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Manufacturing Company
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Retailer
3%
Comms Service Provider
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University
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Construction Company
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Healthcare Company
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Insurance Company
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Hospitality Company
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Energy/Utilities Company
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Media Company
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Legal Firm
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Transportation Company
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Performing Arts
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Consumer Goods Company
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Logistics Company
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Security Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Mar 1, 2023
Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments

Pros

"The ease of configuration is valuable. We have Azure WAF, we have OCI WAF, and we also have Cloud Armor for GCP, but their configuration isn't very easy. It's pretty simple in FortiWeb, and we can enable or configure whatever we want."

Cons

"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."
Kacem CHAMMALI - PeerSpot user
IT Infrastructures Administrator at Esprit
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Jul 6, 2024
Even if an attacker detects the IP address, they can't connect directly to the server due to FortiWeb

Pros

"We can block access using the IP address so no one can connect to our web server or website using the real IP. "

Cons

"Maybe the load balancing options could be enhanced."
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Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Apr 14, 2024
Works fine for classic websites and simple load balancing but lacks specialized protection

Pros

"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."

Cons

"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. "
OcheEluma - PeerSpot user
Vice President of Infrustructure at Core Technologies Limited
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Sep 16, 2024
Enhanced security with comprehensive traffic inspection and some downtime automation needs

Pros

"It allows specific IP whitelisting or even regional whitelisting, ensuring only whitelisted traffic from certain geographical regions can access the environment."

Cons

"When there is downtime at their data center, it becomes a transit point issue for us, causing downtime in our environment as well."
Blair Griffith-Barwell - PeerSpot user
Principal Network Architect at Global Processing
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Feb 23, 2023
It comes with several preconfigured rule sets and templates that make deploying new applications easier

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs. "
Saeid Khanipour Ghobani - PeerSpot user
IT Manager at Technology Evaluation Center
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Oct 11, 2022
Cost-effective and super easy to use but is lacking a dynamic routing protocol

Pros

"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages. "

Cons

"A better load balancer is needed when multiple servers are used for the same website. "
Javed Hashmi - PeerSpot user
Chief Technology Officer at Future Point Technologies
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
May 28, 2023
It offers the level of security we need at a good price point

Pros

"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."

Cons

"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented. "
Ishan Kumara - PeerSpot user
Manager Data Servicers at Union Bank of Colombo
Verified user of Fortinet FortiWeb
Nov 30, 2024
Secures APIs with effective protection against web threats

Pros

"It is cost-effective compared to other solutions."

Cons

"They could integrate some kind of machine learning and AI facilities to automate workflows."