We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"Good application firewall."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is it helps our delivery team to make policies and rules for application."
"LTM."
"We're able to do load balancing and global load balancing. When you marry those two products together, you can do a lot more. We're able to deliver our applications more securely and faster. It has improved our deliverability where we have more service across the shared data centers. We can intelligently reach all of those client connections across all of the servers and do it fairly quickly. It has helped improve our application delivery and performance."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up."
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"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."
"It can scale well."
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"Cloud native integration should be provided."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"Bugs are the part of program and they are fixed with every release, as with any vendor."
"Based on my experience using F5 and by only taking into consideration the last seven years, I have found that the reporting mechanism is bad."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"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."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"Fortinet WAF came out recently, and there is not much feedback about customer experience. For each project, customers ask about the scenarios and references of the customers who have implemented this solution, which we don't have. They need to simplify the customer experience and provide more information so that we can propose Fortinet Fortiweb as a WAF solution to customers and convince them. They need to improve their service and training. We need good training to implement and use it properly and know more about it. We still don't know much about Fortinet WAF. We didn't get any proper training sessions. Other vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, and Barracuda provide such sessions. Whenever we receive a request from a customer for this solution, we just give the price. We don't propose this solution because we don't know much about it. We propose whatever we are familiar with and what is supported."
"Centralized configuration using FortiManager – like what exists for NGFW FortiGate appliances - would improve the configuration."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". 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". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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