Fortinet FortiWeb Reviews

Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customers' web infrastructure environment.

The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF).

Their support needs improvement.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

I would rate their technical support as a nine out of 10.

We previously used NetScaler.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The pricing is reasonable.

Not applicable.

Evaluate this product against other vendors out there.

We were previously a partner.

We use Fortinet FortiWeb for our VPN. The solution is always updated to the latest version.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together.

The solution could have more customization.

I have used this solution for one year.

It's very stable.

I would rate the stability as six out of ten.

It's scalable. 

I would rate the scalability as seven out of ten.

Technical support is helpful and they respond quickly. I would rate them as eight out of ten.

I would rate the setup as five out of ten.

Our IT department implemented the solution.

The cost isn't expensive.

I would rate this solution as seven out of ten.

The most valuable features of the product are its IPS and VPN server.

The device is very handy and it helps us to protect our web and database servers from being penetrated from outside the office.

The antivirus and the IPS can be improved in the future.

I have used it for about two years.

Fortunately, we have not yet encountered any stability issues!

With the 600-C model, we had some scalability issues.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Initial setup was very straightforward and simple.

These devices, especially the 1500-D model, are really worth purchasing and using.

Before choosing this product, we evaluated many products such as Cisco, Juniper, Cyberoam, and Sophos.

In my opinion, the FortiGate appliances, and especially the D series, are really powerful ones and worth providing for your network.

We use Fortinet FortiWeb to protect our exchange terminal for mail security.

The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for approximately four years.

The solution is stable.

I have approximately four clients using this solution.

The installation is easy and straightforward, and the timeframe depends on the application

We have one engineer that does the support of this solution.

I have evaluated F5 and Citrix.

I would recommend this solution. I hope they are able to make some changes to compete with other solutions, such as F5 and Citrix.

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb a seven out of ten.

We primarily used the solution as a POC to see how effective it is and so far we're happy with it. 

We used it for protecting our web servers and the use of some web applications within a financial institution.

They have a very good graphical user interface. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is pretty good.

We have found the pricing to be pretty reasonable. 

During the POC we did encounter problems. For example, the integration with the HSM for storing keys was not ideal.

The downside is on the security side and is the firewall. When you look at the firewall, it doesn't do decryption and you have to depend on other third-party tools to do that. Or you would have to use another FortiGate product which makes things a little complicated. Today, people look for simplicity in terms of design. That's one downside to Fortinet's Firewall. The downside to FortiWeb is it had issues integrating with HSM. They fixed the issue, however, it took a long time to fix and it wasn't pleasant. I had to work with deadlines and I could not make the deadlines due to the slow timeline on their side.

For the firewall, when you deploy IPS, the IPS doesn't have visibility into encrypted traffic and 70% of traffic these days is encrypted, and that's the conservative figure of the actual percentage. If your IPS doesn't have that visibility, then it is not really doing the job that it has to do. In comparison, Palo Alto is the best firewall in terms of performance and has the technical specifications that we need. 

The support side of things can be improved. They need to quickly tend to issues and resolve them as soon as possible. Those are the expectations.

We've only used FortiWeb for a POC. 

The stability of the product has been good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. When you look at the specs and if you do what they say in the specs, in terms of ensuring that you're not overlooking anything, it's a good product. 

The solution can scale. That's not a problem at all.

Technical support could be more responsive. They need to address issues faster. I'm not completely happy with the level of support we receive.

Generally, the solution is easy to set up. It's not overly complex. 

The pricing is pretty good if you look at other top options in this space. They are reasonable. 

I've also looked at Palo Alto, and it has the specifications that we need, however, the pricing is quite high.

Our company is a Fortinet partner.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

In terms of functionality, it does a perfect job, however, when you have to integrate with third-party tools, that's where you might have issues. Going forward, maybe what Fortinet needs to do is to ensure that they don't have integration issues with the other big vendors that are common in terms of what's deployed out there. Someone might want FortiWeb, however, for example in my case where a bank needed to integrate that with Jamalt or HSM for description, they have to do their homework. 

When you're dealing with financial clients, they need to have seamless integration and not to have these challenges where it would take time to fix as an issue. That should be figured out pre-deployment. Companies in banking can't wait for clients to point out that this is an issue. They have to attend to it beforehand and resolve issues to meet expectations. 

We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks. It has really helped us with publishing servers which were published on Microsoft Forefront TMG.

All of its feature are valuable to us. If you ask me which is the most valuable, it is the load balancing, then I would say the security features. Publishing OWA is also a good feature.

We started with FortiWeb400C, then we did an upgrade to FortiWeb 400D. I had some small problems when I was upgrading firmware. After the upgrade, some of my certificates were deleted.

The false positives are also annoying.

We did not encounter with any stability issues.

We did not encounter with any scalability issues.

Fortinet technical support is really good. I would give them a nine out of 10.

We did not use a WAF before. We used Microsoft TMG, but it is not a WAF.

Initial setup is straightforward, and it is not too complex.

It really pays off to buy licences for multiple years.

No.

It is a really good product. It is worth using in your network.

With other vendors you need to go through a learning period. With FortiWeb you can just apply a high-security profile and move on. It's very easy to reduce false positives.

• Built-in security templates
• AV integrated
• Strong threat intelligence

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.).

Requires very little effort to add device to topology or replace existing WAF device with FortiWeb.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Eight out of 10.

F5, A10, KEMP.

It's very easy.

Be sure to look at industry reviews, they have good knowledge about threat intelligence.

• Firewall policy

• Internet
• Servers

I have used it for a year and a half.

We had one stability issue when I ran it once with Wireshark; it froze.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I cannot rate technical support because I have not used it yet.

I switched from SonicWALL to Fortinet. I am happier now.

Initial setup was not that difficult. It was different to my previous solution; I could do it on my own.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

• Be aware of logs.
• Does not compare with Check Point about finding policies.