Fortinet FortiWeb Reviews

We are using Fortinet FortiWeb to deliver service to our customers.

The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for approximately 14 years.

The Fortinet FortiWeb is very stable.

We did not have any problems with the scalability of Fortinet FortiWeb.

We have the development and network teams using the solution. It is approximately seven people in total.

I did not use the support from Fortinet FortiWeb.

The initial setup We Fortinet FortiWeb is straightforward. The full process of the deployment took approximately two weeks to 16 days.

Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company.

The license to use Fortinet FortiWeb is approximately $14,000.

I rate the price of Fortinet FortiWeb a four out of five.

The solution does not require a lot of maintenance.

I would recommend this solution to others. If someone wants to use the internet with an application website or any other internet application, content filtering is very useful to filter all the requests that are coming to the server so that no one can hack or harm the system.

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb a nine out of ten.

Our primary use case is as a firewall. We use a lot of Fortinet products. We have email security and FortiGate IPS. 

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.

The most valuable features are the access policies and how Fortinet gets the compilation done is really good.

I would like to have an antivirus option. 

Stability is very good. 

We haven't had any issues with scalability. You can scale up easily. 

Their technical support is good. 

We previously used Cisco. We switched because all they are is a brand name. It was a failure. We gave it a year to improve the product and it didn't so we switched. 

The initial setup was straightforward. The deployment didn't take much time. The support guys were really good. The transition from Cisco to Fortinet was a bit challenging but they had tools to make it easier. 

We require three staff for the deployment and maintenance. 

We are the resellers. 

I would rate it a seven out of ten. A seven and not a ten because of the antivirus issue. 

The reporting available is pretty great.

We find the configuration capabilities to be very good. 

Technical support is helpful.

It's stable. 

It can scale well. 

I like the user interface. 

It's not the most popular option. Many clients prefer instead Citrix or Proxy Blue Coat. It might be a bit difficult to configure. 

The upgrade process could be a bit smoother. 

Sometimes the integration doesn't work on the first or second try.

The solution is a bit expensive. 

We first installed the solution eight or nine years ago. We've used it for almost a decade. 

The solution is pretty stable. I'd rate it a three out of five in terms of stability. Sometimes the upgrades don't go as smoothly as we would like. 

The solution is scalable. I'd rate it four out of five in terms of how easy it is to expand the product. 

I can't complain about the technical support. They are pretty good. I found them to be helpful. However, it may depend on the engineer you get on the line. 

Positive

The initial setup has a moderate level of difficulty.

We only need one person to deploy and maintain the product.

It takes about a week to have the entire solution set up.

We install the solution for our clients. 

It's always difficult to measure ROI when it comes to security. It's always just a smart investment for a company.

The product can be costly.

The licenses are paid annually. You do have several licensing choices. They don't have too much choice. However, their options are good. 

We are not an end user. We are resellers.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We use the solution to protect the various services of our site, E-commerce, file service, and download service.

The most important feature of this solution is protection from an attack.

The maintenance fee for this product could be improved and it needs to be easier to scale up. 

I have been using the solution for four to five years. 

Stability is very important and yes, the product is stable.

The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network.

I would say technical support is good for this solution.

Setup for this solution is easy, with one being easy and five being hard I would rate it a two out of five. Deployment took a few days. 

We have between 100 and 200 users of the solution in our company. 

I would rate the solution a six out of ten. 

We are primarily using the solution for our security applications as well as email and internet protection.

The product is very easy to use.

We find that it is quite stable and reliable. 

The solution can scale quite well.

The installation process is very simple. 

The technical support on offer is helpful.

The solution could offer more integration opportunities. 

We started using the solution about five or so years ago. It's been a while at this point. 

The stability has been good over the years. It does not crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. The performance is reliable. 

The product does scale well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

Some of our clients have over a hundred users. Others only have 50. the size of the setups varies. 

We've had a good experience with technical support. They are helpful and responsive. We're quite satisfied with the level of service they provide. 

We also currently use Cisco for some security and protection.

We found the initial setup to be easy. It's straightforward. It's not complex or difficult at all. A company shouldn't have any issues with the setup at all.

The installation and deployment process is fast. It doesn't take more than a day.

We have two engineers on staff that can handle deployment and maintenance. 

We have a team in-house that can manage it. We don't need the assistance of outside integrators or consultants. 

We have a yearly subscription that we renew annually.

We're using the latest version of the solution. I cannot speak to the exact version number, as I don't have it on hand. 

We're a company that helps implement this product for clients. 

At this time, I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten. We've largely been very satisfied with its capabilities. 

I'd recommend the product to other users and companies. 

• Web services signature: Helped us on secure key exchange, authentication and integrity of the transmissions.
• Virtual patching: We publish many web services through FortiWeb. We are able to quickly resolve vulnerabilities.
• Layer 7 server load balancing: The device made smart decisions based on the content of messages. Also, with compression and encryption, it can offload slow connections from the upstream servers. That greatly improved performance.
• Zero-day protection
• Advance correlation
• URL rewriting and content rewriting

Before FortiWeb deployment, we were using a combination of commercial and open-source products. It was a hassle for the administrators, due to which some areas were unintentionally overlooked and caused many problems. With FortiWeb, we got a one-box solution for internet and internet security, which reduced the time required of the administrators and improved visibility at the larger scale.

Usually patches and version upgrades are really buggy, so we usually wait about one month for a stable release to upgrade. They need to improve the new version/patch delivery mechanism. For example, if a patch fixes one functionality for web services but also causes some other functionality failure.

I have been using it since 2014.

In the first few months, we had some issues but with a custom patch, we are good.

No scalability problems so far.

I rate technical support 8.5/10.

We were using combination of solutions, due to our organisation's policies. Due to lack of visibility, administrative issues and response times, we shifted.

We had a complex environment, with multiple offices across the globe with all the data in and out from our HQ.

At the time of deployment, and still now, the price was considerable less than other solutions and varies according to license type.

We also evaluated Cisco and McAfee.

It is a great product, but be careful with version upgrades.

The version we are using is not old, but neither is it up to date. 

We implement FortiWeb to block incoming attacks to our network and web applications.

We use complex authentication rules and forms, in addition to the solution, for protection. We also do caching with static websites and compression. 

I would say that machine learning is the most valuable upgrade from 5.8, both before and after 5.9.

The documentation for the machine learning could be better. They do not provide proper documentation explaining how the solution works or how to configure it. A good, valid KB article would be helpful. 

It is difficult to configure the machine learning and get it up and running. We put in a week of learning mode and then place it in our production. The machine and data learning is a pain point. I work with different clients. The machine-learning algorithm doesn't learn all the URL patterns. 

It would be nice to see certain software changes in order to add some kind of betterment with machine learning.

As a hardware device, the solution is very stable. This is true when compared with other web application firewalls. 

Hardware is not very shareable, as increasing capacity would require the use of a different one. But there is good scalability when it comes to WAF, SaaS and cloud solutions. The CPU cores and RAM memory capacity can always stand improvement.

From the time a ticket is created, technical support takes a while to respond, especially when compared with Cisco. In this area it is not so great. 

The deployment was very easy. Since it concerns hardware, one only need plug in the firewall and bring it up by connecting the device. It is pretty easy and not time consuming. The deployment takes, perhaps, one hour. But, the configuration and machine learning are important. 

The license can be renewed on an annual or tri-annual basis. The price is competitive. 

The solution protects a web server with more than 1,000 users making use of the solution. 

The solution is good. It has a preferable price, stability and security, all which recommend it to other users. My only issue is with the machine learning. 

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb as an eight out of ten. 

The primary use case of this solution is for security, on the periphery for the VPN.

It is easy to install and to maintain.

We are considering an upgrade to our firewall because our current version is not compatible with our FortiAnalyzer. As there is an incompatibility, we have been advised by Fortinet that an upgrade is necessary to avoid issues.

We believe this product will become obsolete.

It needs to better integrate with other platforms.

In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust. During the lockdown, we are connecting to a VPN and the connection should be faster, there should be RAM or more hardware. Also, it should include security features.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for two years.

This solution is stable and w have had no issues with its stability.

It's a scalable product and we have plans to use it in the future.

We have approximately 1000 users in our organization.

We are satisfied with technical support, we have not had any issues.

The initial setup was straightforward, it was easy.

There were no issues and it was deployed in six months.

We have a team of 20 providing the IT infrastructure, including switching, firewalls, and maintenance.

We have been using Fortinet for four years and internally we are using Cisco.

We would certainly recommend this product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.