Fortinet FortiWeb Reviews

The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention. 

In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for approximately two years.

I have found Fortinet FortiWeb to be stable.

The solution is scalable, but it can only scale at a medium level.

We use the technical support from the system integration, not directly with Fortinet FortiWeb. It takes them a lot of time to solve an issue when we submit a complaint.

in Indonesia, we need more knowledgeable local support.

The initial implementation is simple and the configuration is straightforward.

The price of Fortinet FortiWeb is reasonable. This is one of the key factors of why we use this solution.

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb an eight out of ten.

Fortinet FortiWeb can be used to protects business-critical web applications from attacks or vulnerabilities.

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.

The solution could improve by providing more integration with solutions other than the Fortinet family.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for approximately five years.

The solution is stable.

Fortinet FortiWeb is scalable.

We have had approximately five customers using this solution.

The technical support has been good in my experience.

The installation of Fortinet FortiWeb is straightforward. The time it takes to do the installation depends on the environment of the customer and if there are any additional configurations needed. However, a typical basic installation takes approximately one hour.

We use one engineer that does the maintenance of the solution.

The solution can be deployed on-premise and on the cloud. We have been working with governments in Turkey and they tend not to trust their data on the cloud and choose on-premise deployments. However, many companies here are moving to the cloud.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb a nine out of ten.

We are a product reseller and this is one of the solutions that we provide for our customers. At this point, we have only implemented it for one customer.

The GUI is user-friendly.

It is easy to configure compared to solutions by other vendors, such as F5.

The integration with other products should be improved.

This product does not come with bare metal protection, so we need more network features. We don't want to be as dependent on a separate next-generation firewall.

The pricing could be made more competitive.

So far, the stability has been okay.

We have not had a problem with scalability but we have only deployed it for one project.

The technical support is very good and they are fast to respond.

I have also worked with similar solutions by F5 and Barracuda. FortiWeb is easier to configure because the F5 product requires more technical knowledge. The Barracuda solution has the advantage that DDoS support is built-in and there is no need to integrate with other products.

The initial setup is straightforward, although integration is more difficult. For example, if you want to have DDoS attack support then you need to integrate with the firewall. With the solution from Barracuda, the DDoS capability is already included.

FortiWeb is more expensive than some competing products.

We have a lot of requests for Barracuda solutions from our customers. One of the reasons for this is that the pricing is cheaper by quite a lot.

While I have not done comprehensive testing with FortiWeb, I have no complaints so far.

My advice for anybody who is considering this product is that if they are not very advanced in terms of technical training, this product is a good choice because it is very simple to implement.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Publishing Web application, Exchange, Lotus Domino. Some microservices. 

Fortiweb improved way people work and access internal resources based on http/https communication. 

It depends on the project and what the customer is looking for. 

First of all, upgrade path should be introduced for scaling up or down VM deployment. Second, they need to include better wizards for publishing common applications like MS Exchange. 

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Fortinet FortiWeb has been extensively used by us previously, but we are going to decrease the usage now because of cost. 

Fortinet FortiWeb is scalable but you have to do forklift upgrades. 

Fortinet has had some rough times. When they started expanding a bit, they completely screwed up their support system. The support had no clue what they were doing except just asking dumb questions. Now is bit different since Fortinet consolidated their support but still you need to pass L1 support quickly. 

Even from the early days, Fortigate/Fortiweb was easy to set up. It had an ugly interface but it has been improved every year. 

I deliver different security solution to customers. 

The license cost depends on the size of the box or the size of the solution. It can go from few K Euros to a few hundred thousand Euros a year depending on your size.

If you are looking to be partner with Fortinet, you have to buy licenses. Not even VMs are free to partners.  

Fortiweb in essence, needs to become part of Fortigate. Fortinet is not suitable for SMB customers since you have to deploy several boxes in order to get thing right. Also, speed of deployment is important and that isn't fast with many boxes. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this product a solid seven. It's a good product. 

We use this product for load balancing and for their firewall. We are partners with Fortinet. 

I like that the GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization.
We chose this solution based on the online training and materials they offered. It's easily available on the web. 

There are specific functionalities that I'd like to see improve and that would basically bring it into line with what is being offered by solutions such as F5 and Imperva.

I've been using this solution for five years. 

This is a stable solution. 

The initial setup is straightforward, the deployment took us about two hours. We currently have 16 users. 

I rate this solution seven out of 10. 

All of our customers use it because they need a proxy solution. Fortinet provides us the best solution to do this. I don't believe that Check Point or Palo Alto can do what Fortinet does. 

There's a high school with many branches in our country. I configured it for them and they are very happy with Fortinet. Fortinet's performance is very good. 

All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet: FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features.

New releases and old releases have some bugs, some features do not work as good as we want but every new release the Fortinet team fixes up problems. I don't have anything to say about what to do to improve this product. It's a great solution for us.

Scalability is very good. Our customers that use Fortinet have two thousand local users.

Any problems that our customers have, they first call me and I support them. If I can't solve a problem I create a ticket. This happens very rarely. Their technical support is very good because they always help me.

The initial setup is very simple to configure. Our customers are very happy with that.

The time it takes to deploy depends on how deep our project is. Sometimes it can take a week and sometimes a month. Minimum a week though.

All Fortinet products that we sell, I deploy by myself.

The licensing policy is very good. Our customers are very happy with that.

When our customers ask about Palo Alto we can sell them a Palo Alto but we try to explain that Fortinet is a great solution. 

I would rate it an eleven out of ten. 

• SSL offloading
• Unlimited number of protected servers
• Load balancing

If a customer has a web portal that frequently experiences attacks, FortiWeb blocks all negative traffic.

It would be great if FortiWeb could provide web forms like Microsoft TMG. (For example, OWA Exchange portal or SharePoint portal.) Many of our customers are looking forward to this functionality.

I don’t use it, but as a partner of Fortinet, I implement it at customers’ sites. Our customers have been using it for about two years.

One of our customers recently experienced a stability problem. The customer has two FortiWeb appliances in an HA cluster (A-P). Something happened and both FortiWeb units became MASTER. Only a reboot of one of the units helped them. We opened a ticket.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Sometimes technical support is very slow, but sometimes they work very fast. So I will rate it 5/10.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Initial setup is not very complex. But if we have problems with configuration, we ask support.

We always recommend the full bundle, but sometimes we offer a budget-conscious solution for the customer.

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

Look at the PRICE and the PERFORMANCE.

• Routing
• Web filtering
• Wi-Fi control

It’s an all-in-one solution that lowers the cost of having multiple solutions. It gave us more Wi-Fi control capability.

- Logging

We have been using this model for one year. We previously implemented earlier models for six years.

We have encountered very few stability problems. In six years, we had one device that need to be shipped back to Fortinet. We had HA set up at that location, so there was no down time.

We did not have a problem upgrading their firmware updates.

Yes and no; you have to size it right before buying. The hardware on some models is not expandable, but you can easily turn software add-ons on and off.

I’ll give them an 8/10 for technical support.

We had a Cisco router and a Barracuda. We switched from that to a FortiGatefirewall and the Cisco Router. Finally, when the Cisco router was going bad, we replaced it with a FortiGate 100 for firewall and routing capability.

Initial setup complexity depends on the network. The admin console is easy to use.

They have options for their licensing. Look at what you are going to use it for and purchase that way.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options. We had one of the smaller firewalls, and we upgraded to one of their bigger ones.

Look at sizing. And if you are a 24/7/365 shop, get two for HA.