We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and Fortinet FortiDDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Arbor DDoS offers security features that automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks."
"I like all the features together as a whole."
"With real-time packet capture features, you can easily and quickly response."
"The solution is flexible, easy to implement and has an efficient technical support team."
"The product allows us to check real-time progress, including latency and network activities."
"There were huge attacks in October, around 62 attacks at 30 gigabits per second, at one of our banks. We used Arbor DDoS to mitigate these attacks, and it performed great."
"Companies that live from their presence on the internet will get a very high return on investment from Arbor."
"It's very flexible and we can easily deploy it to our network. It's very user-friendly. We can do everything via the web interface and troubleshoot easily from the CLI. It's not complicated."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability."
"I find the interface easy to use."
"We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around."
"The product's initial setup phase was really easy."
"The solution already has security profiles and it can protect from DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks."
"The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use."
"It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies."
"This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."
"The solution needs to enhance its features to compete with other tools."
"For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"Because we had some routers that were somewhat old, they were not integrated with Arbor. They did not support the NetFlow version that Arbor was running. That was a challenge. We had to upgrade the routers. Some backward-compatibility would be helpful."
"The solution's shortcomings are related to its documentation, so it's an area that needs to improve."
"Auto mitigation is a feature provided when DDoS is observed on any of link/customer (configured under auto mitigation). It automatically starts mitigation with default filters. In default filter mode, there could be an impact on the customer’s link,"
"The product could have end-to-end platform visibility."
"The solution's IT support needs improvement."
"The web interface could be much better."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB."
"There aren't really any aspects of the solution we are unhappy with. It's been a positive experience overall."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved."
"I would like to see analytics, big data."
Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiWeb, Edgio Global CDN and Cloudflare. See our Arbor DDoS vs. Fortinet FortiDDoS report.
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