We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward...Azure Web Application Firewall is a scalable product."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It can scale well."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"The customers are very happy with this solution because of two things. First, the IPS integration with a web application is very tightly done on Fortinet. Second, the ease of use is there. The management interface or the GUI interface is very easy to use, configure, and manage. These are the two main valuable features. It supports integration with other Fortinet products. It also integrates very well with the firewall and sandboxing technology. They already have enough integration with different technologies. They have got a complete tech intelligence view of the whole product."
"The reason I recommend this product is because it guarantees that your network will be safe if it is set up properly and you fully utilize most of the functions."
"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"Azure WAF should not be deployed in the middle of the traffic."
"The management can be improved."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
"Centralized management of multiple devices, and GUI improvement, could reduce the learning curve."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"The false positives are annoying."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
"The product’s stability could be improved."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". 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". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door, F5 Advanced WAF and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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