We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva Bot Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The solution is stable."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."
"Describing security rules should be improved. It's tricky to define new feature tools when you want to describe an attack pattern and want to block it."
"Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."
"The solution is rather complicated. If you know what to do, it's not bad, but it's complicated for a first time user to configure the solution. What I'd like to improve are the custom signatures."
"It is not entirely user-friendly."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."
"Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Imperva Bot Management is ranked 4th in Bot Management with 2 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Imperva Bot Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Bot Management writes "A product that offers advanced bot detection capabilities and reporting features". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Imperva Bot Management is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, DataDome, Cequence Security and Akamai.
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