We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Rapid7 AppSpider 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)."The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customer's web infrastructure environment."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives."
"It can scale well."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"L-7 protection makes possible to protect legacy/not up-to-date servers/applications without changing the application code."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"AppSpider's most valuable feature is reporting - everything is stored in the local database so it can be sent to other machines."
"I like the ability the product has to detect vulnerabilities quickly, when it has been released in our environment, then displaying them to us."
"When it is set up properly, it can do scanning on web apps with multiple engines automatically."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, which is compliant with international standards."
"I would say that it is stable, as I am not aware of any major issues."
"Rapid7 AppSpider is good at managing different applications. It uses applets and generates reports to cover the PCA/GDPR compliance requirements."
"It scans all the components developed within a web application."
"It is really accurate and the rate of false positives is very low."
"I know that we have run into some issues with an SSL certificate and how it functions. Sometimes this breaks connectivity or just limits certain websites that are whitelisted."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"Their support needs improvement."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"We use Kubernetes, so I would like to have a plugin to configure FortiWeb Cloud automatically using Kubernetes Ingress. That would reduce the complexity of setting up an Ingress object in Kubernetes. Some competing solutions help you configure Ingress and Kubernetes automatically."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"Fortinet WAF came out recently, and there is not much feedback about customer experience. For each project, customers ask about the scenarios and references of the customers who have implemented this solution, which we don't have. They need to simplify the customer experience and provide more information so that we can propose Fortinet Fortiweb as a WAF solution to customers and convince them. They need to improve their service and training. We need good training to implement and use it properly and know more about it. We still don't know much about Fortinet WAF. We didn't get any proper training sessions. Other vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, and Barracuda provide such sessions. Whenever we receive a request from a customer for this solution, we just give the price. We don't propose this solution because we don't know much about it. We propose whatever we are familiar with and what is supported."
"AppSpider could improve in the area of integration. They need to add more integration opportunities."
"AppSpider has some problems with the RAM needed while scanning."
"The tech support is responsive but issues remain unresolved."
"Integration could be better."
"The performance of the solution could improve. When I compare the speed it is slower than others on the market. There are some tricks we use to help speed up the solution."
"This price of this solution is a little bit expensive."
"It needs better integration with mobile applications."
"The solution is too slow. It could take a full day to scan. Competitors are much faster."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Rapid7 AppSpider is ranked 26th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 13 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Rapid7 AppSpider is rated 7.8. 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 Rapid7 AppSpider writes "Useful vulnerability reporting data, flexible, and simple implementation". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Rapid7 AppSpider is most compared with Rapid7 InsightAppSec, OWASP Zap, Acunetix, Invicti and Qualys Web Application Scanning.
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