We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."ASM for WAF."
"Great load balancing."
"It offers features Kemp doesn't provide. For example, there are predefined templates for handling Office 365. You can download them for automatic configuration."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"I have found F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to be stable."
"The BIG-IP’s interface is more intuitive than other GUIs. It is well structured, not overloaded, and does not have too many gimmicks."
"The main reason that we suggest this product to our clients is the great integration with other security tools, such as IBM Guardium."
"The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"This product is very user-friendly."
"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up."
"Banks have to be compliant with PCI and other things, and FortiWeb is absolutely amazing in terms of providing these reports. Otherwise, they will have to spend a lot of time on them."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"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."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"I used GitHub for autoscaling CloudFormation, and I found two bugs and I submitted them. Their implementation in GitHub could be cleaner and allow for a bit more customization."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
"I would like to see better integration."
"The web interface could be better."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"The product’s stability could be improved."
"The solution could offer more integration opportunities."
"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."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
"A better load balancer is needed when multiple servers are used for the same website."
"It can be better with web application firewalls."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". 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". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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