We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."It's a scalable product."
"It's very easy to install, and it's easy to discover and communicate with your device."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The solution brings device management into one single pane of glass and is a pretty good product."
"It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient."
"The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies."
"It can scale well."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"The ability to configure multiple policies for different requirements is a strong feature of Fortinet FortiWeb."
"Security Fabric integration. This is really a value-added feature as FortiWeb can interact with the rest of the client’s Fortinet pack to provide an intelligent security layer like (FortiSIEM for central log management and correlation, FortiGate, FortiSandbox for malware analysis, etc.)."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"FortiManager could be more user-friendly."
"The SD-WAN solution is difficult to manage on FortiManager because you need to share some configurations on the firewall side. Sometimes you lose all connectivity with the firewall, so it is challenging to apply the default configuration to the SD-WAN solution."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"The solution has some bugs."
"Regional support in African countries needs to be improved."
"I didn't like the connectivity with FortiManager and FortiSwitch, which was buggy and annoying and had fewer features."
"When we have a specific configuration pushed it does take some time to be deployed on the actual firewall."
"I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"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."
"F5 and some other firewalls are easier to customize. FortiWeb could be more flexible and customizable. The documentation could also be improved because many of the advanced features aren't fully documented."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
"If the price was lower, it would be a bit more attractive, as an option, to the customers."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". 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". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Cisco Prime, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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