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Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF vs Pega Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet Managed Rules for ...
Ranking in Business Rules Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pega Platform
Ranking in Business Rules Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (3rd), Process Automation (5th), Rapid Application Development Software (13th), Low-Code Development Platforms (8th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (12th), AI Software Development (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Business Rules Management category, the mindshare of Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF is 2.2%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pega Platform is 25.4%, down from 29.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Rules Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pega Platform25.4%
Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF2.2%
Other72.4%
Business Rules Management
 

Featured Reviews

Vivek Patoliya - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Indic
Automation has strengthened bot control and web traffic security across our cloud workloads
One of the best features of Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF is the automation of rule updates, which significantly reduces the need for manual intervention. The managed rule sets provide effective coverage for common OWASP Top 10 threats, SQL injection attempts, and malicious bot activity, helping strengthen baseline application security. Bot control and traffic filtering capabilities have been particularly useful in ensuring that incoming traffic is legitimate, improving visibility into request behavior and reducing unwanted or suspicious activity. The ability to quickly apply policies such as geo‑blocking and IP reputation checks through AWS WAF integration also saves time and simplifies daily operations. Overall, these features help balance strong security with lower operational overhead.
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Quality Assurance Team Lead at HCLSoftware
Process automation has improved case handling and now saves half of our daily manual work
Pega Platform has improved my business process overall. The manager confirmed that manual statuses are automated and manual evaluations are automated. For eight hours of work, it automates four hours of work. Pega Platform has features for operational efficiency that are significant. It provides a business security texture app, which is a valuable feature, and it also offers report definitions such as bar charts, pie charts, and operational help. In terms of management capabilities, Pega Platform provides dashboards and tools that help with management and categories. Pega Platform has good integration features, as integration can be done in many ways, and even for legacy systems, it is a strong feature. I did not encounter any problems with legacy systems. Pega Platform has good scalability. It is not difficult to scale up or down if there is a need.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The best features Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF offers include regularly updated rules which incorporate the latest threat intelligence, logs, alerts, and the ability to block malicious requests that we have found on this WAF."
"Overall, Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF help us strengthen security, reduce operational overhead, and improve deployment speed, making our WAF management more efficient and scalable."
"We get the benefits of continuous threat intelligence updates with very strong network security."
"Since using Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF, financial losses have gradually decreased, and whenever a hacker was trying to exploit the system and asking for a bounty, that threat was completely eliminated."
"Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF provides positive feedback by protecting web applications and API protection while blocking advanced threats."
"After implementing Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF, I observed measurable improvements, with around 70 to 90% of common web attack traffic blocked, a 60% reduction in application-level security alerts and incidents, and a substantial decrease in the time spent on WAF management from hours per week to near zero."
"Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF positively impacts my organization by providing protection, as I have seen improved security, easier management, and fewer attacks due to limiting the requests, and the service has protected many things from man-in-the-middle attacks, denial of service, and SQL server attacks."
"Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF has positively impacted my organization by improving application security by blocking threats automatically, reducing manual effort, and ensuring consistent protection with real-time updates."
"The tool reduces our costs."
"It is a stable product."
"The processes are much faster now in Pega BPM, in particular, almost ten times faster."
"Pega has got very good features and tools, and generally, whatever a customer demands, we are able to meet that demand."
"The product's most valuable features include its adaptability and flexibility, attributed to its Java-based architecture."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the various workflows."
"The case management is great."
"With Pega, you can quickly understand the customer and therefore be able to present the right, most personalized offer to them."
 

Cons

"Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF should have AI-driven threat detection to reduce false positives, and the UI should be improved."
"To improve Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF, they need to work on automating SQL queries as there is still manual work involved in managing the rules."
"User interface and ease of management are areas where improvement is needed."
"Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF can be improved by offering more customization options, better visibility into rule behavior, and easier tuning to reduce false positives."
"My core concern regarding the product lies in the reporting functions, where I face limitations, particularly tenant-wise."
"I chose eight out of ten for my rating because there are some competitor software or applications that offer more advanced rules and policies."
"Overall, Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF is a solid solution, but it could be improved with more granular customization of managed rules, better visibility into why specific requests are blocked, more detailed reporting and analytics, and tighter integration with SIEM and SOAR platforms for incident response, which would add value."
"Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF can be improved by enhancing the dashboard and fine-tuning it depending on what service will be protected."
"PegaRULES need to improve its JVM. It needs to enhance the operation speed and memory size."
"The solution could be more scalable. It has some DevOps limitations."
"Pega BPM's documentation should be improved, especially for freshers or new trainees."
"If it could also be integrated with robotics, it could help with a lot of things, even if we don't have APIs, we could still talk to other applications. If it could invoke a bot, for example."
"There are some UX shortcomings within the solution."
"I've spent some hands-on time with the platform, and you can do those things, and it is all low code, but is it as easy as they make it sound? No. That's my two cents. For example, if I want to do something, there is no way to switch from low code. I just want to do a simple If-Then-Else rule, but I have to go through their low-code tool and do dragging and dropping. I'm a development person, and in my opinion, even some business users could do this easier. There is no way to go back and forth to an editor where I can just type in an If-Then-Else rule, which would be much faster than drawing in their low-code editor. They don't support that. They lead you too much."
"It needs more integration with other platforms."
"Sometimes when we are patching some data from the database, we are getting added as a timeout."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing fees are based on the number of users."
"The solution could be less expensive according to my customers. However, I think the price of the solution is fair."
"Its pricing is on the higher side, but they have come up with different plans and different small products that can be used by smaller organizations that don't have that much money to spend. They have different pricing packages depending on the number of users or depending upon the number of cases created in the production or live environment."
"We do not have to purchase any licenses for the product."
"Users have to pay a yearly license cost for Pega BPM, which is expensive."
"The costing model for Pega BPM is different. One is a license that you can pay yearly. Another licensing model for Pega BPM is based on the number of cases you create in production in a year. Costing based on use cases is also available for Pega BPM. I don't have information on its exact pricing or costs, though."
"Pricing is good."
"I would rate the product's pricing a six out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Logistics Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise70
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF?
The pricing was reasonable considering the automatic updates, FortiGuard threat intelligence, and reduced operational effort.
What needs improvement with Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF?
Overall, Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF is a solid solution, but it could be improved with more granular customization of managed rules, better visibility into why specific requests are blocked...
What is your primary use case for Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF?
My main use case for Fortinet Managed Rules for AWS WAF is to protect our internal intranet sites and to publish some load as we are using it there. Regarding my main use case, ease of adoption, ru...
Is Pega BPM easy to work with and can beginners utilize this software?
You do need some preparation to be able to use all functions of Pega BPM. However, all users of this platform are in luck as it comes with good documentation and you can learn pretty much everythin...
Have you encountered any issues while using Pega BPM and were you assisted by the company?
My company has been using this tool for years and the only issue we have had, if you can call it that, was while setting it up. When we were setting it up initially, we had some drawbacks and could...
When you consider the features and benefits of Pega BPM, would you say this product is fairly priced?
Pega BPM can be considered overpriced for some; it all depends on the size of your company and the requirements of your customers. Sure, there are products out there that do the things that Pega B...
 

Also Known As

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Pega BPM, Pegasystems, SmartBPM, PegaRULES
 

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Sample Customers

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The State of Maine, ANZ, Coca-Cola, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), ME, New South Wales, OptumRx, Texas Department of Transportation, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement
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