Fortinet FortiWeb Reviews

I use Fortinet products for security projects. When it comes to middle-sized enterprises, SD-WAN firewalls are the appropriate solution, FortiGate products being more geared towards larger, enterprise organizations. This is not for a data center, for which Check Point and Palo Alto are better suited. Fortinet FortiWeb is best suited for medium and enterprise data center environments. 

My experience with the solution has been very positive. Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities. Also, it offers many models for a host of environments. I like the solution's SD-WAN features.

The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic. 

I believe that I have been working with FortiGate products for five years. 

As I am a Fortinet partner, I make use of many of its products. 

I like the FortiWeb products. 

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb as a nine out of ten. 

I am more on the design side. The use case depends on what a customer requires in terms of web protection. We mostly use it for reverse proxy and load balancing.

The ability to configure multiple policies for different requirements is a strong feature of Fortinet FortiWeb.

They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for two or three years.

It is stable. You obviously need to assign and write configurations correctly.

It is scalable.

Every response from Fortinet is quite good and according to their SLAs.

I don't get involved in implementation and installation.

It is not a cheap product. It is not like a Linux or a Genex that you can deploy. It is a hardware appliance, and it is built for a specific reason and reliability.

It is an enterprise-class solution. You wouldn't find an SMB investing in something like this.

I would recommend this solution to others if they can afford it. We plan to continue using this solution. It is a good solution, and the customers are quite happy using it. 

I would rate Fortinet FortiWeb a nine out of ten.

The most valuable features are support and security.

More templates should be made available for reporting.

I would like to see more improvements with respect to threat intelligence.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for a few years.

This is a stable solution.

Scalability is good. We have more than 1,000 users.

The technical support is okay and I am satisfied with it.

The initial setup is straightforward and the deployment can be completed within a couple of hours.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Fortinet FortiWeb has improved my organization by protecting our customers' web infrastructure environment.

The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF).

Their support needs improvement.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

I would rate their technical support as a nine out of 10.

We previously used NetScaler.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The pricing is reasonable.

Not applicable.

Evaluate this product against other vendors out there.

We were previously a partner.

• Web services signature: Helped us on secure key exchange, authentication and integrity of the transmissions.
• Virtual patching: We publish many web services through FortiWeb. We are able to quickly resolve vulnerabilities.
• Layer 7 server load balancing: The device made smart decisions based on the content of messages. Also, with compression and encryption, it can offload slow connections from the upstream servers. That greatly improved performance.
• Zero-day protection
• Advance correlation
• URL rewriting and content rewriting

Before FortiWeb deployment, we were using a combination of commercial and open-source products. It was a hassle for the administrators, due to which some areas were unintentionally overlooked and caused many problems. With FortiWeb, we got a one-box solution for internet and internet security, which reduced the time required of the administrators and improved visibility at the larger scale.

Usually patches and version upgrades are really buggy, so we usually wait about one month for a stable release to upgrade. They need to improve the new version/patch delivery mechanism. For example, if a patch fixes one functionality for web services but also causes some other functionality failure.

I have been using it since 2014.

In the first few months, we had some issues but with a custom patch, we are good.

No scalability problems so far.

I rate technical support 8.5/10.

We were using combination of solutions, due to our organisation's policies. Due to lack of visibility, administrative issues and response times, we shifted.

We had a complex environment, with multiple offices across the globe with all the data in and out from our HQ.

At the time of deployment, and still now, the price was considerable less than other solutions and varies according to license type.

We also evaluated Cisco and McAfee.

It is a great product, but be careful with version upgrades.

I use Fortinet FortiWeb to protect my web application. It works to protect my applications from attack signatures. It allows me to create a URL profile and HTTP content routing when I have many web servers working on the same virtual server.

Fortinet FortiWeb has helped our organization by protecting the web application from any attack, known and unknown. The unknown protection is done by effective machine learning that is working on many unknown attacks. It operates on the probability of attacks.

The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning.

The machine learning feature of the solution could be improved.

No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for a year and a half.

Fortinet FortiWeb is stable. It is able to detect the latest vulnerability from Log4j that happened on The Verge.

The solution's attack signature receives its update from Fortinet Developer Network, and many of the updates are immediate. The attack signatures are updated regularly due to the connection to Fortinet Developer Network.

The solution is highly scalable.

The technical support was good, they were very fast. They were able to resolve my issues.

I have used the support in many solutions, such as FortiClient, FortiWeb, for Sandbox integration with FortiMail, and other products in Fortinet.

The installation is easy. It takes one day for the implementation, and after 14 days one day for tuning.

Some customer needs to go to production fast, it can take me one day for the installation, and after seven days I can do the tuning quickly.

I do the implementation and support the solution.

There is a subscription to use this solution. There are some additional features that can be added for an extra fee. The use of the features depends on the client's needs, such as full machine learning and signatures.

I would recommend this solution to others. Additionally, I would recommend F5.

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb a nine out of ten.

We use Fortinet FortiWeb to protect our exchange terminal for mail security.

The F5 solution has more features than Fortinet FortiWeb, such as multiple load balancing.

I have been using Fortinet FortiWeb for approximately four years.

The solution is stable.

I have approximately four clients using this solution.

The installation is easy and straightforward, and the timeframe depends on the application

We have one engineer that does the support of this solution.

I have evaluated F5 and Citrix.

I would recommend this solution. I hope they are able to make some changes to compete with other solutions, such as F5 and Citrix.

I rate Fortinet FortiWeb a seven out of ten.

The primary use case of this solution is to protect web applications, and stop attacks.

The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open.

Troubleshooting features could be incorporated with this solution.

The reporting could be optimized.

I have been using this solution for three years.

We are using the latest version.

The stability is okay, sometimes. It could be more stable.

In terms of scalability, I have faced some challenges.

We have 50 users in our organization.

Technical support is good.

Previously, I did not use another solution.

The initial setup was straightforward.

It takes less time to deploy compared with other competitors.

One person is enough to maintain this solution.

We did not use an integrator or reseller. I completed the deployment and implementation.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I plan to continue with my usage of this solution in the future. It's a good product, but if they could better the stability, it would be great.

I would rate Fortinet FortiWeb an eight out of ten.