F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall vs. FortiWeb

F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall

F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall

27 Reviews and Ratings

FortiWeb

5 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
F5 Advanced WAF	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.	N/A
FortiWeb	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FortiWeb is Fortinet's web application security system (or web application firewall, WAF) featuring advanced vulnerability management and threat detection and prevention, available in deployment as an appliance or virtual appliance, also as a hosted or a cloud-based virtual solution.	N/A

Pricing

F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall

FortiWeb

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
F5 Advanced WAF	FortiWeb
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
Considered Both Products	F5 Advanced WAF No answer on this topic	FortiWeb Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Chose FortiWeb Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Ddos protection Pro Threat intelligence Pro Rapid deployment	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Easy to use Minus Easier interface	No answers on this topic

Best Alternatives
	F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
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Enterprises	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	F5 Advanced WAF Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (10 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
Likelihood to Recommend	F5 Advanced WAF is well suited for protection against account enumeration attacks, protection against known and new increasing attack vectors through out of the box attack signatures and threat campaigns. Also, up to date and accurate IP intelligence database to block based on known IP reputation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Fortinet Regarding my experience, I prefer to deploy FortiWeb in a reverse proxy to have the full features and protection. The other mode will be useful for special cases as will it will not have the full range of features and protection. Like offline Sniffing, it will be used in special cases. Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Pros	F5 So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Fortinet API protection Bot mitigation Web application protection Application delivery Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Cons	F5 I'd like to see the licensing model streamlined instead of having this, plus, plus this, plus this to get a working product. I had to go back to the sales team several different times to get a fully deployed product. Incentivized RB Roger Bauer Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Fortinet Built-in vulnerability scanner should be better in next release Predefined security policies for other web application not listed Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	F5 AWAF provides most complete web application and API protection; including L7 DoS; in custimer's multi cloud deployments whether on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, etc. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Fortinet Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others. Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	F5 This has been good overall. It has a positive impact on the security of our applications. I don't have necessarily a measurement on ROI, but it definitely definitely added to the security of our products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Fortinet ROI for last three years was 60% Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
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