F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall vs. FortiWeb

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Advanced WAF
Score 9.2 out of 10
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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
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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 FirewallFortiWeb
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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F5 Advanced WAFFortiWeb
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallFortiWeb
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F5 Advanced WAF

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FortiWeb
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.
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(11 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallFortiWeb
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.
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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.
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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.
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Fortinet
  • API protection
  • Bot mitigation
  • Web application protection
  • Application delivery
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Cons
F5
  • We would like to see more use of this product in such a way that we can insert JavaScript so that we can understand the bot detection very well. I understand that it does bot detection, with some constraints, but we have to expand that bot detection very well to do fraud detection much better just like Google Recapture.
  • Second is the WAF product. Sometimes we are getting false positives just because in the scope of the applications we had to stop certain headers, HTP headers, and we would like to see if there is some kind of a way to enhance the product to use machine learning to do this automatically or suggest to do it automatically in the future.
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Fortinet
  • Built-in vulnerability scanner should be better in next release
  • Predefined security policies for other web application not listed
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 WAF provides much more control and has a lot of features that can be used to protect your applications. You can have granular configuration settings per application and disable attack signatures on very specific scenarios whenever is needed. Also, the logs are very detailed and helpful to analyze the requests.
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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.
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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.
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Fortinet
  • ROI for last three years was 60%
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