Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) vs. FortiWeb

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Fastly Secure (based on Signal Sciences, acquired December 2020), offers a WAF and RASP solution that protects over 34,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ architecture is designed to provide organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. Additionally, Signal Sciences integrated BotSense service prevents bad bots from performing malicious actions against their…N/A
FortiWeb
Score 8.2 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
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)FortiWeb
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)FortiWeb
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)FortiWeb
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)FortiWeb
Likelihood to Recommend
Fastly
Fastly has been the ideal CDN (Content Distribution Network) to solve and optimise the management of our content in our applications and portals; we have easily integrated its use, which has meant an increase in performance, a time savings in terms of management, and a saving of resources that we can use to make further improvements to improve our customers' web experience.
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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
Fastly
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Fortinet
  • API protection
  • Bot mitigation
  • Web application protection
  • Application delivery
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Cons
Fastly
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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
Fastly
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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
Fastly
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Fortinet
  • ROI for last three years was 60%
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