🆚 F5 BIG-IP vs. FortiWeb

F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS and bot mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

FortiWeb is a web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from known and unknown exploits and zero-day threats.

It provides multi-layered protection against OWASP Top 10 attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting, machine learning-based API discovery supporting OpenAPI, XML, and JSON schemas, bot mitigation without CAPTCHAs, client-side protection for third-party script injections and form hijacking, and link cloaking to prevent scraping.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the WAF category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the WAF category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the WAF category.

• ⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Bot Mitigation category.
• ⭐ 7th most popular in Spain in the WAF category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• F5 BIG-IP technology profile
• F5, Inc. company profile

• FortiWeb technology profile