Fortinet FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Additional Info

CompanyFortinet
Websitehttps://www.fortinet.com
Company size (employees)10,000 or more
Headquarters RegionNorth America

Overview

FortiWeb from Fortinet is a comprehensive WAF solution designed to protect web applications and APIs from a wide range of cyber threats, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Leveraging machine learning and AI-driven analytics, FortiWeb efficiently detects and filters malicious traffic while minimizing false positives. Available as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance, or SaaS (FortiWeb Cloud WAF-as-a-Service), it offers scalability and centralized management across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

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Key Capabilities / Features

- AI-Driven Threat Detection: Uses machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect zero-day attacks, bots, and malicious payloads with high accuracy.


- Comprehensive OWASP Top 10 Protection: Prevents SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other common vulnerabilities with real-time blocking and alerts.


- API Security and Microservices Support: Protects modern, containerized, and microservices-based applications through specialized API traffic analysis and policy enforcement.


- Global Load Balancing and Autoscaling: Maintains high availability with built-in load balancing and autoscaling in cloud deployments, ensuring consistent performance under varying traffic loads.


- Centralized Management: Offers single-pane-of-glass visibility for policy configuration, logging, and reporting across on-premises, virtual, and cloud environments.


How we are different

- Tight Integration with Fortinet Security Fabric: Seamlessly shares threat intelligence and event data across the broader Fortinet ecosystem, unifying endpoint, network, and application security.


- High Efficacy with Low False Positives: Machine learning models continuously refine detection rules, reducing manual tuning and false positives while enhancing proactive protection.


- Flexible Deployment Options: Offers hardware appliances, virtual machines, and a fully managed cloud WAF-as-a-Service, allowing organizations to scale and adapt based on business needs.


- Advanced Bot Mitigation: Identifies and blocks malicious bots or scripted attacks without disrupting legitimate user traffic, safeguarding e-commerce transactions and sensitive data flows.


- Comprehensive Reporting & Analytics: Robust reporting interfaces streamline compliance audits and threat investigations by surfacing actionable insights in real time.


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