--- title: FortiCNAPP Reviews meta_title: 'FortiCNAPP Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 386 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how FortiCNAPP works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 386 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: Cloud Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security --- # FortiCNAPP Reviews **Vendor:** Fortinet **Category:** [Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-native-application-protection-platform-cnapp) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 386 ## About FortiCNAPP FortiCNAPP (formerly Lacework) is an AI-powered Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform that delivers unified security across your multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Built to protect the entire application lifecycle—from development to runtime—it combines posture management, workload protection, identity security, and threat detection into one integrated platform. By leveraging machine learning and behavioral analytics, FortiCNAPP helps security teams detect unknown threats, reduce noise, and accelerate response. Integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric, it provides full-stack visibility across cloud, network, and endpoint environments—empowering teams to operate with confidence, reduce complexity, and scale securely. ## FortiCNAPP Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users favor the **robust security features** of FortiCNAPP, ensuring comprehensive protection across multi-cloud environments. (8 reviews) - Users value the **vulnerability detection capabilities** of FortiCNAPP, enhancing security monitoring and deployment efficiency. (7 reviews) - Users admire the **effective alerting for misconfigurations** and appreciate its seamless integration with Fortinet products. (6 reviews) - Users value the **excellent visibility and integration** of FortiCNAPP, enhancing cloud security management effortlessly. (6 reviews) - Users find Lacework FortiCNAPP's **ease of use** enhances their experience, making setup and navigation straightforward and efficient. (6 reviews) - Monitoring (6 reviews) - Vulnerability Management (6 reviews) - Cloud Management (5 reviews) - Compliance (5 reviews) - Compliance Management (5 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **difficult setup** of FortiCNAPP challenging, particularly for those lacking cloud security expertise. (5 reviews) - Users struggle with **poor documentation** , making setup and configuration difficult, particularly for new users. (5 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** challenging, particularly for new users without extensive cloud security knowledge. (4 reviews) - Users find the **setup difficulty** of FortiCNAPP challenging due to complex configuration and insufficient documentation. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complex configuration** challenging due to overwhelming features and insufficient documentation for newcomers. (3 reviews) - Users find the **insufficient information** during initial setup and overwhelming data presentation challenging for new users. (3 reviews) - Alert Overload (2 reviews) - Users find Lacework FortiCNAPP's setup to be **complicated and overwhelming** , impacting initial productivity and efficiency. (2 reviews) - Dashboard Issues (2 reviews) - Difficult Configuration (2 reviews) ## FortiCNAPP Reviews ### 1. Great product and great team to work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework gives us a great insight on what is running in our containers and in our environment in general. This tool allows us to quickly discover critical vulnerabilities and work with teams to patch our instances. The team at Lacework ensured we had everything we needed to have a smooth rollout. Highly recommended **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I don't have any negative aspects to talk about with Lacework. It's an extremely valuable tool that I wouldn't be able to do my job without it. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have an issue with tech debt and Lacework allows us to remove old issues while preventing new issues/vulnerabilities from being introduced into our environment. We are quickly able to reach out directly to the team/owners of a container and have them patch any vulnerabilities that were discovered. ### 2. Laceworks is a valuable tool if configured correctly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin T. | Sr. Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Laceworks provides a lot of information that is actionable in a clean, relatively easy to use interface, that allows us to have better security and alerts for our system. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The configuration and update process is not as intuitive as I would expect for a service that is this expensive. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Laceworks provides a clean dashboard into vulnerability management of the cloud and containers. ### 3. Lacework has given us insight to things we didn't even know where going on **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carl C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The polygraph approach that Lacework takes is fantastic. We where able to identify some trial installs that we didn't even know where out there and lock them down. I did an exhaustive look at splunk, and datadog's SIEM offerings. Lacework is cheaper, better and getting up and running was a breeze. Also the UI/UX experience is very good once you get used to it it's easy to find out details on incidents that get reported and you are able to correlate the incident to all effected resources in a snap. Lastly the support team for Lacework is far and away the best/most responsive team I've worked with for a product like this. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The only thing is that there is a little bit of a learning curve to learn how to navigate their system. It's really not bad you just need to adjust your thinking some. Once you do it's pretty intuitive. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** we had nothing really in place that allowed us to easily tell that someone has penetrated our defenses and what they are up to. Fact of the matter is not many products out there have that capability. Most will just tell you that you have a vulnerbility that needs addressed, your infra monitoring may alert you that a box's cpu is being hit hard or something like that. Lacework's approach allows you find that needle in the haystack. **Official Response from Christine Medina:** > Thanks so much for leaving a review, Carl. We appreciate the shoutout to our support team — and agree — they are the best. Our team is making enhancement to the user experience that should make easy for you and your team to navigate. Stay tuned! ### 4. Helps cut through all the noise typical of monitoring systems. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** * It cuts through the noise and helps me see what matters most, providing the information needed to assess risks and develop a mitigation plan easily. Information and links can be easily shared so others can see what I see. * With a click, I can see if a resource is available online or is a well-protected back-end system. * I can see if a program was used in normal daily duties or in a more malicious way. * It simplifies understanding how my complex infrastructure is connected to determine what may be affected by an event or vulnerability. * The UI is intuitive, and the time to implement is very low. The integration with our different services was very simple. By simplifying and focusing on key issues, I can escalate them to the business and development teams in a palatable form that doesn't overwhelm them. Prioritization is built in, and I can clearly convey what items require immediate action versus those that can be worked into existing projects. It saves me a lot of time and makes me more informed and prepared when presenting risk assessments and incident reports to executives. It helps me avoid missing a configuration on a cloud component or a forgotten resource. I can easily present a top-down view of potentially affected resources and the path information or a bad actor took during an event. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Nothing so far. I still haven't gotten my Lacework t-shirt, but I'm sure they're working on that:) **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to be able to see my environment and know what vulnerabilities matter and how they could affect the business. **Official Response from Christine Medina:** > Hey John, thank you for the detailed review. We are thrilled to hear that we are making your workload more efficient and that you're getting the visibility you need to keep your business secure. ### 5. Great cloud compliance tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick E. | Director of Cybersecurity, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** It has many different frameworks which you can assess your cloud environment against. Being able to flip off certain checks also enables the user to tailor it to their needs. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The UI can be somewhat cumbersome to navigate. There tends to be a lot of clicks to get to where you need and the filtering is almost too complicated. But Once you learn the system it's not hard. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing ECS Fargate containers with their deployable agent. This feature has allowed us visibility into what is going on inside the container, as you cannot get that information from AWS. ### 6. The observability partner you always wanted **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The representatives we have with Lacework are knowledgable and able to assist whenever called upon. Their product is solid and has provided my organization solid telemtry we have used in real-world investigations. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I would like to see that their product is able to connect more dots between identity and event, without these links we have to reveiw more events during the time window to discover associated events. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real time event monitoring of our container applications, virtual machines and for CSPM. ### 7. It’s like having a real polygraph **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan K. | Staff Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The lacework polygraph let's us know proactively whenever somethint happens that doesn't happen normally. We have identified our cloud billing provider intermediary accesssing our VPCs by username and location in the world within seconds of it occurring for instance. This sort of insight on outliers gaining access to your private internal cloud networks is critical to identify and contain breaches. I wish this technology existed in 2009 when I worked for an MSP hacker by a Chinese military state actor. I'm confident that polygraph can reuse the cost of beeches like this by many degrees. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I've not found major downsides to the product. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Intrusion detection. We haven't had an intrusion yet. But we have identified suspicious traffic and know what to follow up on. ### 8. Evolutive platform with great security insights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haythem M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The capacity of the platform to evolve with it's customer needs. Ease of use and ease of integration. Alerts are not noisy but still you can have detailed insights of non critical events. Custom policies are easy to create and to deploy. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Containers security can be improved to show a follow up of remediated vulenrabilities detected by the platform. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework helped us ensure compliance of our AWS environments. Reports are easy to generate in a timely matter for compliance needs. Lacework also helped us gain confidence of our containers security to have a detailed insights of our workloads security. ### 9. I have 1 year exp with lacework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daneswara R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** One of the key features of Lacework is its ability to automate security and compliance monitoring, reducing the need for manual intervention and enabling organizations to scale their security operations efficiently. Additionally, Lacework provides a range of security capabilities, including threat detection, vulnerability management, compliance monitoring, and incident response, all in one platform. Lacework is a powerful cloud security platform that can help organizations protect their cloud environments effectively. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** It does take some practice to narrow down what you want to see in your dashboards and results but this is not any different in any other platform that I or my team have used. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complexity security threats compliance reuirements Lacework provides a range of benefits to organizations that need to secure their cloud environments effectively. By automating security operations, identifying and responding to threats quickly, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, Lacework can help organizations reduce the risk of data loss or other security incidents, protect their brand reputation, and maintain the trust of their customers and stakeholders. **Official Response from Christine Medina:** > Thank you for your detailed review, Daneswara! It's great to hear about your experience with the Polygraph Data Platform and all the benefits you've seen over your first year. ### 10. Everything we expected... and more **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Easy to get started, we are able to automate a lot of aspects of cloud security with it so that we can focus more on our business, Daily/Weekly reports to help us keep track, communication via Slack is quick and easy **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** A bit of extra load on the servers that are running the Lacework agents, as you expect but it still needs to be considered. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increases Security by providing visibility, basically, we can save a fulltime DevSecOps/Security Engineer position ### 11. Embracing Lacework's Cutting-Edge Cloud Security Solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I greatly appreciated the innovative approach Lacework took to cloud security. One of the standout features for me was the platform's robust automation and real-time monitoring capabilities. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Issues related to customer support response times, the availability of help documentation, or the clarity of guidance provided might be areas of concern. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework has consistently addressed our cloud security challenges by providing real-time threat detection, automated compliance monitoring, and actionable insights. This proactive approach has bolstered our data protection, streamlined compliance efforts, and allowed us to focus on core business tasks with confidence. Its ongoing innovation has made Lacework an essential partner in our long-term security strategy. ### 12. Great tool for CSPM, Cloud Monitoring and Vulnerability mangement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamal M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Assessment of Cloud Accounts with Respect to Different Standards. Vulnerability Management across hosts, containers and Inline code scanning Cloud activity monitoring **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Reporting when it comes to vulnerability management, the number of false positives in CSPM as well as in Cloud Monitoring. ML algorithm needs to improve to provide a better infrastructure. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud Security Posture management, Vulnerability management and Cloud monitoring for different Cloud Infrastructure like AWS, Azure and GCP and centralized alerting for all. ### 13. Great tool for security monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hanna K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Good overview of Alerts and functions. Easy onboarding of Agents. Great support **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** little complicated onboarding for AWS Organization Advanced Agentless Scanning. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time spend checking Logs, more time for the important Alerts. ### 14. Senior Site Reliability Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Simple and efficient user interface. Powerful and easy to use. It includes all the tools we use regularly. Plus, it provides ways to remediate the issue. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The current IaC is not fully integrated, and it installed some soluble bits in places we did not expect. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a cloud-native media streaming service, and our business would collapse if bad actors could hack us. We use Lacework to ensure that our production deployments are not susceptible to hackers. ### 15. Make cloud security easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kshitij G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Takes away all the surprises and makes managing all the security and compliance aspects of your infrastructure easier on major cloud providers. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** None so far. Its has a pretty comprehensive security coverage. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comprehensive security coverage for AWS organization. ### 16. Helpful software. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Helps a lot to find vulenrabilities in fast way. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Price is a little bit big. It's not very cheap solution. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework solve problem of needs more security analyst. ### 17. A good tool for monitoring organizational security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary U. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I find lacework does a good job about letting us know about the different vulnenrabilites that we may have in our production environment **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Sometimes we get so may different alerts that it becomes hard to follow which are real and which may be false positives/not worth fixing. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Primarily lacework has been used to help us scan our containers for security vulnerabilities. It has been a.much better tool than oother options such as snyk ### 18. It is insightful how much you can overview in the tool. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I like the fact that it is not just gives you insight where we might need to improve in terms of security but also gives a step by step guide on how to resolve such issues. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Especially coming from a background where I did not use such a tool before, could be overwhelming first. But just needs to put in the time to get to know the tool more. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to become a lot more aware of our security holes and lacework is a great tool to help us oversee our infrastructure in a way that we were not able to do so. We are mainly using it for cloud compliance and security monitoring. ### 19. Lacework provides great overall insight of cloud environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kuldeep S. | Platform Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Critical alerts , compliance and vulnerability status **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** More granularity in details of alerts , compliance and vulnerability would be better. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** compliance , vulnerabilities and critical alerts ### 20. Cloud comprehensive visibility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Connor L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I like the fact that it provides comprehensive visibility and control over my cloud environment. This allows me to identify and respond to threats quickly and efficiently. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The price can be high for smaller organizations that lacks security focused engineers. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework collects and correlates data from across our cloud environment. This gives us a complete view of our security posture and allows us to identify and respond to threats quickly. ### 21. Some great features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cam C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Compliance and Vulnerability management of the product are awesome. Our teams use it throughout to ensure our estate is up to scratch. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The IDS is a little frustrating, I don't seem to have much configurability in how much Lacework can and can't detect, and therefore I'm not able to measure it as properly as I'd like to compared to manual IDS systems where I can measure against MITRE etc. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The security compliance of our estate and information is extremely important to us, so we utilise Lacework to resolve issues around best practice and configuration in our space that we may otherwise overlook, we know it can only take a few misconfigurations to cause huge problems. ### 22. Lacework helps in finding the security related alerts quick and in an easy way. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The way it runs the report for compliance checks and provides the suggestion for any security-related patch to be updated **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Nothing that I could think of. All good. Good product all in all. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** As i had mentioned before, it helps in diagnosing any security related alert such as new user logging from a location and details from the user such as location and the time that the user logged in. **Official Response from Christine Medina:** > Thanks, Varun! We appreciate you leaving us a review and love that you're able to easily prioritize alerts and quickly action them with our platform. ### 23. Lacework's reports offer comprehensive and insightful analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anh H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework enables organizations to make informed decisions and take proactive measures to enhance their security. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Less accessible for small businesses with limited budgets **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The time consuming and effort to identify vulnerabilities within the system ### 24. Very good UX and navigation on the platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philipp S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** From the beginning, I was able to intuitively navigate on the platform to my desired information. The menu is similar to other monitoring platforms. The product behind it is strong, a lot of automation comes out of the box and Lacework plays in the upper echelons of offering integration or forwarding of data to other platforms. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I think the default compliance dashboards are very good and useful, however it would be nice to be able to build completely custom dashboards for specific UseCases. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The question of where to start in terms of security is answered very well by Lacework. It supports and guides you in an all-encompassing analysis and resolution of security issues. ### 25. Growing the product with a first class post-sales team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** What I like most about Lacework is their support team that continues working with me and my team. The core team has been the same; any attrition was replaced with talent equal to or better than the previous team member. They do this all while introducing new features and full product lines; they take my feedback seriously and alert me when my requests have been put into the product. The UI is simple, so you can always find your data; similar products are too data science driven for the UI, and finding the data I want on those platforms is challenging. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** There are some views in the UI that group data for searching within multiple fields; some views/cards have a fixed set of values you can add or remove from the table; this is not a complete list of fields, and I have to revert to the raw data to search and display the additional fields. The good thing about lacework is that the deficiency can be overcome by using your own searches outside the Lacework-provided views/cards. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presenting the security posture of complex cloud platforms in an easily usable format centered around compliance standards removing the need to have a cloud security expert dedicated to our monitoring and alerting tasking. We have evolved the use of lacework over the past 3 years from only CSPM now adding Agents to hosts, vulnerability reporting, k8s and much more. We have integrated the Lacework data into daily operations of our Security Operations Team. ### 26. Pretty good! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oljas S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Security scans and notifications and utomated policy enforcement identifies suspicious activity or misconfigurations quickly and accurately in order to prevent malicious attacks. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework is expensive and we are looking for alternatives now. Difficult to navigate sometimes to find more details. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework is solving the problem of cloud security by providing a comprehensive platform that offers real-time security analysis and compliance monitoring for cloud workloads. This helps organizations to identify threats and vulnerabilities early on, preventing malicious attacks. The platform also offers visibility into traffic flows, inbound/outbound connections, resources, and services for cloud environments. By using Lacework, organizations can improve their security posture and reduce the risk of data breaches and other cyber threats. ### 27. The total package **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework has evolved its platform over the last couple of years. They are more than just an intrusion detection system. They have thoughtfully expanded their footprint to include vulnerability scanning at the operating level, industry-standard control mapping to highlight deficiencies/gains in security frameworks and benchmarking, extensions for integrations, and support of multiple operating systems for agent deployments. Their Account Management team is hands-on and helps support users to maximize the platform based on the organization's use cases. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** There is sometimes instability with the platform and deployments. The team continues to improve and is mindful of the impact it has on customers. If they continue to focus on optimizing their current features, they will be even more successful. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are creating visibility into threats and vulnerabilities. The ability to drill into our machine traffic via their polygraph technical sets them apart for their competitors. It is very helpful to get down to the single IP level when investigating a potential threat. ### 28. Valuable data insights **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Ease of integration into other systems, and the GUI is intuitive/easy to navigate. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** It can be difficult to pinpoint data in specific queries, especially if you're ingesting massive amounts of data into the platform. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product is helping add additonal context to evaluating risk with containers that run in production. The attack paths section helps prioritize what should looked at ### 29. Lacework has supported us through our vision to SecOps automation and visibility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica G. | Global Director, Information Security, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Centralised visibility Easy to navigate/integrate into BAU It isn't just a security product but supports the ops teams with day-to-day visibility Automation is what sets it apart from competitiors **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** haven't found one yet. The platform integrates into our day to day with ease and supports our security operations. It is a silet agent with no impact to our environment. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring we maintain security standards inline with ISO Ensuring our IAC code isn't susceptible to vulnerabilities Real-time anomalies detection and activity across our entire environment ### 30. Efficient and effective cloud security threat visibility **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework provides great visibility into our cloud security visibility and monitoring. It can detect anomalies that have helped reduce any compromise in our environment. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** We have experienced a few false positive anomalies reported over the last year of using Lacework. However, the support team has assisted with fixing any known problems we have raised. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework has helped us with the overall visibility and monitoring of our AWS cloud environment. We have also identified vulnerabilities within our hosts through their agent and agentless capabilities. ### 31. Lacework review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework does a really great job at providing comprehensive security monitoring and threat detection across our main cloud environments. The pre-built compliance frameworks were easy to setup and will be very useful in the future for preparing information for auditors. The user interface is extremely clean and well thought out. Once the tool was set up it was easy to keep a close eye on any alerts and provide data to leadership. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The biggest thing we are struggling with Lacework is streamlining the alert management process. We have so many different systems we need to check and it can be time consuming going into each system, **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework is helping our organization monitoring threats in our cloud environment by using anomaly detection, custom alerts that provide comprehensive data about a potential threat, increase visibility, and overall increasing our security posture. ### 32. Wonderful product, wonderful support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework really gives their all in implementation, support, and everything else. Their service has helped us gain visibility we'd never experienced before on our cloud environment and they gave us wonderful recommendations on how to bring our security to the next level. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Some of the features we needed were not available on our initial setup. A majority of these have been addressed however, and it's really awesome to see our feature requests being implemented! **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to starting, we didn't have very much visibility into our cloud environment. This made security audits a bit daunting. Lacework has made security reviews easier and made us more proactive with security measures. ### 33. A useful tool for security alerts **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I really like how it can give you a bird's eye view of potential intrusions in the systems. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I found the UI a bit much in the beginning, when I got thrown a link to a specific alert; there's a lot of stuff to pay attention to. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to know when people are trying to do bad things to our network endpoints ### 34. Excellent tool for monitoring security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio R. | security GRC Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Quick response, configuration options available **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** nothing so far. Everything is working as expected. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** lack of monitoring capabilities, 4eyes principles ### 35. Lacework review 2023 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julius M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The dashboard console and the information details are shown, every tab is full of information, and it's easy for us to investigate the alerts. we're not yet fully immersed on the tool but this one looks promising for us. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Not a dislike, but I suggest revising the closure reasons for every alert that needs to be closed. This will give proper tagging for every alert we investigated. Further review will provide once we fully utilize the Lacework. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't know if that's a problem, but when checking the alerts all the details showed to us that give us more efficient and running an investigation fast. ### 36. Infosec Engineer Lead **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivas S. | Threat Analyst - III (Managed Threat Response - Operations), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework is an all-in-one cloud security solution that I enjoy for its critical features including vulnerability management and Event detail section which is very helpfull in investigation phase. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** LQL queries now require detailed documentation since the information provided is insufficient. I'm asking if providing examples for each query would be really beneficial for learning. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main issue, which Lacework now addresses, was visibility of our cloud asset inventory and vulnerabilities. The final and most crucial compliance and detecting abilities. ### 37. Lacework helped us gain visibility in the cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katie M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Easy reports, easy agent installation and integration with cloud environments, great support **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Nothing really! Sometimes the updates policies can clash but not Lacework's fault **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can track our compliance with NIST and also manage our vulnerabilities in the cloud now ### 38. Better view of the infrastructure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The amount of information it collates and correlates, is amazing. Also the defining of different environments and how they interact with each other. Also the way to know more about possible threats. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** That normally alerts are sent at night to the team and also it sometime is not so great at alerting too, like too much data and not enough relevant information. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to monitor the cloud env, passively, and doesn't want too much user interaction, so that is great. ### 39. Lacework has been an excellent tool for us to get ahead of vulnerabilities, compliance and polices. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Habib H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework gives us insight into an alert. Helps us better investigate and get to the root cause in minumim time. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Not be able to edit policies better. Help get rid of unwanted alerts. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework helps us solve the problem of getting timely and benefits us in getting better alerting and getting ahead of any potential cyber attacks. ### 40. Great tool for monitoring and providing insight for cloud environments **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Relatively easy ramp-up that provides actionable and clear findings. Data is correlated and displays a timeline of associated events for potential issues. Very similar functionality to products such as Palo Alto Network's Cortex line of options **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Could use a better breadcrumb function allowing you to investigate issues then go back to previous screens when researching. It often takes you back to the main dashboard which isn't always helpful when you're trying to add context to a main alert while also working on that main alert screen. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility into our security posture for cloud environment. Alerting on any changes made and especially issues that have potential for vulnerability introductions or public exposure of assets. ### 41. Visibility into my cloud environment **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The UI allows me to see cloud activity without having to pivot into the cloud provider's console. They offer a dedicated slack channel which gives me direct access to support and questions They support terraform that allows my team to make customzations. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The UI has many sections and it can be difficult to navigate to find something as simple as a hostname The alerts are single events and customizations are not straight forward. Not able to disable certain alerts without disabling an entire category. It's expensive **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to see the acivity into my cloud environment in terms of activity events and cloud configuration which helps me protect my environment and detect suspicious activity. **Official Response from Tori Devereux:** > Hi there! We love to hear that Lacework is helping to provide visibility into your cloud activity, and that you are getting the quick support you need from our team. I am pleased to share that we have recently revamped our office hours into a new format, where we now offer daily and weekly opportunities to connect with our Success Team — bring your navigational and alert pain points and let’s talk through/improve them live. Find an upcoming session at https://academy.lacework.com/events or feel free to email me directly for support at tori.devereux@lacework.net. ### 42. Lacework disappears - this a GREAT thing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** The time to value was the fastest out of any product that I've had to implement. Not only that but once installed it learned and improved so we don't have to sit around writing security rules **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I wish it did better at SOC reports. It is better than what we had and saves us some time but there is room for improvement here. Other than that, Lacework well, just works.... **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our security and compliance is being solved by Lacework. It is also preventing a problem by the way it works. I don't have to hire a security team to write security rules. ### 43. Review of Lacework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I think the alerting features are great, and that the Lacework Team is very responsive. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** There have been too many false positives due to things such as tool changes/updates on the Lacework side. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework is collecting all events that go on in our cloud environments. This is helpful as it is an audit requirement for our company. ### 44. Great for Cloud Posture **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rod R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework has been great at analyzing our cloud environments and making us aware of potential compliance issues. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The GUI has been a bit rough, in my experience. We have experienced slow responses that seemed to be related to the GUI as well as a few other issues that may have been GUI related. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework provides in-depth reviews of our cloud posture, and does a great job displaying these items in a friendly, organized manner. **Official Response from Christine Medina:** > Hi Rod, we’re sorry to hear about your negative experience with the GUI. We appreciate your feedback about the slow responses and other issues that have popped up. Our goal is to provide a user experience that maximizes responsiveness and efficiency. We are working to significantly improve your experience over the coming months. If you’re open to it, we’d like to hear more about what you’re experiencing. Please email me at christine.medina@lacework.com. We look forward to connecting with you! ### 45. Great experience so far **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrei B. | Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** I love the ease of use and the interface. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** not enough notification controls to reduce the noise **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps an eye on events happening in our environment and alerts us if there's a trigger ### 46. Bolstering our small team with a whole new security function **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** We're a small team - I wish I had a massive security team to help me sleep at night. Deploying Lacework has helped me sleep more comfortably knowing we've got tooling pouring over our platform looking for unusual errors. It's helped a ton with keeping an eye on the platform, going a lot deeper than tools like Guarduty which I found suspiciously quiet sometimes. I particularly like the agent running on our platform keeping a proactive monitor on the actual Linux hosts and what they're up to as well. It's also helped a ton with audit - we've spotted unusual behaviours or unexpected configuration and has helped us keep things tighter. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** I think sometimes the false positives can get a little irritating - we don't get many but sometimes we get a lot when we're making a lot of changes, or when connecting to known external sources for the first time. I also think some of the UI could be improved a little - like on mobile it isn't great, and occasionally find myself tripping over trying to find the right bit. But I think in general the product is going in the right direction and I've enjoyed seeing the new features come out. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wish we had a larger security team, and while we can do a lot to keep our platform secure, security will always be top of mind. Lacework has helped us to get better visibility on what is actually happening in our platform and to alert us to unusual behaviours or actions proactively. It hasn't "solved" security, but it's had a positive impact on the security posture of the platform as well as helping us to sleep easier at night. ### 47. A very useful tool for a lot of processes. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework's monitoring system makes it easy to receive alerts that really matter, both in terms of compliance and in terms of security itself. In addition, it has several integrations to adapt to the company's process and some interesting graphics with drawings of the beginning and end of an alert. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Sometimes there is a delay between the timing of an event and the alert. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring and reporting of events and incidents. Audit compliance. ### 48. A great cornerstone for any Security Operations program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wes H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Our Lacework support team is always ready to help with any questions or concerns. We hold regularly scheduled meetings to help meet our program goals, and Lacework is always prepared to help drive the effort. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** The only downside I can see from my experience and usage would be the overall maturity level of the platform. It's still relatively young in the industry and has many great features coming on its development roadmap. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework helps drive the foundation for our Vulnerability Management, Compliance Management and File Integrity Monitoring programs. We utilize it for our daily operations and alerting. ### 49. Constatly Worrying about your DevOps security? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshal C. | software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Lacework is the tool that we are using at the Greatminds to detect anomalies, review container security, and threats to the 3rd party packages. This tool is helping us to detect most of the security vulnerabilities and thus making us work on security direction therefore the business can be very much secure! **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** the number of vulnerabilities we see from the tool to our app is always evolving its a constantly arbitrary target that we are trying to eliminate to almost 100% but seems like we will always have to keep on fixing the threats. But I don't think it's a point to dislike. The application needs to be improved per day in terms of security **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lacework is helping us in identifying the business critical security threats to the application. It's a tool on which we can rely in identifying security vulnerabilities and detecting anomalies completely. ### 50. Helpful prompt alerts when needed **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AJ J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2023 **What do you like best about FortiCNAPP?** Since I have been using Laceworks its become a morning ritual to look for the alerts and confirm what activities occurred over the evening and night hours. Laceworks is also prompt in sending out alerts that are very helpful to know what is going on the infrastructure and environment. **What do you dislike about FortiCNAPP?** Hmm, so far I wouldn't say there is anything to dislike. **What problems is FortiCNAPP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security posture and keeping us informed of any exceptions that would or could cause any security incidents proactively. **Official Response from Christine Medina:** > Hi AJ, thank you for leaving a review of your experience. Love to hear that we are a part of your nightly ritual! ## FortiCNAPP Discussions - [What is in the pipeline for Lacework?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/24342-what-is-in-the-pipeline-for-lacework) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Is lacework a SIEM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-lacework-a-siem) - 1 comment - [View FortiCNAPP pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/forticnapp/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-07+06%3A39%3A39+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=830be41e-286f-42f9-88de-df914f37458b&secure%5Btoken%5D=431548905850e8c16fbeabbf1f13a691c1e3bea2901edf45ccbe124063ebbb92&format=llm_user) ## FortiCNAPP Integrations - [AWS Bedrock](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-bedrock/reviews) - [AWS CloudTrail](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cloudtrail/reviews) - [AWS Security Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-security-hub/reviews) - [Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-kubernetes-service-aks/reviews) - [Google Anthos Service Mesh](https://www.g2.com/products/google-anthos-service-mesh/reviews) - 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Cloud Gap Analytics **Protection** - Dynamic Image Scanning - Runtime Protection - Container Scanning - Vulnerability Scanning **Administration** - Policy Enforcement - Auditing - Workflow Management **Administration** - Security Integration - Multicloud Visibility **Vulnerability Management** - Threat Hunting - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Risk-Prioritization **Auditing - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)** - Visibility - Compliance Reporting **Cloud Configuration Management - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)** - Multi-cloud visibility - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) **Additional Functionality** - Two-Factor Authentication - Third-Party Integrations - Intrusion Detection System - Continuous Integration - Customizable Reports - Continuous Delivery - Activity Dashboard - Security Testing - Audit Trail - Risk Alerts - Access Controls/Permissions - API - AI Copilot - Continuous Deployment - Threat Response - Reporting & Statistics - 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