We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and KerioControl based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The SD-WAN function is very developed. It has SD-WAN functionality with security features in one device. We can manage from one single console SD-WAN and the security policy."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Web filtering and the IPS functionality."
"The functionality provided is very good."
"The product is quite user-friendly so we didn't have a lot of issues that needed to be addressed."
"The IPS module is my favorite because of the security advantage reached with a few clicks and its automatic updates."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"In spite of the solution being inexpensive, it has everything one would need."
"The user interface, stability, and scalability are the most valuable features."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its ability to deploy it on live physical hardware. Specifically, when providing firewall services for clients, we can leverage such hardware appliances to support multiple customers on the same hardware."
"It has saved a lot of time and it was a secure way of doing it too. We had a whole contact center that worked from home for a period of time and that's a 21 hour a day contact center that we moved, that was spread out across the greater Brisbane region and working on home internet connections. Surprisingly, we didn't have a lot of stability issues anyway on those connections, but Kerio didn't blink, so that was good."
"The product is affordable."
"It has helped our organization with testing."
"The solution provides feasibility regarding cyber privacy."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"I want to have access to my computer from the outside and Kerio Control plays a role because it has a VPN... It is more reliable because it's a smaller group of computers to target for hackers and the like. The VPN works very well. I use it to work remotely very easily and exchange information, both to and from the location where it's deployed, and there have been no problems there."
"I like intrusion detection and prevention and bandwidth management. The routing part is also awesome. It is a good firewall. We never had a major breach from outside. We've never been impacted by ransomware, and our systems have never been infiltrated."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Areas for improvement would be application control and web filtering."
"They could simplify the troubleshooting process."
"There should be a bit more automation."
"Some issues with connecting to the VPN from home after firmware updates."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"Fortinet could improve the availability and delivery of its products. It takes four to six weeks for every purchase to arrive."
"It would be better if it could provide you with options before completely blocking anything through the web filter. If you are doing a deep SSL inspection on the site if it says it's expired, it doesn't give you the option to continue at your own risk. I can't say that it's bad, but SSL internally isn't really a requirement. However, its security features can help. Right now, we have people going out and spending on purchasing the SSL certificates for internal sites."
"The product may not be as robust as Palo Alto. However, unless you are a big bank, you probably won't need it to be."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"If you have to dive deeper into the firewall or any other features, then you really have to read up a bit about how to set it up properly. Some of my colleagues, in the beginning, jumped in and made a bunch of rules but then it got really messy. If Kerio had a template or guidelines for best practices, at the beginning, that would really help. With Kerio Control it's basically 'find out for yourself.'"
"They don't provide content filtering when it comes to search engine results. We had an incident on the network where a blocked site was showing up in search results. We are in a school environment, so we have blocked a site with some of the explicit content so that kids wouldn't see it. When one of them did a search, the results came on the search engine part. When you try to drill down to the website, it blocks, but when you search by image, it brings up all the images. That's one of the reasons why we are looking at Juniper."
"I would like the customer statistics to be more user-friendly. It should explain more what users have been doing throughout the day. Sometimes, it'll just say they downloaded a big file. Meanwhile, they were connected through a VPN."
"We'd like to have more integrations Kerio Operator."
"The security part of the software, like virus scanning, website, traffic monitoring, things like that, can take a beating on the appliance. And when there's a lot of things going on, the system can get bogged down. The actual security functionality of it needs a little bit more work, which I believe they are remedying or attempting to remedy at this time, but that's the downfall at this time."
"The GUI should be changed because it remains the same consistency across versions. However, those who have been using KerioControl for a long time may be accustomed to the current interface. Installing a new version in the same location makes it easy to find, but overall, there are no notable changes between versions."
"The improvement that we are looking for is for when decide to move some part of our application to the cloud."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KerioControl writes "With VPN, any of our guys can log in to the system and effectively be on board; helps with our customers all over the world". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Splunk User Behavior Analytics. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. KerioControl report.
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