We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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 most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The technical support is quite good."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"I love the VPN that we set up. A few of us have it on our computers so that if we leave, we can still access the stores. And we can work from home if needed. When I sign into that Kerio VPN, it links me like I'm sitting in the store. It puts me in our secure network so that I can sign on to each individual store and I can run numbers... If I have to work from home, it's so much faster than the way we used to do it."
"The most valuable feature is to provide users with the ability to log in to the portal page, keep track of their data usage and perform bandwidth management."
"The top features are ones that we're not using yet but we soon will be because we've just had broadband upgraded in Australia. We've got something called the National Broadband Network, which is forced onto you, so you have to take it when it arrives. We'll be trying the high availability out soon. We tried that with some load balancing, it didn't quite work as we expected, but I think that was more of a configuration thing rather than a product thing."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"It is very comprehensive and simple. It has all the active protections. It's updated. We love that you can set how often it is updated so you can work what is right for you. A large company with a lot of bandwidth can update the virus definitions and security definitions hourly, if they want. A smaller site that's remote, where maybe updating the definitions will eat into the bandwidth, we can schedule those more to go later at night. It's very flexible and works for us in all types of situations. This is great because then we don't have to learn seven different products to be able to work with seven different scenarios."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"One of the problems we do have causes problems with the VPN. The software slows the throughput down too much. You could have a one-gigabit connection from the internet, and it slows it down to the area of upload and download is extremely slow. There's too much content filtering at that point."
"When we did our last update, we had some trouble with the initial syncing process to get our messaging to go through. But we were also moving a store and a lot was changing during that process. I don't think it was on Kerio's end. It just coincided with the update. Once we got our third-party IT guy involved it was resolved very quickly."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"The one thing that did put me off of the solution was that, after they were taken over by GFI, the licensing and a few other items have gotten very complicated."
"It has a VPN back to our data center but I don't think it has increased the number of VPN clients extended to those outside our environment"
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"They should add wireless features."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". 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". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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