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."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"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."
"The traffic insight page or the administrative portal is really helpful because you can see all the internet usage down to the point where you can see if it's big files or streams. It gives us a good view of what the internet usage is of users who are coupled to an IP address. That way, if there are problems with, for example, a lot of data usage or problems with the connection, we can narrow it down to a single user or server and address the problem. It's really helpful for diagnostic data."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"I have found the most valuable features of Kerio Control to be the IPS and firewall."
"The solution is easy to manage. Kerio Control is unique compared to other firewalls because it has been around since 2000 when we switched and the name it started with was WinRoute, and then later became Kerio Control. It evolved over time and it is more of a proprietary firewall on its own and has been developed through open source."
"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."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"The overall speed needs improvement. Internet connectivity speed needs to be improved somehow."
"If I would suggest anything, it would be to expand on its multifactor authentication to be a little bit more user-friendly. They should do multifactor authentications for the client itself perhaps, rather than served on a webpage, in a page hijack, that might be more user-friendly, but I don't have a lot of complaints about it. It's doing its job. You have to have a certain amount of skills to configure these things anyway, the ones that we use on-site doing point-to-point, and we've been tricked up a few times with their interfaces."
"The comprehensiveness of the security features could be improved upon. However, for the most part, it is pretty good. They could add more logs. I would like to see more detailed reporting, custom reporting from the logs, and more of a streamlined interface for certain aspects."
"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."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"Kerio Control could improve by having higher availability and adding a mobile VPN channel. These additions are needed. The VPN is working fine on the Kerio Control but there needs to be a VPN client on the mobile phones, both for iOS and Android. This would be very good for us."
"I would like for there to be a difference between international and national links."
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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