We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"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."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The ease of use in the GUI itself is the most valuable feature. The GUI is really the best part of it. We like the traffic rules so we can control who can get to what. It's easy to determine the flow of the traffic itself so we aren't having to guess through command lines and reading out basically command-driven output. It's just a very easy-to-use interface. The interface is the best part of the product."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"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."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"The solution provides feasibility regarding cyber privacy."
"Kerio is a lot clearer to set up to do particular things, whereas when I do it on a Cisco or a FortiGate I have to go fight with it per week sometimes to do something I can do in 20 minutes on Kerio."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"Technical support is excellent."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"We'd like to have more integrations Kerio Operator."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"I would like for them to add more security features."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"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 solution could be cheaper."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It isn't missing anything."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos UTM. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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