We performed a comparison between KerioControl and OPNsense 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."All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution provides feasibility regarding cyber privacy."
"We also like the security. We can control what sites users can go to and we can make sure that where they're going is appropriate and that it's work-related."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"The IDS and IPS features are valuable. From the usability perspective, there is a lot of good documentation. As IT professionals, we found it very easy to configure the firewall. It was easy to configure and use."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"The solution has high availability."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The UI could be improved."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The Kerio hardware devices look cheap and could be improved. Some of our clients are switching to Sophos because their hardware has a more sleek design."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"The product's technical support is not good as it used to be."
"I would like to see them develop a bit more flexibility creating VLANs."
"KerioControl should add more options in VPN features, such as IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and L2TP VPNs, because KerioControl uses a special VPN for their products."
"One area that confused me a bit when I was building my current network. I use VLANs to have separate functionality on the network, and the appliance I got was the WiFi model, but I discovered that you can't assign WiFi channels to the VLAN. So, you can have WiFi, but its own subnet. You can't run that over the VLAN. Effectively, I can't use the WiFi facility in the appliance and had to purchase a separate web that supports VLANs. In the end, I had to go to GFI support. They confirmed this is just a limited functionality of that device, as it is a low-end device. I don't know if any of their high-end models have a better facility or not."
"I would like for there to be a difference between international and national links."
"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 IPS solution could be more reliable."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. 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 OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). See our KerioControl vs. OPNsense report.
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