We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"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 am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"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 interface control manager where we can allocate LAN connections to certain VLANs is the most valuable feature. The other feature that's important for us is because obviously everything is remote with MyKerio, as long as the boat has an internet connection, we can log onto the Kerio and get statistics, as well as provide support."
"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."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"The filtering feature is good."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"It has excellent scalability."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The support system could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"I would like to see them develop a bit more flexibility creating VLANs."
"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."
"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."
"Support responses need improvement."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"I would like for them to add more security features."
"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."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"Recently, they introduced their Prisma Cloud solution. Compared to the previous technologies, like Panorama, which is used for centralized firewall management, or even the individual firewalls, it's a bit challenging to integrate the traditional firewall policies into Prisma Cloud."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Check Point IPS, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. See our KerioControl vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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