We performed a comparison between KerioControl and SonicWall TZ 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 wireless control is helpful."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"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."
"The comprehensiveness of the security features that Kerio Control provides us with is good. Before GFI had it, they would have more updates. The updates have been slower, but I like the things that they keep adding like the ability to block by country. I use pretty much every feature."
"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."
"The solution’s firewall and intrusion detection features are quite good because you can see exactly who is attacking you and who is getting blocked."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"The statistic feature enables us to better use bandwidth management. We monitored the use by mobile, type of application, department, and by users. The bandwidth was solid. Our internet speed is optimized for our research."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"SonicWall TZ is a stable product."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"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 improvement that we are looking for is for when decide to move some part of our application to the cloud."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"They don't provide content filtering when it comes to search engine results. We had an incident on the network where a blocked site was showing up in search results. We are in a school environment, so we have blocked a site with some of the explicit content so that kids wouldn't see it. When one of them did a search, the results came on the search engine part. When you try to drill down to the website, it blocks, but when you search by image, it brings up all the images. That's one of the reasons why we are looking at Juniper."
"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."
"The denial of service could also be improved. There recently was a big issue with denial of service attacks and it was a bit laborious."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"The small business line has less PPS throughput."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while SonicWall TZ 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox. See our KerioControl vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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