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."The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"The stability of Kerio Control is good."
"Kerio Control can be scaled easily."
"One very good thing about the Kerio device is its authentication. I don't have a Windows domain for authentication. Instead, I use the Kerio product because it can separate users by Mac addresses and give them IP addresses based on their usernames, automatically logging them in. This makes for a very simple authentication system."
"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."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"In terms of the comprehensiveness of the security features, it does a great job of laying out what it does. It's fairly easy to edit and research. Some of the features were turned on by our IT company and I was able to easily find other features on my own by searching for videos on the internet. I've been able to block certain websites, and content filter, as well as manage some of our bandwidth because we live stream on Sunday. I'm able to dedicate bandwidth for the encoder that goes to the internet. It always has enough bandwidth, no matter how many people are on the network. That's really helpful."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It's open source."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The VPN features are the ones that we really like, but we are using a VPN client to be able to use them. We would like to have an SSL implementation for this same feature so we don't need to install anything on the client side. That's a feature I really miss and that should really be embedded in the product. We really would love to use it via a web browser."
"Filtering of pages and greater personalization in services need improvement."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"When it comes to dealing with updates, there are often bugs on the solution. They should do a lot more testing before they release new versions."
"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."
"I would like to be able to automatically send email from Kerio Control and have it tell me what my external IPs are, because on one of my lines I have a fixed IP address and on the other it is variable. If there were a permanent way for me to figure out, "Okay, my current external VPN and my firm IP is this," it would help. I need to know the IP address to connect with the VPN and, at the moment, one of the lines sometimes changes its IP address without me knowing it. It's a hassle to figure out what it is."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"After the takeover by GFI, one of the things that Kerio built was MyKerio environment. This has not been very reliable because I get many messages that MyKerio is not functioning. For some reason, there are things that they changed and it is not very reliable at this moment, instead I have to connect to the firewall to see what is happening."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"There are some add-ons that need enhancements to make management easier for users, especially the reporting features. Some reports don't show the level of detail I'm looking for, and I've had trouble installing certain add-ons, especially for Internet bandwidth shaping within my company."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM, 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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