We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and KerioControl 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."We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"It performs very well."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The solution is stable."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"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."
"All of the features of Kerio Control are equally good. Most valuable to us are the firewall rules, the intrusion detection system, and IP address features."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"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."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Kerio Control are the IPS and traffic rules. The traffic rules are very user-friendly and the IPS is working well. Additionally, the anti-virus is effective with quick options, such as filtering."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"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."
"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 stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"Its interface could be better."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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."
"I would like it if the interface section had multiple failovers. Although I do have three connections, just in case our physical cables get disconnected, I can only set up one failover as a backup. So, if for some reason our fiber and our AFM went down together, I would have to have it search for our 4G modem. I'd love to have extra backups running."
"The solution should offer more dashboards."
"The upgrades make the network slower."
"The GUI should be changed because it remains the same consistency across versions. However, those who have been using KerioControl for a long time may be accustomed to the current interface. Installing a new version in the same location makes it easy to find, but overall, there are no notable changes between versions."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"Kerio Control could improve content filtering."
"The antivirus seemed to be a bit laggy on the connection so I disconnected that. It's definitely good. The only issue we've had with any sort of cyber attack seemed to be coming from a couple of distinct locations, people trying to get into known ports on remote desktops and stuff like that. The fact that we can block all that traffic is just great. It simplifies it."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, 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". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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