We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure 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."Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"It's got the capabilities of amassing a lot of throughput with remote access and VPNs."
"The most valuable features of this solution are advanced malware protection, IPS, and IDS."
"The remote access, VPN, and ACL features are valuable. We are using role-based access for individuals."
"Cisco ASA has an okay CLI with a nice GUI."
"IPSec Tunnel and AnyConnect (of course), the context awareness was a good feature, but clumsy at the beginning. I think it's better now."
"The transparency of the single UI to ensure security. A product has to be simple so that an administrator can use it."
"The VPN is our most widely used feature for Cisco Secure Firewall. Since we were forced into a hybrid working situation by COVID a few years back, VPN is the widely used feature because everybody is working remotely for our agency. So it came in very handy."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integrations and IPS throughput."
"The routing of the multiple internet physical routers I have is the most valuable feature of this solution. Instead of me physically unplugging a cable from one router to the server, if one connection goes down, it automatically switches for me. So I can have all three of them plugged in. If one goes down, it just picks up the other one automatically. There's no physical cable swapping."
"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."
"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."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"The solution provides feasibility regarding cyber privacy."
"Kerio Control can be scaled easily."
"The most valuable feature is to provide users with the ability to log in to the portal page, keep track of their data usage and perform bandwidth management."
"The flexibility of the system, the capacity to provide the right level of security, and the ability to be integrated into different kinds of infrastructures are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Backup can be improved."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The visibility for VPN is one big part. The policy administration could be improved in terms of customizations and flexibility for changing it to our needs."
"Migration with other appliances is not easy. It has to be done manually, and this takes a long time."
"The only drawback of the user interface is when it comes to policies. When you open it and click on the policies, you have to move manually left and right if you want to see the whole field within the cell. Checkpoint has a very detailed user interface."
"Cisco ASA should be easier to use. It is a bit tough to navigate and see what is going on."
"It is expensive."
"Intrusion prevention, we currently need to apply deep bracket inspection manually to use web filtering."
"For the new line of FTDs, the performance could be improved. We sometimes have issues with the 41 series, depending what we activate. If we activate too many intrusion policies, it affects the CPU."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"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."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"The product's technical support is not good as it used to be."
"The solution can be improved to create the capability for larger bandwidths that support our business needs."
"I would like for them to add more security features."
"I would like to see them develop a bit more flexibility creating VLANs."
"Improvements are needed to the Next Generation Firewall Protection, specifically with user-level protection."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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