We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation 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."The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"The feature that we like the most about Forcepoint is that we know the technology and have confidence in it. We can have several functionalities to simplify operations and management. We can combine functionalities like log ownership to review the number of devices in the infrastructure."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"The firewall and intrusion detection features are very useful these days because hackers have a lot of tricks that they use to get into a system. With Kerio Control you can see something that's happening. Otherwise, you have to use other tools to see what's happening on the firewalls. Having IPS in it is quite useful for us."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"The solution is easy to manage. Kerio Control is unique compared to other firewalls because it has been around since 2000 when we switched and the name it started with was WinRoute, and then later became Kerio Control. It evolved over time and it is more of a proprietary firewall on its own and has been developed through open source."
"The product is easy to use."
"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."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"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."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"It's a complicated firewall. Until you come to know the firewall inducers, most people don't like the firewall because the components for the firewall are a little bit complex. User-friendliness is a little bit tough. It needs to be user-friendly when creating policies, and pushing policies. Committing takes more time compared to Palo Alto."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"The one thing that did put me off of the solution was that, after they were taken over by GFI, the licensing and a few other items have gotten very complicated."
"I would like to see them develop a bit more flexibility creating VLANs."
"I would like to see a little improvement in their technical support when you have a problem. I may be a little jaded because I came from Kerio when we could call and get a person on the phone who worked on the product. Every tech had their own demo setup. They had instant messaging capability with the developers. If we found a problem, then we could get a result for it quickly. Now, the product seems to be 24 hours. They have also gone to the model that if you need quicker support, then they now charge you additional for the exact same level of support that they used to give. I am assuming it's the exact same level of support that they say it is. I'm not paying extra for it. That's the biggest flaw with the product."
"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."
"I would like for there to be a difference between international and national links."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"I can no longer renew my subscription directly with GFI but we have to go through third-party resellers like CDW. The first time I did it with CDW. I went to CDW and it was almost like they didn't even know anything. They didn't know what package I was supposed to get. Then after I got it, it took almost five days to get everything working."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". 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". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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