We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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."FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The technical support has been good."
"The product is affordable."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Kerio Control can be scaled easily."
"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."
"I love the VPN that we set up. A few of us have it on our computers so that if we leave, we can still access the stores. And we can work from home if needed. When I sign into that Kerio VPN, it links me like I'm sitting in the store. It puts me in our secure network so that I can sign on to each individual store and I can run numbers... If I have to work from home, it's so much faster than the way we used to do it."
"The most valuable feature is the reliability of VPN capabilities. The VPN has been very reliable and secure. The security has been very good and the VPN connections are reliable in that they stay up. We don't have a lot of problems with downtime and that type of thing."
"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."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"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."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The support system could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"he stability could be improved."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"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."
"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."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"Filtering of pages and greater personalization in services need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper vSRX vs. KerioControl report.
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