We performed a comparison between KerioControl and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The firewall and intrusion detection features are good. It has blocked certain things. We have a lot of blocked sites that the staff or anyone using it, the public, etc., can't go on. It works for that. I get quite a few messages every now and again, saying that a virus has been detected and I can go in and block the user who's causing the problem."
"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."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"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."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"Setup is simple. The Kerio interface is very intuitive."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"The product's technical support is not good as it used to be."
"The improvement that we are looking for is for when decide to move some part of our application to the cloud."
"It has a VPN back to our data center but I don't think it has increased the number of VPN clients extended to those outside our environment"
"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 for them to add more security features."
"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."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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