We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The traffic insight page or the administrative portal is really helpful because you can see all the internet usage down to the point where you can see if it's big files or streams. It gives us a good view of what the internet usage is of users who are coupled to an IP address. That way, if there are problems with, for example, a lot of data usage or problems with the connection, we can narrow it down to a single user or server and address the problem. It's really helpful for diagnostic data."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"It has helped our organization with testing."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"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."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection."
"We are currently using the URL filtering feature, which is the most popular."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"Edge protection is a valuable feature."
"Most of the features of Palo Alto Threat Prevention are alright. I recommend features like content filtering, IP address, & intelligent firewalls. The reporting feature is very good."
"You can scale the product."
"For those who want a next-gen firewall that's easy to configure and easy to operate, I think you should go for Palo Alto."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"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."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"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."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"The Kerio hardware devices look cheap and could be improved. Some of our clients are switching to Sophos because their hardware has a more sleek design."
"There were certain things I didn't know about it, but I've always been able to just contact our IT company. They've been able to walk me through certain things. It was quite a monumental task to set up a public site. Support really had to help me with setting up the VLANs and walk me through it. It was not possible for me to figure that out on my own, but that's what they're here for. That could have been a little bit easier laid out."
"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."
"The documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are."
"The installation was complicated."
"The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"Sometimes when you want to group a set of ports, and communicate with Palo Alto, you cannot group TCP and UDP ports together. This needs to be adjusted."
"We are attempting to improve the use of URL filtering beyond threat protection."
"Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention could improve the commercial offing. Other solutions, such as Fortinet provide better commercial features."
"The cost involves the price of the hardware, which is expensive. However, most of the Palo Alto solutions are expensive."
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KerioControl is ranked 16th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. 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 Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, OPNsense, Sophos UTM and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System. See our KerioControl vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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