We performed a comparison between KerioControl and SonicWall NSa 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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"The product is affordable."
"What I like the most about Kerio is that I can use the software appliance as a solution, so if the hardware fails for any reason then I can quickly replace it with hardware that I have in stock."
"Its support is very good, and it is stable product."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"I want to have access to my computer from the outside and Kerio Control plays a role because it has a VPN... It is more reliable because it's a smaller group of computers to target for hackers and the like. The VPN works very well. I use it to work remotely very easily and exchange information, both to and from the location where it's deployed, and there have been no problems there."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"Easy to setup and implement"
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"Valuable features include a web filter, DHCP, and monitoring capabilities."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The scalability could be better."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The reports are very basic."
"The product's technical support is not good as it used to be."
"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."
"One area that confused me a bit when I was building my current network. I use VLANs to have separate functionality on the network, and the appliance I got was the WiFi model, but I discovered that you can't assign WiFi channels to the VLAN. So, you can have WiFi, but its own subnet. You can't run that over the VLAN. Effectively, I can't use the WiFi facility in the appliance and had to purchase a separate web that supports VLANs. In the end, I had to go to GFI support. They confirmed this is just a limited functionality of that device, as it is a low-end device. I don't know if any of their high-end models have a better facility or not."
"After the takeover by GFI, one of the things that Kerio built was MyKerio environment. This has not been very reliable because I get many messages that MyKerio is not functioning. For some reason, there are things that they changed and it is not very reliable at this moment, instead I have to connect to the firewall to see what is happening."
"The upgrades make the network slower."
"They don't provide content filtering when it comes to search engine results. We had an incident on the network where a blocked site was showing up in search results. We are in a school environment, so we have blocked a site with some of the explicit content so that kids wouldn't see it. When one of them did a search, the results came on the search engine part. When you try to drill down to the website, it blocks, but when you search by image, it brings up all the images. That's one of the reasons why we are looking at Juniper."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"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 solution can be a bit expensive."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"When it comes to security I think all of the features are currently open to improvement."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our KerioControl vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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