We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Sophos UTM 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."It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The solution can scale well."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The most valuable features of KerioControl are ease of configuration, user-friendliness, and comfortable to use. It is an all-in-one solution, it comes with many features, such as a firewall, antivirus software, and network protection."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"The most valuable feature is to provide users with the ability to log in to the portal page, keep track of their data usage and perform bandwidth management."
"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."
"I have found the most valuable features of Kerio Control to be the IPS and firewall."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"One very good thing about the Kerio device is its authentication. I don't have a Windows domain for authentication. Instead, I use the Kerio product because it can separate users by Mac addresses and give them IP addresses based on their usernames, automatically logging them in. This makes for a very simple authentication system."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"It's a stable solution."
"This is a very stable product."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"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 solution should offer more dashboards."
"The denial of service could also be improved. There recently was a big issue with denial of service attacks and it was a bit laborious."
"The product's technical support is not good as it used to be."
"When we did our last update, we had some trouble with the initial syncing process to get our messaging to go through. But we were also moving a store and a lot was changing during that process. I don't think it was on Kerio's end. It just coincided with the update. Once we got our third-party IT guy involved it was resolved very quickly."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"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."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XGS. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos UTM report.
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