We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall 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."It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"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."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"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 top features are ones that we're not using yet but we soon will be because we've just had broadband upgraded in Australia. We've got something called the National Broadband Network, which is forced onto you, so you have to take it when it arrives. We'll be trying the high availability out soon. We tried that with some load balancing, it didn't quite work as we expected, but I think that was more of a configuration thing rather than a product thing."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"The interface control manager where we can allocate LAN connections to certain VLANs is the most valuable feature. The other feature that's important for us is because obviously everything is remote with MyKerio, as long as the boat has an internet connection, we can log onto the Kerio and get statistics, as well as provide support."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"It needs more available central management."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The price could be better."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Kerio Control could improve content filtering."
"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."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"Kerio Control could improve by having higher availability and adding a mobile VPN channel. These additions are needed. The VPN is working fine on the Kerio Control but there needs to be a VPN client on the mobile phones, both for iOS and Android. This would be very good for us."
"The comprehensiveness of the security features could be improved upon. However, for the most part, it is pretty good. They could add more logs. I would like to see more detailed reporting, custom reporting from the logs, and more of a streamlined interface for certain aspects."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". 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". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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