We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and KerioControl 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."Protection in real-time is very good. It helps us detect things on time and make decisions to improve perimeter security."
"The autonomous threat prevention is very easy to use. The APIs and SmartConsole tool also work well."
"The integration is a valuable feature."
"User-friendly and easy to implement."
"The notifications are the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The reports are well written so that you can understand what type of attack has occurred, the originating IP address, and other details."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point IPS is the management of devices and policies."
"There's less admin burden to detect these threats as Check Point IPS will do it all for you and suggest the best preventive actions to protect the network."
"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 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."
"The firewall appliance itself is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The product is affordable."
"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."
"Setup is simple. The Kerio interface is very intuitive."
"It is very comprehensive and simple. It has all the active protections. It's updated. We love that you can set how often it is updated so you can work what is right for you. A large company with a lot of bandwidth can update the virus definitions and security definitions hourly, if they want. A smaller site that's remote, where maybe updating the definitions will eat into the bandwidth, we can schedule those more to go later at night. It's very flexible and works for us in all types of situations. This is great because then we don't have to learn seven different products to be able to work with seven different scenarios."
"When exceptions need to be done for certain profiles, it is easy to get them done, however, implementation on some general ones may cause some extra work as the IPS is not easy to overwrite."
"This is an expensive solution, higher than other products on the market."
"Despite being a blade, this is expensive."
"I am not aware of a preview channel or some repository to have a preview on upcoming signatures, however, this would be nice to have."
"There are a lot of false positives. I would like to see integration with some kind of network detection and response in order to make some automation on IPS configuration."
"What I would like to improve in IPS would be the capacity of the hardware. I would also like to be able to sort signatures by severity. This would greatly impact how well I can manage my environment."
"Occasionally there are glitches and errors like false positives, which would be a nice area of this solution to improve upon."
"The pain point that I have with this solution is contacting technical support."
"If I would suggest anything, it would be to expand on its multifactor authentication to be a little bit more user-friendly. They should do multifactor authentications for the client itself perhaps, rather than served on a webpage, in a page hijack, that might be more user-friendly, but I don't have a lot of complaints about it. It's doing its job. You have to have a certain amount of skills to configure these things anyway, the ones that we use on-site doing point-to-point, and we've been tricked up a few times with their interfaces."
"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."
"I would like for there to be a difference between international and national links."
"They should add wireless features."
"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."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"The security part of the software, like virus scanning, website, traffic monitoring, things like that, can take a beating on the appliance. And when there's a lot of things going on, the system can get bogged down. The actual security functionality of it needs a little bit more work, which I believe they are remedying or attempting to remedy at this time, but that's the downfall at this time."
"I find it a bit costly to pay for the products that I am not using. They need to change their model in such a way that you don't have to pay for the products that you are not using. Its local support and scalability are also not good. I am looking forward to a more scalable product that will be able to grow with time and technology."
Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 29 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 16th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 9 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "A stable tool that provides its users with intrusion protection functionalities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Trend Vision One- Cloud Security, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Check Point IPS vs. KerioControl report.
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