We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security 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."We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with."
"The technical support is good."
"Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"The product is easy to use."
"When one of the employees of my customers is using the VPN Client, I have created for them that they will always get a message. When the VPN Client connects to Kerio Control from the outside, they will get an email so they know when they are connected and when they are disconnected what is happening to their network."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"Setup is simple. The Kerio interface is very intuitive."
"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."
"I have found the most valuable features of Kerio Control to be the IPS and firewall."
"The routing of the multiple internet physical routers I have is the most valuable feature of this solution. Instead of me physically unplugging a cable from one router to the server, if one connection goes down, it automatically switches for me. So I can have all three of them plugged in. If one goes down, it just picks up the other one automatically. There's no physical cable swapping."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"Kerio Control can be scaled easily."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"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 GUI should be changed because it remains the same consistency across versions. However, those who have been using KerioControl for a long time may be accustomed to the current interface. Installing a new version in the same location makes it easy to find, but overall, there are no notable changes between versions."
"I would like the customer statistics to be more user-friendly. It should explain more what users have been doing throughout the day. Sometimes, it'll just say they downloaded a big file. Meanwhile, they were connected through a VPN."
"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."
"The solution should offer more dashboards."
"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."
"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."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 46 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "A mature product with good integration capabilities, however, it needs to be more affordable". 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". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. KerioControl report.
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