We performed a comparison between Darktrace 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."The ability to see what we have not seen before is most valuable. It is very interesting to find out the most vulnerable devices in our network."
"The AI-based pattern is the most valuable feature."
"Provides great network protection."
"The solution is outstanding from a monitoring perspective."
"One member of staff is enough for deployment and maintenance because Darkforce is AI-driven. It does a lot of things by itself."
"The solution can scale."
"I have used multiple solutions, but its graphical user interface is quite interesting and quite descriptive. There are a lot of video animations, and we can easily see how the data is transferred between various points. That's something really interesting. It is also quite easy to understand for a new user."
"The models, triggers, and alerts are customizable."
"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."
"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."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"It has saved a lot of time and it was a secure way of doing it too. We had a whole contact center that worked from home for a period of time and that's a 21 hour a day contact center that we moved, that was spread out across the greater Brisbane region and working on home internet connections. Surprisingly, we didn't have a lot of stability issues anyway on those connections, but Kerio didn't blink, so that was good."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"The cost is a bit on the higher side."
"It's quite expensive to have."
"I would like to see a feature where the tool ingests information from an anti-malware product that is present at the endpoint."
"I believe their network monitoring device licensing module could use some improvement."
"I did not use the AI features because they should make it more user-friendly which would be a benefit. Additionally, the solution could integrate with more SIEM or SOAR tools."
"It's a very complex platform."
"Darktrace could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The pricing is a bit high for the region."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
"I would like to be able to automatically send email from Kerio Control and have it tell me what my external IPs are, because on one of my lines I have a fixed IP address and on the other it is variable. If there were a permanent way for me to figure out, "Okay, my current external VPN and my firm IP is this," it would help. I need to know the IP address to connect with the VPN and, at the moment, one of the lines sometimes changes its IP address without me knowing it. It's a hassle to figure out what it is."
"There's also room for improvement in the Traffic Rules. We define networks to use a specific outgoing interface, say VSAT, shore, or marine WiFi, which is okay. But then all we have is a checkbox that says "Use other internet interfaces if this one is unavailable." What we would prefer would be to have a priority list. So if VSAT is unavailable, try to use 4G, etc. We haven't really found a reliable way of doing that in the current release."
"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."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"They should add wireless features."
"If you have to dive deeper into the firewall or any other features, then you really have to read up a bit about how to set it up properly. Some of my colleagues, in the beginning, jumped in and made a bunch of rules but then it got really messy. If Kerio had a template or guidelines for best practices, at the beginning, that would really help. With Kerio Control it's basically 'find out for yourself.'"
Darktrace is ranked 1st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 32 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 16th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 9 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "A stable, scalable, and valuable tool that provides excellent network monitoring". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Sophos UTM. See our Darktrace vs. KerioControl report.
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