We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate 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."The solution is user-friendly."
"The VPN used with the product is secure and reliable without lag."
"We have not had to reach out to FortiGate support yet and that is a pretty good track record."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are the dashboard and reporting which give us very good visibility."
"I love the interface."
"You have access to CLI in case you have no web access."
"The detection is great."
"Has a very user-friendly interface and doesn't require any prior knowledge."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"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."
"The traffic insight page or the administrative portal is really helpful because you can see all the internet usage down to the point where you can see if it's big files or streams. It gives us a good view of what the internet usage is of users who are coupled to an IP address. That way, if there are problems with, for example, a lot of data usage or problems with the connection, we can narrow it down to a single user or server and address the problem. It's really helpful for diagnostic data."
"The solution is easy to manage. Kerio Control is unique compared to other firewalls because it has been around since 2000 when we switched and the name it started with was WinRoute, and then later became Kerio Control. It evolved over time and it is more of a proprietary firewall on its own and has been developed through open source."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"The ease of use in the GUI itself is the most valuable feature. The GUI is really the best part of it. We like the traffic rules so we can control who can get to what. It's easy to determine the flow of the traffic itself so we aren't having to guess through command lines and reading out basically command-driven output. It's just a very easy-to-use interface. The interface is the best part of the product."
"In terms of the comprehensiveness of the security features, it does a great job of laying out what it does. It's fairly easy to edit and research. Some of the features were turned on by our IT company and I was able to easily find other features on my own by searching for videos on the internet. I've been able to block certain websites, and content filter, as well as manage some of our bandwidth because we live stream on Sunday. I'm able to dedicate bandwidth for the encoder that goes to the internet. It always has enough bandwidth, no matter how many people are on the network. That's really helpful."
"The initial deployment could be improved."
"There could be more modifications."
"The interface could be better."
"We would like to see an improvement in the consistency of the product's performance levels."
"The solution is not scalable."
"The customization is a little bit difficult."
"Security level could be increased."
"We'd like to have multi-factor authentication via fiber."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"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."
"The product's technical support is not good as it used to be."
"I can no longer renew my subscription directly with GFI but we have to go through third-party resellers like CDW. The first time I did it with CDW. I went to CDW and it was almost like they didn't even know anything. They didn't know what package I was supposed to get. Then after I got it, it took almost five days to get everything working."
"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 solution should offer more dashboards."
"The VPN features are the ones that we really like, but we are using a VPN client to be able to use them. We would like to have an SSL implementation for this same feature so we don't need to install anything on the client side. That's a feature I really miss and that should really be embedded in the product. We really would love to use it via a web browser."
"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."
Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 33 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 16th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 9 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Integrated management is a great feature and the UI is user friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". Fortinet FortiGate IPS is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Check Point IPS, Cisco NGIPS and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Sophos UTM. See our Fortinet FortiGate IPS vs. KerioControl report.
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