We performed a comparison between Fortinet Fortigate and KerioControl based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet Fortigate is the clear winner in this comparison. Fortinet Fortigate has responsive and knowledgeable support staff, whereas KerioControl users report being dissatisfied with the product’s support.
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"Instead of using a cloud-based product for accessing information, and putting my data at risk in the cloud and in someone else's hands, it has allowed me to use a VPN and access my data directly from a laptop when I am out in the field. That has made my life a lot easier, where I'm able to access any information I need to be able access, basically on demand, with an Internet connection. That alone has been great."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"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."
"What I like the most about Kerio is that I can use the software appliance as a solution, so if the hardware fails for any reason then I can quickly replace it with hardware that I have in stock."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Kerio Control could improve content filtering."
"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 Kerio hardware devices look cheap and could be improved. Some of our clients are switching to Sophos because their hardware has a more sleek design."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"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."
"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 denial of service could also be improved. There recently was a big issue with denial of service attacks and it was a bit laborious."
"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."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 67 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 9 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "Efficient, user-friendly, and affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Check Point NGFW, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. KerioControl report.
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