We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and KerioControl based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"Kerio is a lot clearer to set up to do particular things, whereas when I do it on a Cisco or a FortiGate I have to go fight with it per week sometimes to do something I can do in 20 minutes on Kerio."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"Setup is simple. The Kerio interface is very intuitive."
"The solution’s firewall and intrusion detection features are quite good because you can see exactly who is attacking you and who is getting blocked."
"The stability of Kerio Control is good."
"The most valuable feature is to provide users with the ability to log in to the portal page, keep track of their data usage and perform bandwidth management."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"When it comes to dealing with updates, there are often bugs on the solution. They should do a lot more testing before they release new versions."
"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."
"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."
"The overall speed needs improvement. Internet connectivity speed needs to be improved somehow."
"The solution should offer more dashboards."
"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."
"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."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". 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". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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