We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The user interface is good."
"I did not face any issues with stability while using the tool's trial version."
"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."
"The firewall and intrusion detection features are very useful these days because hackers have a lot of tricks that they use to get into a system. With Kerio Control you can see something that's happening. Otherwise, you have to use other tools to see what's happening on the firewalls. Having IPS in it is quite useful for us."
"The stability of Kerio Control is good."
"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 firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"The top features are ones that we're not using yet but we soon will be because we've just had broadband upgraded in Australia. We've got something called the National Broadband Network, which is forced onto you, so you have to take it when it arrives. We'll be trying the high availability out soon. We tried that with some load balancing, it didn't quite work as we expected, but I think that was more of a configuration thing rather than a product thing."
"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."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"Backup can be improved."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"I would like to see them develop a bit more flexibility creating VLANs."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
"I would like for them to add more security features."
"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."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"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."
"I would like to see a little improvement in their technical support when you have a problem. I may be a little jaded because I came from Kerio when we could call and get a person on the phone who worked on the product. Every tech had their own demo setup. They had instant messaging capability with the developers. If we found a problem, then we could get a result for it quickly. Now, the product seems to be 24 hours. They have also gone to the model that if you need quicker support, then they now charge you additional for the exact same level of support that they used to give. I am assuming it's the exact same level of support that they say it is. I'm not paying extra for it. That's the biggest flaw with the product."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". 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". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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