We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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 technical support is great."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The command feature is valuable."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The technical support has been good."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"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 user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"Setup is simple. The Kerio interface is very intuitive."
"The interface control manager where we can allocate LAN connections to certain VLANs is the most valuable feature. The other feature that's important for us is because obviously everything is remote with MyKerio, as long as the boat has an internet connection, we can log onto the Kerio and get statistics, as well as provide support."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"he stability could be improved."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The upgrades make the network slower."
"They should add wireless features."
"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."
"When we did our last update, we had some trouble with the initial syncing process to get our messaging to go through. But we were also moving a store and a lot was changing during that process. I don't think it was on Kerio's end. It just coincided with the update. Once we got our third-party IT guy involved it was resolved very quickly."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"The solution should offer more dashboards."
"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.'"
Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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 vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper vSRX vs. KerioControl report.
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