We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"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."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"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 firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The flexibility of the system, the capacity to provide the right level of security, and the ability to be integrated into different kinds of infrastructures are the most valuable features."
"I want to have access to my computer from the outside and Kerio Control plays a role because it has a VPN... It is more reliable because it's a smaller group of computers to target for hackers and the like. The VPN works very well. I use it to work remotely very easily and exchange information, both to and from the location where it's deployed, and there have been no problems there."
"It is very comprehensive and simple. It has all the active protections. It's updated. We love that you can set how often it is updated so you can work what is right for you. A large company with a lot of bandwidth can update the virus definitions and security definitions hourly, if they want. A smaller site that's remote, where maybe updating the definitions will eat into the bandwidth, we can schedule those more to go later at night. It's very flexible and works for us in all types of situations. This is great because then we don't have to learn seven different products to be able to work with seven different scenarios."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"I have found the most valuable features of Kerio Control to be the IPS and firewall."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"The product is easy to use."
"The reporting needs to be improved. It is hard to get a domain."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"One of the problems we do have causes problems with the VPN. The software slows the throughput down too much. You could have a one-gigabit connection from the internet, and it slows it down to the area of upload and download is extremely slow. There's too much content filtering at that point."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The overall speed needs improvement. Internet connectivity speed needs to be improved somehow."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"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."
"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 policy is a bit too vague."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"It isn't missing anything."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 27 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "A versatile solution that comes with valuable security features like geofencing and traffic shaping". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and GajShield Next Generation Firewall. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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