We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Sophos 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."The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"In terms of the comprehensiveness of the security features, it does a great job of laying out what it does. It's fairly easy to edit and research. Some of the features were turned on by our IT company and I was able to easily find other features on my own by searching for videos on the internet. I've been able to block certain websites, and content filter, as well as manage some of our bandwidth because we live stream on Sunday. I'm able to dedicate bandwidth for the encoder that goes to the internet. It always has enough bandwidth, no matter how many people are on the network. That's really helpful."
"The most valuable features of Kerio Control are the IPS and traffic rules. The traffic rules are very user-friendly and the IPS is working well. Additionally, the anti-virus is effective with quick options, such as filtering."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"The installation is straightforward."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"The comprehensiveness of the security features that Kerio Control provides us with is good. Before GFI had it, they would have more updates. The updates have been slower, but I like the things that they keep adding like the ability to block by country. I use pretty much every feature."
"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."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The scalability could be better."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The antivirus seemed to be a bit laggy on the connection so I disconnected that. It's definitely good. The only issue we've had with any sort of cyber attack seemed to be coming from a couple of distinct locations, people trying to get into known ports on remote desktops and stuff like that. The fact that we can block all that traffic is just great. It simplifies it."
"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."
"Support responses need improvement."
"They should add wireless features."
"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."
"We'd like to have more integrations Kerio Operator."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"The solution can be improved to create the capability for larger bandwidths that support our business needs."
"The solution is not scalable."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"The support could be better."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XGS. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos UTM report.
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