We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Sophos XG 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."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."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"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 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."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"It has helped our organization with testing."
"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 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."
"The performance of Sophos XG is generally good and it is stable."
"Great reporting feature and great customer support."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG are the ease of management and good out-of-the-box reporting."
"Sophos XG has cybersecurity. It integrates with the antivirus software."
"So far, I'm happy that they have recently added a firewall role, so I feel a little more comfortable with the security. The threat management is good."
"Because of the pandemic, the VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Content blocking for websites is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The product has all the latest features."
"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."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"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."
"They don't provide content filtering when it comes to search engine results. We had an incident on the network where a blocked site was showing up in search results. We are in a school environment, so we have blocked a site with some of the explicit content so that kids wouldn't see it. When one of them did a search, the results came on the search engine part. When you try to drill down to the website, it blocks, but when you search by image, it brings up all the images. That's one of the reasons why we are looking at Juniper."
"The one thing that did put me off of the solution was that, after they were taken over by GFI, the licensing and a few other items have gotten very complicated."
"There were certain things I didn't know about it, but I've always been able to just contact our IT company. They've been able to walk me through certain things. It was quite a monumental task to set up a public site. Support really had to help me with setting up the VLANs and walk me through it. It was not possible for me to figure that out on my own, but that's what they're here for. That could have been a little bit easier laid out."
"Improvements are needed to the Next Generation Firewall Protection, specifically with user-level protection."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"Kerio Control could improve by having higher availability and adding a mobile VPN channel. These additions are needed. The VPN is working fine on the Kerio Control but there needs to be a VPN client on the mobile phones, both for iOS and Android. This would be very good for us."
"The filtering on the unlicensed version of Kerio Control is inefficient - you have to add each website manually, which isn't feasible."
"The current bandwidth consumption is no longer shown in the XG and XGS."
"Some businesses require Dynamic IP. This feature would be useful if it worked."
"One feature I would like to add is remote wipeout capability. This would be useful in cases where a user leaves the organization and fails to return their laptop. Remote wipeout would allow for the deletion of data from the device with a single command. Regarding technical support from Sophos XG, it's generally satisfactory. However, the response time could be improved. It takes around one hour to receive assistance, but reducing this to 30-45 minutes would benefit us."
"Recently, I've had a problem with updating things."
"There is an area that is very specific to our setup, where working tools you cannot easily establish a VPN between two internal networks."
"The VPN has been a persistent problem for us. It's not straightforward to configure."
"I do prefer when updates come out a bit quicker."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall TZ. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos XG report.
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