We performed a comparison between KerioControl and OPNsense 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."We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The solution provides feasibility regarding cyber privacy."
"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 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 appliance itself is the most valuable feature."
"We also like the security. We can control what sites users can go to and we can make sure that where they're going is appropriate and that it's work-related."
"When one of the employees of my customers is using the VPN Client, I have created for them that they will always get a message. When the VPN Client connects to Kerio Control from the outside, they will get an email so they know when they are connected and when they are disconnected what is happening to their network."
"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 firewall and intrusion detection features are good. It has blocked certain things. We have a lot of blocked sites that the staff or anyone using it, the public, etc., can't go on. It works for that. I get quite a few messages every now and again, saying that a virus has been detected and I can go in and block the user who's causing the problem."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"It's open source."
"The technical support is very good."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"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 firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"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 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."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"Improvements are needed to the Next Generation Firewall Protection, specifically with user-level protection."
"It has a VPN back to our data center but I don't think it has increased the number of VPN clients extended to those outside our environment"
"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."
"They should add wireless features."
"If I would suggest anything, it would be to expand on its multifactor authentication to be a little bit more user-friendly. They should do multifactor authentications for the client itself perhaps, rather than served on a webpage, in a page hijack, that might be more user-friendly, but I don't have a lot of complaints about it. It's doing its job. You have to have a certain amount of skills to configure these things anyway, the ones that we use on-site doing point-to-point, and we've been tricked up a few times with their interfaces."
"I think the most important thing is that it should be easily accessible, but currently, that doesn't seem to be the case. We need a hardware platform that's based on common standards and open computing principles, which would be like a commodity and benefit us greatly."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"The reporting part could be better."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 9 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 21 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "There are lots of capabilities built-in: Few would be High Availability, Proxy, DNS, Intrusion detection/prevention, content filtering, traffic and bandwidth management with 2factor autn. ". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and Sophos XGS. See our KerioControl vs. OPNsense report.
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