We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The solution is stable."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The top features are ones that we're not using yet but we soon will be because we've just had broadband upgraded in Australia. We've got something called the National Broadband Network, which is forced onto you, so you have to take it when it arrives. We'll be trying the high availability out soon. We tried that with some load balancing, it didn't quite work as we expected, but I think that was more of a configuration thing rather than a product thing."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"I love the VPN that we set up. A few of us have it on our computers so that if we leave, we can still access the stores. And we can work from home if needed. When I sign into that Kerio VPN, it links me like I'm sitting in the store. It puts me in our secure network so that I can sign on to each individual store and I can run numbers... If I have to work from home, it's so much faster than the way we used to do it."
"Kerio Control can be scaled easily."
"All of the features of Kerio Control are equally good. Most valuable to us are the firewall rules, the intrusion detection system, and IP address features."
"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 alerting."
"The logs play a crucial role as they contribute to blocking unwanted Internet traffic."
"I am impressed with the tool's integration of Palo Alto products which serves as a platform for security."
"It integrates well with other solutions and provides good threat intelligence in terms of external threats."
"The feature that I like best is the dashboard."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Application management can be improved."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"When it comes to dealing with updates, there are often bugs on the solution. They should do a lot more testing before they release new versions."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
"The upgrades make the network slower."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
"We'd like to have more integrations Kerio Operator."
"The filtering on the unlicensed version of Kerio Control is inefficient - you have to add each website manually, which isn't feasible."
"I would like the tool to see more integration with Cortex XDR. There is no real reason to keep them separate."
"It would be helpful to have better documentation for configuring and installing the solution."
"It would be better if they used the threat intelligence feeds directly from their side and changing the verdict instead of us requesting it."
"It is a completely cloud-based product at present."
"I would like to have more technical documentation that contains greater detail on the types of threats that are occurring."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus is ranked 9th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 5 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus is rated 7.8. 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 Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus writes "Impressive performance and monitoring capabilities but lacks in documentation". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus is most compared with ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), Anomali ThreatStream, VirusTotal, LogRhythm SIEM and Cisco Threat Grid.
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