We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like intrusion detection and prevention and bandwidth management. The routing part is also awesome. It is a good firewall. We never had a major breach from outside. We've never been impacted by ransomware, and our systems have never been infiltrated."
"It prevents people from visiting undesirable sites and ensures that they use the internet for their designated jobs."
"The product is easy to use."
"The traffic insight page or the administrative portal is really helpful because you can see all the internet usage down to the point where you can see if it's big files or streams. It gives us a good view of what the internet usage is of users who are coupled to an IP address. That way, if there are problems with, for example, a lot of data usage or problems with the connection, we can narrow it down to a single user or server and address the problem. It's really helpful for diagnostic data."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"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."
"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."
"I like the solution's interface."
"You can scale the product."
"The application control and vulnerability protection are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable product."
"Everything has been okay with the solution. We are using all of the features."
"The stability of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall."
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
"I would like to see a little improvement in their technical support when you have a problem. I may be a little jaded because I came from Kerio when we could call and get a person on the phone who worked on the product. Every tech had their own demo setup. They had instant messaging capability with the developers. If we found a problem, then we could get a result for it quickly. Now, the product seems to be 24 hours. They have also gone to the model that if you need quicker support, then they now charge you additional for the exact same level of support that they used to give. I am assuming it's the exact same level of support that they say it is. I'm not paying extra for it. That's the biggest flaw with the product."
"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."
"My experience with the solutions technical support is fine but they could be faster in responding."
"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."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the only thing I don't like is the support."
"The technology firewall anomaly network could stand improvement."
"In Africa, the technical support is probably not as good as in Europe and the USA because it's a specific premium support, partner-enabled premium support and all of that. But it's really good, I don't really have any complaints, it's fairly good. I'll give them 80%."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution."
"We are attempting to improve the use of URL filtering beyond threat protection."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
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KerioControl is ranked 16th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 9 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "Robust, reliable, simple to install and good technical support". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Sophos UTM, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System. See our KerioControl vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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