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."I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"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 appliance itself is the most valuable feature."
"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 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."
"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."
"What I like the most about Kerio is that I can use the software appliance as a solution, so if the hardware fails for any reason then I can quickly replace it with hardware that I have in stock."
"The product is affordable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"Support responses need improvement."
"They should add wireless features."
"Kerio Control could improve content filtering."
"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."
"When we did our last update, we had some trouble with the initial syncing process to get our messaging to go through. But we were also moving a store and a lot was changing during that process. I don't think it was on Kerio's end. It just coincided with the update. Once we got our third-party IT guy involved it was resolved very quickly."
"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 denial of service could also be improved. There recently was a big issue with denial of service attacks and it was a bit laborious."
"I would like it if the interface section had multiple failovers. Although I do have three connections, just in case our physical cables get disconnected, I can only set up one failover as a backup. So, if for some reason our fiber and our AFM went down together, I would have to have it search for our 4G modem. I'd love to have extra backups running."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 29 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". 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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