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 have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"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 stability of Kerio Control is good."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Kerio Control is easy to use and provides the ability to deliver customized solutions."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"Kerio has improved my organization's security."
"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."
"Its support is very good, and it is stable product."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"It needs more available central management."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"I would like for them to add more security features."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
"There's also room for improvement in the Traffic Rules. We define networks to use a specific outgoing interface, say VSAT, shore, or marine WiFi, which is okay. But then all we have is a checkbox that says "Use other internet interfaces if this one is unavailable." What we would prefer would be to have a priority list. So if VSAT is unavailable, try to use 4G, etc. We haven't really found a reliable way of doing that in the current release."
"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 have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"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."
"Kerio Control could improve content filtering."
"After the takeover by GFI, one of the things that Kerio built was MyKerio environment. This has not been very reliable because I get many messages that MyKerio is not functioning. For some reason, there are things that they changed and it is not very reliable at this moment, instead I have to connect to the firewall to see what is happening."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 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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