We performed a comparison between KerioControl and Sophos XG 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."It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"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."
"I want to have access to my computer from the outside and Kerio Control plays a role because it has a VPN... It is more reliable because it's a smaller group of computers to target for hackers and the like. The VPN works very well. I use it to work remotely very easily and exchange information, both to and from the location where it's deployed, and there have been no problems there."
"The solution’s firewall and intrusion detection features are quite good because you can see exactly who is attacking you and who is getting blocked."
"Instead of using a cloud-based product for accessing information, and putting my data at risk in the cloud and in someone else's hands, it has allowed me to use a VPN and access my data directly from a laptop when I am out in the field. That has made my life a lot easier, where I'm able to access any information I need to be able access, basically on demand, with an Internet connection. That alone has been great."
"The flexibility of the system, the capacity to provide the right level of security, and the ability to be integrated into different kinds of infrastructures are the most valuable features."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"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."
"Compared to other solutions, accounting and live monitoring of firewall status are very good features in KerioControl."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the flexibility of it, it's pretty versatile."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is flexibility."
"The updates are helpful and add to the solution in a positive way."
"The simplicity and timely updates."
"It is very easy to use. You can configure and monitor everything from one unique dashboard."
"Great interface and in-built help is very intuitive."
"Sophos is a comrehensive solution which allows me to configure all the attendant products, such as Sophos' firewall, Endpoint and Encryption features."
"This kind of strategic technology makes it much easier to remove malware and address vulnerabilities quickly."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I would like for there to be a difference between international and national links."
"KerioControl should add more options in VPN features, such as IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and L2TP VPNs, because KerioControl uses a special VPN for their products."
"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."
"I would like for them to add more security features."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"There were certain things I didn't know about it, but I've always been able to just contact our IT company. They've been able to walk me through certain things. It was quite a monumental task to set up a public site. Support really had to help me with setting up the VLANs and walk me through it. It was not possible for me to figure that out on my own, but that's what they're here for. That could have been a little bit easier laid out."
"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."
"I have had a few issues with HTTPS decryption. The solution also does not show the actual user's Internet usage."
"The vendor doesn’t publish the price on the website."
"We encounter difficulties while navigating through certain features and functionalities of the product."
"Sophos can improve the debugging of the WAPS function."
"The management console could be improved and the solution lacks good technical support."
"Sophos XG could improve the connectivity with Microsoft 365 or Azure Active Directory(AD). It doesn't work directly as other solutions do, such as Fortinet FortiGate. The client needs a separate AD server which is a problem."
"I used to work with Fortinet, and sometimes I see that the SD-WAN feature could be better because it's much easier in Fortinet."
"The VPN features can be improved. Due to covid-19, we have a lot of employees that work from home and we need better VPN capabilities."
"The UI needs improvement because it can be a little weird at times."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 54 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall TZ. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos XG report.
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