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 has improved our organization with control data."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the reliability of VPN capabilities. The VPN has been very reliable and secure. The security has been very good and the VPN connections are reliable in that they stay up. We don't have a lot of problems with downtime and that type of thing."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"The firewall and the content filtering options are valuable."
"The ease of use in the GUI itself is the most valuable feature. The GUI is really the best part of it. We like the traffic rules so we can control who can get to what. It's easy to determine the flow of the traffic itself so we aren't having to guess through command lines and reading out basically command-driven output. It's just a very easy-to-use interface. The interface is the best part of the product."
"One very good thing about the Kerio device is its authentication. I don't have a Windows domain for authentication. Instead, I use the Kerio product because it can separate users by Mac addresses and give them IP addresses based on their usernames, automatically logging them in. This makes for a very simple authentication system."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"The interface control manager where we can allocate LAN connections to certain VLANs is the most valuable feature. The other feature that's important for us is because obviously everything is remote with MyKerio, as long as the boat has an internet connection, we can log onto the Kerio and get statistics, as well as provide support."
"Dashboard is easy to use and the reporting offers a lot of detail."
"The most valuable features are its nice interfaces and configuration. The endpoint is also very good."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the user management system."
"Over the past two years, during the COVID pandemic, the VPN has helped us a lot."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG are the ease of management and good out-of-the-box reporting."
"The solution is more cost-effective than FortiGate, Cisco and Palo Alto, which have very expensive licenses."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG are user-friendliness and it is highly secure."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The filtering on the unlicensed version of Kerio Control is inefficient - you have to add each website manually, which isn't feasible."
"Support responses need improvement."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
"Improvements are needed to the Next Generation Firewall Protection, specifically with user-level protection."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"The improvement that we are looking for is for when decide to move some part of our application to the cloud."
"We'd like to have more integrations Kerio Operator."
"There is an area that is very specific to our setup, where working tools you cannot easily establish a VPN between two internal networks."
"I would like the update process to be easier, to update the firmware of the boxes. I think it's much better automatically than having to do it manually: Download the file, do network discovery. I they can make the update process much more automatic that would help."
"There's an IP address delivery for our VPN client and a limited range of IP addresses. So this is a problem in the latest firmware release, but rather than using homework scenarios, we need a lot of VPN clients."
"Sophos needs improvements made to the console, such as host entry or defining rules directly from it."
"We recently did an upgrade on the Sophos XG firmware and we were surprised that after the upgrade, the automatic switch actually we were using did not work anymore."
"The manuals or guides we are given are too simple. When we are implementing the product, it is difficult for us as we don't have more detailed information."
"The first area that needs to be improved is customer support."
"The installation could be faster and is longer than that of other solutions, lasting more than a month instead of five minutes."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 25 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of KerioControl writes "Has good accounting and live monitoring features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Fined tuned web proxy, feature rich, and beneficial VPN technology". 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 Sophos UTM. See our KerioControl vs. Sophos XG report.
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