We performed a comparison between KerioControl and WatchGuard Firebox 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."The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The statistic feature enables us to better use bandwidth management. We monitored the use by mobile, type of application, department, and by users. The bandwidth was solid. Our internet speed is optimized for our research."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"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."
"The installation is straightforward."
"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 and intrusion detection features are good. It has blocked certain things. We have a lot of blocked sites that the staff or anyone using it, the public, etc., can't go on. It works for that. I get quite a few messages every now and again, saying that a virus has been detected and I can go in and block the user who's causing the problem."
"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."
"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."
"The solution has increased productivity with our outside salespeople being able to connect into their computers and use those remotely."
"The most valuable feature is the NAT-ing, the IP addresses... We can direct the traffic where it needs to go. We can control the traffic."
"Regarding the reporting, I was in the Dimension server earlier today. It's very powerful. I like it. And the management features are easy to use. I like the fact that I can open up the System Manager client or I can just do it through the web if I'm making a quick change."
"[A] valuable feature would be the branch office. We have five offices throughout the United States, and it coordinates the connections of those offices."
"The client is easy to use and stable"
"The set up was quite straightforward and we handled it in-house. It took a few hours to deploy the product."
"One of the most valuable features is the Geolocation. Because we aren't a multinational corporation, it allows me to look at things which might be suspicious to make sure that they are legitimate transactions rather than people sniffing around the network."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, especially the real-time bandwidth usage report. Also, its integration with WiFi access points is nice."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"I would like to be able to automatically send email from Kerio Control and have it tell me what my external IPs are, because on one of my lines I have a fixed IP address and on the other it is variable. If there were a permanent way for me to figure out, "Okay, my current external VPN and my firm IP is this," it would help. I need to know the IP address to connect with the VPN and, at the moment, one of the lines sometimes changes its IP address without me knowing it. It's a hassle to figure out what it is."
"Their support is getting better but still needs improvement."
"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 solution should offer more dashboards."
"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."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"There are a couple of things I wished that it would do, but I can't think of those off the top of my head."
"I would like to see more tutorials on setting up the Firebox."
"It's sometimes not easy to understand and can require specialist assistance."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."
"Firebox would be improved with integration for endpoint protection solutions."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"The documentation for the System Manager/Dimension configuration, could be a little bit clearer... The use case where you have multiple sites with multiple firewalls, and one site that has the System Manager server and the Dimension server, wasn't really well defined. It took me a little bit of digging to get that to actually work."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
KerioControl is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 9 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. KerioControl is rated 8.0, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Rock-solid stability and easy to change the model". KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Splunk User Behavior Analytics, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Meraki MX and SonicWall TZ. See our KerioControl vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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