We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and KerioControl 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."Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"It is highly scalable because it has a mesh architecture that allows consistent policies."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"The solution is very secure, and its technical support is on point."
"It is a complete package, and it has complete offerings. It fit the needs, and our customer is happy with it."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"Operations have been flawless."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"We also like the security. We can control what sites users can go to and we can make sure that where they're going is appropriate and that it's work-related."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewall filtering capacity."
"The user interface and the ease of use are pretty good. Everything fits together so nicely."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"The installation is straightforward."
"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."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"It is a very good product, and it is good at standing by itself. It can maybe have a little bit of integration with other products, but it is not that important for most use cases."
"Their offering for MFA isn't the cleanest."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The log settings and filters could use some improvement."
"The operating system isn't stable, so it goes to memory counters every night."
"I have had a data issue with physical devices that could improve."
"The tool does not have a good name in the market, consisting of enterprise-class businesses, making it an area where the product lacks and needs to improve."
"There should be more options to use lower-end models in a high availability configuration."
"There isn't a lot to be improved. It works well as it is, but they can maybe improve the reporting side."
"If you have to dive deeper into the firewall or any other features, then you really have to read up a bit about how to set it up properly. Some of my colleagues, in the beginning, jumped in and made a bunch of rules but then it got really messy. If Kerio had a template or guidelines for best practices, at the beginning, that would really help. With Kerio Control it's basically 'find out for yourself.'"
"I would like to be able to inspect https packets for the purpose of virus scanning."
"The solution should offer more dashboards."
"The overall speed needs improvement. Internet connectivity speed needs to be improved somehow."
"The VPN features are the ones that we really like, but we are using a VPN client to be able to use them. We would like to have an SSL implementation for this same feature so we don't need to install anything on the client side. That's a feature I really miss and that should really be embedded in the product. We really would love to use it via a web browser."
"The trial duration of the product should be extended."
"They should improve the remote connectivity feature for users."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, 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". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Splunk User Behavior Analytics. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. KerioControl report.
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