We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The scalability is fine."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The user interface is good."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"It helps us better control internal and external communications."
"Setup is simple. The Kerio interface is very intuitive."
"Technical support is good. They respond right away."
"The initial setup is a breeze."
"The product is affordable."
"It has helped our organization with testing."
"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 most valuable features of KerioControl are ease of configuration, user-friendliness, and comfortable to use. It is an all-in-one solution, it comes with many features, such as a firewall, antivirus software, and network protection."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"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 can be improved to create the capability for larger bandwidths that support our business needs."
"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."
"Improvements are needed to the Next Generation Firewall Protection, specifically with user-level protection."
"When we did our last update, we had some trouble with the initial syncing process to get our messaging to go through. But we were also moving a store and a lot was changing during that process. I don't think it was on Kerio's end. It just coincided with the update. Once we got our third-party IT guy involved it was resolved very quickly."
"Kerio Control has just improved on their biggest problem, which was to introduce better support for high-availability requirements in production."
"The antivirus seemed to be a bit laggy on the connection so I disconnected that. It's definitely good. The only issue we've had with any sort of cyber attack seemed to be coming from a couple of distinct locations, people trying to get into known ports on remote desktops and stuff like that. The fact that we can block all that traffic is just great. It simplifies it."
"Filtering of pages and greater personalization in services need improvement."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while KerioControl is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 54 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while KerioControl is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". 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". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas KerioControl is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. KerioControl report.
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