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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GFI KerioControl

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AKerio Control is a next-gen firewall for SMBs, from Aurea SMB Solutions (formerly GFI Software).N/A

    NordLayer

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ANordLayer provides cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. NordLayer helps organizations secure networks and enhance internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.…

    $8

    per month if Yearly plan per user

    Pricing
    GFI KerioControlNordLayer
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Lite
    $8
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Core
    $11
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Premium
    $14
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Custom
    x
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GFI KerioControlNordLayer
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GFI KerioControlNordLayer
    Considered Both Products
    GFI Software
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    Nord Security
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    GFI KerioControlNordLayer
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of GFI KerioControl and NordLayer
    Feature
    GFI KerioControl
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    NordLayer
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
    Cisco IOS Security
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GFI KerioControlNordLayer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    GFI KerioControlNordLayer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GFI Software
    IT works very well in the non-profit and small business space when there is a need for remote access or connecting several sites in a point to point VPN, user management and rule creation are very easy. The use of the MyKerio website for remote management also makes it easy to troubleshoot problems and make changes if technical staff are not onsite.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    NordLayer has become an invaluable resource for our security posture and day-to-day activity. The primary use case is preventing staff members from accessing sensitive resources on an unencrypted connection, applying NordLayer and conditional access policies in congruency. The ability to create teams and assigned them to specific dedicated servers is also helpful and allows for further security segmentation
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    GFI Software
    • VPN for Remote Employees
    • Point to point VPNs
    • Scanning of traffic
    • Ease of management
    • Website filtering by both sites and key words
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    • Easy to use
    • Simple user interface desgin
    • Support many VPN protocol
    • Fast and reliable connection
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    GFI Software
    • Support can take longer to respond that it should
    • Could work better with resellers
    • Spend more effort on adding new features
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    • The browser plugin needs some work, or some research about what browser/OS restrictions may limit its functionality. Ours does not work at all even after contacting support so we do not use it
    • Toast/Windows notifications scheduled or deployed through admin center would be amazing. The ability to remind a user who has been disconnected for X hours would be a great feature
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    GFI Software
    Very easy to use and manage, user training takes less then 10 minutes. Technicians can perform basic tasks with less then an hour of training and can master it in under a year.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    GFI Software
    Support is very slow to respond and it takes a long time to convince level 1 techs that you need to be moved up to someone more senior. I believe support is outsourced and they are graded on how few tickets they need to escalate to higher tiers so they will try to figure out a solution even if it is detrimental to the overall support experience.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    GFI Software
    We found Kerio Control to provide the most features and easiest management of all the solutions we looked at, while cost was not the lowest the value was by far the best when you considered all the factors, costs, and manhours involved in deployment and management.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    easy configuration and use case
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    Return on Investment
    GFI Software
    • Easy to use makes it easy to train, reducing employee time and IT staff costs.
    • Statefull inspection and web filtering greatly reduce malware incursions.
    • Fact it can run on standard PC hardware greatly reduces cost to implement and makes scaling much less expensive.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    • Improved sercurity
    • Incresed productivity
    • Performance impact
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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