License Expiration in Kerio Control

Overview

When the Kerio Control subscription expires, the functionality of the product becomes limited, making it less effective as a Unified Threat Management software. It is highly recommended that the subscription be renewed to maintain all critical functions, as the firewall protection for your network and data will be significantly affected.

IMPORTANT: Once the Kerio Control subscription reaches the grace period, the maintenance updates stop working, which increases the risk of your system being exposed to the latest threats.

Solution

Reduced Functionality in Kerio Control

The following functions and operations are affected when the subscription expires (after the 30-day grace period):

IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is turned off.
For more information, refer to the Configuring intrusion prevention system.

Application Awareness is turned off.
For more information, refer to Application awareness in Kerio Control.

A Web filter is disabled.
For more information, refer to Using Kerio Control Web Filter.

UPNP is disabled.
For more information, refer to Configuring Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP).

'Require user authentication' is turned off.
For more information, refer to Requiring User Authentication When Accessing Web Pages.

NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) authentication is turned off.
For more information, refer to Automatic user authentication using NTLM.

Anti-virus turned off.
For more information, refer to Antivirus.

VPN Server and all tunnels are turned off.
For more information, refer to the Configuring VPN server.

Content rules are disabled.
For more information, refer to Configuring the Content Filter.

Bandwidth limiter is turned off.
For more information, refer to Configuring bandwidth management.

Proxy Server is turned off.
For more information, refer to the Configuring proxy server.

P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Eliminator is turned off.
For more information, refer to Eliminating Peer-to-Peer traffic.

Automatic backups disabled.
For more information, refer to Saving Configuration to MyKerio or FTP.

Anti-spoofing is turned off.
For more information, refer to Anti-spoofing log records.

MAC (Media Access Control) Filter is turned off.
For more information, refer to Filtering MAC addresses.

Forbidden words are all disabled.
For more information, refer to Filtering web content by word occurrence.

Accounting - gathering statistics is turned off.
For more information, refer to Kerio Control Statistics.

End of the Grace Period

During the grace period, Kerio Control allows users to use the application with reduced functionality. After the grace period elapses, the Kerio Control configuration is blocked until the subscription is renewed.