We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Ivanti Connect Secure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"We have plans to increase the usage of this solution, it can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it works all of the time."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the consistency, I have not had any issues with the performance."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It is easy to handle, you can have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux."
"Advanced malware protection helps us to prevent any virus from contaminating computers. We also have DLP for prevention. And AnyConnect has a feature that lets us do some sandboxing to evaluate files that arrive from the outside. So before opening them, we can check them with the sandbox."
"This is a stable solution."
"I haven’t experienced any issues and the connection is always stable."
"I can safely say this is one of the best solutions I have seen for VPN access. It can achieve what other vendors may not be able to. This product will train you about exactly what an SSL should be. You can leverage it to do whatever you wish, the way you wish to do it. This is the solution if you want a perfectly scalable product for your enterprise that can help your mobile users and integrate with the latest technologies."
"The most valuable feature is being able to securely connect and use virtual desktops."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are multi-factor authentications, and VPNs and SSL VPNs we are using."
"Pulse Connect Secure is a stable solution."
"The flexibility in their management is great."
"The product is easy to use."
"This is a very secure and stable tool."
"The most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The cost could always be a bit less."
"I would like a faster connection from the solution."
"Every two weeks there was a new version to install which was annoying for the users."
"In terms of areas for improvement in Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, from my point of view, the solution works well and right now I don't see the need to improve it. Probably a better user interface could be created for Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, but its core is VPN creation, and that works well, though I'm not a VPN specialist, and I'm not an expert on how to create a VPN, how the VPN gateway works, how it's implemented, and what's the architecture behind it. A two-factor authentication feature was recently added to the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. In the past, you only needed to log in with your username and password, but now, there's a token, and the user interface for that token isn't that good. That's another area for improvement. Cisco should also make the two-factor authentication better in the solution. What I'd like added to the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client in its next release is a better two-factor authentication, in particular, the validity of the code being shorter because sometimes when I get the code and I add it to the client, it's invalid, though I'm unsure if it's centrally set up that way or if its a characteristic of the product. Making the interface of the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client more user-friendly is also what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
"I think, in general, most of the applications are slow, but this is everyday stuff. I think this is more related to the link speed — the links, the lossage, etc."
"One improvement could be ensuring better backward compatibility."
"Even when your internet speed is good, once you connect to the VPN the speed gets automatically reduced, which is worrisome."
"The security of the product has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product could use additional dashboards."
"The stability could be better. There are sometimes bugs in the system."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
"I don't have any downsides to report about the product at this time."
"Connection-wise, Pulse Connect Secure could be faster, and this is its area for improvement."
"We want to switch to another solution because there are some challenges with the support from Pulse. The quality of documentation is also not good. It is sometimes very hard to find documentation that provides a solution and describes how all this works."
"At the moment, Pulse Connect Secure is a pretty good solution, and I don't see any issues with it. Currently, I'm not aware of a new or additional feature that's needed in Pulse Connect Secure, but it would be good if the team could look at how the speed of connection could be increased. Though it's quite seamless and I didn't face any problem with the speed, it would be better to improve the speed and keep going forward, especially as the industry's changing and people would love connections to be a lot faster."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 7th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 26 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Cisco Umbrella, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Ivanti Tunnel, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM). See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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