We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Citrix Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"It is very simple to use, and it allows me to get into the university's network from my home, which is very useful for me."
"With Cisco IOS SSL VPN, you can access your corporate data safely and securely."
"Stability-wise, it is a very good solution."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is reasonably priced, and its technology is flexible."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is integrated with domain controller, SSO and MFA."
"Cisco VPN is easy to connect."
"It is stable."
"The solution is very easy to work with. This is its most valuable feature. They also did a good job surrounding how you configure the devices."
"The stability of the solution is perfect."
"The solution is very stable. If I were to rate it out of ten, I would give stability a nine."
"The product is straightforward."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It adds great security to your outfacing information."
"I didn't have any hiccups or issues with it."
"The product enables us to collect logs from the systems."
"It performs quite well."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The solution needs to integrate password-less technology so that you don't have to remember passwords each time that you log in, which is otherwise tedious. We should be able to log in as long as our system is connected to the internet."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN doesn't support the configuration of multiple VPNs."
"The only issue with Cisco IOS SSL VPN is on the price point. Price is an area of the solution where improvements are required."
"The flexibility of configurations could be improved."
"In addition to Cisco, we work with other solutions on behalf of our customers, such as Fortinet for FortiGate, but this latter solution can achieve the same results at a lower price."
"Enhancing the client certificate deployment process could be a valuable improvement, ensuring smoother and more reliable certificate renewal experiences in the future."
"I would like for it to have support for the Dutch language. I typically use English in 99% of our communications but for some people, it matters."
"The solution takes some time to log in because of some unavoidable security barriers, but it would be better if that could happen faster."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"The initial connection could be faster. That handshake takes a few seconds sometimes. That could be better and improved upon."
"As an organization, our initiative is to move to the cloud, Citrix Gateway needs to improve its cloud capabilities and make the cloud solution more robust."
"As Citrix Gateway is a third party solution, we wish to have one which is more integrated and involves less administration."
"The dashboard or interface should be more clear in reporting issues. Integration with other applications should be more user-friendly."
"It's extremely complicated and it's not intuitive. The solution requires a lot of training to get going on it."
"While connectivity is not something that is under Citrix's control, if the connectivity is spotty, it can be difficult."
"Sometimes the input-output has issues."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 33 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS SSL VPN writes "The solution is very stable and scalable, but it is expensive, and the configuration is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and Appgate SDP, whereas Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and SonicWall Netextender. See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Citrix Gateway report.
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