We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Ivanti Connect Secure 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."
"Cisco certainly has a really strong support team."
"It is a product that is very robust and durable."
"The solution is quite transparent."
"The product's most valuable features are security, stability, and troubleshooting capabilities."
"It is very effective and I am satisfied with how it works and with its performance."
"The setup and installation was easy."
"It's a stable solution."
"IOS is user-friendly and simple. You connect to a particular VPN, and that's it. You become seamless after that."
"The tool's most valuable feature is remote access."
"It's a very convenient and user-friendly application."
"The most valuable features of the solution are reliability and uptime."
"Ivanti secures access to the corporate network from various devices and locations."
"The most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"I like the host checker, which thoroughly checks the security posture of the machine before allowing access. I also like application-based access and its seamless operations."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"The best feature of Pulse Connect Secure is the good security it provides. It gives a secure connection to your network."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN should improve its pricing."
"The administration should be improved."
"The product’s dashboard is not good enough."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN should add a sensor that can authenticate with a fingerprint instead of having to type the username and password every time."
"When many people are using the internet at home, which is usually right after dinner, this type of service is a little bit hard to use. The internet becomes quite slow, and sometimes, I have to stop using this application. I am not sure if this issue is because of the application or my internet provider."
"In terms of what needs improvement, it should have better integration. Although, it might have already been taken care of."
"They could provide the cloud-based as-a-service model with monthly rental payments."
"Cisco device management is quite difficult. They should work to simplify this."
"Ivanti Connect Secure needs to have faster connections. It also needs to improve the stability."
"Zero test FDP (Fraud Protection and Prevention) should be improved."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve by having better integration with NAC solutions, such as Cisco ClearPass integration with Pulse Connect Secure. Additionally, they need better integration with Microsoft Azure AD and Azure Authenticator."
"Connection-wise, Pulse Connect Secure could be faster, and this is its area for improvement."
"An area for improvement in Pulse Connect Secure is the concurrent connections, particularly needing a license if you want to use Pulse Connect Secure with your Microsoft or Windows machine."
"User experience and after-sales support could be better. For example, over the last couple of years, when this COVID scenario was going on, there were multiple attacks on these types of solutions. SQL has been attacked numerous times, and there were a lot of vulnerabilities, and our customers had to update and upgrade the devices every two weeks or every month. This was a headache. It could also be more scalable."
"There is room for improvement. I'm concerned about the frequent vulnerabilities identified. As a security product, the number of vulnerabilities is concerning."
"Setup is complex. A few users had some issues with it."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 26 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8. 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 Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Citrix Gateway and Appgate SDP, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Ivanti Tunnel and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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