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."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."
"It is highly scalable, speedy, and reliable."
"The solution's technical support is very good."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the management portal."
"The platform provides value and benefits to our organization through efficient and effective communication."
"Cisco certainly has a really strong support team."
"I have found that Cisco IOS SSL VPN is stable."
"IOS is user-friendly and simple. You connect to a particular VPN, and that's it. You become seamless after that."
"The product is great because it is easy and simple."
"The new UI that they are providing right now is very good."
"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 initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"It's quite stable."
"The flexibility in their management is great."
"From an end-user perspective, the setup phase is easy."
"The stability of the product is its most valuable feature."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"I think the administration can be improved to include web interfaces."
"The pricing needs to be better."
"The solution's graphical user interface is not very user-friendly."
"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."
"The pricing is a stumbling block to scaling our utilization of Cisco products and we would prefer to use more of them."
"The solution's configuration could be made easier."
"The solution does not give us options if the connectivity to one server is not available."
"Enhancing the client certificate deployment process could be a valuable improvement, ensuring smoother and more reliable certificate renewal experiences in the future."
"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."
"The product's price is an area where improvements are required."
"We need to know how many live active users there are and we can't. We even updated the server, however, we still can't see the proper level of live connections. Right now, it's showing as 300 users and my customer does not have that many users in his organization."
"Setup is complex. A few users had some issues with it."
"Zero test FDP (Fraud Protection and Prevention) should be improved."
"There is room for improvement. I'm concerned about the frequent vulnerabilities identified. As a security product, the number of vulnerabilities is concerning."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by addressing the failure to connect on public 2-step networks."
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), Zyxel VPN Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Citrix Gateway and Symantec VIP Access Manager, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, OpenVPN Access Server, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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