We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and ConnectWise ScreenConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It keeps us safe when browsing the internet and when sharing confidential information with our colleagues."
"It allows everyone to work from home. If no one could work from home, then we wouldn't have a company, especially now during COVID-19. It's mission-critical, especially since it's currently being used. If there is a problem with it, we would really be screwed. We would be hard-pressed because we would have to figure out what solution we're going to go with, how to deploy it, how long it would take to deploy it, and how we'd even get it on people's computers if we couldn't VPN to them. It would be near impossible to just change to a new VPN solution right now."
"I like the fact that Remote Access allows the administrator to control and manage things. It makes things smoother, and it has been an excellent experience."
"The ability to create your trigger data domains is the solution's most valuable feature."
"A single login based on a second authentication factor is giving us the possibility of integrating third-party services for authentication based on a security scheme."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN provides strong security features, including encryption, authentication, endpoint security, access control, and centralized management."
"It can improve an organization by providing secure access to resources for traveling employees, which can help to reduce the risk of data breaches or other security incidents."
"This platform has developed a reliable communication infrastructure that employees can use to communicate with remote workers."
"ConnectWise Connect is very convenient as we can remote to a PC even when it is not within our LAN."
"Due to the fact that we can help our clients virtually, the solution has allowed us to reduce our travel costs by about 90%."
"Valuable features include the responsiveness, ability to tune up and tune down the connection, and video."
"Remote connect via webpage. I use it to support employees when I am not in the office or when they are at a remote location."
"The remote management piece is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us due to the fact that we can support our clients after hours."
"The product's two-factor authentication means we are not worried like before about the state of our security."
"You can bring up a command prompt remotely and execute commands without having to disturb the user."
"Being able to flip quickly between however many monitors that I have running, detune the video for black and white, or with fewer colors to make it faster, is amazing."
"Generally, the license is included with the Check Point gateway licensing, however, in terms of the number of users that can be activated for use, it is generally five users."
"A characteristic to improve is the communication service under the SMTP scheme."
"It would be good to have Remote Access VPN solutions for Check Point edge services."
"There is always room for innovation and the addition of new features."
"There was complexity in the initial setup."
"We are very happy with the Windows client. You log in with the VPN for the full client, you do the log in there. But for Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. It is important because we have some users that use Linux and they don't have a specific application from Check Point to use. That is something that could be improved."
"The authentication that we handle is through a .p12 certificate, however, we have integrated it with a 2MFA service through another provider. Something that could improve Check Point is if it had its own 2MFA service through a blade or some sort of application."
"The provisioning of VPN users has room for improvement."
"Speed is a major factor in Automate, and the control panel is horribly slow."
"The recent redesign has made it slower and basically worthless."
"There could be improvement to the remote command line tools."
"I would like ConnectWise Control to be more transparent on the real costs to renew their license."
"The solution is a little bit complicated when you want to implement it."
"At the moment, there's absolutely no specific feature that we actually need additionally since all the features that we need are available."
"The solution should add the ability to video chat with the user on the other end."
"I was not thrilled with their support. I do not have a lot of time to deal with the attention which is needed to fix issues."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 62 reviews while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 8th in Remote Access with 37 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ConnectWise ScreenConnect writes "Multifeatured remote access software which offers security, stability, and easy scalability". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Mobile and TeamViewer, whereas ConnectWise ScreenConnect is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, TeamViewer, LogMeIn Pro, BeyondTrust Remote Support and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. ConnectWise ScreenConnect report.
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