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."
"With Cisco IOS SSL VPN, you can access your corporate data safely and securely."
"The solution is very stable."
"I like to work with the CMD command line because it's easy and it doesn't take very long to configure."
"The setup and installation was easy."
"The product's setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, management, and support."
"It is a stable solution. In my company, we haven't faced any issues related to the product's stability. I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten."
"The product's most valuable features are security, stability, and troubleshooting capabilities."
"The product is easy to use."
"It's a very convenient and user-friendly application."
"From an end-user perspective, the setup phase is easy."
"The best feature of Pulse Connect Secure is the good security it provides. It gives a secure connection to your network."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"The flexibility in their management is great."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"This is a very secure and stable tool."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The flexibility of configurations could be improved."
"The performance could be improved."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN doesn't support the configuration of multiple VPNs."
"They could provide the cloud-based as-a-service model with monthly rental payments."
"The solution takes some time to log in because of some unavoidable security barriers, but it would be better if that could happen faster."
"I have no notes in terms of areas of improvement."
"The configuration is critical and complex."
"Cisco has a history of problems with the area of web filtering, because of which my company sometimes had to change the vendor and the appliance."
"The product could use additional dashboards."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by addressing the failure to connect on public 2-step networks."
"The support team of the product needs improvement. Sometimes we have issues with multiple authentications, but there is no help from the support team."
"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 most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
"Ivanti Connect Secure needs to have faster connections. It also needs to improve the stability."
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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