We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway 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."
"Citrix Gateway is stable once I am connected."
"The stability of the solution is perfect."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"Providing our organization the ability to work remotely was the most valuable feature of Citrix Gateway. I also enjoy that they are always adding features."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Citrix primarily provides secure connectivity. If you need secure remote desktop functionality, it is a viable option."
"We can maintain our systems using the solution."
"What I find most valuable about this solution, is that it runs seamlessly."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"The most valuable features of the solution are reliability and uptime."
"Pulse Connect Secure is a stable solution."
"The flexibility in their management is great."
"It's quite stable."
"It's a very convenient and user-friendly application."
"I can safely say this is one of the best solutions I have seen for VPN access. It can achieve what other vendors may not be able to. This product will train you about exactly what an SSL should be. You can leverage it to do whatever you wish, the way you wish to do it. This is the solution if you want a perfectly scalable product for your enterprise that can help your mobile users and integrate with the latest technologies."
"The product is easy to use."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Technical support could be improved."
"There could be a faster connection, increased user-friendliness, and more comprehensive dashboards for the platform."
"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."
"It's extremely complicated and it's not intuitive. The solution requires a lot of training to get going on it."
"The initial connection could be faster. That handshake takes a few seconds sometimes. That could be better and improved upon."
"Lacks access through a mobile device."
"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."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"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 product's price is an area where improvements are required."
"Connection-wise, Pulse Connect Secure could be faster, and this is its area for improvement."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
"The stability could be better. There are sometimes bugs in the system."
"The product could use additional dashboards."
"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."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 34 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 26 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". 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 Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, 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 Check Point Remote Access VPN. See our Citrix Gateway vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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