We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure 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."
"The management of the solution is very simple. It allows for a single view of all the endpoints."
"Among its most valuable features is how it quickly and easily connects everyone to the VPN service."
"The clients of the customers have a facility to access the enterprise network."
"The biggest advantage of Check Point Remote Access VPN is that we already use the Check Point firewall. We only needed to enable the feature and do the configuration in order to enable the VPN feature. We didn't need to buy or manage new hardware. This was a big advantage."
"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."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client to different platforms."
"The team has full visibility of the users that connect allowing them to keep control of who is in the network and what data they are allowing to come in and out."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN has some useful features, and configuring it is relatively straightforward."
"AnyConnect SMC's best features are that it's secure and connects seamlessly to clients' networks."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Some of the main features of the solution are it has the ability to integrate with our Active Directory to allow each user to have one less password to have to remember and it has great functionality."
"It is an easy system to set up."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is its ease of use and simple interface. It's always available as long as I have a good network connection."
"What I like most about Cisco AnyConnect VPN is its reliability and stability."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the reliability and scalability."
"It does not slow down anything, unlike other solutions."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The ability to allow split-tunneling while still following our corporate policy needs to be on the table."
"The main area for improvement is pricing. Another area could be integrating MFA authentication directly into the solution instead of using separate benchmark tools for implementation."
"The non-standard setup is quite complex as you have to do changes via GUI and CLI."
"We'd like to integrate Check Point into the Remote Access VPN solution and have the ability to integrate multiple devices as access points through the solution."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN's connectivity and establishment takes time and needs to be faster."
"Compliance Check on Check Point should be improved by having more configurable conditions to support multi-platforms and adding more granularity."
"Some configurations, like idle timeout (the requirement came from multiple users), are not possible to configure directly from the Check Point management server."
"In the case of URL translation of the VPN Web portal, the requests made from the front end to the back end weren't valid (due to the use of dynamic subdomains). In the case of host translations, the request was made to the same host, however, we cannot specify the ports, which, in our case, are used to redirect to different servers."
"The security could be improved."
"All I care about is being connected and I know that we've run into versioning issues in the past."
"It would be useful to have an automatic install process where if you connect and you don't have the latest version, it should be automatically done."
"I would like to see improvements in regards to the connectivity speed."
"I'm not noticing any missing features."
"Sometimes when you disconnect or switch from one wireless network to another, it's necessary to re-login."
"When using Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client when my laptop goes into sleep mode the VPN wants me to enter the password again. I should not have to enter the information again. If the laptop is on and it is not switched off, the password should be in the VPN saved and secured."
"If you're just turning on your laptop, it should connect automatically without keying in the credentials."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 62 reviews while Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6. 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 Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Symantec VIP Access Manager, whereas Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet FortiClient. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client report.
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