We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The dashboard and interface are fine."
"What I like most about Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is that it's easy to use, and that is its main advantage. You can use it without the need for any setup because it's centrally pre-installed, so you just need to log in with your username and password. I didn't experience any problems with the solution in terms of losing connectivity. It works very well every time."
"What I like most about Cisco AnyConnect VPN is its reliability and stability."
"Technical support is always helpful."
"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."
"You can use it from anywhere."
"It is stable. We haven't had issues so far."
"You don't have to think about it very much. It just works."
"Threats never come close to your network with security at the DNS level."
"Web proxy adds an effective layer for security."
"It analyzes the domain security helps us implement the securest policy."
"The integration features within, for example, the Cisco VPN product and the Umbrella module are valuable."
"Provides dependable DNS monitoring of external devices."
"The core business of Cisco Umbrella is non-malware. That's all it does: block the malware on the gateway."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to filter malware sites that could infect clients or allow them to download infected files."
"I like the original functionality, which allows for providing secure DNS services."
"I think that the addition of single sign-on functionality would be helpful."
"I believe that the authentication component may be enhanced. SAML, more specifically user authentication."
"More frequent updates would be ideal."
"You do need technical expertise to set up the product."
"We were going to use the Cisco AnyConnect with hardware tokens. However, right now, it's very complicated in terms of delivering the hardware token to the customer. That's why we are looking for a software token right now."
"I think, in general, most of the applications are slow, but this is everyday stuff. I think this is more related to the link speed — the links, the lossage, etc."
"Even when your internet speed is good, once you connect to the VPN the speed gets automatically reduced, which is worrisome."
"In general, it's always a good idea to improve scalability and stability."
"I would like to see DLP integration in the next release of this solution."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"Support for multiple domains is important to us."
"The main issue that we have is with the final steps or the full integration and getting rid of Zscaler. The company still has to fall back to Zscaler when something in Umbrella is not working as expected, such as when we enable SSL inspection. When something is not working 100%, the company is falling back to Zscaler."
"In my experience with Umbrella support, sometimes the response times take a bit more time than we would like... sometimes, if you go through email, it can take quite a while to get a response."
"It should have a real-time malware classification engine. It should check the malware on the website. It would be good if it had a real-time malware check for the websites because currently, it just compares the DNS queries of the blacklist. It should also have malware control over file execution and the types of files that the users are allowed to download."
"If you wish to inspect all the traffic and it's integrated with Cisco AnyConnect, all the traffic basically goes through Cisco AnyConnect, which is not a good idea. That means you need to have more internet capacity as a data sampler, so in the case of a split tunnel, we cannot inspect the traffic that is being migrated through the local internet. I'm not sure whether there is a possibility wherein Cisco Umbrella can also inspect the traffic that is outside the AnyConnect tunnel."
"I would like to see integration with SecurNX in the future."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 6th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 69 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 108 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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