We performed a comparison between Ivanti Connect Secure and OpenVPN Access Server 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 stability of the product is its most valuable feature."
"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 best feature of Pulse Connect Secure is the good security it provides. It gives a secure connection to your network."
"From an end-user perspective, the setup phase is easy."
"The most valuable feature is being able to securely connect and use virtual desktops."
"Pulse Connect Secure is a stable solution."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"VPN tunneling is a very valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure. I also like that it is straightforward to use, and you can see traffic logs on it."
"Its most valuable feature is that it is open source."
"The initial setup was easy."
"It is open source and therefore affordable for small projects."
"Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program."
"I like that it's free."
"It is very easy to look at the quality of the connection and the bandwidth and do an investigation if there are problems on the network."
"The initial setup phase of OpenVPN Access Server was fine, and it was easy."
"Two-factor authentication allows us to not force frequent password changes."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"This solution normally works but at times, we have had trouble with connectivity."
"There is room for improvement. I'm concerned about the frequent vulnerabilities identified. As a security product, the number of vulnerabilities is concerning."
"I don't have any downsides to report about the product at this time."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"Connection-wise, Pulse Connect Secure could be faster, and this is its area for improvement."
"The user experience has room for improvement."
"We need to know how many live active users there are and we can't. We even updated the server, however, we still can't see the proper level of live connections. Right now, it's showing as 300 users and my customer does not have that many users in his organization."
"We want to switch to another solution because there are some challenges with the support from Pulse. The quality of documentation is also not good. It is sometimes very hard to find documentation that provides a solution and describes how all this works."
"If someone's key is not working, or if we had to remove someone's permission from it, or maybe an employee left the company and we had to take their key out, that seemed a little bit more complicated than it had to be."
"OpenVPN does not have the ability to selectively terminate connections."
"It requires some experience of Linux server configuration to set it up."
"I would be more happy with the idea of licensing to have a reduced price with longer, grouped, annual fees. We have a lot of other software that does the same thing. It's a little higher price if you're going with a shorter stint, but there's a reduction in price for three- and five-year contracts."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"If there was a Graphical User Interface to help streamline the configuration, I believe OpenVPN would probably venture more into the non-geek realm as it were."
"It could include a configuration wizard so that users who do not follow instructions well can configure a connection."
"There is always room for more security features."
Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 7th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 26 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 reviews. Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti Tunnel and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and NordLayer. See our Ivanti Connect Secure vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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