We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and ConnectWise ScreenConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have more control over the activity that users have on the internal network, thanks to the monitoring offered by Check Point and the security provided by the gateway."
"Our number of users working remotely vastly increased during the COVID 19 pandemic. Check Point Remote Access VPN allowed us to quickly make the transition from in-office to remote work."
"The clients of the customers have a facility to access the enterprise network."
"It allows everyone to work from home. If no one could work from home, then we wouldn't have a company, especially now during COVID-19. It's mission-critical, especially since it's currently being used. If there is a problem with it, we would really be screwed. We would be hard-pressed because we would have to figure out what solution we're going to go with, how to deploy it, how long it would take to deploy it, and how we'd even get it on people's computers if we couldn't VPN to them. It would be near impossible to just change to a new VPN solution right now."
"The VPN hides your IP address and encrypts your online traffic and it essentially ensures that your fingerprints cannot be traced on the Internet."
"Setting policies allow, block, and limit users' access."
"Once we install and connect the VPN service, it keeps on running until we disconnect."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client to different platforms."
"It's very easy to use, very easy to understand. It gives us remote access to the PC without any issues."
"I do love the monitoring page. If you are using ConnectWise Control, which is the on-prem version, when you are logged into the admin panel, there is a status page that checks network connectivity, the status of the license, and so on."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"Remote connect via webpage. I use it to support employees when I am not in the office or when they are at a remote location."
"Control lets us do remote management of machines without having to be on the VPN. It's super simple and super easy."
"The ConnectWise ScreenConnect tool is very good for remote access."
"It's very low maintenance."
"You can bring up a command prompt remotely and execute commands without having to disturb the user."
"When you need to create something, you have to follow many steps and I think that should be simplified."
"The non-standard setup is quite complex as you have to do changes via GUI and CLI."
"The connection has gotten less smooth as the number of users increases. The issue is that the logs fill up quickly. Too many users are connecting remotely. It worked great when we only had a few remote connections. Now, it is disconnecting people and dropping the internet connection."
"Without a doubt and with the new trends in technology, Check Point should already have a blade with a 2MFA solution and not through some other vendor."
"There is always room for innovation and the addition of new features."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN handles up to a hundred megabytes for clients, but I want it to be able to handle up to one gigabyte."
"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."
"Improvements for Check Point Remote Access VPN could include enhancing mobile connectivity for a smoother user experience."
"Reporting could definitely use improvement. With LogMeIn Rescue, I used to be able to, for instance, at the end of the month, pull off a report of every session. It was very simple... I could see the name that was typed in, the IP address to the computer that it was connected to, if it was running Windows... It just doesn't seem - there might be but I haven't found it - to be a way of pulling that information out of ConnectWise."
"There is one back-end issue that I am running into at some of locations where I login to provide support, and sometimes port 443 is blocked. That is what it uses to connect. So, I am having to do workarounds to get a session started."
"I would like ConnectWise Control to be more transparent on the real costs to renew their license."
"Support for PAC files on the guest's side and support for proxy on the host's side. Currently, there is no support for guest-side PAC files or for the host-side proxy (which uses authentication)."
"I would like to see more overlap, meaning, I would like to be able to see what processes are running on a computer, for example, or what services are running."
"The solution is a little bit complicated when you want to implement it."
"On a Linux machine, there are different limitations that are not there on a Windows Server. Much more limitations exist on Linux deployments."
"Something that I would like to see in the future is mobile video streaming. They do provide audio conferencing, but seeing the problem makes it easier to solve the problem. If they had video streaming, if a client had a physical problem with something and I couldn't get remote access, the client could use his mobile phone to show me the problem. In these cases, even if a client's systems were down, I could help, so long as I had a mobile phone environment."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 60 reviews while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 9th in Remote Access with 37 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is rated 8.4. 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 ConnectWise ScreenConnect writes "Multifeatured remote access software which offers security, stability, and easy scalability". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and TeamViewer, whereas ConnectWise ScreenConnect is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, TeamViewer, LogMeIn Pro, BeyondTrust Remote Support and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. ConnectWise ScreenConnect report.
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