We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and SonicWall SMA 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."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."
"Configuration policy, posture assessment, and other things can be done in great detail."
"It is reliable and easy to configure, and the Cisco Firewall can last for many years."
"The solution has good performance. It is a simple tool to use, once I turn on Windows it automatically starts to use the VPN."
"What I like most about Cisco AnyConnect VPN is its reliability and stability."
"It does not slow down anything, unlike other solutions."
"AnyConnect SMC's best features are that it's secure and connects seamlessly to clients' networks."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the reliability and scalability."
"The solution is quite stable."
"What I like best about SonicWall SMA is the relationship between its features and its price, because the solution is both affordable and functional."
"I think they ask for a fair price."
"I am very satisfied with the technical support."
"It is faster than other security options when using remote connections."
"The solution is reliable and has good overall performance."
"SonicWall SMA has the most valuable feature of proprietary security technologies like Capture ATP."
"This solution has many options for remote desktop and access."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is they have IT consultants that know SonicWall."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The logout should be automized and it should have a reminder that you have logged in into a private network."
"The support could be more proactive in their recommendations. I noticed that the Cisco support agents tend to leave customers to do what they need to do in many ways, and you can choose how you want to do it. However, it would be great if they could proactively be involved in best practices and let other customers know how most people are doing it."
"If the Internet connection is not stable, it will create a disturbance when using the resources."
"Complicated scenarios are difficult to deploy. On a scale from one to ten, with one being the most difficult, I'd give a rating of between two and three for the initial setup."
"Sometimes if we're always having some network issues, or maybe the client is having some network issues, we might get disconnected."
"There are times the WiFi connectivity has disruptions and you have disconnections. It doesn't work with two connections. I have two switches back and forth sometimes. It doesn't have a failback scenario feature. However, on the gateway side, it does, but on the user device, it doesn't have that kind of option. It would be nice to have this feature."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could improve by optimizing the use of the system resources, it is heavy on the resources. Additionally, there could be more transparency."
"There are some issues with connectivity and latency that should be improved."
"SonicWall SMA is difficult to use and it does not provide easy access to different parts of the network."
"The timed synchronization between the network appliance needs improvement."
"The product's technical support services could be improved."
"The product itself is very good, but Dell needs to work on product visibility in their advertising."
"Enhancing live tracking capabilities could improve the product, particularly in monitoring user activity and request statuses in real-time on the web interface."
"I'd like to see the product maybe polish keyboards in Bookmark."
"SonicWall's reporting isn't good. Reports should be part of a data plan. The login mechanism should be improved. It would be helpful if the client could use an agent to log in. An agent-server model would improve the performance of the RDB, which consumes a lot of bandwidth."
"This is an expensive solution and I think that the price could be improved."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while SonicWall SMA is ranked 17th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 14 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while SonicWall SMA is rated 8.2. 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 SonicWall SMA writes "It allows us to provide CML-based access to any user, but the reporting could be better". 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 Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas SonicWall SMA is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco SD-WAN, SonicWall Netextender, Peplink SpeedFusion and Ivanti Connect Secure. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. SonicWall SMA report.
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