We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and Ivanti Connect Secure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL 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."
"I didn't have any hiccups or issues with it."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It adds great security to your outfacing information."
"Its ease of use and how everybody can easily work through it are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"The most valuable features of the solution are reliability and uptime."
"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."
"This is a very secure and stable tool."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"The new UI that they are providing right now is very good."
"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."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"I would like to see improved logging because it doesn't keep much information for the session monitoring or historical sessions."
"I'd like to see support for reverse proxy and more security features."
"If there is an increase in the customer infrastructure, it is not stable."
"Its interface could be made a lot easier. It is very kludgy."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"I would like to see better configuration of repairs and downloading certification."
"Citrix Gateway could improve the speed of the VPN. I sometimes have to wait for 10 to 15 minutes to get connected and other times when I am connected I have to abort, and reconnect."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"There is room for improvement. I'm concerned about the frequent vulnerabilities identified. As a security product, the number of vulnerabilities is concerning."
"The product could use additional dashboards."
"The support team of the product needs improvement. Sometimes we have issues with multiple authentications, but there is no help from the support team."
"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."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve the reporting, it is lacking in detail and should take the report automatically."
"The user experience has room for improvement."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"The solution can be improved by addressing the failure to connect on public 2-step networks."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 33 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 25 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Ivanti Tunnel, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway. See our Citrix Gateway vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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