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."The solution has been solid for me for over five years."
"Setting policies allow, block, and limit users' access."
"It is a scalable solution...The technical support team of the solution is very good."
"For us, it was essential to integrate with Active Directory, which is our credentials repository."
"One of the features that I like most about this software is that it has a very intuitive, simple, and versatile interface that makes it easy to use and configure."
"It keeps us safe when browsing the internet and when sharing confidential information with our colleagues."
"Our users find the interface very comfortable to use."
"The initial set up is not complex."
"It's very low maintenance."
"The product's two-factor authentication means we are not worried like before about the state of our security."
"The flexibility to manage bandwidth and organize connections, and the price, make ConnectWise a really good choice."
"We like the fact that on our website we can have the ConnectWise bit embedded, and it has instructions for the end-user about what they need to do. Previously, on LogMeIn, we used to have to almost talk them through everything... ConnectWise has step-by-step instructions, depending on the browser."
"ConnectWise Connect is very convenient as we can remote to a PC even when it is not within our LAN."
"Control lets us do remote management of machines without having to be on the VPN. It's super simple and super easy."
"Session groups and triggers are the most valuable features, because they make a greater degree of organization possible. Greater degree of organization is valuable to my organization, because we have many sessions to handle."
"Unattended access is the most important feature."
"We would like to implement HTML5 (clientless access) in the product without installing any additional software."
"Bug Fixes and enhancement requests should be remediated earlier."
"The non-standard setup is quite complex as you have to do changes via GUI and CLI."
"Sometimes we have some small problems with Check Point Remote Access VPN. For example, problems with authentication."
"They could add more features, like the security to block off the doors, or create another hatch, something like this. They could make the features safer, add malware to make my mail and the Kryon system safer and to protect data at an earlier stage."
"The client-side UI is fundamental, and there is nothing to see."
"It would be good to have Remote Access VPN solutions for Check Point edge services."
"In the case of URL translation of the VPN Web portal, the requests made from the front end to the back end weren't valid (due to the use of dynamic subdomains). In the case of host translations, the request was made to the same host, however, we cannot specify the ports, which, in our case, are used to redirect to different servers."
"On a Linux machine, there are different limitations that are not there on a Windows Server. Much more limitations exist on Linux deployments."
"There is an issue which is pretty rare, but I find it at least when connecting from my mobile device. I am forced to refresh the screen by changing the screen quality to get screen updates. This only happens sometimes."
"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."
"I was not thrilled with their support. I do not have a lot of time to deal with the attention which is needed to fix issues."
"We have had issues. We have had circumstances, for reasons we don't know, where the service will stop running, and when the service stops running that computer no longer becomes reachable. We haven't really seen that so much on desktops, but we have seen that happen quite frequently on server operating systems, Server 2008, Server 2012. You can install the product and then a week down the road it will just stop."
"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."
"I really didn't care for the onboarding process and it is something that should be improved."
"At the moment, there's absolutely no specific feature that we actually need additionally since all the features that we need are available."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 62 reviews while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 8th 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, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Mobile 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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