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."
"It adds great security to your outfacing information."
"We haven't received any complaints or performance issues so far."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is simple. Normally with all setups, it's not very complicated. It really depends on the customer."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"Providing our organization the ability to work remotely was the most valuable feature of Citrix Gateway. I also enjoy that they are always adding features."
"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."
"It's a very convenient and user-friendly application."
"What I like the most about Pulse Connect Secure is that it's user-friendly. It's easy to use. You just need to connect, and that's it."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"Pulse Connect Secure is a stable solution."
"Ivanti secures access to the corporate network from various devices and locations."
"I like the host checker, which thoroughly checks the security posture of the machine before allowing access. I also like application-based access and its seamless operations."
"It's quite stable."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Technical support could be improved."
"As an organization, our initiative is to move to the cloud, Citrix Gateway needs to improve its cloud capabilities and make the cloud solution more robust."
"As Citrix Gateway is a third party solution, we wish to have one which is more integrated and involves less administration."
"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."
"I would like to see better configuration of repairs and downloading certification."
"Their VAS product should be more productive because right now, we are using other VAS solutions but not using this one."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"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 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."
"User experience and after-sales support could be better. For example, over the last couple of years, when this COVID scenario was going on, there were multiple attacks on these types of solutions. SQL has been attacked numerous times, and there were a lot of vulnerabilities, and our customers had to update and upgrade the devices every two weeks or every month. This was a headache. It could also be more scalable."
"An area for improvement in Pulse Connect Secure is the concurrent connections, particularly needing a license if you want to use Pulse Connect Secure with your Microsoft or Windows machine."
"The user experience has room for improvement."
"Setup is complex. A few users had some issues with it."
"The stability could be better. There are sometimes bugs in the system."
"The product's price is an area where improvements are required."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 33 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 26 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8. 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, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Ivanti Tunnel and Check Point Remote Access VPN. See our Citrix Gateway vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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