We performed a comparison between Pulse Connect Secure and Fortinet FortiClient based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Pulse Connect Secure comes out ahead of Fortinet. Our reviewers found that Fortinet FortiClient lacks automation in its initial setup and some users experienced difficulty when trying to reach technical support.
"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."
"It is a fantastic product. Its overall security is valuable. We are very impressed with the web filtering and the application firewall it provides."
"The return on investment was very reasonable. It was low cost and it functioned, so the return on investment was excellent."
"The Fortinet FortiClient is simple to use."
"Overall Fortinet FortiClient has good functionality."
"There is a lot of documentation available online."
"We mainly use this solution because we have many Fortinet solutions like antivirus and SSL assessment."
"It's pretty stable, and I don't have any problems with it."
"It's got a very friendly user interface."
"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."
"The product is easy to use."
"The stability of the product is its most valuable feature."
"It's quite stable."
"The best feature of Pulse Connect Secure is the good security it provides. It gives a secure connection to your network."
"The most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"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."
"Pulse Connect Secure is a stable solution."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"One area that could be improved is cost, but you've got to pay for what you get."
"We would like Fortinet to add the function or the possibility to use all FortiClient features for free."
"It has a horrible performance. It is one of the most unstable VPNs I have ever used."
"Occasionally, the solution may provide a slow connection. In addition, there may be initialization and authorization issues that one may need to take care of while using the solution."
"The licensing feature of the product requires improvement since whenever the license expires, the tool logs out its users automatically, irrespective of whether they are on the network or not, which can be problematic for me."
"We'd like to be able to properly encrypt the data more effectively."
"FortiClient is not communicating with the new version of the firewall."
"The documentation could be improved."
"At the moment, Pulse Connect Secure is a pretty good solution, and I don't see any issues with it. Currently, I'm not aware of a new or additional feature that's needed in Pulse Connect Secure, but it would be good if the team could look at how the speed of connection could be increased. Though it's quite seamless and I didn't face any problem with the speed, it would be better to improve the speed and keep going forward, especially as the industry's changing and people would love connections to be a lot faster."
"Setup is complex. A few users had some issues with it."
"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."
"I would like the solution to be more secure and compatible. It also needs to improve integration with other systems."
"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."
"Ivanti Connect Secure needs to have faster connections. It also needs to improve the stability."
"I don't have any downsides to report about the product at this time."
"The support team of the product needs improvement. Sometimes we have issues with multiple authentications, but there is no help from the support team."
Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 86 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 7th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 26 reviews. Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiEDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and CrowdStrike Falcon, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Ivanti Tunnel, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM). See our Fortinet FortiClient vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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