We performed a comparison between Ivanti Connect Secure and Symantec VIP Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Citrix, Ivanti and others in SSL VPN."The new UI that they are providing right now is very good."
"The most valuable feature is being able to securely connect and use virtual desktops."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"The stability of the product is its most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable feature is remote access."
"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 most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"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."
"The two-factor authentication is most definitely valuable and moves us closer to being able to check off those important boxes for compliance."
"Cloud-based service and management."
"It's a good tool. It's pretty straightforward."
"The VPN we are using is good and working quite well."
"Other than it provides us with remote access, so it's fairly easy to install, fairly easy to set up, and provides us the ability to get into our corporate environment."
"The tool has been very stable, in my experience. Also, I haven't faced any issues or problems with integration or connectivity."
"It is easy to use."
"In this version 9.1, lots of changes are done for the dashboard, User Store etc."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve the reporting, it is lacking in detail and should take the report automatically."
"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."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve by having better integration with NAC solutions, such as Cisco ClearPass integration with Pulse Connect Secure. Additionally, they need better integration with Microsoft Azure AD and Azure Authenticator."
"The product's price is an area where improvements are required."
"The solution can be improved by addressing the failure to connect on public 2-step networks."
"The support team of the product needs improvement. Sometimes we have issues with multiple authentications, but there is no help from the support team."
"It gets out of sync with Active Directory or whatever it might be, whatever the authentication piece is on Active Directory, and they just reset it on the backend. I never have to contact the vendor."
"Geofencing needs improvement."
"Every time that I have a new phone or computer, it takes a little longer to deploy it."
"The User Store synchronization part needs to improve. Also, the logs, reports, and dashboard can be improved."
"Maybe Symantec could consider providing a step-by-step guide for first-time users."
"In the next release, I would like the ability to work offline with remote access."
"If they had dashboards or a report for managers or executives, then it would allow them to see the status and have it make sense to them."
"The gateway server is a RADIUS server, but it lacks the functionality of returning RADIUS attributes other than those that are required for the gateway to authenticate the users."
Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 26 reviews while Symantec VIP Access Manager is ranked 13th in Authentication Systems with 15 reviews. Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.8, while Symantec VIP Access Manager is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec VIP Access Manager writes "With its mobile application, this tool offers a convenient and user-friendly experience to its users". Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, OpenVPN Access Server and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Symantec VIP Access Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Yubico YubiKey, Q-Bot and Okta Workforce Identity.
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