We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."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."
"AnyConnect SMC's best features are that it's secure and connects seamlessly to clients' networks."
"I like how I don't need to see the solution or start it up. I just use my computer and have it working in the background. I start my laptop and it's there and working. That's the most important feature."
"It is an easy system to set up."
"This solution is stable. There have been no technical issues."
"Configuration policy, posture assessment, and other things can be done in great detail."
"The tool is user-friendly, robust and easy to use in any environment."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the one-click VPN connection. Additionally, the performance is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I like the web filtering capabilities."
"It is easy to use."
"Yes, it is very stable. I have never seen it go down, not once."
"The Live Logs are a cool feature. We can directly identify issues and divert user traffic."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"It is a stable solution."
"The scalability is pretty good."
"I find all Zscaler Private Access features valuable because each replaces flawed technologies, such as EPAs being replacements for VPN and PR as a replacement for PAM, so I can't mention only one valuable feature. Overall, Zscaler Private Access is a good solution."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client can be improved by having better speed and reliability. However, the speed and reliability are already really good."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could improve by optimizing the use of the system resources, it is heavy on the resources. Additionally, there could be more transparency."
"We don't have the correct visibility to see the quantity of licenses we are consuming or not consuming."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is a stable solution. However, there have been times it has not worked and I needed to call our IT department. It could be more stable."
"I'm not noticing any missing features."
"I would like a faster connection from the solution."
"The deployment of the agent software for the final customer could be simpler and more helpful."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client would be perfect if it weren't for the fingerprint feature."
"It would be better if the Zscaler Private Access team made it easier for people to find subscriptions on the portal, mainly information on what my customers subscribed to or the type of licenses purchased."
"Zscaler Private Access could improve by improving external access. If external parties want to access locally to my company's services, we need to onboard them into our domain, otherwise, it doesn't work. Additionally, if their company also has Zscaler Private Access, then it doesn't work. They need to log in with our domain ID, not their company ID."
"It has massive room for improvement. The Zscaler product itself is okay, but it doesn't give enough granularity for us as an organization to stipulate rules or processes, especially for data-driven services. For instance, we can stick on SSL inspection, but it's just a click box. It doesn't allow us to go any further into the detail of the SSL inspection. We also can't pull it out without having an additional logging server. It just doesn't give us enough granularity. They should give us more control over the interfaces because it is all backend. They weren't very open to discussing their backend architecture with us in terms of their own data centers. They can maybe a little bit more open about what components are there and how the backend infrastructure works alongside Zscaler. Its licensing can be better. Some of the additional licensing costs are quite high, and they should have certain features ready and available as a baseline rather than having to purchase additional licenses for it. Their support should also be improved. I initially had a consultant from Zscaler for its deployment, but the support that I had throughout the deployment of the project wasn't the best."
"We'd like to have two-factor authentication that is quite simple."
"There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved."
"The DX layer could be better if it had improved visibility."
"We would like to extend the SASE applications for Zscaler."
"SCMP support would be one of the biggest improvements in my opinion. More speed improvements are also required."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 35 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) and Netskope Private Access.
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