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."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is good for securing our connection. It is very easy to use, I click to use it and it works."
"The installation process is not difficult."
"It is easy to handle, you can have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux."
"Configuration policy, posture assessment, and other things can be done in great detail."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the one-click VPN connection. Additionally, the performance is good."
"I like the ability to share the connections or simply to be able to pass the credentials for a connection to other colleagues without bothering too much about the connection being tracked or about security, because each and every user will require a secret password, so I don't really care about sending the details. It's very secure."
"You can use it from anywhere."
"This solution gives you double security because it uses both hard and soft tokens."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are reliability, scalability, and availability."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Private Access is we do not have to connect to a VPN, it is seamless. It is more convenient for us because we use one agent to cover the internet and VPN access."
"It is straightforward to set up."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the CASB solutions, which is protecting their Office 365."
"It does the job. What it is needed for. I can use it for VPN, I can use it for secure connections, I can use it as a firewall. So the solution does the job."
"Yes, it is very stable. I have never seen it go down, not once."
"Users get direct secure access to applications over the internet."
"The Live Logs are a cool feature. We can directly identify issues and divert user traffic."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The notifications need to be improved. If the VPN is disconnected for a long period of time, they should push out notifications. We need to manually check if the VPN is connected or not. Sometimes it automatically disconnects, but the user doesn't get notifications, and we need to troubleshoot or open the client to manually reconnect. Auto-reconnection would be an improvement."
"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."
"I haven't found there are any shortcomings in the product. For how I use it, it works well."
"There is a speed limit for VPNs because of the encryption."
"The deployment of the agent software for the final customer could be simpler and more helpful."
"The setup could be simplified for solutions engineers with a wizard."
"The support could be more proactive in their recommendations. I noticed that the Cisco support agents tend to leave customers to do what they need to do in many ways, and you can choose how you want to do it. However, it would be great if they could proactively be involved in best practices and let other customers know how most people are doing it."
"We don't have the correct visibility to see the quantity of licenses we are consuming or not consuming."
"We faced certain migration and implementation challenges in executing the tasks, so I would suggest improvement related to the stability of the solution."
"To enhance their offering, it is advisable for them to focus on strengthening the foundation of their architecture. Additionally, they should consider integrating a broader range of services that go beyond what managed service providers typically offer independently."
"The pricing for Private Access seems to be on the expensive side, and I believe they should consider making it more competitive with other solutions."
"We often face performance and latency issues with Zscaler SASE."
"More on-prem infrastructure is required when Zscaler Private Access is to be implemented as a single point of entry."
"There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved."
"Zscaler Private Access needs to improve its collaboration with applications without compromising security."
"The DX layer could be better if it had improved visibility."
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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 34 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, Cloudflare Access and Netskope Private Access.
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