We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and OpenVPN Access Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure 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."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN is a stable solution."
"The IPSec VPN, Mobile Access, and Identity Awareness are three of the blades with which we have been working with since the pandemic. This has given us great mobility, making our network more dynamic."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client on different platforms."
"It can improve an organization by providing secure access to resources for traveling employees, which can help to reduce the risk of data breaches or other security incidents."
"The VPN hides your IP address and encrypts your online traffic and it essentially ensures that your fingerprints cannot be traced on the Internet."
"The biggest advantage of Check Point Remote Access VPN is that we already use the Check Point firewall. We only needed to enable the feature and do the configuration in order to enable the VPN feature. We didn't need to buy or manage new hardware. This was a big advantage."
"Setup using the manuals was easy."
"Thanks to all these security processes, our users can access our infrastructure with the certainty that we will not be compromised."
"I like that it's free."
"OpenVPN Access Server allows us to establish a secure connection to an IP address that would otherwise be inaccessible without using a VPN."
"The product has strong encryption and scalability features. It provides security for private network connections."
"I have set the default routes to the VPN server so that all traffic is encrypted."
"OpenVPN Access Server provides remote secure access."
"It allows us to give access to our office network in a safe and secure way to users, no matter which computing platform they use. "
"It was very easy to set up users."
"It is very easy to look at the quality of the connection and the bandwidth and do an investigation if there are problems on the network."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"They could add more features, like the security to block off the doors, or create another hatch, something like this. They could make the features safer, add malware to make my mail and the Kryon system safer and to protect data at an earlier stage."
"We would like to implement HTML5 (clientless access) in the product without installing any additional software."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN could be more user-friendly."
"A characteristic to improve is the communication service under the SMTP scheme."
"The cost of maintenance is high compared to most products in the market."
"The provisioning of VPN users has room for improvement."
"The main feature that would be improved within Check Point Remote Access is its operation within Linux OS, as it currently does not have many features for that OS."
"The non-standard setup is quite complex as you have to do changes via GUI and CLI."
"Working on a faster connection might be a good idea for the product's next release."
"It could be faster. It could also be more stable."
"It would be nice with all these features, if they could send some examples of each one; just small sample scripts to look at and say, "Oh okay, I could expand on this." That would help us a lot."
"There was one annoying feature where we had to disable and enable the user. I cannot remember what it was exactly, but I think it was for a password lockout. It would be nice if there was a checkbox, or something, in the web interface to allow you to unlock a user whose password was locked."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"You do need expertise in implementation if you do the initial setup yourself."
"The upgrade path from older versions was more difficult than we wanted to tackle, so we ran an older version of the software for longer than I wanted. Patching, updating, and migrating to newer versions was a problem for us. That said, we were on a rather old version that I inherited yet it worked rock solid."
"Open VPN Access Server could be more user-friendly."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 57 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 43 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient, Zscaler Private Access and Symantec VIP Access Manager, whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Zscaler Private Access and SonicWall Netextender. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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