We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and Cisco IOS SSL VPN 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."
"I found the MEP feature the most valuable. This has improved users' latency allowing the users to connect to the nearest Azure Check Point VM."
"The clients of the customers have a facility to access the enterprise network."
"The policies are easy to use."
"The initial set up is not complex."
"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."
"The ability to create your trigger data domains is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"I like the fact that Remote Access allows the administrator to control and manage things. It makes things smoother, and it has been an excellent experience."
"I like to work with the CMD command line because it's easy and it doesn't take very long to configure."
"The solution is very reliable."
"Stability-wise, it is a very good solution."
"The setup and installation was easy."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is an easy-to-use and straightforward solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"It's a very stable solution and I'd say it works perfectly."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the management portal."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"They need to increase their timeout. Right now, it will fail after ten seconds, however, it shouldn't fail until after 20. If you don't get on your phone right away and check on your authentications, it will kick you out."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"Generally, the license is included with the Check Point gateway licensing, however, in terms of the number of users that can be activated for use, it is generally five users."
"The cost of maintenance is high compared to most products in the market."
"The ability to allow split-tunneling while still following our corporate policy needs to be on the table."
"In an environment with multiple cluster checkpoints, the global properties common to all clusters in some cases give problems."
"The fully-featured security module is only supported on Windows and Mac systems, which means that organizations with Linux will face issues providing secure access."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN could be more user-friendly."
"I would like Cisco IOS SSL VPN to provide a faster connection."
"The only issue with Cisco IOS SSL VPN is on the price point. Price is an area of the solution where improvements are required."
"The solution needs to integrate password-less technology so that you don't have to remember passwords each time that you log in, which is otherwise tedious. We should be able to log in as long as our system is connected to the internet."
"The administration should be improved."
"Cisco device management is quite difficult. They should work to simplify this."
"I think the administration can be improved to include web interfaces."
"The pricing is a stumbling block to scaling our utilization of Cisco products and we would prefer to use more of them."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN should add a sensor that can authenticate with a fingerprint instead of having to type the username and password every time."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 57 reviews while Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 10th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 47 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6. 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 Cisco IOS SSL VPN writes "The solution is very stable and scalable, but it is expensive, and the configuration is complicated". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and Zscaler Private Access, whereas Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and Citrix Gateway. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Cisco IOS SSL VPN report.
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