We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and SonicWall Netextender 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."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"One of the features that I like most about this software is that it has a very intuitive, simple, and versatile interface that makes it easy to use and configure."
"A single login based on a second authentication factor is giving us the possibility of integrating third-party services for authentication based on a security scheme."
"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 most valuable feature is the seamless access."
"It is stable most of the time."
"Access is browser-based only and requires no additional client installation."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN is a stable solution."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN enables us to access on-premise applications while working from remote locations."
"My company opted for this solution because it can individually perform. Basically, we don't require load balancers and all those additional feature sets or additional devices that might be required. The solution can handle the certificate, DNS queries, and all that stuff individually."
"NetExtender works very well. I never had an issue with it, and it has been working well for me. In terms of management, you have good control over the destination. You can use NetExtender to set the policy and the static route for a client. You can modify it based on what your client needs or can access. You have good control over routing."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"The product has two-factor authentication."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Employees can have access to the network from home."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"We encounter challenges for the product’s installation and troubleshooting processes compared to other VPN products."
"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."
"I would like the support to be faster."
"The Linux version may have an app (similar to Windows) instead of a shell script."
"There was complexity in the initial setup."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN could be more user-friendly."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"In the case of URL translation of the VPN Web portal, the requests made from the front end to the back end weren't valid (due to the use of dynamic subdomains). In the case of host translations, the request was made to the same host, however, we cannot specify the ports, which, in our case, are used to redirect to different servers."
"The product does not work well."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
"The initial setup of SonicWall Netextender is straightforward. The only issue we encountered was with relocating the VPN appliance. If we needed to move it from an on-premise to an on-cloud architecture, we had to start over and redeploy it from scratch. Unfortunately, it is not portable and any changes to its physical location often result in the need for a fresh deployment to ensure everything functions properly."
"SonicWall can be difficult for some people, but I don't find it difficult. Some companies provide a VPN client for free, but you have to pay for NetExtender."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"The UI could be a little better."
"The Netextender application itself doesn't really look pretty, however, we can still use it. We don't care what it looks like. That said, if they did a cosmetic update, that would be fine."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 60 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 15th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. 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 SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". 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 Zero Trust Exchange, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, SonicWall Connect Tunnel, Fortinet FortiClient and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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