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."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."
"Check Point has been perfect for protecting us from any type of attack or data theft during remote management."
"We have more control over the activity that users have on the internal network, thanks to the monitoring offered by Check Point and the security provided by the gateway."
"For us, it was essential to integrate with Active Directory, which is our credentials repository."
"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."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client to different platforms."
"Once we install and connect the VPN service, it keeps on running until we disconnect."
"Access is browser-based only and requires no additional client installation."
"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 setup and installation was easy."
"The multicast feature is useful for us."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN provides fast connectivity and the option to connect through multiple servers."
"I have found that Cisco IOS SSL VPN is stable."
"The product is very stable."
"It's a stable solution."
"IOS is user-friendly and simple. You connect to a particular VPN, and that's it. You become seamless after that."
"The product's most valuable features are security, stability, and troubleshooting capabilities."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It's difficult to configure on Linux workstations as Check Point Remote VPN clients support only Windows and Mac devices."
"The connection has gotten less smooth as the number of users increases. The issue is that the logs fill up quickly. Too many users are connecting remotely. It worked great when we only had a few remote connections. Now, it is disconnecting people and dropping the internet connection."
"Connection of devices from various locations is efficient though there are a few challenges when there is a network failure."
"The authentication that we handle is through a .p12 certificate, however, we have integrated it with a 2MFA service through another provider. Something that could improve Check Point is if it had its own 2MFA service through a blade or some sort of application."
"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 non-standard setup is quite complex as you have to do changes via GUI and CLI."
"You have no ability to reserve a total number of licenses. The VPN user licenses are assigned per gateway, and if you enable MEP function is not so easy to size the gateway licenses."
"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."
"The performance could be improved."
"Sometimes the connection drops, and we don't like that. I'm not sure the reason, but sometimes it will take time to connect or it will disconnect fast."
"The product’s dashboard is not good enough."
"The solution's graphical user interface is not very user-friendly."
"They could provide the cloud-based as-a-service model with monthly rental payments."
"The solution's configuration could be made easier."
"The configuration is critical and complex."
"I have no notes in terms of areas of improvement."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 60 reviews while Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 9th 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 Zero Trust Exchange, 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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