We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and OpenVPN Access Server based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: AnyConnect is the clear winner in this comparison. Compared with OpenVPN, It is a more powerful and scalable solution. In addition, it also has helpful customer support.
"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."
"The security AnyConnect offers is excellent. It disconnects automatically if someone isn't using it on a private network and doesn't allow you to work, ensuring the data within the system is secure."
"The system is reliable, simple and secure."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"It is an easy system to set up."
"This solution gives you double security because it uses both hard and soft tokens."
"The solution is very easy to use and set up."
"The solution works very well. You just click and it's working."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is very stable."
"The stability is very reliable in my experience."
"There is support for multi-factor authentication."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"It was very easy to set up users."
"I have found the stability to be good."
"OpenVPN Access Server is very stable."
"The features I have found to be most valuable are the levels of encryption I can enact and the compression I can apply to improve throughput."
"Provided the easiest UX for our end-users and had the greatest interoperability with all the operating systems we used, including but not limited to: iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, and Linux."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Improvements could be made in terms of pricing and ease of setup."
"All Cisco equipment tends to be expensive compared to newer options from other vendors."
"The solution could improve the setup, it is complex."
"I'm not noticing any missing features."
"Frequency of updates could be reduced."
"I think, in general, most of the applications are slow, but this is everyday stuff. I think this is more related to the link speed — the links, the lossage, etc."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client can be improved by having better speed and reliability. However, the speed and reliability are already really good."
"I believe that the authentication component may be enhanced. SAML, more specifically user authentication."
"The connections could be faster and more stable."
"It requires some experience of Linux server configuration to set it up."
"I would like to see continued advanced security implementation."
"If we had to create something for someone who was not necessarily tech savvy, I had to set that up on their computer, I had to write "read me's" and other things so that they could install their client and then connect to the VPN by themselves. So it was hard to set up for people who are not tech savvy."
"There could be an easier way to set up the solution. However, if you use the provided information that comes with the solution there should not be a problem."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"Open VPN Access Server could be more user-friendly."
"If there was a Graphical User Interface to help streamline the configuration, I believe OpenVPN would probably venture more into the non-geek realm as it were."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 43 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while OpenVPN Access Server 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 OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Fortinet FortiClient and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and SonicWall Netextender. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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