We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."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."
"For our company's needs, AnyConnect is sufficient and very easy to use."
"It is easy to handle, you can have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux."
"Easy to deploy and has good NAC integration."
"The installation process is not difficult."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are that it is really secure and very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the reliability and scalability."
"What I like most about Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is that it's easy to use, and that is its main advantage. You can use it without the need for any setup because it's centrally pre-installed, so you just need to log in with your username and password. I didn't experience any problems with the solution in terms of losing connectivity. It works very well every time."
"We don't need to connect anymore. It is automatically connected when you log on in Windows."
"The best feature is the ability to establish the connection between your public network and automatically connect to the intranet connection."
"It does the job. What it is needed for. I can use it for VPN, I can use it for secure connections, I can use it as a firewall. So the solution does the job."
"I like the web filtering capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to establish connectivity for remote users and remote endpoints. It offers a high level of granularity compared to typical VPNs, which also encapsulate a lot of I/O."
"Users get direct secure access to applications over the internet."
"I like its ease of use. It has a single pane of glass for the ZIA and ZPA pieces. It is very manageable. It is also very easy to deploy for secure access, and it gives half-decent coverage for visibility in terms of what the users use and what data is being proxied through the access gateway."
"With SASE, we have a single platform that covers multiple task services with which we need to control access. All the features are equally valuable."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client would be perfect if it weren't for the fingerprint feature."
"If they could simplify connections via other machines, like Linux or Mac OS X, it would be helpful."
"One improvement could be ensuring better backward compatibility."
"All Cisco equipment tends to be expensive compared to newer options from other vendors."
"More frequent updates would be ideal."
"If there's any cloud version available, instead of on-premise, that would be ideal."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could improve by making a feature to set it apart from other competitors."
"Whenever there's a drop in internet or a connection fluctuation, it gets disconnected automatically."
"The stability could be improved."
"The interface needs a bit of work."
"It has a limitation, if you are creating a rule or something for a web application or something, you could only add five users, not more than that. Five or four users are only included in a rule. If you want to create a rule for more than five or four users, you have to go through other methods, not particularly with the application. Working within the application with this method would be quite easy as compared to listing a URL or a normal IP address."
"Sometimes applications crash on some machines, and we’d like Zscaler to give us some information as to why that may have happened. We’d like more detailed reports."
"I can't speak to any missing features."
"Zscaler Private Access could improve by improving external access. If external parties want to access locally to my company's services, we need to onboard them into our domain, otherwise, it doesn't work. Additionally, if their company also has Zscaler Private Access, then it doesn't work. They need to log in with our domain ID, not their company ID."
"We faced certain migration and implementation challenges in executing the tasks, so I would suggest improvement related to the stability of the solution."
"More on-prem infrastructure is required when Zscaler Private Access is to be implemented as a single point of entry."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 34 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange 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 Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Fortinet FortiClient and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cloudflare Access and Perimeter 81.
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