We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks 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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, management, and support."
"The most valuable features are that it's reliable, convenient, and easy. It always works if configured well."
"It's a very stable solution and I'd say it works perfectly."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN provides fast connectivity and the option to connect through multiple servers."
"The solution is pretty fast."
"The product's setup phase was easy."
"Cisco VPN is easy to connect."
"It is very effective and I am satisfied with how it works and with its performance."
"To quarantine and clean a malware file provides a lot of security."
"Monitoring is the most valuable feature because we can easily monitor all kinds of stuff coming over the network. We can check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"The features I find most valuable is WildFire, user integration, and the basic technology features."
"It's very stable. Sometimes after installing the boxes, we leave them for one or two years. We would just touch the box in the case of the customer needing new requirements or changes to the setup."
"It's great that we can make sure a machine meets the minimum requirements before users are allowed to log in."
"The solution also provides traffic analysis, threat prevention, URL filtering, and segmentation. That combination is important because it enhances the protection and makes the traffic more secure. It also keeps things more up-to-date, enabling us to deal with more of the current threats."
"The users can securely access any cloud data centers or cloud platforms. In terms of the features, it has all the features that Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall has. It is also very stable and scalable."
"Its hands-off security and the fact that we don't have to maintain it are the most valuable features."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"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."
"Cisco device management is quite difficult. They should work to simplify this."
"The configuration must 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 solution's graphical user interface is not very user-friendly."
"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 Secure Plus Connect product could be improved with many enhancements in any price license, especially for licensing. Cisco could simplify the licensing; it could make it easier to order and use the features."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"From any improvement perspective, the product's compatibility issues with Linux need to be resolved."
"Their next release should provide solutions for the mobile environment."
"Prisma would be a stronger solution if it could aggregate resources by project or by application. So say we have an application we've developed in AWS and five applications we've developed in Azure. The platform will group it according to those applications, but it's based on the tags we use in Azure, which means I have to rely on development teams to tag resources properly."
"The BGP filtering options on Prisma Access should be improved."
"I would like the solution to support a different type of authentication. We can't configure a secondary method for our portal."
"The product's current price is an area of shortcoming where improvements are required."
"The frequency of updates could be reduced."
"When it comes to integration mechanisms, Prisma SaaS does not support reverse proxy type of integrations."
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Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 9th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 47 reviews while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 56 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". 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, whereas Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN. See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks report.
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