We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Symantec VIP Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Citrix, Ivanti and others in SSL VPN."It is stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is pretty fast."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use, management, and support."
"The solution is very reliable."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is integrated with domain controller, SSO and MFA."
"It is very effective and I am satisfied with how it works and with its performance."
"The tool has been very stable, in my experience. Also, I haven't faced any issues or problems with integration or connectivity."
"The VPN we are using is good and working quite well."
"In this version 9.1, lots of changes are done for the dashboard, User Store etc."
"It is easy to use."
"Cloud-based service and management."
"The two-factor authentication is most definitely valuable and moves us closer to being able to check off those important boxes for compliance."
"The product is useful for providing user access from an in-built office server as we follow the work-from-home model."
"Other than it provides us with remote access, so it's fairly easy to install, fairly easy to set up, and provides us the ability to get into our corporate environment."
"The flexibility of configurations could be improved."
"The product costs a lot of money."
"The performance could be improved."
"The only issue with Cisco IOS SSL VPN is on the price point. Price is an area of the solution where improvements are required."
"They could provide the cloud-based as-a-service model with monthly rental payments."
"Enhancing the client certificate deployment process could be a valuable improvement, ensuring smoother and more reliable certificate renewal experiences in the future."
"The configuration must be improved."
"The solution does not give us options if the connectivity to one server is not available."
"It is challenging to use when installing a new version."
"I would like to see the solution meet the integration needs at our company...Improving the solution's integration feature would be beneficial."
"The User Store synchronization part needs to improve. Also, the logs, reports, and dashboard can be improved."
"In the next release, I would like the ability to work offline with remote access."
"The gateway server is a RADIUS server, but it lacks the functionality of returning RADIUS attributes other than those that are required for the gateway to authenticate the users."
"Geofencing needs improvement."
"It gets out of sync with Active Directory or whatever it might be, whatever the authentication piece is on Active Directory, and they just reset it on the backend. I never have to contact the vendor."
"Maybe Symantec could consider providing a step-by-step guide for first-time users."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while Symantec VIP Access Manager is ranked 15th in Authentication Systems with 15 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Symantec VIP Access Manager 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 Symantec VIP Access Manager writes "With its mobile application, this tool offers a convenient and user-friendly experience to its users". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Ivanti Connect Secure and Sangfor SSL VPN, whereas Symantec VIP Access Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Yubico YubiKey, RSA SecurID and SAP Customer Data Cloud.
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