We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Ivanti Connect Secure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL 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."
"Cisco certainly has a really strong support team."
"The platform provides value and benefits to our organization through efficient and effective communication."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the management portal."
"I like to work with the CMD command line because it's easy and it doesn't take very long to configure."
"The product is very stable."
"The customer service and support are the best. When it comes to support, Cisco is the best vendor ever."
"The most valuable features are that it's reliable, convenient, and easy. It always works if configured well."
"The solution is pretty fast."
"The flexibility in their management is great."
"The new UI that they are providing right now is very good."
"It's quite stable."
"Ivanti secures access to the corporate network from various devices and locations."
"The stability of the product is its most valuable feature."
"What I like the most about Pulse Connect Secure is that it's user-friendly. It's easy to use. You just need to connect, and that's it."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"The most valuable feature is being able to securely connect and use virtual desktops."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"In addition to Cisco, we work with other solutions on behalf of our customers, such as Fortinet for FortiGate, but this latter solution can achieve the same results at a lower price."
"The flexibility of configurations could be improved."
"The solution's graphical user interface is not very user-friendly."
"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."
"The company sets the policies for the default location, and destination, which the VPN connects. If there is a problem with one of those locations, which happens sometimes when I travel I need to have an option to select a different available location. Currently, I am unable to see that from a user's point of view."
"Improvements could be made in terms of connectivity for applications."
"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 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 product could use additional dashboards."
"This solution normally works but at times, we have had trouble with connectivity."
"We need to know how many live active users there are and we can't. We even updated the server, however, we still can't see the proper level of live connections. Right now, it's showing as 300 users and my customer does not have that many users in his organization."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve by having better integration with NAC solutions, such as Cisco ClearPass integration with Pulse Connect Secure. Additionally, they need better integration with Microsoft Azure AD and Azure Authenticator."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
"The support team of the product needs improvement. Sometimes we have issues with multiple authentications, but there is no help from the support team."
"The stability could be better. There are sometimes bugs in the system."
"We want to switch to another solution because there are some challenges with the support from Pulse. The quality of documentation is also not good. It is sometimes very hard to find documentation that provides a solution and describes how all this works."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 25 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.6. 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 Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Zyxel VPN Client, Citrix Gateway and SonicWall Netextender, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Ivanti Tunnel, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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