Check Point Remote Access VPN vs Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Remote Access VPN
Ranking in Remote Access
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Infrastructure VPN (6th)
Devolutions Remote Desktop ...
Ranking in Remote Access
26th
Average Rating
9.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Remote Access category, the mindshare of Check Point Remote Access VPN is 2.1%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is 1.9%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Remote Access
Unique Categories:
Enterprise Infrastructure VPN
4.6%
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Featured Reviews

Edwin Solano Salmeron - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 2, 2023
Good encryption, secure login capabilities and easy to install
We wanted to give employees the possibility to work from anywhere outside of the organization, being a house or another remote location of offices. We wanted this capability with the possibility and ease to grant them access to our perimeter network so that they could access the data or internal…
BL
Nov 6, 2018
Best remote connection manager you can use today
I use RDM to manage 99% of my remote connections, such as RDP, SSH, SCP File Transfer, iDRAC, iLO, VMware vSphere Web Client, VMware vSphere Client, URLs, etc RDM has enabled me to do most of my work in one place. This helps me be able to have an RDP session open to a server in one tab and an…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It keeps us safe when browsing the internet and when sharing confidential information with our colleagues."
"The secure hotspot access for enabling good network connectivity is great."
"The solution offers high scalability as far as adding more users."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN is a stable solution."
"We can integrate remote access to our branches through Check Point services."
"A single login based on a second authentication factor is giving us the possibility of integrating third-party services for authentication based on a security scheme."
"It offers a simple configuration and setup."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN enables us to access on-premise applications while working from remote locations."
"Allows us to configure limited access to resources with the security-based role feature (which we use for trainees and new employees)."
"One credential can be used to access VPN, RDS, and more."
"By integrating all our connections previously spread across multiple locations, a lot of time has been saved."
""Inherited" function for credentials - Configure the desired credential at one (top) location, and use the Inherited function on all sub-connections that should use this credential."
"Being able to store my credentials makes connecting a breeze."
"The interface is great to work with as it allows multiple connections in a tabbed interface. It also has the option to automatically start a VPN or an SSH tunnel, if required."
"Makes me instantly more focused on resolving the issue rather than getting to the issue."
"Documentation per entry, good for device configs or important/special instructions."
 

Cons

"It's difficult to configure on Linux workstations as Check Point Remote VPN clients support only Windows and Mac devices."
"Generally, the license is included with the Check Point gateway licensing, however, in terms of the number of users that can be activated for use, it is generally five users."
"We would like to implement HTML5 (clientless access) in the product without installing any additional software."
"Price category and smooth renewal of agreement should be considered for flawless and quick onboarding of clients and partners."
"We are very happy with the Windows client. You log in with the VPN for the full client, you do the log in there. But for Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. It is important because we have some users that use Linux and they don't have a specific application from Check Point to use. That is something that could be improved."
"The cost of maintenance is high compared to most products in the market."
"The VPN remote Access blade could be improved."
"When you need to create something, you have to follow many steps and I think that should be simplified."
"On complex setups, I actually needed to reach out to support to get it working correctly."
"Sometimes the manual inventory of some entries hangs, and RDM must be closed via task manager."
"Security roles could be improved, especially by enabling renaming of a role."
"The only complaint I have heard is there are too many updates. Each time there is an update (the app prompts to upgrade), it can be time consuming, especially when sometimes there are multiple updates per week."
"If there was a way to streamline the process, it would make it nice."
"The RDM client (.NET issue, actually) can stall or lock up while it clears communication threads to the server."
"The filing system of connections is a little clunky, but is completely functional."
"There are always bugs to squash, beyond that, it is really kind of difficult for new users to discover and use many of the features due to the bewildering array of choices and ways to do things."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is pretty expensive. The rating is an eight."
"My company makes yearly payments only towards the licensing costs attached to Check Point Remote Access VPN, as there are no extra costs attached to the product."
"I can say that the licensing costs are charged annually."
"The price of this product is good."
"My understanding is that the pricing and licensing are very competitive, and it's not one of their more expensive products. We buy licenses for the solution and have licenses for the endpoint servers."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN is not expensive and the cost is annual."
"The product is expensive. I rate its pricing a ten out of ten. For the cost of one product, we could purchase two or three Fortinet solutions with the same amount of money."
"There is a license required for this solution."
"Setup costs for most people is negligible."
"The Free Edition is completely free. You can try also the Enterprise Edition for 30 days for free."
"If you are a Microsoft MVP, VMware vExpert, Cisco Champion, etc., Devolutions offers a free Enterprise License."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Educational Organization
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Check Point Endpoint Remote Access VPN?
We use it to connect our sites. We have a couple of sites that need to interconnect. They are in our cloud and our premise data center.
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Also Known As

Check Point Remote Access VPN, Check Point Endpoint Remote Access VPN
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Sample Customers

Osmose, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
HBO, 20th Century Fox, U-Haul, Nasdaq, IBM, Sony, SAP, Prada, Nike, Nokia, EY, Tesla, Fidelity, Space-X, Caterpillar, Maersk, Du Pont, MLS, Bosch, Bridestone, Red Bull
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