We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and ConnectWise ScreenConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."For us, it was essential to integrate with Active Directory, which is our credentials repository."
"It can improve an organization by providing secure access to resources for traveling employees, which can help to reduce the risk of data breaches or other security incidents."
"Scalability is great. We have been able to grow as a corporation due in part to this type of solution."
"To maintain the authorization of the connected user, Check Point provides multi-factor authentication for an RA VPN client to make sure legitimate users have access to resources."
"Thanks to all these security processes, our users can access our infrastructure with the certainty that we will not be compromised."
"Setting policies allow, block, and limit users' access."
"It keeps us safe when browsing the internet and when sharing confidential information with our colleagues."
"The team has full visibility of the users that connect allowing them to keep control of who is in the network and what data they are allowing to come in and out."
"Remote connect via webpage. I use it to support employees when I am not in the office or when they are at a remote location."
"You can bring up a command prompt remotely and execute commands without having to disturb the user."
"The ConnectWise ScreenConnect tool is very good for remote access."
"The unattended access functionality is a valuable feature, because I can go in at any time that I want, deploy fixes, or do maintenance."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"I've noted an ROI while using the solution."
"Due to the fact that we can help our clients virtually, the solution has allowed us to reduce our travel costs by about 90%."
"We like the fact that on our website we can have the ConnectWise bit embedded, and it has instructions for the end-user about what they need to do. Previously, on LogMeIn, we used to have to almost talk them through everything... ConnectWise has step-by-step instructions, depending on the browser."
"It would be good to have Remote Access VPN solutions for Check Point edge services."
"The VPN remote Access blade could be improved."
"For Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. For the users that utilize Linux, there needs to be an equivalent."
"The fully-featured security module is only supported on Windows and Mac systems, which means that organizations with Linux will face issues providing secure access."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN's connectivity and establishment takes time and needs to be faster."
"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 Linux version may have an app (similar to Windows) instead of a shell script."
"Without a doubt and with the new trends in technology, Check Point should already have a blade with a 2MFA solution and not through some other vendor."
"There could be improvement to the remote command line tools."
"I really didn't care for the onboarding process and it is something that should be improved."
"Reporting could definitely use improvement. With LogMeIn Rescue, I used to be able to, for instance, at the end of the month, pull off a report of every session. It was very simple... I could see the name that was typed in, the IP address to the computer that it was connected to, if it was running Windows... It just doesn't seem - there might be but I haven't found it - to be a way of pulling that information out of ConnectWise."
"I was not thrilled with their support. I do not have a lot of time to deal with the attention which is needed to fix issues."
"I would like ConnectWise Control to be more transparent on the real costs to renew their license."
"I would like to see more overlap, meaning, I would like to be able to see what processes are running on a computer, for example, or what services are running."
"At the moment, there's absolutely no specific feature that we actually need additionally since all the features that we need are available."
"What we need this product to do is to be able to control Windows Updates. LogMeIn Central allowed us remote access but also allowed to push and install Windows Updates, and third-party updates... When we made the switch to ConnectWise we lost the ability to do patching. That forced us, for our larger clients, to move to WSUS. We had to set up a VM on those larger clients to push Windows Updates and patches into the network."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 4th in Remote Access with 60 reviews while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ranked 8th in Remote Access with 37 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while ConnectWise ScreenConnect is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ConnectWise ScreenConnect writes "Multifeatured remote access software which offers security, stability, and easy scalability". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and TeamViewer, whereas ConnectWise ScreenConnect is most compared with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, TeamViewer, LogMeIn Pro, BeyondTrust Remote Support and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. ConnectWise ScreenConnect report.
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