We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and LogMeIn Rescue 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."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."
"The solution is easy for administrators because you can check logs and write rules on the same page."
"The biggest advantage of Check Point Remote Access VPN is that we already use the Check Point firewall. We only needed to enable the feature and do the configuration in order to enable the VPN feature. We didn't need to buy or manage new hardware."
"Our number of users working remotely vastly increased during the COVID 19 pandemic. Check Point Remote Access VPN allowed us to quickly make the transition from in-office to remote work."
"The clients of the customers have a facility to access the enterprise network."
"Access is browser-based only and requires no additional client installation."
"The IPSec VPN, Mobile Access, and Identity Awareness are three of the blades with which we have been working with since the pandemic. This has given us great mobility, making our network more dynamic."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless access."
"The vendor's reliability provides me with peace of mind. Over the 10-plus years, we've literally had no issues with it going down or with it causing any problems or causing issues when our end-users are trying to get access to it."
"If an issue happens, we're able to log in at the time that it happens and address it , so there's minimal downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the ability for people to use LogMeIn's app that we install with our software, to bring us online with one click, so we can view their computer screens. It's easy and a lot of folks like it."
"The ability see iOS devices helps us out a lot because the majority of our users are iOS device users."
"It allows us to rapidly solve issues for our customers on a remote basis, regardless of the location of the customer."
"it's very easy to use, it's very efficient."
"There’s something called the dial-in so for people that use us all the time, we can have an icon on their screen and they can click that icon and we connect to them."
"It works with different operating systems, I can connect to a PC or Mac."
"They need to increase their timeout. Right now, it will fail after ten seconds, however, it shouldn't fail until after 20 seconds."
"We would like to implement HTML5 (clientless access) in the product without installing any additional software."
"When you need to create something, you have to follow many steps and I think that should be simplified."
"Improvements for Check Point Remote Access VPN could include enhancing mobile connectivity for a smoother user experience."
"There needs to be a way to create a VPN client specific to our environment so that we can easily lock down who can connect."
"Sometimes it causes the consumption of machine resources, and also improves the scanning since they consume many resources in the clients' machines."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN could be more user-friendly."
"The provisioning of VPN users has room for improvement."
"Network browsing and connecting on the LAN, because if you can't see the computers on your network, what good is the product?"
"I would like to see a mobile client that would work on an iPad, so I do not always have to be on a PC or a full-blown Mac operating system."
"Their ability to support mobile has been really problematic. I've seen other products that have done a better job in supporting mobile products. LogMeIn has just never been able to come up to par there, and that would be a detractor. They've been talking about supporting mobile for 10-plus years, and I really haven't seen any improvement on that."
"Support to remotely control more mobile devices' screens is desperately needed. It is sad to see how long this product has been out and how many phones are still not supported for, specifically, remote screen control."
"I occasionally need to reboot my computer after using LogMeIn, due to an issue with IE. It stops responding to keyboard input every once in a while, after disconnecting from a session. A reboot resolves it."
"The one big problem that I have with LogMeIn Rescue is, I use a Mac. All my technicians use PCs. I use a Mac, and the Mac agent crashes at least once a day. I have to stop it and start it again. To date, I don’t have a problem with people using PC. I think the Mac app that they have needs to be improved."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"I wish this product was tied to a Help Desk package so I could manage tickets and have an infrastructure, with this being the primary tool to troubleshoot."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 60 reviews while LogMeIn Rescue is ranked 13th in Remote Access with 20 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while LogMeIn Rescue is rated 9.0. 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 LogMeIn Rescue writes "Easy setup and effective support ". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas LogMeIn Rescue is most compared with GoToAssist, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, TeamViewer, LogMeIn Central and VNC Connect. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. LogMeIn Rescue report.
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