We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and SonicWall Netextender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The secure hotspot access for enabling good network connectivity is great."
"Setting policies allow, block, and limit users' access."
"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."
"The solution is easy for administrators because you can check logs and write rules on the same page."
"I found the MEP feature the most valuable. This has improved users' latency allowing the users to connect to the nearest Azure Check Point VM."
"This platform has developed a reliable communication infrastructure that employees can use to communicate with remote workers."
"The VPN hides your IP address and encrypts your online traffic and it essentially ensures that your fingerprints cannot be traced on the Internet."
"For a basic setup, implementation is quite easy."
"I found nothing of value in this solution."
"One of the most valuable features of SonicWall Netextender is the integration of VPN accounts with Microsoft Identity Management, which enables us to enforce secure access through Microsoft Intune and conditional access policies. This helps ensure that only authorized individuals are able to access the VPN, rather than anyone with knowledge of a password."
"NetExtender works very well. I never had an issue with it, and it has been working well for me. In terms of management, you have good control over the destination. You can use NetExtender to set the policy and the static route for a client. You can modify it based on what your client needs or can access. You have good control over routing."
"The solution provides high availability."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"Employees can have access to the network from home."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It would be good to have Remote Access VPN solutions for Check Point edge services."
"There were some issues with automation and instability."
"The main feature that would be improved within Check Point Remote Access is its operation within Linux OS, as it currently does not have many features for that OS."
"Connection of devices from various locations is efficient though there are a few challenges when there is a network failure."
"Price category and smooth renewal of agreement should be considered for flawless and quick onboarding of clients and partners."
"Some configurations, like idle timeout (the requirement came from multiple users), are not possible to configure directly from the Check Point management server."
"In an environment with multiple cluster checkpoints, the global properties common to all clusters in some cases give problems."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"SonicWall can be difficult for some people, but I don't find it difficult. Some companies provide a VPN client for free, but you have to pay for NetExtender."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
"The product does not work well."
"Right now, you have to load each license on to an appliance. You can't pool across multiple appliances. So, you end up having to do a lot of administrative work to recover if an internet provider goes down, and you cannot leverage it as easily into a DR solution."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
"The initial setup of SonicWall Netextender is straightforward. The only issue we encountered was with relocating the VPN appliance. If we needed to move it from an on-premise to an on-cloud architecture, we had to start over and redeploy it from scratch. Unfortunately, it is not portable and any changes to its physical location often result in the need for a fresh deployment to ensure everything functions properly."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
"The only concern I do have is with the zero trust, and the solution is not coping with the newer technologies as much as it needs to do on that particular factor."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 57 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 14th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. 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 SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". 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 Private Access, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, SonicWall Connect Tunnel, Fortinet FortiClient and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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