We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to handle. You can have it on Windows, Linux or Mac, that's quite useful."
"The security AnyConnect offers is excellent. It disconnects automatically if someone isn't using it on a private network and doesn't allow you to work, ensuring the data within the system is secure."
"Especially during the COVID pandemic, this solution has allowed us to work from home without security concerns."
"The solution has good performance. It is a simple tool to use, once I turn on Windows it automatically starts to use the VPN."
"The dashboard and interface are fine."
"You don't have to think about it very much. It just works."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is good for securing our connection. It is very easy to use, I click to use it and it works."
"Support does solve our issues."
"Umbrella enables customers to be secure. We are happy with this and this is the most important benefit for customers."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"The insight into what our users are doing via Cisco Umbrella is valuable. Knowing that we're protecting our users as they leave our network is also valuable now because we've got more hybrid working."
"Some clients only want DNS security, while others want more of the advanced features that it has available."
"It makes it really easy to accomplish content filtering. We don't have to do a lot of customization. You just click the box for the content category and it's up to date."
"Meraki features and cloud-based functionality are advanced and easy to manage centrally."
"The Global Block List is one of the most valuable features because it's really easy to block domain names as well as URLs. Sometimes you don't want to block the whole site, you just want to block one URL. The Global Block and Allow Lists are the best features for us."
"Cisco Umbrella's integration with other solutions has been a great feature in terms of ease of administration. Administration and troubleshooting are faster. The single pane of glass is great as well. Another great feature of Cisco Umbrella is remote browser isolation. With this feature, you open a virtual browser, and it's seamless to the user. If the user ends up going to a bad website that's passed a policy and something bad tries to download, it will not download into the machine because it is a virtual window somewhere in the cloud. You are protected by this feature."
"They can redesign the reset password, reset function, and user interface."
"The support could be more proactive in their recommendations. I noticed that the Cisco support agents tend to leave customers to do what they need to do in many ways, and you can choose how you want to do it. However, it would be great if they could proactively be involved in best practices and let other customers know how most people are doing it."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is a stable solution. However, there have been times it has not worked and I needed to call our IT department. It could be more stable."
"It would be useful to have an automatic install process where if you connect and you don't have the latest version, it should be automatically done."
"The logout should be automized and it should have a reminder that you have logged in into a private network."
"It would be good to have some improvements to the quality of service."
"The solution should not rely on tokens from the mobile application for logins."
"The GUI needs to be upgraded."
"They need to improve analytics so they report on more of the specifics of user activity."
"If we're trying to deploy it to a Mac through Meraki, it's impossible. The method of deployment for a Mac, and the features available in Meraki, are not compatible at all."
"There are some situations where we would like to block things for specific user groups. I know that Umbrella does that, but it's not that easy.... when you want a specific task for specific rules and policies for user groups, you have to go three levels down in the menu, and it's hard to find where you do that task."
"It should have more integrations with multiple end user OEMs."
"Its reliability and the response time of the support team can be better."
"I would like to see more integrability with other products."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"It would be good to have more extensions to third-party products and a client for other device types."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 5th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 69 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 108 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Citrix Gateway, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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