We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 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 most valuable feature is the connection feature."
"This solution gives you double security because it uses both hard and soft tokens."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client's most valuable feature is the ability to connect to our enterprise applications, on-premise applications, and cloud any place in the world"
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it works all of the time."
"You can use it from anywhere."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is AnyConnect's reliability."
"For our company's needs, AnyConnect is sufficient and very easy to use."
"Employees can have access to the network from home."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The product has two-factor authentication."
"The solution provides high availability."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"My company opted for this solution because it can individually perform. Basically, we don't require load balancers and all those additional feature sets or additional devices that might be required. The solution can handle the certificate, DNS queries, and all that stuff individually."
"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."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"There is nothing they need to improve at this moment."
"Whenever there's a drop in internet or a connection fluctuation, it gets disconnected automatically."
"The solution could offer tighter integration with endpoint protection to make it easier to use when routing security applications from other vendors."
"In general, it's always a good idea to improve scalability and stability."
"The security could be improved."
"The setup could be simplified for solutions engineers with a wizard."
"Complicated scenarios are difficult to deploy. On a scale from one to ten, with one being the most difficult, I'd give a rating of between two and three for the initial setup."
"The deployment of the agent software for the final customer could be simpler and more helpful."
"The product does not work well."
"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."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
"The UI could be a little better."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 69 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 15th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. 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 SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". 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 Oracle VPN Connect, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, SonicWall Mobile Connect, SonicWall Connect Tunnel, Fortinet FortiClient and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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