We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and Ivanti Connect Secure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"It's a stable solution while it's running. We don't have to work on it a lot. There are not many bugs, so it's easy to use if you deploy successfully. You can be sure of an uninterrupted solution for quite a long time. Citrix is a good product."
"It performs quite well."
"Provides good performance and speed."
"The initial setup is simple. Normally with all setups, it's not very complicated. It really depends on the customer."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the web app support and VPN."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"The solution has very flexible configuration."
"It's quite stable."
"The flexibility in their management is great."
"The best feature of Pulse Connect Secure is the good security it provides. It gives a secure connection to your network."
"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."
"The most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"I like the host checker, which thoroughly checks the security posture of the machine before allowing access. I also like application-based access and its seamless operations."
"The most valuable features of the solution are reliability and uptime."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Technical support could be improved."
"I would like to see improved logging because it doesn't keep much information for the session monitoring or historical sessions."
"If the solution had a more advanced DNS, it would be an improvement."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The major issue is price. I would also like them to make other aspects more accessible."
"The dashboard or interface should be more clear in reporting issues. Integration with other applications should be more user-friendly."
"As an organization, our initiative is to move to the cloud, Citrix Gateway needs to improve its cloud capabilities and make the cloud solution more robust."
"If there is an increase in the customer infrastructure, it is not stable."
"At the moment, Pulse Connect Secure is a pretty good solution, and I don't see any issues with it. Currently, I'm not aware of a new or additional feature that's needed in Pulse Connect Secure, but it would be good if the team could look at how the speed of connection could be increased. Though it's quite seamless and I didn't face any problem with the speed, it would be better to improve the speed and keep going forward, especially as the industry's changing and people would love connections to be a lot faster."
"We need to know how many live active users there are and we can't. We even updated the server, however, we still can't see the proper level of live connections. Right now, it's showing as 300 users and my customer does not have that many users in his organization."
"We want to switch to another solution because there are some challenges with the support from Pulse. The quality of documentation is also not good. It is sometimes very hard to find documentation that provides a solution and describes how all this works."
"Pulse Connect Secure could improve the reporting, it is lacking in detail and should take the report automatically."
"The product's price is an area where improvements are required."
"The stability could be better. There are sometimes bugs in the system."
"The product could use additional dashboards."
"The most valuable features of Pulse Connect Secure are the user-friendly connection and interconnecting."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 33 reviews while Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 25 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, whereas Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Ivanti Tunnel, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway. See our Citrix Gateway vs. Ivanti Connect Secure report.
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