Ivanti Connect Secure vs Ivanti Tunnel comparison

Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Tunnel are both solutions in the Enterprise Infrastructure VPN category. Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked #10 with an average rating of 6.8, while Ivanti Tunnel is ranked #35. Ivanti Connect Secure holds a 5.5% mindshare in EIV, compared to Ivanti Tunnel’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 79% of Ivanti Connect Secure users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Ivanti Tunnel users who would recommend it.

Ivanti Connect Secure

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79% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Ivanti Connect Secure

Ranking in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SSL VPN (3rd)

Ivanti Tunnel

Ranking in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN

35th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Enterprise Infrastructure VPN category, the mindshare of Ivanti Connect Secure is 5.5%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ivanti Tunnel is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Infrastructure VPN Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Ivanti Connect Secure	5.5%
Ivanti Tunnel	0.7%
Other	93.8%

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Kaushlendra Singh

Manager - IT Infrastructure and Network at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides secure and simple remote access but needs improved reporting capabilities

Ivanti Connect Secure is simple and secure, making it valuable for our organization. Ivanti Connect Secure's access control feature provides global protect, which allows country-wise blocking. There are many access controls available, and policies can be created on a host basis and on the MAC address of assets that will connect. Firewall versions and OS versions can be defined, and only devices meeting these criteria can connect to the VPN. These features are effective, along with MFA. Ivanti Connect Secure is a client-based, agent-based solution, so if the agent is installed, users are able to connect to the network. Ivanti Connect Secure utilizes identity-based LDAP authentication. Ivanti Connect Secure is very effective for remote access for remote workers.

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AbhimanyuKumar

Cyber Security Engineer at Mudra Electronics limited

Provides efficient data security and good technical support services

We use Ivanti Tunnel to provide and publish access to on-premise applications The product's interface needs improvement. I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten. One of our Ivanti Tunnel's customers manages 300 end users, and another customer manages 200 end users. I rate its…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I can safely say this is one of the best solutions I have seen for VPN access. It can achieve what other vendors may not be able to. This product will train you about exactly what an SSL should be. You can leverage it to do whatever you wish, the way you wish to do it. This is the solution if you want a perfectly scalable product for your enterprise that can help your mobile users and integrate with the latest technologies."

"Ivanti secures access to the corporate network from various devices and locations."

"Ivanti Connect Secure provides the feature to check and ensure that employee devices are compliant before allowing them to access the VPN."

"It is customer-friendly. It is quite easy for our users to connect. There is also the flexibility of the features."

"What I like the most about Pulse Connect Secure is that it's user-friendly. It's easy to use. You just need to connect, and that's it."

"Pulse Connect Secure is a stable solution."

"This solution enables secure connections for our engineers to work from home or other locations."

"This is a very secure and stable tool."

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"The technical support team provides good services and faster response times."

Cons

"Pulse Connect Secure could improve the reporting, it is lacking in detail and should take the report automatically."

"User experience and after-sales support could be better. For example, over the last couple of years, when this COVID scenario was going on, there were multiple attacks on these types of solutions. SQL has been attacked numerous times, and there were a lot of vulnerabilities, and our customers had to update and upgrade the devices every two weeks or every month. This was a headache. It could also be more scalable."

"The security mechanisms of Ivanti Connect Secure are very slow to update."

"The reporting capabilities of Ivanti Connect Secure are not strong; the format is simple, and obtaining a detailed report is difficult and requires manual work."

"The solution can be improved by addressing the failure to connect on public 2-step networks."

"Ivanti Connect Secure needs to have faster connections. It also needs to improve the stability."

"The user experience has room for improvement."

"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."

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"The product's interface needs improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pulse Connect Secure is relatively cost-effective."

"I rate the product price a six to seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"The price of Pulse Connect Secure is expensive."

"The pricing for Pulse Connect Secure is not low and not high, so it's good. It's a six out of ten for me, price-wise."

"The pricing is quite nominal. We pay on a yearly basis."

"The cost of the product is high, but worth it because of the utility and great product support."

"A license is required for you to use Pulse Connect Secure, but I'm not aware of how much it costs."

"The product has average pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	19

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pulse Connect Secure?

From an end-user perspective, the setup phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pulse Connect Secure?

Ivanti has always been known to be pricey, making it a rather high-cost solution.

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What needs improvement with Pulse Connect Secure?

The reporting capabilities of Ivanti Connect Secure are not strong; the format is simple, and obtaining a detailed report is difficult and requires manual work. Regarding points for improvement, th...

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Also Known As

Pulse Connect Secure

MobileIron Tunnel

Overview

Ivanti Connect Secure provides a seamless, cost-effective SSL VPN solution for remote and mobile users from any web-enabled device to corporate resources— anytime, anywhere.

Ivanti

Maintaining user privacy is critical to the success of any mobile enterprise. But user privacy isn’t just limited to personal apps and content on the device; it extends to the network as well. That means IT must be able to secure traffic from enterprise apps without capturing personal traffic, such as a user posting a family photo on Facebook. As a result, protecting employee privacy requires IT to move beyond device-wide VPNs to more secure, intelligent, and granular app VPNs.

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Sample Customers

Axcient, Baloise Group, Cygate, Catholic University of America, Datec Inc, Revlon, Santa Monica Networks, 7-Eleven

Nasdaq, FlixBUS, USDA, The Blackstone Group, J.B Hunt

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