We performed a comparison between Ivanti Connect Secure and Microsoft Intune based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Citrix, Ivanti and others in SSL VPN."From an end-user perspective, the setup phase is easy."
"The best feature of Pulse Connect Secure is the good security it provides. It gives a secure connection to your network."
"The most valuable feature is being able to securely connect and use virtual desktops."
"This is a very secure and stable tool."
"The solution helps with principal decisions. It also helps with the security and configuration of many technologies."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Pulse Connect Secure is its ease of use."
"The new UI that they are providing right now is very good."
"As the solution is a software as a service, the scalability is unlimited."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"The conditional access policies that we set up are very useful."
"For our office workers who are not based in Norway, when we order the PC, we can do some of the settings for them. These are standardized settings. We can set them up exactly as they are in Norway so that they're the same."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"The performance of Microsoft Intune is good."
"Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"Setup is complex. A few users had some issues with it."
"Ivanti Connect Secure needs to have faster connections. It also needs to improve the stability."
"The user experience has room for improvement."
"I would like the solution to be more secure and compatible. It also needs to improve integration with other systems."
"The stability could be better. There are sometimes bugs in the system."
"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 by having better integration with NAC solutions, such as Cisco ClearPass integration with Pulse Connect Secure. Additionally, they need better integration with Microsoft Azure AD and Azure Authenticator."
"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 difficulty of the the roll out is surprisingly difficult considering this product is supposed to be an integrated part of the 365 suite."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"In the past, I raised some tickets for the enhancement feature, which was missing in Intune."
"In the next release, I would like a feature to be able to properly lock down the device. For example, if an attacker or somebody steals the phone, you can be sure that the pin cannot be broken."
"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."
"It doesn't economize when you scale up. We have over 14,000 employees, and we have between 7,500 and 8,000 city-owned or personal devices being used to conduct city business. Its price can be improved. It is not a cheap solution."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
Ivanti Connect Secure is ranked 3rd in SSL VPN with 25 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) with 164 reviews. Ivanti Connect Secure is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ivanti Connect Secure writes "Beneficial multi-factor authentications, useful SSL VPNs, and simple initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Ivanti Connect Secure is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Ivanti Tunnel, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and VMware Workspace ONE, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and Microsoft Entra ID.
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