We performed a comparison between OpenVPN Access Server and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenVPN, Fortinet, Cisco and others in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN."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."
"It allows us to give access to our office network in a safe and secure way to users, no matter which computing platform they use. "
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"OpenVPN Access Server is cheap, and we get to use it ourselves. It is also a stable solution."
"It allows our employees to work remotely across Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms."
"It is open-source and free to use."
"It can securely do remote product updates... just as if it was on our LAN."
"I have found the stability to be good."
"OpenVPN Access Server is a simple and easy-to-use solution that I can use myself without anybody's help."
"The scalability of the solution is great."
"Zscaler Private Access is a platform that eliminates the complexity of VPN configuration."
"Yes, it is very stable. I have never seen it go down, not once."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to establish connectivity for remote users and remote endpoints. It offers a high level of granularity compared to typical VPNs, which also encapsulate a lot of I/O."
"SASE's most valuable features are proxy and content filtering."
"Users get direct secure access to applications over the internet."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"The scalability is pretty good."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The interface could be a little bit better in future iterations."
"If there was a Graphical User Interface to help streamline the configuration, I believe OpenVPN would probably venture more into the non-geek realm as it were."
"The high availability deployment is not very straightforward. They can make it simpler. OpenVPN does not support some of the additional protocols that Pulse Secure and Cisco AnyConnect support. They can include support for these additional protocols."
"There is always room for more security features."
"I would like to see continued advanced security implementation."
"When there are too many concurrent users trying to connect at the same time, there may be a bit of a bottleneck."
"Open VPN Access Server could be more user-friendly."
"The solution can be more compatible with different operating systems."
"Users report application access or latency issues with Zscaler Private Access."
"I can't speak to any missing features."
"It's an expensive solution."
"There are latency issues with the solution. They are small, however, they are there when you compare it to other vendors."
"The area that requires improvement is their support. The current support is lacking."
"The granularity in blocking is not sufficient, as new domains are automatically blocked for 30 days without further information."
"We often face performance and latency issues with Zscaler SASE."
"The stability could be improved."
OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 44 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 34 reviews. OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and SonicWall Netextender, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Netskope Private Access.
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