We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and OpenVPN Access Server 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 security of the solution is a good feature, the stability is a valuable feature, and the customization is also a nice feature."
"Access is browser-based only and requires no additional client installation."
"It offers a simple configuration and setup."
"The most important feature of Check Point Remote Access VPN is the multiple factor authentication."
"For us, it was essential to integrate with Active Directory, which is our credentials repository."
"One of the most outstanding features is the ability to deliver third-party services and achieve double authenticity with integrated identities."
"The policies are easy to use."
"This platform has developed a reliable communication infrastructure that employees can use to communicate with remote workers."
"There is support for multi-factor authentication."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"It can securely do remote product updates... just as if it was on our LAN."
"We use the solution to access remote services."
"You can do local subnet blocking."
"The most valuable feature of OpenVPN is that it is open source. I can do anything with the solution, such as change, build, and collect. Additionally, it is safe to use the solution and there are frequent updates."
"Provided the easiest UX for our end-users and had the greatest interoperability with all the operating systems we used, including but not limited to: iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, and Linux."
"OpenVPN Access Server is a simple and easy-to-use solution that I can use myself without anybody's help."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Connection of devices from various locations is efficient though there are a few challenges when there is a network failure."
"The Compliance software blade is available only for the Windows operating systems family, so no macOS security checks are implemented and performed."
"Some configurations, like idle timeout (the requirement came from multiple users), are not possible to configure directly from the Check Point management server."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"I would like this service to be easier to manage when you integrate it with third parties."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN could be more user-friendly."
"In the case of URL translation of the VPN Web portal, the requests made from the front end to the back end weren't valid (due to the use of dynamic subdomains). In the case of host translations, the request was made to the same host, however, we cannot specify the ports, which, in our case, are used to redirect to different servers."
"The VPN remote Access blade could be improved."
"The logs should be made easier to read."
"The upgrade path from older versions was more difficult than we wanted to tackle, so we ran an older version of the software for longer than I wanted. Patching, updating, and migrating to newer versions was a problem for us. That said, we were on a rather old version that I inherited yet it worked rock solid."
"There was one annoying feature where we had to disable and enable the user. I cannot remember what it was exactly, but I think it was for a password lockout. It would be nice if there was a checkbox, or something, in the web interface to allow you to unlock a user whose password was locked."
"The interface could be a little bit better in future iterations."
"If someone's key is not working, or if we had to remove someone's permission from it, or maybe an employee left the company and we had to take their key out, that seemed a little bit more complicated than it had to be."
"This solution should improve the connection speed and the user interface. The stability of this solution should be improved as well."
"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."
"The security needs to be improved because it was a complaint that our customers had."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 62 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, 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". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Symantec VIP Access Manager, whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, SonicWall Netextender and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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