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."
"I have found the stability to be good."
"It can securely do remote product updates... just as if it was on our LAN."
"The features I have found to be most valuable are the levels of encryption I can enact and the compression I can apply to improve throughput."
"The best thing is that it is open source and free of cost."
"We use the solution to access remote services."
"The solution is secure and user-friendly."
"I would recommend this solution to other people."
"Its most valuable feature is that it is open source."
"The VPN is great for the stability on offer and for the cloud updates and insights you can get."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the CASB solutions, which is protecting their Office 365."
"The most valuable feature is the manageability of the micro tunnels."
"It does the job. What it is needed for. I can use it for VPN, I can use it for secure connections, I can use it as a firewall. So the solution does the job."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Private Access is we do not have to connect to a VPN, it is seamless. It is more convenient for us because we use one agent to cover the internet and VPN access."
"The solution offers a simplified network infrastructure and security functions and it enables secure remote access for the users"
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Working on a faster connection might be a good idea for the product's next release."
"It requires some experience of Linux server configuration to set it up."
"OpenVPN Access Server needs to have fewer updates."
"I'd like to have more control over the users when they are accessing the network."
"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."
"I want the tool to be faster. We have experienced connectivity issues while using OpenVPN and FortiClient."
"They should make the solution more secure by adding some firewall functionalities."
"Needs a better GUI."
"We'd like to have two-factor authentication that is quite simple."
"The DX layer could be better if it had improved visibility."
"SCMP support would be one of the biggest improvements in my opinion. More speed improvements are also required."
"Zscaler Private Access could improve by improving external access. If external parties want to access locally to my company's services, we need to onboard them into our domain, otherwise, it doesn't work. Additionally, if their company also has Zscaler Private Access, then it doesn't work. They need to log in with our domain ID, not their company ID."
"We would like to extend the SASE applications for Zscaler."
"Zscaler Private Access's reporting is poor. We should have more insight into the reports regarding what is blocked and allowed."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Users report application access or latency issues with Zscaler Private Access."
OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 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 Google Cloud VPN, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cloudflare Access and Cisco Duo.
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