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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco AnyConnect

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco offers an SSL VPN solution via AnyConnect.N/A

    Malwarebytes

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMalwarebytes is a antimalware application for home and small businesses, which blocks viruses, malware, hackers, viruses, and malicious websites.

    $119.99

    per year 3 devices

    NordVPN

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ANordVPN by Nord Security is a virtual private network (VPN) solution for individuals or small businesses with a limited number of devices. With 5100 servers across the globe, NordVPN aims to bring users both security and speed.

    $11.95

    per month

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    Cisco AnyConnectMalwarebytesNordVPN
    Editions & Modules
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    Teams - Sole proprietor
    $119.99
    per year 3 devices
    Teams - Boutique business
    $399.99
    per year 10 devices
    Teams - Small office
    $799.99
    per year 20 devices
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    Cisco AnyConnectMalwarebytesNordVPN
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll plans include a 60-day money back guarantee. 1st year discount available for the Small office plan.Price includes VPN for up to 6 devices per account. Price is discounted for annual or bi-annual subscriptions. The subscription comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. NordVPN offers discounts for students.
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco AnyConnect
    I evaluated a couple of vendors, such as FortiClient and Malwarebytes, but Cisco AnyConnect won simply because of integration with our existing Cisco equipment. The GUI was not very visually appealing, and its main focus seemed to be on endpoint security, while the company's …
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    Chose Cisco AnyConnect
    I've always had to fiddle with the other ones to get them working just right, but having spoken to our VPN team, the recommended settings that came along with the product when Cisco visited for the onboarding have worked just fine since day one. It might not be a totally fair …
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    Chose Cisco AnyConnect
    Cisco AnyConnect integrates with our Meraki Network in a much better way compared to the competition. Anyconnect also provides better connectivity and security compared to the competition and is overall more stable. All other third-party Virtual private network service …
    Incentivized
    Malwarebytes
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    Nord Security
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco AnyConnectMalwarebytesNordVPN
    Virtual Private Network
    Comparison of Virtual Private Network features of Cisco AnyConnect and Malwarebytes and NordVPN
    Feature
    Cisco AnyConnect
    9.2
    29 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Malwarebytes
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    NordVPN
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    7% above category average
    AES 256-bit Encryption9.429 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Kill Switch9.122 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Multi-Platform Support8.828 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Split Tunneling9.126 Ratings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    IP Address Masking9.426 Ratings00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    No-Logs Policy9.122 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Multiple Server Locations9.123 Ratings00 Ratings9.63 Ratings
    Automatic Wi-Fi Protection9.524 Ratings00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Simultaneous Connections9.424 Ratings00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Customer Support Services9.025 Ratings00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
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    Norton 360
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Norton Small Business
    Score6.1 out of 10
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    AVG AntiVirus Business Edition
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco AnyConnectMalwarebytesNordVPN
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (118 ratings)
    8.3
    (54 ratings)
    9.8
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.2
    (97 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
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    Performance
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.9
    (95 ratings)
    8.9
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
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    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco AnyConnectMalwarebytesNordVPN
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Providing secure remote access with a robust VPN, creating an encrypted tunnel so employees can safely access internal company resources like file servers and private apps from anywhere. It also allows enforcing device compliance: depending on policies, checks whether a device has an active antivirus and the latest OS updates before allowing it to connect. When there is not much need for remote access, the cost is too high.
    Incentivized
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    Malwarebytes
    Now, I gave it that rating because it's a handy tool for diagnosing issues. Quarantining them, and most of the time, it does fix the problem. Though with rootkits, it's been hit or miss, and sometimes perfectly valid software gets flagged erroneously. However, once you've run it, it tends to run continuously, consuming far too many resources and being a real pain to uninstall, sometimes even causing issues.
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    Nord Security
    It's very good for QA of applications where geolocation is a variable. Additionally it allows us to access resources only available in certain regions. In terms of market research, it allows us to review ads displayed by competitors in a certain locations.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • All Cisco AnyConnect data transfer processes are secure to enhance security.
    • It can connect multiple terminals across various sites directly.
    • Centralized management of the workstations connected to the network became easier than ever for managers with multiple locations in the organization's workforce.
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    Malwarebytes
    • Low system resources, it does not slow down the whole computer when scanning or when real-time protection is enabled
    • Quick and frequent updates, usually people hate updating, but for malware/viruses, you want to be updated as possible. It takes less than 15 seconds and usually does it automatically. They usually send a few updates a day as they find more.
    • Protection features actually work when visiting known bad websites. The page will be blocked and nothing will be downloaded. It may not be what the user wants, but it's what the user needs (as the user can't know every bad website)
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    Nord Security
    • NordVPN provide the best firewall protection.
    • Make your online surfing and experience more safe and secured.
    • NordVPN hide you prom all kinds of online threat.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Cisco AnyConnect can use the system resources as long as the program is being run.
    • Account activation may be very difficult when connecting from areas requiring captive portal login, if certain settings are not allowed.
    • By default, it is possible to request the user to authenticate again at specific intervals.
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    Malwarebytes
    • One of the main things that malwarebytes is missing as a company, is phone support for its clients. All support questions has to go thru email only. This is not acceptable for issues that needs to be resolved quickly.
    • There is an issue when installing the client on a machine, it has a set amount of time where the software can register with the management server. The issue with this is, with machines that are over a wide area network, slow connection speeds can cause the software not to register. When that happens, it never re attempts to register in the future.
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    Nord Security
    • Add more locations in Latam
    • It is really difficult to configure the Open VPN
    • Sometimes it takes a long time to connect to a server
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    It is perhaps the second most functional tool we have, it will definitely be renewed every year. Our network is stable, which ensures that there is less for our technicians to troubleshoot, which frees them up to ensure other parts of the company are maintained. This keeps our costs low and our downtime at a minimum.
    Incentivized
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    Malwarebytes
    The last time we renewed Malwarebytes, we renewed for a 3 year renewal. That should describe the confidence we have in the product. Plus the cost savings impact year after year.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It is very useful tool for companies having hybrid work culture. It will allow their employees to work seamlessly from home, office, other branches. This tool will increase your productivity as it will facilitates your employees to access corporate applications 24x7. Overall it is easy to use, deploy and integrate.
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    Malwarebytes
    Usability-wise, it's pretty good, and it gets the job done. But once that's finished, the nags, the pop-ups, and the fact that it slows older systems down recklessly really cost it rating points. It becomes a clutter, and one of the first things we check when we receive reports that a PC is slow is whether it's running malware. Once we uninstall it, the PC is usually easily 40-50% faster. That's too much in the way of resources for something that wants to always run in the background.
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    Nord Security
    I loved the NordVPN dedicted IP and p2p and the vast region this tool covers so without doubt this is a greata tool and I would recommand everyone to use it even for personal or proffessional use! This is a must have considering all the security and AI led warfare attacks are going on at the moment!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    I have been using Cisco AnyConnect for past two years and thus I can say very firmly that I have never seen the outage from the Cisco AnyConnect services either It is VPN, System Scans or the Network Connectivity. Talking about the errors likewise major errors I have faced throughout my period of use.
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    Malwarebytes
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    Nord Security
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    Performance
    Cisco
    Absolutely no speed issues, and I see no evidence of slowdowns across any of the multiple platforms I use daily. It's operation is completely invisible most of the time, except where there is a loss of connection due to server issues or a loss of power. Everything loads quickly and accurately.
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    Malwarebytes
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    Nord Security
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    I don't know but nobody provides proper support for us as end user. They should have people to check whether end user is facing issues or not. Cisco AnyConnect having very high charges and still there is no proper support! Many requests and many tickets have opened, but the working speed is very low for the support team! They should have it to optimize.
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    Malwarebytes
    The Malwarebytes customer support team is awesome! They really go above and beyond to help you with whatever issue you may experience. It is not that we need to contact their support team often, but the few times we did, we would speak to someone who knew what they were talking about and able to solve our problem. It is a comfort knowing that aside from a great product, you are getting a reliable support structure.
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    Nord Security
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Our Managed Services vendor helped us with the implementation. When we initially setup our AnyConnect using MFA for remote connectivity, the setup was easy and straight forward and worked just fine. After a year, we decided to change to an "always on" feature and use machine and user based security certificates instead of MFA. We had to open a ticket with Cisco support and have their assistance getting this feature to work. Turned out they had a small bug in the code for that version of AnyConnect and it has since been corrected. We have had no issues with the upgrades since that time. The deployment of the software to the user machines was done with SCCM and was straight forward. The user machine upgrades are easy - when the user machine connects and sees a new version available, it upgrades itself! What could be easier?
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    Malwarebytes
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    Nord Security
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco is one of our core partners besides Microsoft and SAP. And so yes, we are utilizing very many projects from Cisco. I would mention the whole networking equipment, the routing equipment, the wireless LAN, and also when it comes to infrastructure to compute infrastructure, we are utilizing Cisco servers within our converged infrastructure Flex spot. So we have been running a flex bot from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware for 12 years, and we are still very satisfied with the product. We are looking forward to upgrading to the newest blades and fabric interconnect to continue this journey.
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    Malwarebytes
    Avast and Norton's products were part of the testing for us but the cost was very high for them and the products were not light on the machine. They took up a lot of memory and slowed the computers down. Malwarebytes although may lack some feature, is a very light software.
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    Nord Security
    NordVPN has a number of partner companies, e.g. Revolut, N26, etc. which all offer NordVPN as a perk. I use it for that very reason. I haven't seen other products have a such a wide network of partners.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Cisco AnyConnect has been a speedy, reliable, and efficient tool for the creation of your own VPN whatever location that you've brought your laptop. Customer support is consistently top-notch, coming up with quick fixes to whatever difficulties are thrown your way. I would not hesitate to reccommend Cisco AnyConnect to any business that needs connected employees throught the world.
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    Malwarebytes
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    Nord Security
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • We are able to seamlessly work on multiple clients daily, and it allows us to quickly handle more projects at the same time.
    • Cisco AnyConnect has allowed our own company's coworkers to remotely connect back to the corporate network, easily assisting work schedules and processes, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being forced to work remotely, meant our processes still happened quickly and efficiently, by being able to leverage and use Cisco AnyConnect VPN.
    • Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have worked 100% remotely for a few years now. This was always due to the reliable connectivity and ease of use with Cisco AnyConnect VPN. I live 2+ hours from our nearest corporate office, and even further from some of my client locations, and I have always been able to connect to any of my multiple Cisco AnyConnect VPN connections, within seconds.
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    Malwarebytes
    • Positive Impact: Have not had to remediate malware/virus infections since installed.
    • Positive impact: As far as browsing goes, we can boldly go where no man has gone before. No, really, I am confident when I am clicking on search engine results that if something get past my trained eye, Malwarebytes will pick of the slack.
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    Nord Security
    • My work load is more improve and easy now
    • great protection from online threat.
    • speed is little bit slow but i can managed.
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