Ivanti Connect Secure vs. Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)

Pulse SDP is well suited in an environment where the majority of employees are working remotely or have extensive business travel. In today's environment where cybersecurity is of the utmost importance for all organizations, Pulse SDP provides a solid level of security for those remote employees or those traveling.

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Sophos Network Access Control would be most effective in an enterprise environment where there are many different groups of users, including guest users because it has the ability to block unauthorized users and control the access of guest users. It would not be well suited for an environment with less than 1000 users because as far as I know, the license requires at least that many users.

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• Reliable links.
• Efficient connection timeouts.

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• Provides enforcement of security policies for Windows PCs
• As part of the Sophos Security Suite provides outstanding protection from viruses
• Uses a very nice web-based GUI

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• The central management tool is not mature.
• The option to connect before logging in using Network Connect is EOL, and the alternative is not good enough currently (requires machine authentication).

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• Customer support was basically non-existent during the time we needed it the most. This should be #1 priority for any company.
• Lack of support for Linux servers and Mac OS
• The reporting system relies on information provided by the agents
• Wide scale removal process needs some vast improvements. When using a batch removal script, it wrecks the NIC drivers to the point that they have to be removed and reinstalled.

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At Adecco, first and foremost, we have Pulse SDP easy to use for our employees. This is a critical factor for us because employees are spending much less time calling into support than engaged in high payoff activities. However, when I have called in for support, Pulse SDP has been responsive and effective.

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The F5 product was more complicated to manage and requires more time to get used to. Juniper VPN is simpler. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager may be better if you need other side solutions like load balancing and GSLB. So, it really depends on your requirements.

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I have used Mcafee Antivirus Suite, Trend Micro, and Vipre Antivirus. I actually had more experience with Vipre than anything else so that is the one that I will be comparing it too. From what I remember, Vipre was more expensive but had better customer support. Other than that, they both do pretty much thing as well as what all the others do. I personally do not believe that any enterprise level antivirus solution is better than any other, it boils down to which one can your company afford, and which one fits best with your needs.

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• Potential to implement tight controls on third party risk.
• Reliable remote access.

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• Positive -- We were able to control guest users access
• Positive -- Using the entire Sophos Security Suite I only remember one major virus while I was with the company which saves on downtime, and IT man hours
• Negative -- The time we spent removing this, and reinstalling NIC drivers because the removal process crashed them cost the company in IT man hours.

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