Secure and seamless user connectivity to organisational crown jewels
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco AnyConnect
Cisco AnyConnect is being used across all of our staff within the organisation to enable our user devices to securely connect to our on-premise data centre services. This was a key part of our migration to a recent user focused project of improving collaboration and productivity for staff, in combination with a M365 migration.
Pros
- Robust and stable connectivity
- Low administration overheads
- Enables flexible solution design
- Pretty invisible to users
- Good integrations with other Cisco products
Cons
- Improve the speed and submission of client diagnostics collection
- Easier to manage client updates
- Less intrusive end user client update (restart required or service restart)
- Increase of user productivity (estimated saving of 900 working days per year)
- Reduced incidents raised to the Service Desk by approx. 50% compared with older versions and different approach
- Increased happiness of users (captured post-migration project)
The quality of security is key to us and one of the reasons we chose this solution being an organisation that must meet regulated and stringent security standard and controls. Cisco AnyConnect enables us to meet all the needs of our ISO27001 controls, to apply our design for balancing user experience with high levels of security and additionally integrating National Cyber Security Centre (UK) guidelines in end user device security.
We have reviewed other traditional VPN solutions and more modern Zero Trust technologies, so it can be a little comparing apples vs oranges. But Cisco AnyConnect stacked up very well against other options for us. Primarily this was already a known technology solution for the team, so there was a minimal skills gaps for onboarding the newest version and slightly different ways of applying the right solution for us. We wanted to leverage our existing investment and minimise risks of introducing something new into an already high pressured delivery for a major project.
Additionally we have integrated the Cisco Umbrella solution, which helps us shift more to cloud delivered services and with the integration of these two solutions it gives a more efficient management of both.
Additionally we have integrated the Cisco Umbrella solution, which helps us shift more to cloud delivered services and with the integration of these two solutions it gives a more efficient management of both.
Do you think Cisco AnyConnect delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco AnyConnect's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco AnyConnect live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco AnyConnect go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco AnyConnect again?
Yes
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