Item: Cisco AnyConnect
Rating: 7
Author: Luis Abatista

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco AnyConnect

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco AnyConnect was instrumental to the establishment of efficient and secure connections to company resources, and it is applicable for our middleware and automation workers. It has some characteristics of something like effective software, in as much as it can boast of strong performance despite high traffic. Through its design, the user interface has no technical barrier to its usage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Secure remote access and a strong authentication system that includes fingerprints and passwords.
Cisco AnyConnect has features of reconnecting and staying connected with VPN again automatically once the connection to the internet is regained.
Cisco AnyConnect also offers support for Web and Android devices apart from Windows, Mac, and Linux

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Having the possibility to access the systems and the necessary data from any place can be a major benefit of implementing flexible working conditions.
Through the implementation of a strong encrypted connection and the capabilities in authentication, our risk of a data breach on this site has been minimized.
The features offered by Cisco AnyConnect streamlined regulations that our industry requires and released much of the burden of implementing procedures on me.

Usability

Here, the availability status of the application is estimated to be approximately 9/10. It has been very effective in this area, with few cases of the unplanned outage that are mostly rated by the customers. Cisco AnyConnect is reliable in setting and maintaining a network connection whenever an Internet connection is available prominently.

Security

The strong features regarding Cisco AnyConnect are its security that ensures all data conveyed over the network is protected, remote seamless access to other applications in an organization acts as if in the office, and flexible policies that may be applied across the remote connection.

Support Rating

There are few problems, and those arise from issues within the local area network but not from the software, and the application has a good recovery mechanism in most cases.

Alternatives Considered

FortiClient and Malwarebytes

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 goal was secure and direct remote access.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Cisco Board Series, Webex Meetings, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco AnyConnect is excellent software for VPN use in corporate environments because of the program's reliability and security. However, it performs poorly in the sections where the data connection is limited, the Internet is unpredictable, or there are incompatible security programs installed. There are few setbacks of configuration changes and updates that go through seamlessly across the organization without affecting the regular operations.

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