OpenVPN Access Server / Self-Hosted VPN (BYOL)
OpenVPN Inc. | 2.13.1Linux/Unix, Ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Happy that we switched to OpenVPN AS
What do you like best about the product?
Administration interface is nice. Coming from a console only OpenVPN installation, it is much easier to set things up using a UI. I had to use customer support once and they were fast and helped to resolve the problem quickly. We use it on daily basis to access restricted resources and we had very little problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Somewhat complicated deployment in Azure. I would have expected a better experience there, but part of that is definitely due to my inexperience in network configuration. Differences between the community OpenVPN and this product caused some confusion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solved the problem of yearly re-configuring the OpenVPN server on our EdgeRouter. Distribution of the VPN profiles is a huge help and the MFA option is a must have feature in these times.
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Very easy initial setup from VM-based distribution, could be easier to keep up to date
What do you like best about the product?
Small, lightweight, but still has all the basics you need in a VPN solution, including options for MFA support like Okta
What do you dislike about the product?
Keeping both the server & clients up to date can be a challenge. Both the Ubuntu and the ApplicationServer on the Unix VM are a bit tedious to keep up to date. Client updates will sometimes fail and require manual installation & reinstall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure VPN access with RADIUS authentication to local AD & MFA via Okta.
Does exactly what it claims to do
What do you like best about the product?
The software is compact, easy to setup and secure.
Customer Support is very helpful when you run into an issue
Customer Support is very helpful when you run into an issue
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing worth mentioning, the software is great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This software provided us a VPN that utilizes MFA and allows us to connect into our office in a secure manner.
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Solid choice for VPN server
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and set up for required VPN connections to private subnets. MFA and user permissions were easy to set up and use. VPN profiles and the VPN client were easy to set up and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
User management outside of SSO is cumbersome. Making changes also sometimes didn't stick and had to refresh the page and reapply the changes a multiple times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure private access to private subnet for remote workers to not expose production or devops servers to public.
Great tool for day-to-day use
What do you like best about the product?
It allows us to add an extra layer of security to all our operations.
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe that user management could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to establish a basic level of security for all our equipment, with minimal maintenance.
Solid, reliable platform with good self service setup for users.
What do you like best about the product?
The platform is great for mobile devices in particular. It's easy to build, configure and manage for a standalone or cluster build. It scales well for user concurrency without requiring heavily resourced servers.
The prebuild AWS instances are very convenient, and the support documenation is excellent.
The prebuild AWS instances are very convenient, and the support documenation is excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration options for enterprise features like posture assessment are weak compared to solutions integrated to enterprise firewalls.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloud based automation, QA and remote vendor teams accessing internet facing dev, test and preprod environments. The platform is lightweight enough for qa teams to support remote users accessing limited environments, in particular while performing mobile device testing.
Affordable, Reliable, Secure Access
What do you like best about the product?
OpenVPN of course is founded on OpenSource. Which means the VPN is mutli-platform and easily compatible and maintainable among many endpoints. SAML integration is great, and provides our required secured access. Its a simple streamlined VPN product.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have honestly never had any issues aside from the occasional security flaw we need to patch, but that is not unique to OpenVPN.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure Access to controlled environments, across unique network segments.
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A great tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to impliment and set up. Being able to connect users to secure network remotly, quickly and easily is a time-saver and efficiant.
What do you dislike about the product?
If a user has a differnet device used for authentication, the user and profle has to be wiped and re-created. It would be nice to re-authenticate without having to delete users and profiles and then re-adding them again
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to add multiple users to a location(s) easly and quickly
decent, easy ootb, pricier side
What do you like best about the product?
decently easy to set up ootb and for users
What do you dislike about the product?
pricier than other vpn options . not much else i guess
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Need aus ip address for internal business practices
Openvpn service finds
What do you like best about the product?
Openvpn UI and dashboard user management
What do you dislike about the product?
Versioning and not able work with mac os that easily or sotimes looses connectivity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for security to dissallow the external aacess from world
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