We're at the point where our legacy Cisco AnyConnect version and supporting appliances are due for dismantling, and I'm looking for new options for what I would call a new "remote access solution".
The obvious needs are remote access for troubleshooting infrastructure and security, thus access to the lower tiers of the stack (vs. published apps or entire desktop a-la Citrix), security visibility for monitoring the usage (e.g. today the version of AnyConnect obfuscates the source MAC), and ability to accommodate the booming cloud hosting solutions (IaaS mostly, of course), be it Azure, AWS, Google, etc.
From the camp of traditional VPN client family I am planning to include in an evaluation some for which I already have platforms available to expand or knowledge to operate:
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the incumbent - Cisco - with whatever they have new in the space
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F5
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Palo Alto
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Citrix (for their VPN client)
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the new Microsoft announced VPN solution (apparently comes with the level of licensing we presently have - this is a desktop group push for us to consider)
I am also planning to look at the zScaler ZPA, as a possible use case, but still not clear on whether it could address our needs (work in progress).
What is your remote access solutions nowadays? Care to share reasons, pros and cons?
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