Ivanti Connect Secure review (2026): is it worth it?
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Ivanti Connect Secure report card
Weak · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for a company VPN with a hardened gateway
Ivanti Connect Secure is a VPN and clientless access gateway that runs on an Ivanti appliance, physical or virtual. No prices are published, you manage the gateway, and central management is a separate product.
Who Ivanti Connect Secure is for
- Fits if you are an IT team that wants a VPN gateway it controls
- Makes sense if you already run virtual appliances on ESXi or Hyper-V
Who Ivanti Connect Secure is not for
- Skip it if you don't want to manage a gateway, since it runs on a physical or virtual Ivanti appliance
- Watch out: no prices are published and the page directs buyers to contact sales
- Watch out: central management uses a separate product, Ivanti Secure Access Framework
- Tight if you want a trial, as no free plan or trial is listed
Why Ivanti Connect Secure gets a 1.8
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyNo price is published: the page tells buyers to contact sales, so value sits at C.
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan and no trial is listed on the product page.
- BFeaturesA unified client, VPN modes, clientless access, endpoint checks and passwordless sign-in cover the core of a company VPN.
- DEase of useNo store rating on record. It runs on an appliance you set up and manage, which is an admin job.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWindows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and web are listed. The integrations are hosting platforms like ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ivanti's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Ivanti Connect Secure's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 6 of the 85 other remote desktop apps we grade, and level with 6.
It stands best on features (B, above 55 of 85) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 86 remote desktop apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Ivanti Connect Secure’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 7 of 85, level with 46
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 85, level with 14
- BFeaturesAbove 55 of 85, level with 30
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 85, level with 9
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 28 of 85, level with 50
Keep Ivanti Connect Secure, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Ivanti Connect Secure you would be making servers in dozens of countries, kept fast and private. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 73 of the 85 other remote desktop apps grade higher.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Servers in dozens of countries, kept fast and private.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- It plugs into other products, VMware ESXi, KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V among them.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Ivanti Connect Secure’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Ivanti Connect Secure?
Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) is an enterprise VPN gateway for remote access to data center and cloud applications. It runs on the Ivanti Security Appliance as hardware, a virtual appliance or a cloud deployment, with a client for desktop and mobile platforms. It is sold through Ivanti sales with no published prices.
Worth knowing
- No prices are published; the page directs buyers to contact sales.
- It runs on the Ivanti Security Appliance, physical or virtual, so you manage a gateway.
- Centralized management uses a separate product, Ivanti Secure Access Framework.
- The page lists no free plan or trial.
Key features
- Unified secure access client
- One client provides remote VPN and local network access on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and Android apps on ChromeOS.
- Flexible VPN modes
- Supports full Layer 3 VPN, per-app VPN, on-demand and always-on access, lockdown mode and FQDN or IP-based split tunneling.
- Clientless access
- Gives browser-based access to published applications and virtual desktops without an installed client.
- Conditional access and endpoint checks
- Evaluates users and devices against policies on each access attempt and can assess an endpoint before sign-in.
- Passwordless sign-in
- Supports FIDO2 authentication with passkeys, biometrics and PINs.
- Hardened gateway
- ICS 25.x runs on Oracle Linux 9 with SELinux enforcing, a web application firewall and secure boot with TPM support.
Ivanti Connect Secure pricing
We could not confirm Ivanti Connect Secure’s current pricing from its own site, so we are not listing plans here. See ivanti.com for current prices.
Works with
- VMware ESXi
- KVM
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
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Common questions
Is Ivanti Connect Secure open source?
Ivanti Connect Secure is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.