Pulse Secure

Pulse Secure

Securely Access Your Business Applications and Data

What is Pulse Secure?
Pulse Secure is a Chrome extension enabling a secure connection to your corporate Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN gateway. It grants instant access to business applications and data from anywhere at any time. This isn't a personal VPN and does not support PPTP or L2TP protocols. Ready for use with Chrome 43 or later. Compatible with Pulse Connect Secure VPN 8.1 or later.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 6,000+
Rating: 2.66 (62)
Version: 5.2.1.20 (Last updated: 2020-08-31)
Creation date: 2019-06-13
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • identity
  • identity.email
  • proxy
  • vpnProvider
  • webview
  • platformKeys
  • {"socket":["resolve-host"]}
Size: 1.52M
URLs: Website
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Summary

REQUIRES CHROME OS 43 OR LATER REQUIRES PULSE CONNECT SECURE VPN 8.1 OR LATER

The Pulse Secure client creates a secure connection to your corporate Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN gateway to provide instant access to business applications and data from anywhere at any time.

REQUIREMENTS:

Connect to work with Pulse Secure VPN Client for Chrome OS devices (eg. Chromebooks).

With Pulse Secure for Chrome OS devices you can connect to your corporate VPN. That gives you easy and secure access to information stored on corporate servers in the cloud.

The Pulse Secure client is a corporate SSL-based VPN client that requires a Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN gateway running version 8.1 or later. The Pulse Secure client is not a personal VPN application and does not support the PPTP or L2TP protocols.

For more information, see the 'Pulse Secure for Chrome OS Quick Start Guide' https://www.pulsesecure.net/techpubs/pulse-client/pulse-secure-client-mobile/5.2rx

For more information about Pulse Secure clients for other platforms, visit https://www.pulsesecure.net/products/pulse-secure-client.

User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works on Chromebook
  • Allows VPN connection to office
  • Useful for replacing Windows laptop
Cons
  • Unreliable and unstable
  • Does not support 2-factor authentication
  • Fails to connect after update
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work
  • Chromebook
  • Unreliable
  • Fails to connect
  • Does not support 2-factor authentication
Recent reviews
This was working fine until a recent ChromeOS update. Now it fails to connect. This is affecting all of our Chromebooks at the moment. Even tested with a newer VPN appliance to no avail.
by A Google user, 2019-04-02

Works well enough, but it'll absolutely DESTROY your battery life. From 11 hours to 4 hours just having the extension enabled, even when I'm not connected via VPN.
by A Google user, 2018-11-20

This was working fine until a recent ChromeOS update. Now it fails to connect. This is affecting all of our Chromebooks at the moment. Even tested with a newer VPN appliance to no avail.
by A Google user, 2019-04-02
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Safety
Risk impact

Pulse Secure is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Pulse Secure has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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