We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Cisco Secure Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Easy to use and provides good support"
"I really enjoy the live log section. Sometimes, you will have someone who is having issues connecting to the network, and then you have to ask them the dreaded question of, "Did you type a password wrong?" They will probably tell you, "No," but the live log can help sort that out. It gives us that extra ability to assist the end user and make sure that we are making them happy."
"The best feature of the Cisco ISE platform is that it is compatible with Microsoft products."
"Cisco ISE is a powerful solution. It gives us the ability to control who's accessing our network, and Cisco has made it very easy."
"The RADIUS Server holds the most value."
"The WiFi portal in Cisco ISE is very useful for WiFi customers."
"TACACS and .1X security are the most valuable features. TACACS acts for user control, so no one can authenticate to our network devices, and .1X is to validate that unauthorized devices are plugged into our network."
"At the moment, ISE seems to integrate very well with a number of other technologies."
"It sends us reports, where we can see if there have been attacks, e.g. DDoS. If so, we can switch to a clean IP."
"Cisco Secure Email's most valuable is email certification."
"The tool comes with AI features. It is good for clients who already use Cisco products due to integration."
"The security features are valuable."
"Anti-Spam and Advanced Malware Protection are the most valuable features... and we also have the option to block Zero-day attacks."
"It's a bit easy to handle Cisco Secure Email; it's not that difficult. For the logs, which are in PDF format, it's not hard to read them. We don't need Wireshark much to analyze the logs."
"The solution works well."
"We like the in-built features, like the email filtering based on the IP and domain. Cisco has its own blacklisted domains and IPs, which is very good. This filters around 70 percent of emails from spam, and we are seeing fewer false positives with this."
"The solution is not so user-friendly."
"They should improve their licensing. Licensing is always trouble with Cisco, and Cisco Identity Services Engine is no different. The way the product is licensed could be improved."
"It could be more intuitive in terms of how to configure the policies."
"They could incorporate some AI features."
"I don't like the fact that we can see the logs only for 24 hours. Maybe that happens because of the way we set it up."
"The opinion of my coworkers, and it's mine as well, is that the user interface could use some tender loving care. It seems counterintuitive sometimes. If you go to the logs, it's hard to figure out which one you need to look at."
"I'm frustrated by the resource consumption and how many resources it needs to run. It takes a lot of RAM. It takes a lot of space and a lot of IO power. It's frustrating to do upgrades because it takes a long time."
"It could be less monolithic. It's one huge application, and it does everything under the sun, so it's hard to deal with and upgrade and manage."
"Cisco Email Secure's pricing needs to be less. We have vendors who provide cheaper solutions with the same features."
"The user interface could be updated."
"They can do it better with web links, with the URLs. They have a technology called Outbreak but it doesn't work as well as we would like."
"The hardware is not up to the mark. Two to three times a year we have complete downtime."
"Scalability has certain shortcomings and needs to be improved because there are service providers who provide better scalability.v"
"The initial setup was complex because I have two sites with physical clusters."
"The solution does not have a strong outbound service. It should also integrate DLP."
"They could improve the filters. In my time at the company, there were several times we had to contact support to update the filters."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 138 reviews while Cisco Secure Email is ranked 10th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 56 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Email is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) writes "Gives us that extra ability to assist the end user and make sure that we are making them happy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Email writes "Has effortless spam control, improves security posture, and frees up our IT department's time". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Cisco Secure Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Trellix Collaboration Security, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) vs. Cisco Secure Email report.
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