We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Fortinet and others in Network Access Control (NAC)."The best features are the scalability and the license structure."
"Cisco ISE now competes with any other product in the space because of its centralized and unified highly secure access control with ISE."
"The first benefit is that we can implement zero trust architecture because of Cisco ISE. I can assure my CISO in my company that my network is such that nobody can just bring in their laptop, desktop, or any sort of mobile device and can directly get connected to my network. That is a benefit that I can only allow people who I trust on the network."
"Being able to authenticate wired users through 802.1X is valuable as it enhances our security."
"The RADIUS Server holds the most value."
"Among the most valuable features is TACACS."
"Cisco ISE scales exceptionally well."
"It does what it's supposed to. We use a certificate-based authentication method for corporate-managed devices. That means when a user walks in with their managed laptop and plugs it into the network, it chats with Cisco ISE in the background, allows it on the network, and away they go."
"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."
"Automated provisioning removes manual labor and manual provisioning."
"Governance."
"It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."
"In an upcoming release, it would be nice to have NAC already standard in the solution."
"Deploying to a machine, as opposed to a dedicated appliance, can be a bit difficult."
"Cisco ISE can become quite complex, especially with policy sets, the entire authentication process, and everything involved."
"There are still some bugs in ISE that need to be worked out."
"I think some areas where ISE could be better are perhaps in the number of integrations that they offer from a virtual standpoint, as well as having a better and more comprehensive pathway for the customer to go from a physical environment to a virtual one."
"If I was going to improve anything, it would be the ease of migration. It's really difficult at the moment if you're looking to upgrade ISE 2.1 and you want to go to ISE 3.1 or 3.2, that whole upgrade path and, particularly, the licensing is quite a minefield to sort out."
"The customer server was great but it would have been better for me if they had support in other languages such as Spanish."
"Some of ISE's features need to be more agile. For example, we couldn't integrate our data because Cisco needs your data to be in its own format."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"The product's technical support could be better."
"The directory has room for improvement. Also, the dashboards and, in particular, the KPI dashboard that shows the current user’s information needs reworking."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"The support from Symantec Identity Governance and Administration could improve."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 138 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. 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 Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Microsoft Identity Manager and One Identity Manager.
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