We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Varonis Platform 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)."We have multiple metal devices from different places that use management, so we need to know who would be accessing all those devices and what changes are being done to those metal devices. With Cisco ISE we have visibility of all the changes happening on those devices."
"Cisco ISE scales exceptionally well."
"The solution cuts down on the repercussions of getting malware or ransomware."
"When you push out the policy, it is able to populate the entire network at one time."
"We found that the most valuable features associated with this tool are posture assessment, policy management, VLAN assignments, guest assignment, and BYOD services. In addition to these services, the Cisco IOS software switch configuration feature is another very valuable aspect of the policy and compliance solution."
"The ability to integrate our Cisco AnyConnect connections to the active directory has been great."
"At the moment, ISE seems to integrate very well with a number of other technologies."
"The access policies, and all of the policies in Cisco ISE, are important to us."
"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."
"The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"The price here in Brazil is very expensive."
"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."
"The user interface can be improved."
"Cisco could improve the GUIs on their hardware."
"In an upcoming release, it would be nice to have NAC already standard in the solution."
"There should be an easier way to do the upgrades. There are a lot of steps to get to the next version from the previous version which ends up being a bit of the headache with the upgrade."
"The user interface could be improved to make it more user-friendly."
"Cisco ISE's real-time data analytics for database logging could be improved."
"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."
"The product is very complicated."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 138 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 21st in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 3 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Varonis Platform 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 Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, BigID, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
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