We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) 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."Configuration policy, posture assessment, and other things can be done in great detail."
"What I like most about Cisco AnyConnect VPN is its reliability and stability."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is the one-click VPN connection. Additionally, the performance is good."
"The ability to add multiple two-factor authentication options for the user to choose from when they log in has helped increase the security of our network, especially with so many people working remotely."
"The most valuable feature is the connection feature."
"The solution works very well. You just click and it's working."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is very easy to use and set up."
"The ability to allow or deny hosts onto the network is valuable. It provides great security to the network environment."
"It's scalable."
"The most valuable feature is AnyConnect Posture because it scans all the programs on the workstation and checks if the antivirus is up to date, as well as the cryptographic keys on our SSD."
"The policy sets give us more granular groups for end-user access."
"Having access and being able to add people or change authentication yourself is nice. In the past, we've used other group authentication services, and we always had to go to them and get permissions. Having that control is key."
"The most valuable feature is 801.1x and another very good feature is the TACACS."
"The feature that I most like is that it can notify me whenever someone plugs in their device, which is not allowed. I get notifications for new laptop devices. I think the user interface looks good compared to previous versions."
"They have recently made a lot of improvements. My clients don't have much to complain about."
"The notifications need to be improved. If the VPN is disconnected for a long period of time, they should push out notifications. We need to manually check if the VPN is connected or not. Sometimes it automatically disconnects, but the user doesn't get notifications, and we need to troubleshoot or open the client to manually reconnect. Auto-reconnection would be an improvement."
"There is a speed limit for VPNs because of the encryption."
"I would like to see improvements in regards to the connectivity speed."
"If there's any cloud version available, instead of on-premise, that would be ideal."
"In the next release, Cisco should add a chat feature."
"I have been working with the same interface for the last ten years. I would say that it needs some improvements made."
"There are situations where the connection drops, and you may not even be aware of it until you try to do something critical."
"I think, in general, most of the applications are slow, but this is everyday stuff. I think this is more related to the link speed — the links, the lossage, etc."
"The tracking mechanism in Cisco ISE is relatively costly, especially its vendor-specific protocol."
"An area that could be improved is the agent. The challenge now is that agent and most of the computers have changed. They could think about agent-less deployment."
"The customer server was great but it would have been better for me if they had support in other languages such as Spanish."
"We would definitely like to see a little bit of an improvement in the web GUI navigation. Some of the things are a little bit hidden in the drop-down menu. If we could get a way to get to those quicker, it'd be much more useful."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The Cisco wireless controller needs to add more than one physical port."
"It does a good job of establishing trust for every access request. We have had a little bit of a challenge with profiling, but we are probably about 80% there."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and the ability to apply rules to MAC addresses, for example, if I wanted to allow a certain MAC address access at a particular time I cannot make this adjustment."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 6th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 69 reviews while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 135 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". On the other hand, 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". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and One Identity Manager. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) report.
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