We performed a comparison between Cisco Duo 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."It's easy to deploy. It's easy to manage. It's easy to integrate with other applications."
"It is really scalable. It is easy once you get an application in. You can import users from Active Directory and enroll users really fast."
"It meets our security needs very well. It is easy to use, and documentation is also available. It is also very stable and scalable, and its support is also very good. We are satisfied with this solution."
"At the moment, the ease of use is what is the best feature for me. Once it has been set up and the security can hoc to my mobile device, it's very simple to use my single sign-on, get prompted for a Duo Security, push, go to my phone, accept the push, and I'm done. It's a very simple process."
"Duo Security gives us an additional layer of security that would give us added confidence that our network will be less likely to get hacked, compromised, or otherwise."
"If you have to log in to something, you must go to Duo Security to confirm that you're who you are on your phone."
"Duo Security improved my organization by helping us secure all access points within the company infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The initial setup was easy. It took around one month. We did the installation part within half an hour to two hours but we found a couple of issues so we raised a case and once everything was resolved it was a month in total."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the policy sets."
"The endpoint profiling feature is among the most valuable because it keeps me from having to manually maintain a MAC address bypass list to track endpoints. I can have ISE profile them for me and then put them in the right bucket."
"The most valuable features are the ability to retrieve information about Active Directory user names, viewing the log files to see which MAC address tried to connect with the created SSIDs, portal designing for your company, hotspot tools, and creating network rules for WiFi access."
"The most valuable features are authentication, we have more granular control on the access policies for the administrators. The solution is easy to use, has a center point administration, and has a good GUI."
"Cisco ISE's integration with other external identity servers like Duende is very simple and easy."
"RADIUS is the best feature because it supplies authentication to our entire campus."
"The most valuable feature is the ASDM - the user interface makes it very easy to configure the firewall."
"I wouldn't mind seeing some options for remembering a device for a short period of time or a specific login, particularly for administrative engineering staff, as we may be logging in to four or five different services."
"The only challenge is finding the right person sometimes. From what I've seen, being a named account is a big deal."
"For the back-end, there could be a few more security features applied."
"I wish that the support would be a little bit more prompt and a little bit more flexible because there are certain things that they will do and certain things they won't do."
"Duo Security should better organize its tile feature to organize applications better."
"The technical engineers in the first line of support should improve their knowledge."
"When you come to the push in Duo Security, there are some integrations where you have to use the code instead of the push functionality."
"Integration with a product such as Microsoft Sentinel would be great. As the product continually improves, I'm unsure if this feature is available."
"I would rate this solution a 7.5 out of ten. To make it a ten they should have more people on tech support. They need to invest more in the product. It's a good product. They should just work on tech support. More support for the customer. It's not that easy to get somebody to understand this product. I have had some issues with tech before for the solution. One of them brought the solution down due to some of his activity. They need to hugely invest in their tech support."
"The interface is not very user-friendly and it is not simple to use."
"An issue with the product is it tends to have a lot of bugs whenever they release a new release."
"Deploying to a machine, as opposed to a dedicated appliance, can be a bit difficult."
"Cisco ISE has numerous features that are impractical, and I won't utilize them since they require payment."
"The learning curve is steep and the initial setup is complex."
"There should be more visibility into TrustSec policy actions. When TrustSec blocks something or makes any kind of changes to the network, we don't always see that. We have to log into the switch itself, or we have to get some type of Syslog parsing to do that."
"The solution is not so user-friendly."
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Cisco Duo is ranked 8th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 55 reviews while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 136 reviews. Cisco Duo is rated 8.8, while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Duo writes "Helps reduce the risk of a breach and is easy to deploy and onboard". 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 Duo is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Fortinet FortiToken, Yubico YubiKey and Cloudflare Access, whereas Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. See our Cisco Duo vs. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) report.
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