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."The way we can trust this solution is the most valuable. We have no issue with this product. It is a competitive product. You need to have a very good and deep knowledge of the product to take the full benefits of all the features, but it is a good product."
"RADIUS is the best feature because it supplies authentication to our entire campus."
"Cisco ISE's profiling and posturing features ensure that all devices are compliant with regulatory authorities."
"The best features are the scalability and the license structure."
"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."
"Visitors can be granted access to the wifi network using their cellphones, notebooks or tablets in a very easy way. The ease of accessibility that anyone can have to the network is very quick and is a big improvement in our network."
"Cisco ISE integrates with everything else."
"We were originally a Cisco shop and Cisco ISE integrated well with our other Cisco switches and networks."
"The added value of it is that every migration to a new version is initiated by the Cisco version itself, so that is a bunch of work that you don't have to do on the Cisco ESA system on-premise. As it becomes a safe platform, you don't need to invest anything in your own data center or in your upgrade path."
"The tech engineers are very knowledgeable."
"It does a great job of preventing spam, malware, and ransomware. I can only go by what people have told me and what I've seen, but I have not seen spam in a year and a half to two years in my own company mailbox. And there are not a lot of catches where it's catching something that should have gotten through, either."
"The most valuable features are Advanced Malware Protection, URL filtering, and of course Reputation Filtering."
"It has an intuitive, clear graphical interface where you can deploy your policies and understand the overall flow. There are a lot of things that you cannot handle on the graphic interface, like message filters. For this, you need to go to a lower level where you have more power, like command line interface. So, this solution has the best of both worlds. There are not a lot of bells and whistles. It is more practical with access to most features that you can configure."
"Cisco Secure Email is a budget-friendly solution."
"The user interface was quite friendly, it was quite easy to use, unlike some other Cisco products. Anybody could use it. You don't have to be familiar with IT to be able to handle navigating it."
"Cisco Secure Email has strong inbound services."
"With the recent release of the solution, we had a bunch of bugs and we had to delay our deployment. Other than that, the solution is good."
"Cisco could improve the GUIs on their hardware."
"The price here in Brazil is very expensive."
"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 don't see as many customers as I should adopting the onboarding feature. I think Cisco should make that process a lot easier and less intrusive on the end users' devices."
"The area where things could be improved is education. It's complicated to deploy initially because you have to know what you're getting into."
"The Cisco wireless controller needs to add more than one physical port."
"The learning curve is steep and the initial setup is complex."
"The configuration UI should be made more intuitive. Currently, it takes a while to understand how to do the basic configurations."
"The product's GUI for the dashboard needs improvement."
"The user interface is a bit complex."
"I would like more functionality and how to use it for Level 2 type staff. The biggest issue is it needs to be easier to use and navigate."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The graphical user interface is not user-friendly like other vendors. I find it very difficult at times to find some options on the UI."
"The scalability must be improved."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is quite complicated. So, it should be more user-friendly."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 137 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, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) vs. Cisco Secure Email report.
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