We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Cisco Secure Network Analytics 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."Cisco ISE now competes with any other product in the space because of its centralized and unified highly secure access control with ISE."
"They have recently made a lot of improvements. My clients don't have much to complain about."
"It is scalable because we use a network load balancer at the front of the PSN. It can be extended as we want to multiply. It's scalable to our environment. We have around 8,000 users and we are planning to expand it."
"For my use cases, the in-depth troubleshooting into why a client can't connect or why they failed, is very valuable. I can go back to someone and say, 'Hey, it's not my network. It's their certificates or user error,' or something else."
"When you push out the policy, it is able to populate the entire network at one time."
"From a configuration point of view, it's simple."
"It has all of the features available, in fact, more than what you need."
"The most valuable feature is the provisioning of the device so as to ensure that they are compliant with the security policy that we need to have."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"Cisco ISE could be simplified somewhat. I would also prefer certificate-based authentication over confirmation-based authentication for all the processes. It's possible for us to do a workaround, but the process needs to be simplified."
"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."
"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 price could be better. I would like to see more integration with third-party solutions in the next release. This is because many of my clients don't have Cisco."
"The support could be faster and the pricing could be reduced."
"Segmentation can be improved."
"It would be ideal if Cisco could provide some short training videos or documentation to customers to help them understand how to use the product."
"The web interface needs improvement. The new web interface that they have is not as easy to manage and we find it to be very slow."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 136 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 3rd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 57 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". 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 Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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