We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration 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)."RADIUS is the best feature because it supplies authentication to our entire campus."
"There are a lot of integrations available with multiple vendors. This has made the solution easier to work with."
"I like the logging feature."
"I love the policy sets, they are really nice and dynamic."
"Cisco ISE's profiling and posturing features ensure that all devices are compliant with regulatory authorities."
"At the moment, ISE seems to integrate very well with a number of other technologies."
"Among the most valuable features is TACACS."
"In terms of features, I think they've done a lot of improvement on the graphical user interface — it looks really good right now."
"Provisioning engine (on the back-end, separate from front-end components, that's part of layered architecture)."
"It's a very useful tool that has improved our client's security, from day one."
"It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined."
"What I found most valuable in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is its simple GUI. It's also easy to deploy compared to other products. With other products, you have to install the Windows version inside the Windows machine on all units, but with Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, it can work offline, so the solution is a little bit easier than other systems."
"Automated provisioning removes manual labor and manual provisioning."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"The most valuable features are role-based access and identity provisioning, which allow a single point of user access to multiple places."
"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."
"The user interface can be improved."
"In a future release, I would like to see network access control. That is something that customers seem to be looking for."
"Sometimes some of Cisco ISE's graphical interfaces could be a little bit smoother. However, with the different versions, the product is getting better and better."
"It should be virtualized because many people have begun migrating to the cloud. They should offer a hybrid version."
"The Cisco wireless controller needs to add more than one physical port."
"There should be a single button that can be pressed to dismiss all of the alarms at once."
"I would like to see integration with other vendors, and the RADIUS integration needs to be improved a little bit."
"I'm working from China currently and the only real issue is that, within the country, there's some concern around Cisco and its ability to offer the solution for the long term. As the United States has banned the Huawei version in their country, we feel there may be retaliation in ours and Cisco will get banned as a countermeasure from the government. The future of Cisco in China is in question. Our local partners are worried about the situation."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"Symantec is only on-premises, not on the cloud."
"We would like to see integration with analytics. Also, for them to be more efficient regarding discovering and implementing new rules."
"The support from Symantec Identity Governance and Administration could improve."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"A better information display for the approvals within the workflow would give them more information and the ability to comment back on a request as to why they're rejecting it. We've been telling them we'd like this improvement, and we hope to see it."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 138 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. 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 Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Microsoft Identity Manager and One Identity Manager.
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