We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, and Portnox CORE 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)."Cisco ISE scales exceptionally well."
"At the moment, ISE seems to integrate very well with a number of other technologies."
"It is stable and easy to use."
"RADIUS is the best feature because it supplies authentication to our entire campus."
"The product is stable."
"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."
"Assisting a larger number of users in gaining access and guiding them through the process of getting on Cisco ISE has been seamless."
"Typically, the installation is pretty simple."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the user-friendliness, the graphical interface, and the technical support. The interface is very nice and the customization is good."
"The ease of deployment is valuable."
"Provides good performance, is easy to use and configure."
"The users say that FortiNAC is configurable and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiNAC are access control, automation, artificial intelligence, analysis, and security, and it is a unified solution. You can combine a lot of features within the solution."
"The support responds to our queries within two to four hours."
"Provides containment and security and and carries out file analysis for cyber theft."
"This solution is very easy to implement and use. The interface is user-friendly."
"It's so easy to set up, you don't need outside assistance."
"Previous to the deployment we didn't have complete visibility of all the endpoints, all the devices that are connected to the network. But with the deployment of portnox, we could see all the devices and where they're connecting. We can equally segregate and apply different rules, policies to each location that we didn't monitor specifically."
"I am impressed with the solution's voucher capability and authentication. The tool is integrated with Active Direct storage."
"Technical support was very helpful when we needed them."
"There is an add-on feature for application control to kill unwanted applications when launched on a user's device."
"The minute people have issues on their network, we can see what is happening right away."
"For the information security team, the security level was improved because it helped to manage and prevent rogue devices from connecting to the corporate network. The reporting was granular, and reports we scheduled for delivery on Portnox were useful during investigations and audits, especially in cases where the IP address changed."
"This is a self-sufficient network monitoring and security product that saves time and employee resources."
"In order to make it a ten, it should be more user-friendly. You need somebody who is knowledgeable about it to use it. It's not easy to use. We have to rely heavily on technical support."
"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."
"This product doesn't work in isolation."
"If I was going to improve anything, it would be the ease of migration. It's really difficult at the moment if you're looking to upgrade ISE 2.1 and you want to go to ISE 3.1 or 3.2, that whole upgrade path and, particularly, the licensing is quite a minefield to sort out."
"I would definitely improve the deployment and maybe a little bit of the support. Our first exposure to ISE had a lot of issues."
"The pricing is fair."
"The UI and UX could be more seamless and easier to use."
"The Cisco wireless controller needs to add more than one physical port."
"The reporting can also use improvement."
"The product must make its UI similar to other Fortinet products."
"The training documentation needs to be more transparent."
"The interface works fine, but it could be better."
"The course content could be improved, it's not that simple to work through."
"The user interface and the product's intuitiveness could be improved."
"There could be better integration with legacy equipment. It integrates perfectly with all Fortinet solutions, but if you look at other third-party integrations—not on the networking part; but more on the security infrastructure part—it's more limited."
"FortiNAC could be more scalable."
"It would be good to integrate Portnox CORE with CLEAR."
"The product should consider more integration with vendors like Huawei. It should also improve visibility. The solution should offer a partner portal that can provide customers training on the in and out of the solution."
"The integration between Portnox CORE and Portnox CLEAR can be better. These are two different systems, and there is no unique console for both devices. Portnox CORE is agentless, whereas Portnox CLEAR is not agentless."
"Portnox CORE can improve on support for unmanaged switches (or hubs) and other brands of network devices. These kinds of devices are still in use in organisations, especially SMEs who cannot afford to buy a managed switch."
"The solution did have some stability issues, however, all I had to do was restart it."
"It could be a little cheaper."
"It might be beneficial to improve the ease of integrating the product with firewalls."
"Now, the way security is viewed, maybe including something like AI, to automate some of the things that are required to be done would be great."
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