Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) Stability

BP
Lead Network Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have never had any stability issues with it. It has been available 100% of the time that we have needed it.

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Bill Masci - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Admin at Iridium

The stability for our virtual machines is good if you follow the best practice and give it the reservations the virtual machines need, and you're making sure that you're following how many recommended devices are going to be authenticating to it. We don't have stability issues with ISE.

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Rohit-Joshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The stability is good. It is a cybersecurity product. It needs a lot of fine-tuning but that is part and parcel of the requirement. New things are coming, new technologies are coming, new softwares are coming but it is more or less stable.

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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine)
April 2024
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Vergin Mansour - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

My impression of the stability of Cisco ISE is that we don't have an issue with it, it's pretty stable. Even when things went down system-wise, Cisco was able to help us figure out what was wrong. So from my experience, which is limited because I only have one year of experience with ISE, is that it's been pretty stable.

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Solomon Okonta - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at Great Canadian Gaming Corp

Cisco ISE is extremely stable.

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Wayne Cross - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cyber Security at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

The stability is ten out of ten. We have not really had issues with it. We've had one or two small things, however, in the 12 years that I've been there, I've had very few issues with their platform.

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MI
Technical account manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's now way more stable than 2.0 was.

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JS
Network Analyst at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco ISE has consistently performed as expected, and we have not experienced any stability issues.

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Aaron-Brown - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Universal Health Services, Inc.

The solution is pretty stable. I haven't had any problems.

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SL
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

So far, I have no issues with the solution’s stability. My primary and secondary systems are working fine. I have the least to worry about. It has run smoothly for seven years.

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Brad Davenport - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Technical Architecture at Logicalis

The stability of the Cisco Identity Services Engine has continued to improve over time as the product has matured. Anytime you're dealing with something like a database product that has millions or hundreds of thousands of endpoints and entries in it, inevitably you're going to have performance creep over time. Because of the scale of the Cisco purpose-built UCS appliances, the SNS appliances that predominantly run identity services engine, we've seen an enormous advantage by staying up to date on the most current Cisco SNS appliances. We've also seen an enormous advantage by leveraging ISE in a hybrid capacity. So the ability to deploy PSMs on a hybrid cloud environment, on a public cloud environment, as either additional capacity or as a failover point for that on-premise install base is a really nice advantage to have.

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Darren Hill - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's been around for many years now. Since version three, stability-wise, it's been pretty reliable. We know the versions to avoid. We know the stable versions.  Besides some upgrades and that type of thing, it's generally pretty solid.

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Laurence Mcbride - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It works like a champ until you try to upgrade it, and then it becomes risky and fragile. I don't know whether that is because of the complexity of the architecture. We have what I would call a twin database environment. Where we're trying to keep two copies, at a great distance from one another, synchronized. One misstep and there it goes.

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TA
Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

When it comes to the stability of the product, for the most part, it is stable. But when it breaks, it breaks on a grand scale as well. And that's why, for us, most of the time, we don't always jump to the latest and the greatest when it comes to software updates because we wanna make sure that the software goes through our internal change control and make sure that a lot of bugs have been ironed out and straightened out before we update. But even then, we are still running into unforeseen bugs and unexpected situations. But I'd say, overall, it's relatively stable.

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AB
Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We encountered a few bugs that were resolved using the SMUs. However, when the solution is built properly, there are no performance issues.

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Jeffry Pereira - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Technical Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

After I set it and forget it, upgrading Cisco ISE is the only thing to do.

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CN
Network Operations Supervisor at McCoy's Building Supply

One thing with Cisco is that we haven't ever had issues with stability, and ISE lines right up with that. We're using the virtual appliance and we're using VMs. We haven't had any issues there, as long as you know the caveats that go along with their setup.

There have been no issues as far as performance or uptime.

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JN
Sr Wireless Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Uptime is great. I don't have a complaint with ISE with uptime. It's been a rockstar. As far as I'm aware, we have probably had 95 percent uptime, or even 99 percent. Nothing is 100 percent. When there's an issue, it's usually not ISE.

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Gustavo Pena - PeerSpot reviewer
Services Director at XByte SRL

It is very stable.

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EV
Senior Network Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

I do not like the stability of Cisco ISE in the virtual environment. That might have been more of an underlying host issue rather than an ISE issue. But we've moved to hardware right now, and I wouldn't have looked back. The next place we're looking to explore is potentially in the cloud, but that's still up in the air because our environment is not small. We're one of the larger 700,000-plus endpoints.

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JC
Network Engineer II at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

For the most part, Cisco ISE is stable, good, and functional. However, when it fails, we are left clueless as to the reason behind it, and that's the frustrating aspect.

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GV
Sr. Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is good.

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Adam Boldin - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at Tarrant Regional Water District

Now, the stability is pretty good. I've been working on it since the product launched and it was a bit sketchy. Its current state is really good right now.

The only thing we have run into was a bug when we ran virtual appliances, but that turned out to be an issue with our storage networking QoS policies. That wasn't really an ISE problem, it was more of a storage problem.

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Romildo Junior - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Business Manager at Telefónica

The stability is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

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CT
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Because of the numerous bugs we've been hit with, on a scale of one to 10, the stability is a four or five.

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Batu Akalin - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Information Technology Security Manager at AG ANADOLU HOLDİNG A.S.

This is a stable product. The features that do work, work well, and we use it on a daily basis.

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Mehran Reza - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Lead at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Once configured properly, Cisco ISE shows good stability.

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Josh Calhoun - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer at Pierce County Information Technology

We have never experienced any stability issues with Cisco ISE.

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EM
Network Engineer at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

I haven't had many issues in terms of its stability. It doesn't really ever go down. Anytime we ever have any issues with it, it's usually human error.

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Andres Lopera - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Leader at Línea Directa S.A.S / Aplicación e Ingreso

It's very stable.

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Ahmed_Shalaby - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Beta Information Technology

I rate the tool’s stability a six out of ten. It breaks down a lot.

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SM
Cyber systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The solution’s stability is good to go so far. Some vulnerabilities had popped up like any other solution, but Cisco remediated them. There was no problem.

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VikasKumar13 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate consultant at HCL Technologies

The product is stable. We don't face many challenges. It's stable, so  I would rate it around a nine out of ten.

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SS
Network Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It's stable. We never had any issues.

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AS
Data Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Overall, it's pretty stable.

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SamBrown - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's very stable for us.

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AA
Senior Network Architect at Commercial Metals Company

It has been very stable. There's no problem with that, as we have redundancy in place.

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WM
Network Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The stability solution is really good. Once we get it up and running, it's great. We have to do a major upgrade, and I'm not as thrilled with the upgrades as I am with just a day-to-day job integration. Upgrades aren't my favorite thing.

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PB
Network Security Engineer at Vienna Insurance Group Kooperativa

Sometimes, they push an update that breaks the whole deployment. It happened to me with update two. It was my fault. I updated right after it came out, and I won't ever do that again. I will wait at least a month or two or three, because the update was taken down a week later.

I was lucky enough because I had updated from update one to update two. So it didn't really break the whole deployment, just parts of it. But they fixed it in a week with update three, so I was able to put it back together. Roll back is also always an option.

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BS
Senior Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is fairly good. Since we went to the 2.6 version, it has been a lot better.

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JB
Network Services Engineer at a government with 51-200 employees

So far, from what we've been using, we haven't had any problems even with any of the additional patches that we've added. It has been great.

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DM
Network Manager at a government with 201-500 employees

Cisco ISE is extremely stable.

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PG
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Like most products, as Cisco ISE evolves with different software versions over time, it becomes more stable and feature-rich. Initially, when it first came out, it was playing catch up with other vendors and solutions. However, now Cisco ISE is probably at the forefront of Open NAC solutions.

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MA
Senior Network Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco ISE is a stable solution. We haven't faced any major issues with the product.

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BB
ITS 1 at a government with 10,001+ employees

With patches and a little bit of babysitting, it is totally stable now.

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SC
Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Manager at George Washington's Mount Vernon

ISE is pretty stable. If it does have an issue then you need to call TAC and work through the bug in it. They are very responsive and very quick to help us eliminate the issue and also come up with a plan, such as how to move forward with additional issues or different things that are coming down the pipe with Cisco ISE. When you're talking to them, you feel like they are a partner and not just a disconnected entity.

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Md Manirul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant general manager at Beximcocomputers

The solution is highly-stable. I rate it a perfect ten.

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HV
Network engineer at Bimbo Bakeries USA

I've had no issues with stability.

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HP
Client Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

If you have someone taking care of it, it can be quite easy to manage the solution. Otherwise, if you don't look after it and take care of it day-to-day, then it will become more complex to run. However, if you have someone taking care of it, maintenance is not that difficult.

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Sait Kilinc - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of IT at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The stability has been perfect. Our company has been using it for more than 10 years and it's stable. It's really good.

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Jeff Burdette - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Administrator at a aerospace/defense firm with 11-50 employees

The stability of the solution is a 10 out of 10.

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JB
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Its stability is great.

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CH
Principal consulting architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I've had very few issues with stability and haven't run into any bugs.

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LP
Network engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco ISE has come a long way when it comes to stability. It's getting better.

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DH
IT Manager at Shanta Mining

So far, we have had no issues with the stability. 

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CP
Associate Director of Network Tower at Happiest Minds Technologies

The solution is stable.

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Vusa Ndlovu - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Solution Architect at Nexio South Africa

There are no stability issues with version 3.1.

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BN
Senior Software Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

It's stable but there's a limitation of up to 200,000 users. If you have a big number of users, then you have to customize the installation process. 

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AV
Solution Architect Telecom at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The stability of the solution needs to be improved. It's not ideal. It's lacking overall. If we have five or six items activated, the box shakes and we're scared to touch anything. When we do have to reconfigure things, it's a nightmare as it can go down and it can take us a day or two to sort things out.

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ChrisWanyoike - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Infrastructure Specialist at Central-Bank-Kenya

We have been using it, especially during alternative working arrangements (due to the COVID-19). Using it, it's been stable. We have not had any issues. The only reason we are looking to upgrade is we didn't know the benefits that the newer version offered. When we checked with Cisco, they advised us that we were missing a few items that actually gaps caused by the partner's setup which we realized we missed during the health check.

We haven't had bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's good.

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LC
Network & Security Architect at Canac IT

The solution is stable. I haven't witnessed bugs or glitches. It doesn't freeze or crash. It's reliable.

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MB
Accounting Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In terms of stability, they are rock solid. If you set the policy and you implement it, it's not going to break.

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BN
Senior Software Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

If the customer has more than 200,000 users, the performance becomes a bit laggy.

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AP
OPCO IT Manager at MTN

It is stable. Any time we found an issue we would get in touch with the reseller to help fix it. Then they tell us where the problem is and we'll know where to look. 

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SN
Sr Manager Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

ISE is very stable - since it was installed, I've had no issues with it.

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NH
IT Manager at cmc

The solution is stable.

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MN
Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's very stable.

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WH
Network Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees

It is stable.

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Chinthaka Kannangara - PeerSpot reviewer
Network System Engineer at VSIS

The solution is stable. We have maybe 4,000 users for the Next solution.

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AW
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The stability is really great. We haven't had any issues with it. We've had it for a long time. We ran an old version for three or four years without any issues.

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RM
Sr Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco ISE is stable.

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TB
Senior Enterprise Network Administrator

The stability of the solution is pretty good. I've only had a couple of issues.

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JM
Network Specialist

The stability of the solution depends on how you scale it. If you have set it up properly, it will be great. If you put all your eggs in one basket, in one part of the network, and that goes down, then you have lost everything.

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FC
Director of Engineering at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very stable. I would rate the stability as 10 out of 10.

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MN
Chief ICT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees

It's really stable.

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SI
Security Solutions Architect at GTS

This is a very stable solution with many integrations.

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JC
Project Manager at Projectnet

A co-worker of mine had some issues with the solution crashing unexpectantly or some processes went down. 

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TP
Technical Systems Analyst at NJC

I have had a very good impression of its stability.

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Gerald Jimenez - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Supervisor at Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc.

ISE is stable.

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DR
Head Cyber Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It is stable and scalable. We have 5,000 to 6,000 users. 

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RF
Cyber Security at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The stability, from a users' perspective, is very good. I haven't encountered any issues before, and we've used it for quite a long time. It doesn't freeze. It doesn't crash. There aren't bugs or glitches. It's pretty reliable overall.

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Joni Saputro - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Packet System Indonesia

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

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ME
Smart Information and Communication Technology Engineering student at INPT

The solution is stable. 

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LR
Director of Security and Computer Risks at Eclipse Telecomunicaciones S.A. de C.V.

Cisco ISE is very stable.

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FA
Networks Lead Engineer at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution provides excellent stability and reliability. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

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Brook Debebe Hailu - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Mehbub General Trading PLC

The solution takes a while to get up and running before it becomes stable. There is a lot of fine-tuning that needs to be done to make sure that users are authenticated properly and not denied access. I have had the experience of redeploying the ISE several times because of false denial of services or access to services but once it is configured correctly the stability is fine.

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FS
Deputy Head of IT at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

It is stable.

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it_user808431 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Manager at EOH

It's very stable. We have it in on a big car rental company. We manage and we support the Cisco ISE platform for them. It's very stable and it adds a lot of value to the network.

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DG
Sr.Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco ISE is stable.

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SS
Deputy Manager at Convergent Wireless Communications

Cisco ISE is a stable product.

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Can Aksaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Solutions Architect at turcom

Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is a stable solution. It has good performance.

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MK
Co-Founder & Director at VSAM Technologies

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is good. 

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RF
Information Security System Specialist at everis New Company Erifson

It's stable. 

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it_user302130 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Being a product relatively young the product seems incredibly stable and not prone to system outages.

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JF
Works

It's 99% stable. 

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RD
Senior Network Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco ISE has been stable.

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HA
Technology Manager at Advanced Integrated Systems

Cisco ISE is a stable solution.

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Ntwrkengine0887 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Cisco ISE platform is stable.

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it_user146331 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Operations Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues with stability.

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EA
Principal ICT Assistant at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a stable product.

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SK
Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Stability is very good. We haven't faced any issues and there aren't any bugs. 

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it_user216399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

On TACACS side, we see some issues. The rest is all going well.

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DG
Technical Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is very stable.

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AH
Network Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

Stability is not something absolute. 

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it_user375078 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer/Mobility Specialist at CCSI - Contemporary Computer Services, Inc.

We've had no issues with stability.

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MB
Senior Solutions Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a stable product.

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JL
Unified Networks at a program development consultancy with 11-50 employees

It's very stable. We have around 200 users and only four people are required for maintenance. 

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EE
NOC Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The solution is stable and has good performance.

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BE
Network Security Engineer at Data Consult

This solution is stable.

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CR
Cyber Transport Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees

The stability is good. I haven't had any issues with downtime or anything going out.

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SZ
Team Lead Network Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution has been quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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PA
IT Specialist at Armstrong flooring, inc.

This solution has problems in terms of stability. I have had certain things that do not work, and I have called technical support for help. They have sent me a patch, and then it still doesn't work, so we end up living with the problem.

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it_user683622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are currently experiencing stability issues with this solution.

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it_user690516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - IT Security & Process Compliance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not very stable. Product-wise, in terms of performance and in terms of stability, I don't experience any challenges.

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AR
VP of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Cisco ISE is stable.

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine)
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.