We performed a comparison between Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) 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 solution is very stable."
"The product is easy to use."
"The solution provides secure and easy access to corporate network resources."
"I like the ability to share the connections or simply to be able to pass the credentials for a connection to other colleagues without bothering too much about the connection being tracked or about security, because each and every user will require a secret password, so I don't really care about sending the details. It's very secure."
"The solution works very well. You just click and it's working."
"You don't have to think about it very much. It just works."
"This solution gives you double security because it uses both hard and soft tokens."
"The solution is very easy to use and set up."
"Cisco ISE's integration with other external identity servers like Duende is very simple and easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ASDM - the user interface makes it very easy to configure the firewall."
"I like the automation of the collection of information."
"The TACACS and RADIUS have been the most valuable features so far."
"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."
"Being able to authenticate wired users through 802.1X is valuable as it enhances our security."
"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."
"Behavior analytics and other newer technologies should be integrated into the solution."
"The setup could be simplified for solutions engineers with a wizard."
"The deployment of the agent software for the final customer could be simpler and more helpful."
"There are situations where the connection drops, and you may not even be aware of it until you try to do something critical."
"Complicated scenarios are difficult to deploy. On a scale from one to ten, with one being the most difficult, I'd give a rating of between two and three for the initial setup."
"The price could be reduced."
"Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client would be perfect if it weren't for the fingerprint feature."
"All Cisco equipment tends to be expensive compared to newer options from other vendors."
"Third-party integration is important, as well as the continuous adaptation feature which is the AIOps. It would be helpful to include the AIOps."
"Sometimes, there are instances when Cisco ISE simply fails to function without any apparent reason, and regardless of the investigation we undertake, the logs indicate that everything is functioning properly, making it somewhat inexplicable."
"Support and integration for the active devices needs to be worked on. Their features mainly work well with Mac devices. If we use an HP the Mac functionalities may no longer be able to deliver."
"The compliance and posture don't always work. They should make it more stable. With each upgrade, we lose some functionality. We have to wait for another upgrade."
"Cisco could improve the GUIs on their hardware."
"The solution configuration is complicated for setting the infrastructure. They have improved over the years but there is still a lot of room to improve. When comparing the simplicity to other vendors, such as Fortinet and Aruba they are behind."
"It would be helpful for us to know what needs to be deployed, configured, and what changes we need to make to our devices when we don't receive the specific login which is an indication of a lack of connection or incorrect configuration."
"In the next release, I would want to see this kind of solution in the cloud as opposed to on prem because when enhancements are made to the software, if it's in the cloud, it's overnight. I mean you're not going to have to respin the servers that the license sits on, it's all microservices kinds of things in the cloud. That would be my recommendation. If I'm a customer, that's what I'm looking at - for cloud based software subscriptions."
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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is ranked 5th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 69 reviews while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 135 reviews. Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is rated 8.6, while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client writes "A stable solution that helps users connect to resources when working from home". On the other hand, 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". Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Citrix Gateway, whereas Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Genian NAC. See our Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client vs. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) report.
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