We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] 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)."For device administration, all devices have multifactor authentication in collaboration with IT, so it secures access to all of our devices. For guest and wireless access, it's a matter of a lowly manager who we give access to the portal and he can assign access to the guests, so it's a very simple process now. It keeps the IT focusing on their work, and gives the business people the right access."
"The most valuable feature is AnyConnect Posture because it scans all the programs on the workstation and checks if the antivirus is up to date, as well as the cryptographic keys on our SSD."
"It's flexible and stable. It's been good as a standard environment to run."
"The product is useful for device administration."
"The interconnection with the ecosystem and the ability to force rules all over the network are the most important features."
"At the moment, ISE seems to integrate very well with a number of other technologies."
"The feature that I found most valuable is profiling. We use that to profile certain types of devices, and then depending on the manufacturer, drop them into the appropriate VLAN without us having to go in and manually add the devices."
"We have seen ROI. It has done its job. It has protected us when we needed it to."
"OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server."
"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."
"SAML 2.0."
"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."
"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."
"ISE is a little clunky. The front-end feels like it is from the 1980s."
"The policies could be adjusted to make them more easily implementable."
"The intuitiveness of the user interface could be improved."
"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."
"Whenever we see the authentication logs, we can't see what device we're logging into... We can see who logged in, but we can't see the IP address of the device... I'm sure that's available. We just haven't figured out how to properly deploy it."
"The customer server was great but it would have been better for me if they had support in other languages such as Spanish."
"If Cisco could grant more control, the features could be more focused on network and security administration, reducing the need for integration with other components."
"The templates could be better. When you have to do certs, especially with X.500 certs, it isn't very intuitive."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."
"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."
"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."
"The self-service portal needs improvement."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 135 reviews while IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Access Control (NAC). Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] writes "Reverse proxy means applications need only minimal changes to support SSO with ISAM". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] is most compared with .
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