We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and PingID 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)."It is a good product for what it does...So, it is one of the most critical systems that we have."
"The ability to integrate our Cisco AnyConnect connections to the active directory has been great."
"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."
"Technical support is okay."
"It's keeping our company safe from rogue devices connecting to our network. From a security standpoint, there's peace of mind knowing that every device that connects is a good one."
"The posture assessment is a valuable feature because of the ability to do assessments on the clients before they connect to the network."
"The core point is that Cisco ISE is the same globally compared to FortiAuthenticator. Whether I deploy in China, the US, South Africa, or wherever, I'm can get all the capabilities. It allows me to directly integrate with 365, and from a communications point of view, that is a good capability."
"There are a lot of integrations available with multiple vendors. This has made the solution easier to work with."
"The solution is stable. We haven't experienced any bugs or glitches."
"It's pretty stable as a product."
"We use the product to run different reports."
"It gets a mobility portal in place in conjunction with Office 365. It provides very good possibilities and it's much better than other technology that we have used before which was unstable and slower."
"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."
"It is a scalable solution...It is a stable solution."
"The mobile biometric authentication option improved user experience. It's always about security because, with two-factor authentication, it's always a separate device verifying the actual user logging in."
"The only feature we were looking for in PingID was SSO integration with our existing web app."
"The area where things could be improved is education. It's complicated to deploy initially because you have to know what you're getting into."
"In an upcoming release, it would be nice to have NAC already standard in the solution."
"Troubleshooting and multi-ISE can be challenging with the solution."
"There should be an easier way to do the upgrades. There are a lot of steps to get to the next version from the previous version which ends up being a bit of the headache with the upgrade."
"Documentation is probably the worst part of the software."
"It would be ideal if Cisco could provide some short training videos or documentation to customers to help them understand how to use the product."
"With the recent release of the solution, we had a bunch of bugs and we had to delay our deployment. Other than that, the solution is good."
"Cisco ISE integration with Cisco ACI is something that can be done in a less complex way. And the simplification in that area may help us do better."
"I think that the connection with like Microsoft Word, especially for Office 365, is a weak point that could be improved."
"They could use some bio-certification. It's just more user-friendly and more convenient than entering the one time passes. That would be an improvement."
"If the solution is going to compete with Microsoft, they need to offer more unique functionality to keep their current user base."
"The product is not customizable."
"PingID would benefit from a better user interface for integration."
"PingID should put a little more effort into making a pretty self-explanatory deck about their tech features and the services they offer."
"In the beginning, the initial setup was very complex."
"It has a long way to go until it is a cloud-based solution."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 135 reviews while PingID is ranked 7th in Authentication Systems with 14 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while PingID is rated 8.4. 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 PingID writes " A robust cloud-based multi-factor solution with a good customer support team". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas PingID is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ForgeRock, PingFederate, SailPoint IdentityIQ and One Identity Manager.
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