We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and SailPoint IdentityIQ 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)."The profiling model included is the most valuable feature."
"Not having to trust devices and being able to set those levels of trust and more finely control our network is a benefit."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the policy sets."
"It has allowed us to pull in multiple authentication databases, then centralize them into a captive portal system."
"It does a good job of establishing trust for each access request, no matter the source. It's also very effective at helping with the distributed network and at securing access."
"When we use ISE, one of the helpful things is that I can go through the dashboard and get every step along the way of how a device was authenticated. If it's failing, why did it fail? Why is it unauthorized? If there's an error, what is the error and how can I fix that error? If it's something that, if they should be passing, why are they failing?"
"The posture assessment is a valuable feature because of the ability to do assessments on the clients before they connect to the network."
"The best features are the scalability and the license structure."
"The Certification and Provisioning features are most valuable."
"User provisioning and the role management features are good."
"Provisioning in multiple environments."
"The tool is quite stable and user-friendly."
"The most powerful feature of the solution is its platform-based approach. Unlike other solutions, this tool offers a high level of customization. It is an open and flexible platform, allowing users to tailor it to their needs. This ability to customize and adapt the solution to individual requirements makes the solution stand out as a powerful product."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The big one now is that they're adding AI and machine learning to figure out automated approvals and make recommendations to their reviewers. So, if I bring up Doug McPherson and it says he has access to this application, the system will make a review based on peer group analysis. That's one of the biggest new things. The problem used to be that people would get everything loaded on, and they created too much work for themselves. Now, they can use these policies and start to let the machine pick the less risky things."
"It significantly reduces the workload for certification processes."
"We face many bugs."
"The opinion of my coworkers, and it's mine as well, is that the user interface could use some tender loving care. It seems counterintuitive sometimes. If you go to the logs, it's hard to figure out which one you need to look at."
"I'd like to see the logging be a bit more robust in terms of what it has baked in. If I want to do any in-depth searching, I have to export all the logs to an external platform like Elastic or LogRhythm and then parse through them myself. It would be nice if I could find what I want, when I want it, on the platform itself."
"An issue with the product is it tends to have a lot of bugs whenever they release a new release."
"The interface is a little bit complex."
"Cisco ISE could be simplified somewhat. I would also prefer certificate-based authentication over confirmation-based authentication for all the processes. It's possible for us to do a workaround, but the process needs to be simplified."
"It could be less monolithic. It's one huge application, and it does everything under the sun, so it's hard to deal with and upgrade and manage."
"There are still some bugs in ISE that need to be worked out."
"SailPoint IdentityIQ needs to improve its customization. It should also incorporate some standardized tools for implementation."
"They should lower the price and technical support should be better."
"The solution's technical support team's response time and skills need improvement since it is an area where there are shortcomings."
"It is too technical. You need really good technical skills in Java and other technologies, which are hard to find. If they can make it easier so that things can be done with a few clicks, it will be great."
"It tends to be more expensive, but at the end of the day, it works."
"The report functionality and dashboard of the access manager could be improved."
"Competitors are advancing by offering integrated solutions encompassing access and privileged access management in a single unified platform. IdentityIQ's focus has remained primarily on identity and access governance, neglecting to expand its offerings to include these additional functionalities within its existing product. Enhancing their product by incorporating modules for access management, privileged access management, and third-party access governance could address this gap."
"If there's a price reduction for SailPoint IdentityIQ, that would be helpful. Another area for improvement in the product is the technical support, which needs to be more friendly to customers."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 135 reviews while SailPoint IdentityIQ is ranked 1st in User Provisioning Software with 61 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while SailPoint IdentityIQ is rated 8.2. 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 SailPoint IdentityIQ writes "Flexible, easy to customize, and not too difficult to set up". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SailPoint IdentityIQ is most compared with Saviynt, Microsoft Entra ID, One Identity Manager, ForgeRock and NetIQ Identity Manager.
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