We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Portnox Clear based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Access Control (NAC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."For us and our clients, the most valuable features of Identity Services Engine are really around the rich contact sharing that ISE gives you."
"It's flexible and stable. It's been good as a standard environment to run."
"The authorization and accounts inside of ISE are very useful for us."
"Cisco ISE now competes with any other product in the space because of its centralized and unified highly secure access control with ISE."
"The return on investment we have seen is related to time in terms of troubleshooting. The logs, such as the security logs, inform us of the issues that people have had. ISE has been very instrumental in helping isolate those issues. We've seen a lot of cost savings because we don't have to pay an IT person to waste time doing something that should be instantaneous."
"Cisco offers automation, visibility, and control as well as third party integration capabilities."
"The solution cuts down on the repercussions of getting malware or ransomware."
"The most important feature for us is visibility in terms of user connections. It's the ability to see what devices are online for a particular user that helps a lot with our troubleshooting."
"The solution has a valuable reporting feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"I like the fact that you can take your device anywhere and still have that visibility from anywhere because it's agent-based."
"Segmentation can be improved."
"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."
"It could be more intuitive in terms of how to configure the policies."
"An issue with the product is it tends to have a lot of bugs whenever they release a new release."
"The software is a little bit complicated to understand in the beginning, meaning the implementation. It needs proper documentation so that we can understand the options more easily."
"There can be a little bit more integration between the controller management and ISE. There are two dashboards, you have the controller dashboards, and you have the ISE dashboard it would is a way to maybe integrate that into one. That would be great. It's not that bad. It would be easier if it could be combined into one dashboard."
"Cisco ISE can become quite complex, especially with policy sets, the entire authentication process, and everything involved."
"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."
"From a resource perspective, the OEM can do better in terms of resource utilization."
"I believe there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of integration."
"As there are no agents in Portnox Clear, the customers of the product cannot download any agents on their devices, making them unsure if the product offers proper security."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 136 reviews while Portnox Clear is ranked 12th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 3 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Portnox Clear is rated 7.6. 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 Portnox Clear writes "An affordable tool to monitor routers and access points". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Portnox Clear is most compared with Portnox CORE and Aruba ClearPass. See our Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) vs. Portnox Clear report.
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