We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration 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 solution cuts down on the repercussions of getting malware or ransomware."
"The TACACS and RADIUS have been the most valuable features so far."
"In terms of scalability, you need to factor in your licenses. With a virtual platform, the scalability is more than sufficient. We have over one thousand users."
"The most valuable feature is the ASDM - the user interface makes it very easy to configure the firewall."
"The way the ISE works is you can get into defining. Let's say, in my case, I've got a Windows laptop and I've got an Apple product and those have unique identifiers, unique back addresses. It would say that this in my profile so I could get to those apps with either device, 24/seven. That's how granular the ISE or these NAC Solutions can get."
"The features that do work, work well, and we use it on a daily basis."
"The implementation is very simple."
"It integrates with the rest of our platform, like our firewall, and helps us a lot. It also does a good job establishing trust for every access request."
"Automated provisioning removes manual labor and manual provisioning."
"I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules."
"Self-registration and self-service password management are valuable features. The role modeling feature is also very useful. It allows you to model your enterprise role."
"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."
"Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Segmentation can be improved."
"This product doesn't work in isolation."
"I don't see as many customers as I should adopting the onboarding feature. I think Cisco should make that process a lot easier and less intrusive on the end users' devices."
"Automation [is an area for improvement]. It seems like everywhere I look, automation is super important. Automation and integrations. That's the area it could be improved..."
"They should improve the upgrades. It's not easy to upgrade the solution."
"Cisco ISE is very complex and not very easy to deploy."
"I believe that Cisco can improve the way its policies are built because it's a little complex."
"A lot of people tell you the hardware requirements for ISE are pretty substantial. If you're running a virtual environment, you're going to be dedicating quite a bit of resources to an ISE VM. That is something that could be worked on."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"The development process to create this connector is not as easy as I would like."
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"The product's technical support could be better."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"A better information display for the approvals within the workflow would give them more information and the ability to comment back on a request as to why they're rejecting it. We've been telling them we'd like this improvement, and we hope to see it."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 138 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration 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 Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Microsoft Identity Manager and One Identity Manager.
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