We performed a comparison between Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud 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)."From a configuration point of view, it's simple."
"After the product was installed, no one could access the secure connection network. In order for any laptop or any endpoint device to attach to my network, it needs to be authorized or be certified to be connected."
"Our clients like Cisco ISE because they already use various Cisco solutions. It's easy for them to use this solution because they have an engineer with Cisco certifications."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the policy sets."
"Cisco offers automation, visibility, and control as well as third party integration capabilities."
"Improves switch account management."
"The most valuable features are the ability to retrieve information about Active Directory user names, viewing the log files to see which MAC address tried to connect with the created SSIDs, portal designing for your company, hotspot tools, and creating network rules for WiFi access."
"The initial setup was easy. It took around one month. We did the installation part within half an hour to two hours but we found a couple of issues so we raised a case and once everything was resolved it was a month in total."
"SailPoint has allowed us to ensure the right people have the right access and to the rights things."
"Provides good authorization and authentication system functionality."
"Access certification and provisioning are two of the solutions most valuable features."
"This solution has improved our organization through its ease of application onboarding, approvals, provisioning, and lifecycle UI performance."
"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."
"Provides functionalities for various stages, such as joiner, mover, and leaver"
"The most valuable feature for our customers and for us is the identity data warehouse."
"We like the integration with other systems."
"There are issues with respect to the posture assessment function. It's been observed that customers are not receiving total access to the network because the assessment agent is glitchy and malfunctions from time-to-time. I would like to see refining of the compliance assessment and adding more detailed compliance of endpoints on the user end."
"The tracking mechanism in Cisco ISE is relatively costly, especially its vendor-specific protocol."
"We face many bugs."
"The ISE software needs to be improved so that it is easier to administer."
"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."
"Also, the menus could have been much simpler. There are many redundant things. That's a problem with all Cisco solutions. There are too many menus and redundant things on all of them."
"It is too complex. It should be easy to use. We are not such a big team. We only have three engineers to work with this, and we don't use all of the functionality of the product. Its range of functionality is too wide for us, and this is the reason why we are thinking of switching to a more simple product. We have shortlisted a Microsoft solution. We have a big footprint for Microsoft products, especially in security. As a global strategy, we try to leverage to the maximum what is possible around Microsoft."
"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."
"Additional details during account aggregation failures to help quick troubleshooting."
"The connectors are far too manual. This needs to be automated a bit."
"The solution's technical support team's response time and skills need improvement since it is an area where there are shortcomings."
"The solution, in general, is quite expensive."
"Finding integration experts for SailPoint in the North American market can be challenging, and transitioning to a no-code or low-code setup could reduce dependence on specialized skills."
"The connectors should be improved."
"Compared to at least one other product some of the administrative tasks could be easier or more intuitive."
"The advanced provisioning features require more improvement."
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Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 138 reviews while SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is ranked 1st in User Provisioning Software with 62 reviews. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2, while SailPoint Identity Security Cloud 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 Identity Security Cloud 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 Identity Security Cloud is most compared with Saviynt, One Identity Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, ForgeRock and RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle.
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