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    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easily provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files. By analyzing user authorizations and access permission you get visualization of who has access to what and when they accessed it. Demonstrate compliance with most regulatory requirements with customized reports. Provision and deprovision users using…N/A

    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) offers a network-based approach for adaptable, trusted access everywhere, based on context. It gives the user intelligent, integrated protection through intent-based policy and compliance solutions.N/A
    Pricing
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
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    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
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    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    ISE has multiple cisco servers to provide redundancies to manage whenever a user logs into a cisco system. System administrators can conduct audits in the network to see who logged in and made what changes to the network. Users are granted different network privileges. which …
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    I didn't make the selection. My company did.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    144 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    128 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
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    84%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.
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    Cisco
    Well suited... I've used it for both wired and wireless access, and it's perfect for that. In addition to enforcing security on the port, you can also lock down east-west traffic. When you get to the point where you're configuring secure group tags and things like that, you can keep people from getting to places they shouldn't. Basically, you could turn your entire network into a firewall if you wanted to. You can secure access based on the identity of any given user through role-based authentication. For example, if you have salespeople and you don't want them accessing your financial or PCI environment, they authenticate as a salesperson and you can completely stop them from getting to any of that. That's really important, especially for us. Our payment card infrastructure servers are heavily locked down. Granted, in our situation, we firewall all that off anyway, but you still don't want some random individual to be able to even attempt that sort of thing. That's what it's really good for. I'm trying to think of a weakness. I don't know. We don't really struggle with it. There's nothing that I use it for where I wish it were better, at least not that I can think of offhand. I'm sure there are things, I just can't think of anything off the top of my head.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is easy to set up and configure. We had the first report generated in a few hours.
    • The automated feature for the reports is great. We just set it and forget it and now the reports get emailed on schedule.
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    Cisco
    • manageable scaled administrative access to network devices as needed
    • Great use as a radius server which allows proper authentication and authorization into the network
    • Multiple conditions that can be utilized to grant users access based on their role in the organization
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • Licensing model when we changed over to SolarWinds was [I feel] a nightmare. It needs to be more streamlined and SolarWinds needs to understand what their customers require. When we changed over to SolarWinds we found it very hard to get answers to what modules we were still licensed for.
    • Our current system is not functioning. We can't login to the application with the accounts we created that were working. The error that appears doesn't help to resolve it. So at present we just renewed licenses for this year and we can't use the system.
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    Cisco
    • Trustsec needs more documentation and configuration best practice examples
    • The licensing model can be difficult to explain and understand for customers
    • Difficult to get an accurate benchmark to know exactly how many Cisco Identity Services Engine nodes and the size of the deployment should be
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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    Cisco
    We are so very reliant on Cisco Identity Services Engine at this point that finding another solution would be a big hassle for us.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds ARM improved the data access for the organization and it saved time and money by providing accurate data for access rights when it expired to avoid unauthrized access. The solution helped the staff to grant access to users and manage them propely by using the great and friendly interface
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    Cisco
    For us the solution is very easily useable on its own. Perhaps that has to do because we started using ISE in the 1.2 days and have seen it grow during the years. Policy creation, etc. is all very visible and thus easy to use. Deployment of multiple nodes is also incredibly easy and flexible. You can easily add or remove nodes as you wish.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SolarWinds
    On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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    Cisco
    We do have to occasionally reboot the servers when they get low on memory, but we're also a few versions behind. Availability has generally been pretty good though with no major outages in the time that we've had it implemented.
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    Performance
    SolarWinds
    Satisfactory performance
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    Cisco
    yes it does. depending on where you coming from. Logs are pretty busy same as report. it also depending on devices count and design.
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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    Cisco
    Cisco support is second to none, both in terms of how you access support but also the knowledge of the individual support teams. If you focus on one technology and provide "manufacturer support" then you can rest assured that you are accessing Cisco's top individuals. I feel like this is a USP for Cisco support.
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    Online Training
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Training can only cover certain areas, there are a lot of areas training just can't cover. You have to learn by doing it.
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    It was my first exposure to this type of product and I wasn’t given the time to figure out how best to implement it. I would say get a plan together of what you are tying to accomplish first
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    Cisco
    I think our system integrators lacks some competencies and this has led to an implementation that is still perfectible. (i.e. dedicating an interface for intra-cluster communication)
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    I found the installation and configuration to be much easier and more straightforward. What also assisted in the decision to go with Access Rights Manager, was the fact we already made use of Solarwinds products. Knowing from previous experiences with their support staff, meant we knew how great their after-hours support was whenever we had any technical issues with the platform. We felt it would be better to keep it all under one roof so to speak
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    Cisco
    I think all give some visibility of device monitoring and management, but Cisco Identity Services Engine gives a good way to manage more details about the device in a centralized way that gives a wider range of monitoring and control than the other softwares individually. I don't think Cisco Identity Services Engine eliminates the need for these other software as of now, but there is potential for Cisco Identity Services Engine to be able to take over more of these roles.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Cisco ISE was competitively priced and Cisco was able to leverage some of our existing contracts to help ease the purchase.
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    Scalability
    SolarWinds
    No experience with this
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    Cisco
    It's fully customised and comprehensive. only thing is you need to know what you want. Proper research and planning would save lots of time and effort .
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
    • Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
    • We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves
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    Cisco
    • I don't know about negatives because we haven't seen it right now, but positive impact is one is the roadmap we have. And now since we are going ahead with doing the deployment of Cisco ISE, we see that we are getting closure to, so at the end of the day, we have to make sure that operationally we stay excellent. So that's where operational excellence comes in. Cisco ISE is basically addressing that for us. Right now we are in a situation if there is a WIFI issue or if there is an authentication issue, it gets really difficult to isolate the problem. But with Cisco ISE , this functionality is going to come in. So we believe that it would be a good ROI.
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    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Screenshots

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    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Screenshots

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