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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Druva Security Cloud

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AWorkforce mobility and the rise of cloud services is an essential part of any business, but it creates a number of challenges for IT. Data spread across devices and cloud services, unpredictable schedules, and varied network connections all complicate efforts to protect and govern enterprise information. The Druva Cloud Platform (formerly Druva inSync & Druva Phoenix) provides unified data protection, management, and information governance across endpoints and cloud…N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)Druva Security Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)Druva Security Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)Druva Security Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Druva
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    144 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    271 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    128 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    262 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    272 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    234 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    115 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    249 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)Druva Security Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Druva Security Cloud
    Feature
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    -
    Ratings
    Druva Security Cloud
    9.3
    152 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings9.3116 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings9.5117 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings9.5114 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings9.495 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.0110 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.4138 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.5151 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.1143 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.3115 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.5119 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.9143 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.4123 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.4143 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.2128 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Druva Security Cloud
    Feature
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    -
    Ratings
    Druva Security Cloud
    9.4
    129 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.7123 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.3106 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings9.3125 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings9.3102 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.3112 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings9.576 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)Druva Security Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    9.4
    (357 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.4
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (76 ratings)
    Availability
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    9.6
    (76 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    5.7
    (164 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    1.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (133 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)Druva Security Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Druva
    100% cloud backup solution that was implemented well and easy to use. Great communication from our AE through the process and whenever needed. There is a robust admin web management portal that offers a fairly granular user privilege setup and the ability to add different regions in backup. Druva Security Cloud doesn't require a lot of bandwidth or additional resources for either backups or restores. Users can independently recover their data. We are able to back the files up both individually and at a group level. The support team is 24/7 and easily accessible. Biggest con, in this day and age, is that it would be great to have an admin smartphone application. More details when the backup is running would be nice as well as more customizable reports. Also some cosmetic bugs related to the UX, but nothing huge.
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    Pros
    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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    Druva
    • We like the option of downloading backed up files both individually and as a group.
    • The ransomware protection is a security feature that puts our minds at ease when it comes to the safety of our data.
    • The Customer Success team does frequent reach outs and technical health checks.
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    Cons
    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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    Druva
    • They have more ways to improve in Analytics section and UX.
    • I recommend to have to integrate with the cloud storages cheaper option to store backups which would be tremendous for customers to save snapshots costs.
    • Love to see Druva Data Resiliency Cloud have a better rbac policy on who can trigger the DR engine.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Druva
    This is the second company I've brought to Druva. Just today, I was tasked with recovering a file from a user that last saw it 6 months ago. I was able to restore it in under 5 minutes of getting the request. It's really that easy.
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    Usability
    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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    Druva
    The product is easy to navigate and manage. Setup and configuration is also easy. We did not need to pay for any additional professional services. Our account team worked with use on the integration. It was not complex or difficult to learn how to setup and use. End users also have the ability to log in and manage their own files and emails
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Druva
    Like any service, there are scheduled maintenance periods and unscheduled outages, however outages have been very limited and fortunately have not had any impact on our environment.
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    Performance
    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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    Druva
    Page response in the admin center is acceptable- rarely are we waiting for data to load. Backup speeds seem fine, and restore speeds are OK considering it's likely pulling data from cold storage. It often takes 30-60 seconds for the restore to begin transferring files, but speeds are acceptable thereafter
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    Support Rating
    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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    Druva
    We had an issue in my first year that took a long time to fix. The support guy was awesome, took screen shots, filled me in, was professional, but it just took so long. I do think that was an anomaly, but it certainly sticks out nonetheless. Beyond that, we've had pretty good support "relationships" with the reps. They're usually pretty prompt at getting back and quite knowledgeable. Just make sure you have your proxies updated, because that's always step 1!
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Druva
    They are very well knowledgeable. They conducted a two day training session and they explained each and everything.
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    Online Training
    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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    Druva
    As an administrator, if I had a user who needed additional training, it was available. As an Administrator, the product was so easy I didn't need it
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Druva
    Implementation from cloud ranger to Druva Data Resiliency Cloud platform was a seamless integration experience to upgrade the policies and license for continual backup/recovery support. This may be one of the best "set it and forget it" apps for backup solutions, that also allow notifications for failures etc...
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Druva
    We evaluated VMWare as a provider and found their dependence on IaaS or on-premises setup was a deal breaker. Being all-cloud really required that we have a cloud-native SaaS backup solution. VMWare and other IaaS and on-prem providers really could not match Druva Data Resiliency Cloud's abilities, at least not that we were able to determine.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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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    Druva
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    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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    Druva
    As the product is cloud based within AWS, scaleability is unlimited. The on-premise units of scale are predictable and allow administrators to scale up / down as needed. In my experience, the flexibility around these appliances, allow organisations to vertically or horizontally scale the environment with confidence and ease. Conversely, it is possible to set thresholds to ensure that organisations do not over commit and manage budgets effectively.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Druva
    • Using Druva has simplified greatly the backup process. Once fully configured to your business needs, Druva provides a fast amount of backups.
    • Druva has saved a lot of time for the IT team. Usually time is wasted by staff members searching for a missing email. Now, they reach out to us or use their own Druva account to locate a missing email quickly and easily.
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    ScreenShots

    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

    Druva Security Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Druva™ delivers unified data protection, management, and information governance for cloud applications. Delivered as-a-service, Druva inSync for SaaS applications simplifies backup, archival, and compliance to reduce the cost and complexity of protecting online data, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve data visibility.Screenshot of Druva inSync delivers automated multi-cloud backup, recovery, and compliance for SaaS applications such as Microsoft, Google Workspace, and Salesforce to protect against SaaS outages and attacks in a secure, centralized cloud platform.Screenshot of A Cloud-native Design for User Data Protection and Management
Scalability is provided by the dynamic scaling of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Druva's global source level deduplication works with Amazon DynamoDB to store its hash table completing over a million looks-up every second.Screenshot of Druva offers an end-user data protection and governance platform that protects end-user workloadsa and offers value-add capabilities above and beyond core backup and recovery.