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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

    JumpCloud

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AJumpCloud® delivers a unified open directory platform used to securely manage identities, devices, and access across an organization. With JumpCloud, IT teams and MSPs enable users to work securely from anywhere and manage their Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices from a single platform.

    $11

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)JumpCloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Device Management
    $11
    per month per user
    SSO
    $13
    per month per user
    Device Management + Identity
    $15
    per month per user
    Core Directory
    $15
    per month per user
    JumpCloud Platform
    $22
    per month per user
    JumpCloud Platform Prime
    $27
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)JumpCloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—18% discount for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)JumpCloud
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    JumpCloud
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    144 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    128 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    115 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)JumpCloud
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and JumpCloud
    Feature
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    -
    Ratings
    JumpCloud
    8.2
    13 Ratings
    0% below category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings8.512 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings8.812 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings8.513 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings7.513 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)JumpCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (146 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    7.4
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)JumpCloud
    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.
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    JumpCloud is least suited in situations where you have few devices, but lots of users. JumpCloud heavily focuses on the "One-User-One-Device" type of use, and does lack some of the features things like Active Directory is better suited for when having multiple users accessing one machine. Their Powershell APIs are fantastic and getting only more powerful. Lots of features are hidden behind these APIs, so admins not as familiar with Powershell would have more issues leveraging these tools. BYOD deployments are amazing, especially for macOS devices that are using Apple Business Manager and can leverage Zero Touch deployments. It is especially good at handling mixed systems, whereas other options, such as Jamf, are really suiting only for macOS, or Intune is more suited for Windows; JumpCloud managed to handle both systems well.
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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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    JumpCloud
    • User Management - The ability to control our users and set password/polices is made easy in the JC console
    • Device Management - Using JC each user is assigned to their own device with only the rights to do their job - When elevated rights are required, this is done simply via the JC console for the period of time required
    • SSO - Using JC's SAML SSO integrations we are building out our SSO offering and this is making for a much simpler daily user experience
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    • SSO via OpenID - Opening up their SSO from just SAML to including OpenID (OAuth) would allow us to make more use of the service and to also incorporate it into some internal testing suites
    • Time Limited User Elevation - The ability to time limit a users elevation of privileges would be a great addition
    • Extending device management to include LPA - Least Privilege Access is becoming a bigger ask from our external auditors - Being able to do this via JC would be amazing
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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.
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    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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    JumpCloud
    It's simple. I like how JumpCloud keeps things simple. Similar to Apple's ecosystem, they give you what you want with some extra features and bells and whistles but it doesn't take a large instruction manual to use it. They have the support system and KB articles to back up their product and learn about a feature and how to implement it
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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.
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    I have rarely contacted support. When I have, the responses were within expected time frames, and easy to access. Community support is incredible, both from the JumpCloud representatives, and the user base community at large. The support pages on the website also are typically very well written and strike a nice balance between having the technical information needed, and also being easy to understand for the small business types that might not have as much of a technical background as an IT Admin.
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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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    JumpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    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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    JumpCloud
    Being responsible for choosing the product after a POC and pilot we found the process to be simple and effective
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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.
    Incentivized
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    JumpCloud
    Incentivized
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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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    JumpCloud
    Some features would make more sense for us to be bundled by machine, instead of the user. We have fewer machines, and multiple users log into one machine, so doing something like paying per user for services like Patch Management are difficult to warrant the cost. I also feel a more complete package that includes common addon features; Patch Management and Password Manager, would be an improvement. It would also be nice if we could change packages, addons, and other billing services via self-service instead of reaching out to our account manager.
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    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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    JumpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    JumpCloud
    services and professional team and support teams are good
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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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    JumpCloud
    • Very easily add, or disable employee logins
    • Reduce "password fatigue" by being able to reduce password expiration requirements, and having single sign on
    • Higher security and visibility of security issues
    • Reduced onboarding time from days to minutes
    • Enabled easy reassignment of user accounts to another user via groups when employees leave
    • Quick securing of terminated users, or otherwise compromised accounts
    • Reduced user disablement time from previous manual methods requiring days, to literal minutes
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