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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACisco IPS Sensors have reached EOL, and EOS.N/A

    Ideagen Risk Management

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AIdeagen's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) software solution (formerly known as Pentana Risk) fully integrates risk management processes, from identifying and assessing risk business-wide, to assigning and monitoring mitigation plans, all the way through to reporting and defining a long-term strategy for enhanced performance.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Ideagen Risk Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Ideagen Risk Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Ideagen Risk Management
    Governance, Risk & Compliance
    Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued) and Ideagen Risk Management
    Feature
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Ideagen Risk Management
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Common repository of GRC items00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Risk management00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Ideagen Risk Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    6.4
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Ideagen Risk Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    IPS sensors are more suited for companies that do not have visibility into their network with third-party analyzing tools. Scenarios would be to place IPS sensors at the perimeter firewalls mainly. IPS sensors are less appropriate for companies that have third-party analyzing tools that will mitigate vulnerabilities and malicious traffic and activities already.
    Incentivized
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    Ideagen
    Pentana is great for monitoring PIs and risks. We find it less helpful for monitoring projects (with the Actions module); it isn't quite flexible enough for our needs, though the support team have been very helpful in adding custom fields for us.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Identifies and blocks malicious traffic.
    • Detects unwanted traffic and allows your company to be proactive, let alone reactive.
    • Comprehensive Threat protection allows companies to adjust thresholds and policies at will.
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    Ideagen
    • Pentana is excellent for monitoring, recording and reporting on PIs. Very easy to use the PI module.
    • Pentana is excellent for monitoring risks at various levels (service, strategic etc.). Risks are displayed very clearly in a tree structure and the module is relatively easy to use.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The web GUI is somewhat slow.
    • Sometimes difficult to adjust policies.
    • Fail open feature may not work properly all the time.
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    Ideagen
    • Pentana could improve the free Documents module that comes with Pentana Risk. At the moment documents have to be linked to an action in order to display query results (such as how many documents are due for review) - this can be confusing for users who don't understand why there is an action linked. There is also no easy way for users to see the documents that are assigned to them.
    • We would like to use the Actions module fully in order to monitor our corporate projects, but it a bit confusing for users and not very flexible when a project doesn't mirror Pentana's way of monitoring actions.
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    Usability
    Cisco
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    Ideagen
    Some modules are more user-friendly than others. It's sometimes not obvious where to click to update the fields (or even that field titles can be clicked on). We have written 'Howdys' to help users. There can also seem to be a lot of steps/clicks to updating risks and actions. The Reports module on Pentana classic is certainly not user-friendly, particularly the Report Layout and Charts modules - we were told these would be integrated into the web version but this hasn't happened yet.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco TAC has been great at helping with configurations and issues that may arise
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    Ideagen
    The support team are excellent and always answer queries promptly. They are very helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    IPS sensors provides the necessary network visibility my company needs to satisfy its security appetite. By doing so, we have been able to stay compliant and up to date with today's network security requirements and procedures. We are able to be proactive with vulnerabilities and reactive to malicious traffic and intrusions in our day to day operations.
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    Ideagen
    We selected Pentana because our neighbouring authorities are users and had spoken highly of the product and given us demonstrations; some of our staff were also familiar with Pentana when it was called Covalent. It seemed to be the best product on the market for monitoring risks, PIs and projects.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Provided less need to purchase third party analyzing tools.
    • Needed more dedicated staff to build/review/and maintain policies and such.
    • Answers companies need for network security.
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    Ideagen
    • Pentana Risk has allowed my team to focus on other areas of work whereas before we would be manually chasing for updates on PIs and risk. Pentana Risk does the chasing for us!
    • We are able to produce reports for audit purposes very easily, rather than sending spreadsheets which is what we used to do.
    • New managers can easily inherit risks, projects and PIs and see all of this on a custom portal, saving them time when they start.
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    ScreenShots

    Ideagen Risk Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of a dashboard showing the risk profile and scores for each individual risk, with a range of visual toolsProduct screenshotScreenshot of a step-by-step form filling exercise that guides the user through each field