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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Secure Access

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AA cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE) solution, grounded in zero trust, designed to give users an exceptional user experience and protected access from any device to anywhere.N/A

    Cisco Secure Connect

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ACisco Secure Connect is a SASE solution that converges Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Security Service Edge (SSE) to enable operational consistency across premises to the cloud.N/A
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    Cisco Secure AccessCisco Secure Connect
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    Cisco Secure AccessCisco Secure Connect
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Secure AccessCisco Secure Connect
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Secure Connect
    Cisco Secure Connenect can enables remote users to access private applications from anywhere through the Cisco Secure Connect fabric using a Cisco Secure Client
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    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    30 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
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    Cisco Secure AccessCisco Secure Connect
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure AccessCisco Secure Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (33 ratings)
    9.5
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
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    7.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Secure AccessCisco Secure Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Cisco as a whole solution, Cisco Secure Access as a solution is very well suited. If you want to simplify the operations and the way that you provide access to certain things, rollout and deployment are fairly straightforward and fairly fast if you know how to configure it properly. Regarding private access, there's still some things that need to be addressed to mitigate certain connections that aren't working correctly through the VPN, or maybe create some kind of exception. The most famous ones are things with Microsoft or other vendors, where, when you send that information through the VPN, split tunnels aren't necessarily the only configurations you have to consider. Things like IPS, decryption, you also have to look at those things as well. It might be good to try to enhance those types of configurations and maybe also document those things so that the users are aware.
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    Cisco
    Enterprise with Hybrid Workers or remote workers where most of the resources are in cloud. Branches spread around the worlds with private DCs. Enterprise with mpls or sd-wan connection, the Cisco Secure Connect technology is a further technology upgrade from SD-WAN. Central management of l3/l4 policies, DNS filtering and Web Filtering based on the identity.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • In my experience, zta (zero trust access) is done well in Cisco Secure Access
    • In my opinion, segmentation is done well in Cisco Secure Access
    • I think traffic security is done well in Cisco Secure Access
    • In my experience, enterprise security is done well in Cisco Secure Access
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    Cisco
    • I think it integrates very well with Meraki, and that's the best thing I like about this product. Meraki is all about simplicity, and when a customer has the same user interface to get their network and security experience just right out of the Meraki dashboard, it really works. Very great. For example, if you want to secure the internet user, you want to use any, sorry, you want to secure any application, you want to secure any brand, it's just a matter of minutes. You can do it.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The integration into the Meraki dashboard is not yet complete, you have to use several interfaces to complete the configuration, the services should be fully integrated to provide better handling
    • Integration of firewall rules onprem and cloud should be standardized
    • Better user management / import
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    Cisco
    • For teams which are growing, it is very costly to purchase the capabilities that protects the business and even identifying the right subscription like advance threat protection.
    • The one who does not have any advance or high level Cisco Secure Connect experience, for them it is hard to use the Cisco Secure Connect UI. So, you should make the UI quite extra user friendly.
    • Finding the root cause is very tricky for large datasets.
    • Third party integrations are also not that easy with Cisco.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    The product is mature. The product support well all 3 main OS (Windows, Linux, MacOS). Cisco Support is great Cisco backends are powerfull appliance Cisco secure profile are a great feature and because they are controlled centraly, there is less way to bypass the VPN. Cisco SEcure connect is really easy-to-use for non computer expert.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It's simpler to identify or find things within the platform. Obviously, there are always things to improve, maybe in the GUI or in certain things coming over from Umbrella, because this platform is actually adopting a lot of the Umbrella solutions. And it's just a matter of trying to navigate through it. I really like the way it's simplified in how you categorize your internal policies and your private access policies. It's just a different mindset and a different way of creating policies in this case, compared to how Umbrella did in the past with rule sets and those kinds of things. But the actual solution itself works pretty well when you understand it.
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    Cisco
    I gave this rating because it delivers the strongly on things that matters the most to our business like security, reliability and better user experience. It provides the secure access policies and it supports the MFA which reduces the risk. We can securely work from anywhere without any trouble also it supports both on prem and cloud access.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    It is better than any other vpn application
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    Performance
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Better performance compared to compititor
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    never used it
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Very quick and easy, its a tidy set up, no messy cables and the sound and video quality is excellent. I use this weekly for home calls and larger team calls across the UK and Europe and have no problems. The engineers were in and out within a couple of hours
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We selected Cisco Secure Access due to the intuitive GUI and ease of use. The agent deployment was simple and easy to maintain. Any additional updates or changes were quickly deployed, and users found the customized block messages useful. From analytics and management, the Secure Access Product has been simple to manage and provides a robust level of security and flexibility that we haven't found in any other product yet.
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    Cisco
    Cisco Secure Connect allows for secure connections to critical systems with a better performance while maintaining security for users and business processes, maintaining the company policies and security posture for improved end user experience without impact on the services. Better tool tested when considering technical requirements and security posture requirements.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Will go for any offers with respect to the pricing
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    Scalability
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    It is flexible across desktop os and mobile os
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Very professional and supportive
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The impact Cisco Secure Access has on our organization's overall business objectives is that we Replaced Bomgar
    • Another impact Cisco Secure Access has on our organization's overall business objectives is that it Eliminated giving vendors AD accounts
    • A third impact Cisco Secure Access has on our organization's overall business objectives is that Cisco Secure Access is Quick to deploy
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    Cisco
    • The positive impact is that businesses has reduced the dependency on physical hardware by moving and adapting its cloud services and on-prem security.
    • Due to the centralized management, it is easy for developer like us to manage the dashboard and also reduces the time spent on security task and routine networks.
    • Cisco Secure Connect is providing a strong ROI because it reduces infrastructure cists, improved IT tasks, enhances security which is very beneficial for long term businesses.
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