Cisco Secure Access vs. Cisco Secure Equipment Access

Cisco Secure Access has allowed us to monitor and adjust access to web-based resources. We have been able to manage and provide granular rules to allow access to required resources. We are now transitioning to a more zero-trust approach, and so far, the product has demonstrated its capabilities, allowing us to move forward with this approach.

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This single product has ruined any trust I have for ANY cisco product the second that "Zero Trust" is mentioned.

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• It offers various security capabilities, including ZTNA, FWaaS, VPNaaS, DNS Security, Data loss prevention, advanced malware protection, etc., all in a single comprehensive solution.
• It enables your employees to access SaaS applications and internet securely
• By isolating sensitive applications and data into smaller segments, it reduces potential damage from a security breach.

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• Runs on already existing devices
• Pricing
• Usability

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• 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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• SSO
• Group agents to load balance
• Session collaboration

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Took over a year to implement with Ciscos help. We are not able to initiate 2FA that we control. And until recently, was not even able to enforce MFA. In our experience, Licensing is a freaking joke! We have to license machines. For each machine, we get 1gb of data added to a shared pull. That seems simple right, but its not. We tried to add licenses and can't, cause, in our experience, no one knows how it works so I literally can't pay for more. What happens when we hit the cap you say? In our experience, No one can tell us. Why cant we MFA the IoTOD with Duo? No one knows. Than I hope you are a master at IoT firewalls! Because, in our experience, standard rules don't work. Need zone based routing but there is no way to know what needs to be CLI and what is in GUI

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When evaluating secure access and Zero Trust solutions, we looked closely at several leading platforms including Zscaler ZPA/ZIA, Palo Alto Prisma Access, Microsoft Entra Private Access, and Netskope SSE alongside Cisco Secure Access.Our assessment focused on areas that matter most in large, globally distributed, regulated enterprise environments: security effectiveness, ecosystem integration, operational manageability, scalability, and ROI.

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• Prevent access to malicious content, which has proven to be useful.
• We have reduced appliance count and maintenance as this is a fully cloud based solution.
• Lightweight agent that doesn't consume too many resources from the client machines.
• ability to make changes and have them deployed to agents quickly.

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• Plan to replace classic jump hosts

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