Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Score9 out of 10

278 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)?

The 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.

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

21.6%

759 installations of 3,506

“Cisco ISE is being used currently for 802.1x on wireless and partial wired networks, guest services on wireless and wired, IoT authorization on wireless, and TACACS server for 4k network devices from various vendors. It solved the problems of having multiple authentication and integration into one dedicated deployment.”
— Senior Wireless Engineer, KAUST (5001-10,000 employees)

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

12.1%

425 installations of 3,506

“Cisco ISE is pretty good at understanding user behavior. We deployed there using on WIFI environment for authentication and certificate stuff. So it was a pretty good solution in order to have your network secure and in order to have the visibility of everything.”
— Security Analyst, Scania Latin America (1001-5000 employees)

#3 most frequent

Information

8.5%

299 installations of 3,506

“Secures access to the network at its edge, leveraging 802.1x protocol and MAB. Provides Web Authentication to wireless Guest network. Two nodes, all-in-one, multi-site deployment. Two node deployment provides us required redundancy in case of failure and maintenance, e.g., ISE software updates. ISE allows to prevent unauthorized endpoint access to corporate resources, provides visibility and insight on network access.”
— Practice Lead EN, Comms-care (201-500 employees)

Matthew Noruwa

Network Engineer in Engineering at Mastercard (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) to for auth users and devices connecting our networks, typically TACACS.

The scope of the use cases range from user to services accessing the network covering AAA.

Pros

Authentication of users connecting into the network devices
Authentication of devices and services connecting to other apps
Authorization and Accounting of user access
Alarms/Alerts - monitoring of the network features (certs, license, etc)

Cons

Managing self-cert
Self healing functionality for DNS

Return on Investment

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) helps us to monitor who/what is connected to our networks and when. This is a positive.
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) gives indication of what needs attention or troubleshooting.
The fact that my org relies heavily on Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) without negative impact on ROI is a positive.

Other Software Used

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne), Qualys Context XDR, Cacti

Tony Seymoens

Network Architect in Information Technology at DPGMedia (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) as our Radius server for device authentication and network access control on our campus switches.

Pros

Integration with other vendors for device authentication
Clear policy management for network access control

Cons

Challenging software upgrades on hardware appliances

Return on Investment

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) provided us options to better segment our devices.
The logging assisted a lot in troubleshooting.
The software upgrades are always challenging and being a central component makes getting change windows a challenge.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Windows

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches, Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points

Leonardo Sartorio

solution architect in Information Technology at valtellina (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for nis2 (network and information security directive) requirements, security insight aaa (authentication, authorization, accounting)

Pros

visibility of ecosystem of clients
policy creation is simple
modularity with the features

Cons

tacacs license is hard to sell to clients
complexity to upgrade
lots of useful features are blocked behind license tiers

Return on Investment

nis2 compliance
accountability
visibility and asset management

Other Software Used

FortiNAC

Shahbaz Qureshi

Network and Security Consultant in Information Technology at WDR (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Helps us with the implementation of Network Access Control for Endpoints

Pros

Network Access Control
Device Profiling
Live Logs for troubleshooting

Cons

Maybe navigating across different tabs and areas would be interactive

Return on Investment

The impact Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) has on our organization's overall business objectives is Improved Security, helped operations easier and manageable

Angel Nastase View profile

IT Network in Engineering at Petrom (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Authentication
We had some challenges with the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) essentials

Pros

Fast
Secure
Resilient

Cons

I think that there is room for improvement in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) with Licenses
I think that there is room for improvement in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) with TACACS (terminal controller access control system plus) and IDM (identity management) compatibility

Return on Investment

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) has positive business impact
People are comfortable that they can access securely

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What is Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)?

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