Cisco ISE Review
June 11, 2024
Cisco ISE Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
So first thing is Cisco ISE is more on the authentication side. We need something for our users to be authenticated and get access to the network, to the resources. That's where Cisco ISE comes in, our users comes to the network, then they connect the network, and then they are authenticated against Cisco ISE. Cisco ISE does authentication and profiling after authentication. We need to make sure that what kind of privilege a user will get. That is also taken care by the Cisco. Now, one of the primary business challenges Cisco ISE is solving for us is that it has a proper roadmap which other authentication solutions does not have. Secondly, we are also going ahead with Cisco Catalyst center deployment. So it works well with Cisco Catalyst Center and that is another, I would say, motivation or a business decision, why we want to go with Cisco.
Pros
- Authentication
- Profiling
- Integration
- Observability, that is monitoring and user monitoring
Cons
- Probably better enhancement in terms of troubleshooting. For example, if there is a failure in the network and if you want to locate a specific endpoint, how we can make it more intuitive. That is one place we are exploring and we are talking to Cisco as well, that let's say, if you want to check for the failures for a specific MAC address or a user ID, how do we do it? And can we integrate this with our third party tools like Slack or Splunk, right? So that's where if you see a failure, we see the failure over there and then we act on it. So these are some of the things which we are working with 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.
So we have Aruba ClearPass manager, so we evaluated that one as well that what is the future around it, but we found Cisco ISE better, so that's why we made a decision to move to Cisco. So we evaluated CPPM, which is an Aruba product, Aruba platform.
Do you think Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)'s feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) go as expected?
No
Would you buy Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) again?
Yes
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