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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) as our NAC to authenticate our end-user devices onto the network and to place users in their correct security zones. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is also our AAA servers for our network devices for admin authentication.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Policy for user devices
Flexible authentication policy
Device profiling

Cons

There's a few too many admin panels with similar names for disparate functions

Return on Investment

The ability to provision access in an easy-to-define manner to reduce time to user onboarding

Alternatives Considered

Aruba ClearPass

More-robust device profiling, better TACACS support

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) go as expected?

No

Would you buy Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki Dashboard

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for the identification of devices and their postures.

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